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by abstrakraft 6y ago
Just because the event is true doesn't mean it's presented with the correct statistical context. For example, if, hypothetically, 2 people developed complications from the vaccine out of a treated population of 20 million, a fron
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by abstrakraft 6y ago
The linked article is about a town in Antarctica, not Alaska.
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by abstrakraft 6y ago
I'd add to that: How do we keep stereotypes from reinforcing themselves?
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by abstrakraft 6y ago
If you go through life looking to be offended, guess what? You're going to get offended.
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by abstrakraft 6y ago
The whole point of this thread is that Apple is telling us to not rely on dead simple devices (camera covers, tape, etc.), and instead to trust their internal mechanism that they claim can't be beat. If people take them at face value,
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by abstrakraft 6y ago
They also claim that if you add a (MFI-compliant) case to the iPad, and close it, that this similarly disconnects the microphone. The simplest mechanism to do this sounds complicated enough that it reduces my confidence in the mechanism.
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by abstrakraft 6y ago
A capacitor would also mean that you could quickly switch the camera on and off without triggering the light.
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by abstrakraft 6y ago
And what sort of hardware switch is it that guarantees the 3 second minimum?
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by abstrakraft 6y ago
Taking a selfie requires no preparation. We've all got cameras on our phones, so it's easy enough to do. I'm not really a selfie person, per se, but in the right place and context, I might snap one for posterity. A tourist
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by abstrakraft 6y ago
They can and they do. I've paid Georgia Tech athletic fees while attending remote campuses with no amenities.
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by abstrakraft 6y ago
I agree, the sanity check is not sufficient. It confirms the concept that as pressure decreases, area increases, but is not sufficient to confirm a linear relationship. In the limit, the area clearly does not become infinite when pressure
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by abstrakraft 6y ago
This method doesn't account for the support of the tire itself through the sidewalls, as opposed to the pressure contained within it. You should be able to estimate this contribution by fitting to the curve of area vs pressure at lower
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by abstrakraft 6y ago
Yes. Most of the time, the reason is that there is a general form for computing derivatives of products ((xy)' = x'y + xy') and composite functions (chain rule) while no such general rules exist for integrals.
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by abstrakraft 7y ago
Any comments on the cheaper, earlier edition printed by Dover as "The Nature of Light and Colour in the Open Air"? Is the later edition worth the higher price?
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by abstrakraft 7y ago
Winner Take All
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by abstrakraft 7y ago
Not with a planar or linear array. I'm skeptical, but prepared to learn something: what sort of array can generate a square beam? Even lasers spread. This guy agrees with me: https://www.quora.com/Is-the-light-from-la
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by abstrakraft 7y ago
The inverse square law totally applies in the case of phased array beamforming, you just have a much higher gain to start with.
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by abstrakraft 8y ago
Of course it can. Any rotating frame has Coriolis forces.
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by abstrakraft 8y ago
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_emission_standar... , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ... , and some arithmetic, about 36% of the US population l
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by abstrakraft 8y ago
In my experience, those who grew up with Papoulis, 2nd edition loved it. I grew up with Papoulis, 3rd edition, and find the layout and typesetting to be among the worst of any book I've ever read, bad enough to significantly affect us
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by abstrakraft 8y ago
One has to wonder why only numbers for suspected, rather than confirmed, magnet ingestion are reported.
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by abstrakraft 8y ago
10 years ago, I would have argued the same about the gov't just arbitrarily expanding asset seizure laws, but here we are.
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by abstrakraft 9y ago
Civil cases categorically cannot directly result in incarceration.
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by abstrakraft 9y ago
Concerning the difference between our definitions of measurement, I was referring to the prior probability of making a measurement given the true state, which is P(z|x), or, if you prefer, f(z,x) = P(Z=z|X=x). This PDF is Normal(Hx, R). T
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by abstrakraft 9y ago
Probability notation generally works best for the people who already understand the concept in question. Let me take a crack at your question. The equation in question is P(A|B) = P(B|A) P(A) / P(B). In modern Kalman filter literatur
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by abstrakraft 9y ago
The article takes as given that it's easy to generate such a magic random input: it's simply a stream representing 0.5.
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by abstrakraft 9y ago
A natural noise process (e.g. thermal) with a variable threshold could do it. PRNGs spend a lot of effort on statistical properties that may not matter for this use case. You absolutely must, however, guarantee the correct bias, so such a
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by abstrakraft 9y ago
That there's confusion between the various concepts speaks to their similarities. Copyright and patent are both intended to encourage innovation by providing the originator with a temporary monopoly on the use of works/processes&#
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by abstrakraft 9y ago
Ugh, this argument is tired and dumb. Thank you for bestowing upon us all the sacred knowledge that there are different kinds of IP, but we all already knew that, and choose to continue to refer to them, collectively, as IP, because they a
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by abstrakraft 9y ago
"pi-calculus" would be a better term to use in the title, since the glyph used for pi looks like "n"

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