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by abetusk 2y ago
I think that's an unkind reading of my response. I was implicitly talking about decision problems or puzzle problems like the one in the OP. If you're talking about PSPACE complete problems or general Turing machine equivalence, I
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by abetusk 2y ago
I think NP-Completness is the norm rather than the exception. Wikipedia has a list of NP-Complete problems [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NP-complete_problems#G...
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by abetusk 2y ago
It looks like that story is apocryphal. There's a reddit question which refutes this idea [0] and provides some sources (which are paywalled) [1] [2]. That reddit question also has a source [3] that claims Galton used the term "no
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by abetusk 2y ago
Good for you for stating the assumptions properly that go into the CLT and for mentioning other stable distributions. I disagree about the Gaussian being the "normal" case or the "one that usually matters". Finite varian
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by abetusk 2y ago
I think this is specifically coming to terms with an insight that's taught to statisticians about a bias-variance tradeoff. From my understanding, in a statistical setting, low variability in bias leads to high variability in variance
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by abetusk 2y ago
Politics is generally a restricted topic on HN but this is specifically about skewing the probability estimates for betting sites, which is a tech focus on USA regional politics. Found from a tweet by Robert Graham [0]. [0] https:/&#x
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$30M Is All It Took to Shift the Odds in Trump's Favor on Polymarket(gizmodo.com)
7 points by abetusk 2y ago|5 comments
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Secret 3D scans in the French Supreme Court(cosmowenman.substack.com)
776 points by abetusk 2y ago|303 comments
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by abetusk 2y ago
This is probably a really dumb question but could this effect be the cause of the discrepancy of the expected and observed rotational velocity of galaxies?
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by abetusk 2y ago
I've only skimmed the article/paper and I also dont' understand, so I'm just as ignorant as you, but there is such a thing as a Tesla valve that is a static object that allows water to flow in one direction [0]. I would
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Building a model for message moderation on social media platforms(lijiayong.github.io)
1 points by abetusk 2y ago|0 comments
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by abetusk 2y ago
There's a question on SE cstheory site that addresses the more general problem [0]. I wonder if this problem is still open. [0] https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/5861/asymptotic...
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by abetusk 2y ago
I completely missed that. The license file also says that it's "free" and ensures that we have the "freedom to use it": """ The Winamp Collaborative License is a free, copyleft license for software an
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by abetusk 2y ago
A perversion of the term "open". The licensing terms do not allow redistribution or resale, which is a condition of "open source" (as it's commonly accepted). Note how the title nor the repository says "open so
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by abetusk 2y ago
In my opinion, no. Sorry for the confusing term, I should have used something else. Here I meant "packed" as in "packed tightly with no gaps". Maybe I should have used the term "tiled" instead. Note that, in my
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by abetusk 2y ago
Some of these terms are pretty general and their usage will depend on the user and context. I'll try to define what I think are the most appropriate and common usages of each. Grid - usually a regular D-dimensional boxes that are packe
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by abetusk 2y ago
This is the modern form of embrace, extend and extinguish. "Embrace" open source, "extend" the definition to make it non open/libre and finally extinguish the competition by shoring up the drawbridge to the moat the
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by abetusk 2y ago
NickADobos on Twitter highlights portions of it [0]. [0] https://x.com/NickADobos/status/1835242067255238862
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by abetusk 2y ago
Nice, my bad!
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by abetusk 2y ago
The operative word being "open". Much more expressive tools exist but the condition on libre/free/open reduces the size of that list substantially. OpenSCAD also has a lower barrier to entry in that the programming langu
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by abetusk 2y ago
Title should be "Just for Fun. No Really."
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The sound of space-filling curves(herman.haverkort.net)
1 points by abetusk 2y ago|0 comments
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by abetusk 2y ago
For those that don't know, Wendy Carlos (the "Carlos" in the above title) did the musical score for "A Clockwork Orange", "The Shining" and "Tron" [0]. My bet is many people, especially of a cert
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by abetusk 2y ago
Awesome! Here's my feedback from an initial rough pass: * Provide some references for what a Luneburg lens is. Not everyone will have the same context as you and will need to look up what a Luneburg lens is (like I did), distracting fr
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by abetusk 2y ago
You say this is open source but I don't see a license on it. Did you mean source available?
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by abetusk 2y ago
The three questions: “There’s an IC sitting out there who just had an amazing idea for a new feature/product. What happens?” “Tell me about your last major migration. How long did it take and how long did you say it was going to take b
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by abetusk 2y ago
I generally try to stay away from responding to these posts but it's starting to feel like it's an astroturf concern trolling strategy. I'm not sure I've properly digested the article but, just from a cursory look, it do
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Is it time to update the Open Hardware Definition for AI?(blog.adafruit.com)
2 points by abetusk 2y ago|0 comments
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by abetusk 2y ago
This is not open source. From the site [0]: """ You must not: * Republish material from nest2d * Sell, rent or sub-license material from nest2d * Reproduce, duplicate or copy material from nest2d * Redistribute content from n
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by abetusk 2y ago
I wonder if this is getting close to the actual reason. That is, there's a "latent space" of composable units that, say, have blurred edges (or something) for easy combination that ends up looking like an airbrush/glossy

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