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by The_suffocated 7y ago
> Judeo-Christian dogma is “foreign and cool“ and the writers eventually admit it Any reference?
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by The_suffocated 7y ago
Thanks for the link. The price difference is huge. Around 16:20 in the programme -- if one ships a 3/4-pound package across the US, the USPS has to charge the shipper $4.76 for the "last mile", but if the same package is imp
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by The_suffocated 7y ago
`67 "protests"? You must be kidding me. The series of events, known as the "1967 riots" in history, weren't really just protests or riots, but also a series of indiscriminate terrorist attacks against Hongkongers. O
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by The_suffocated 7y ago
What are you talking about? Hundreds of thousands of Hongkongers were protesting about Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. That was eight years before the hand-over of HK.
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by The_suffocated 7y ago
One major drawback of using spreadsheets is that it is harder to spot calculation mistakes. A famous/infamous recent example is the Reinhart and Rogoff incident in 2013, which involved their heavily cited paper "Growth in a time o
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by The_suffocated 7y ago
Of course they want to pass the bill, but it's a different matter to make it an official stance. In a recent interview on BBC, the Chinese ambassador to UK claimed that it wasn't the Chinese government's intention to formul
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by The_suffocated 7y ago
The HK government has just made an official announcement. It is NOT withdrawing the bill, but going to defer the second reading (a bill has to be given three readings in the Legislative Council to become a law) and conduct another public co
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by The_suffocated 7y ago
I honestly think that his "what_about-perhaps" construct is nicer than "switch-case".
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by The_suffocated 7y ago
The interviewee in the news report you've mentioned was probably cherry-picking. She said that "the number of laboratory-confirmed cases of illness dropped from more than 18,000 in 1993 to just 459 in 2010", but that 459 figu
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by The_suffocated 7y ago
The _confirmed_ incidence rates in years 2015 and 2016 are 14.85 and 14.51 (cases per 100000 population) in the USA, and 21.0 and 20.4 in the EU. Sources: * National Enteric Disease Surveillance: Salmonella Annual Report, 2016 https:/
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by The_suffocated 8y ago
This depends on the textbooks. It is very, very hard to find a textbook that is (a) well written, (b) suitable for self-study and (c) affordable.
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by The_suffocated 8y ago
Are you serious? Axler defines determinant as (up to a sign) the constant term of the characteristic polynomial, and he needs two different definitions for characteristic polynomial, one over R and one over C. Now what if the ground field i
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by The_suffocated 8y ago
I always wonder why India couldn't catch up. Although I don't know about its engineering sectors, I have the impression that the country is at least not that bad in scientific research. And it has cheap labour too.
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by The_suffocated 8y ago
The effect of this trick will diminish quickly when everyone copies it. I wonder why this bike company was eager to reveal their trick if it was so effective. Perhaps the free advertisements they gets from news reports are more worthwhile?
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by The_suffocated 8y ago
Do Canada and Japan charge taxes on consumer products? And why does the author rank the countries by before-tax prices rather than after-tax costs? (He/she lists some after-tax costs in grey, though.)
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by The_suffocated 8y ago
Thanks. It's on a sidebar and I didn't see that. Still, I don't think that's good humour.
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by The_suffocated 8y ago
On htdp.org: https://htdp.org/2018-01-06/Book/part_prologue.html "If programming were just about numbers and arithmetic, it would be as boring as mathematics." What's wrong with this author?
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by The_suffocated 8y ago
Yeah. The official doc says that lila is a chess game server. It really isn't an immediate replacement for a general web stack. However, I don't think the technologies he/she mentioned are little known. Scala, Akka and TypeSc
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by The_suffocated 8y ago
What uses of MDArrays in deep learning don't correspond to tensor manipulations? That's news to me. All genuinely tensor-related operations in machine learning that I was aware of were about dimension reduction (tensor decomposi
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by The_suffocated 8y ago
Thanks, but I don't think so. On one hand, feature spaces in machine learning are usually not conceptual vector spaces (e.g. in a tall/short classification, it doesn't make sense to add two "tall"s together or mul
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by The_suffocated 8y ago
But if you're already happy with the conflation of "vector" and "array" Hmm, no, I am not happy with that. All I'm saying is that while std::vector is a bad name, most people can immediately get that it has a
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by The_suffocated 8y ago
I ain't saying that deep learning is unrelated to tensor algebra. E.g. low-rank approximation of matrix can be reformulated as a tensor problem. Apparently, the following discussion in CrossValidated suggests that some deep learning re
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by The_suffocated 8y ago
I haven't any preferred term. You may call it multiarray, mdarray, ndarray, hdarray, MDA etc.. I don't agree that "tensor" is a good convenient term. E.g. C++'s std::vector does not really support vector operations,
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by The_suffocated 8y ago
Can those developers who write deep learning libraries stop calling multi-dimensional arrays "tensors"? This marketing gimmick is really annoying. One may represent a tensor as a multi-dimensional array, but multi-dimensional arra
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by The_suffocated 8y ago
Thanks. You are right, but I actually talked about pre-rendered, 3D (not 2D) and photo-realistic background. Pre-rendered 3D background wasn't a new thing even among adventure games (again, The 7th Guest had done that), but Myst was
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by The_suffocated 8y ago
Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. What I meant was that Myst was the first adventure game that was neither inventory based nor dialogue based. The Loom and The 7th Guest did have no inventories, and technically they weren't dialo
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by The_suffocated 8y ago
Myst is not a FMV game (it has some short motion videos, but it doesn't use FULL motion videos) and computer games of other genres (such as the 1985 racing game Road Avenger) had long been using FMVs before the release of Myst. I don
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by The_suffocated 8y ago
(And it was ridiculed by some back then as an "interactive slide show".) If I remember correctly, Myst was a pioneer (if not revolutionary) in a number of areas: 1. It was one of the first computer games that were distributed with
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by The_suffocated 8y ago
Fatal Discord by Michael Massing and The Library Book by Susan Orlean look interesting. And the list has too many (51 out of 100) fictions.
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by The_suffocated 8y ago
According to the analysis in the article, Yahoo does not waste bandwidth on web fonts because it uses system fonts. So, the title of this submission is a distortion.

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