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TezlaOil
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TezlaOil
8y ago
> before the price hikes you weren't willing to pay a dollar more for name brand (or premium drugs etc), but after the price hike you are? Imagine that 10 normal people and Bill Gates want to buy bottles of wine. Bill goes for a bot
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TezlaOil
8y ago
The computer program BACON (1987) of Nobel Prize winner Herbert Simon was given the distances of planets from the sun together with their period of revolution and it independently rediscovered Kepler's third law, illustrating how far t
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TezlaOil
8y ago
> The tactic system then basically build the actual proof by putting everything on a stack and applying in reverse: once you've proved both goals, it knows it can apply the forward-reasoning induction proof function to construct a p
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TezlaOil
8y ago
The cited price was $10/year, not $10/month. That's a huge difference.
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TezlaOil
8y ago
8.90 EUR per month is about $130 a year, so still an order of magnitude more expensive than cheap PHP hosting.
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TezlaOil
9y ago
> wouldn't pass even the most basic "is this poll statistically valid?" test It totally would. Statistically, a sample size of 282 out of a population of 60000 is pretty good. If this test was authentic, we would be 95% su
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TezlaOil
9y ago
Gene swapping makes perfect sense when the success of a given solution is due to the various contributions of the solution's components (this is closely related to the Credit Assignment Problem). For example, a 'random' tour
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TezlaOil
9y ago
Machine learning is automated classification, regression, and decision-making. Genetic algorithms don't tend to perform so well in these areas (just as ML is not so appropriate for combinatorial optimization). Instead, genetic methods
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9y ago
Software Foundations book [1] covers many case studies. One of the authors has a lecture course based around the book as well. [1] softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/current/index.html