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by WCSTombs 2y ago
Do you mean you want to know how to implement those operations on the hardware level (transistors or logic gates), or that you just want to be able to do all those things by hand? Those are very different questions. I guess I'm not sur
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
For Math.sin(Math.pi/6), I'm not sure. When I run it in Python, I get 0.49999999999999994, not exactly 0.5, so it could be that your implementation is slightly different, or that the printed value doesn't exactly match the i
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
I'm not a Java expert, but I'm fairly certain this is just a feature of roundoff error and how it propagates through computations, and how floating-point values are represented. sin(pi/2 + x) = cos(x) = 1 - x^2/2 +
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
> Overloading the discussion of the bylaws change (47 out of 177 posts in topic at the time the moderators closed the topic), which created an atmosphere of fear, uncertainty, and doubt... > Defending “reverse racism” and “reverse sex
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
This is just my speculation, as a mere Firefox user with no insight into Mozilla's larger strategy or financials, but it kind of feels like Mozilla is stuck in a Google-funded local optimum. Maybe this shake-up can provide the activati
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
I clicked around the website to try to figure out what this project is, and from what I can tell, it's one person (Dan O'Dowd) and he runs ad campaigns. Is there more that I'm missing? Also it keeps talking about this "D
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
The language is quite elegant and has some really good concepts, but it lacks many of the things that make programming an enjoyable activity for serious work in the modern day. While the language is incredibly dynamic, it works like a low-l
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
> In linear algebra, a tensor is an array of data expanding in multiple (or zero) independent dimensions. It is used to represent quantities/equations/functions with multiple components, for example, the equation 3x+2y=0 could
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
In the United States, the government acting to protect citizens from themselves is generally not a good strategy and goes pretty strongly against the grain of the culture. We can agree or disagree on whether that's good (and for the re
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
I think the real concern is not protectionism per se, but the ability of China to run influence operations through TikTok (as you hinted at), which to be fair is a real concern. However, "banning" TikTok is pretty shortsighted and
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
I exclusively use Firefox and I don't have major issues with YouTube. I don't know about the other stuff. However, from what I gather, Google often does A/B testing, so different sessions may get served different versions of
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
Here's a link to the actual proof, from one of the previous discussions: https://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/4877/1/01-S... It's well worth the read for any mathy people with high-school-lev
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
404 for me.
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
> Little peasants like us can do our bit by releasing all software under GPL but even that is getting difficult day by day. The more libraries, frameworks or other components your software uses, you must agree to their own license depend
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
Bing is up now, but DDG is still down.
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
My math may be a little rusty, but it sounds like you want to rent out ten-square-foot apartments for $100,000 per month. That's a bit of a stretch, even for San Francisco.
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
Thank you, that's truly excellent! And although it is a little bit technical and more complex than the more standard proofs, it is exactly what it claims to be, a non-circular trigonometric proof of the Pythagorean Theorem. They use a
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
Actually they do start talking about it in the video at the top of the page, but they don't complete it.
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
The Pythagorean Theorem is one of the oldest theorems in mathematics, and it is also the one with the largest number of known proofs. > When Calcea and Ne'Kiya set out to create a new Pythagorean Theorem proof, they didn't know
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
That's from the SCP Wiki's Antimemetics Division Hub, right? https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub If so, I wholly recommend diving in. It's a super fun read.
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
> Except this is exactly the same power every popular domestic company has, including every other social media platform. Yeah, but that's sort of the point. With domestic companies, the US government has more levers they can pull an
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
> Another concern is that TikTok’s algorithms could be influencing its users in ways that might benefit China. I guess I can see this, but I’m not sure. I think this is the heart of the issue. Ironically, I think it didn't necessari
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
What you get out depends on what you put in. Yes, you can skate through some of the top schools, but if on the other hand you want a top-tier education, you will definitely get it there.
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
I can only give you one data point, but I went to one of these "elite" universities (many years ago), and the quality of education I found there was really incredible. I honestly would not trade that for anything.
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
Yeah, I'm totally with you on the units, too. For me it's even more frustrating, because it's such an obvious and ubiquitous problem, and still relatively unacknowledged. There are third-party solutions (like Pint in Python
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
Thanks for pointing that out, and sorry for being redundant. I skimmed the blog but missed that. Overall, I agree with your larger point. I think this it's a natural progression and pretty analogous to assembly language leading to high
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
> imagine that instead of having axis names live as single-letter variables within einsum, our arrays themselves had these names attached to their axes? I already replied to a couple of other comments with this, but you're exactly d
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
I totally agree. Here's a library that basically does that: https://docs.xarray.dev/en/stable/
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
For something in the same ballpark that I've found to be pretty ergonomic, there is Xarray: https://docs.xarray.dev/en/stable/index.html What you do is name all the axes of an array, and then for all array co
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
Yeah. It seems by the author is effectively arguing that general recursion and primitive recursion are equivalent. There seems to be a pretty fundamental failure of logic here.

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