SideQuark

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811.
by SideQuark 4y ago
>Why do you call the whole data a sample? One year is a sample considering that different years have different results and you you pay yearly premiums for pricing. Another way to think: is there more data for houses burning that are not
812.
by SideQuark 4y ago
One sample for an incomplete year is not a strong predictor of frequency, especially going forward where the trend is more fires.
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by SideQuark 4y ago
>As the article shows, in application code we are multiplying... The article is wildly misleading. I just checked out the godot code (git version c2f6664, today), and checked to see if what the author wrote and you believe actually happe
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by SideQuark 4y ago
Lots of things work better in radians: s=r * theta, area = 1/2 theta^2 * r, d(sin(x))/dx = cos(x) (etc, for slopes and numerical algorithms), simpler series approximations and algorithms for computing these and other functions, m
815.
by SideQuark 4y ago
>The fact that it is natural doesn't make it performant and straightforward for all applications. How does changing the scale make anything more or less performant? If anything, it makes things less performant since to use any hardw
816.
by SideQuark 4y ago
You can look at oil prices when the war started and see the jump. There was no such jump at any announcement of Biden. The evidence is clear and easily checked.
817.
by SideQuark 4y ago
Often the person leaving has not been that good of a contributor due to wanting to leave, while a replacement is new and likely more inclined to work hard. On a big team, people fit a bell curve, and most likely those leaving are not going
818.
by SideQuark 4y ago
>"Scale of your codebase" is a clever excuse, but it doesn't wash. Bugs scale with the size of the codebase, for every entity on earth.
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by SideQuark 4y ago
And IBM and RedHat both poured literally billions into it to make it work at the level it does today, which underscores the point. And there have been billions more poured in from a lot of other corporate groups.
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by SideQuark 4y ago
>All you're doing is constructing straw men to be smarter than. No - for example, the barber paradox (in the form of Russell's paradox) is what led to a revolution in set theory around 1910 and Whitehead's Principia Mathem
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by SideQuark 4y ago
>C# is way smaller than even Go in total TIOBE has C# much larger than Go and growing, and it also has Go slightly shrinking over the past year. https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ Same results on Stackoverflow http
822.
by SideQuark 4y ago
That paper has not been published, despite being posted several years, and the top comment under it seems to supply a decent counter claim with evidence. My guess is it's not as accurate as to support your claim of "pure nonsense.
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by SideQuark 4y ago
>exact arbitrary silliness we have seen countless times before You continue to make the same mistake: contrast this 70 to how many breaches were prevented by the feature. People with anti-virus software get viruses, both before and after
824.
by SideQuark 4y ago
What is an abomination? It lines up well with my experience using both Qt and open source and also using both in projects. Certainly issues 2,3,4 cause problems for any project wanting to integrate open source into commercial work. And 1 se
825.
by SideQuark 4y ago
>Trusting a central authority (bank) Strawman? A bank is not a central authority any more than large mining pools are central authorities. Or China (when it controlled enough BTC to double spend at will). The banking system is vastly dis
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by SideQuark 4y ago
Every banking system ever? At vastly lower energy waste, at higher transaction rates, and with all the legal protection of centuries of well developed needs.
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by SideQuark 5y ago
Unstructured search has sqrt n speedup once all items are loaded, which generally takes O(n) classical time anyways, so Grover doesn't generally present a sqrt speedup for crypto (or any database search where the database is not alread
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by SideQuark 5y ago
QC can only solve two problems more efficiently than classical (and this is proven very thoroughly): unstructured search and discrete log problem (well, more accurately, certain hidden subgroup problems). DLP covers factoring, hence RSA. El
829.
by SideQuark 5y ago
I never called them 8 bit images. I wrote 8 bits per channel. Each of RGB are channels. An RGBA image has 4 channels. A grayscale image has one channel. This is standard terminology. So an 8 bits per channel image with three channels is a
830.
by SideQuark 5y ago
No, a jpeg pixel is not "the summation of 64 8 bit coefficients." I've written jpeg codecs (and many other image formats). It works just as I explained above. Or simply read the libjpeg source. Don't like that, read this
831.
by SideQuark 5y ago
A jpeg pixel is not 64 eight-bit coefficients. Jpeg compresses an 8x8 pixel block at a time by taking a DCT (which mathematically is lossless, but in practice is not due to rounding and quantization at this stage), which turns those origina
832.
by SideQuark 5y ago
Once you replace scalars with 2 vectors you aren't basing it on real numbers, you're basing it on operations on 2 vectors. Of course you can put real numbers at the base of nearly anything, but it the theory operates at a fundamen
833.
by SideQuark 5y ago
Having written professionally about quaternions and GA, and having implemented them multiple times in professional engines, GA is simply slower and worse to use (until you replace them in the special case and put back quaternions). I recomm
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by SideQuark 5y ago
>most people won't have defined benefit plans any longer. Most people never had them. Only a minority of middle and upper class white men had them for a short period in time. Here's some historical tables [1]. For example, in 1
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by SideQuark 5y ago
Tons tons of people were working on special. Hilbert had sent a paper on nearly every part of it in n before Einstein, it got delayed at the publisher, Einstein submitted his, then Hilbert sent in an updated manuscript with the same results
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by SideQuark 5y ago
Hayek got a Nobel for decidely non-Austrian work. His Austrian work was widely panned, and he moved away from it later in life. His co-winner was displeased to win a Nobel on a topic shared with someone like Hayek who early in his career p