andischo

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by andischo 5y ago
As a German, born roughly 40 years after the war, I still cannot fathom the atrocities we Germans brought to the world at large and to so many million individuals. I grew up learning the history, I know my grandparents (as well as probably
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by andischo 5y ago
I currently work 32 hours / week at 80% pay and have done so for some time. On paper we agreed on 5*6,4 hours per week, but it is really flexibel. In practice I work somewhere between 32-40 hours a week and additionally take a couple o
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by andischo 6y ago
Also, for those interested: In 2012 they created a car which is able to drive at ~2x the wind speed upwind: https://www.wired.com/2012/07/wind-powered-car-upwind/
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Wind-powered car goes down wind faster than the Wind (2010)(phys.org)
1 points by andischo 6y ago|1 comments
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by andischo 7y ago
That is also a very interesting way to think about it, if I understood you correctly. Seeing the host as another player, any "bad luck" he has, should translate into myself having a higher chance of success if used correctly.
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by andischo 7y ago
The easiest explanation I've ever heard and which immediately made me understand it was the following: Instead of 3 doors, imagine there are 100. 99 of which have a goat and only one of which has a price behind it. Now blindly choose a
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by andischo 7y ago
Seems like one turn is 60°. Is there a specific reason why it isn't 45° or 90°? Is there maybe some advantage to the 60° in regards to the ascii rendering?
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by andischo 7y ago
Might be some stupid questions, but maybe someone can enlighten me: Could this explain the Schrödingers cat experiment, i.e. the light moving through both of the two slits? If light has a self torque, a single beam of light could travel thr
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by andischo 8y ago
In case anyone is interested in a similar open source solution that can be self hosted I can recommend Trilium ( https://github.com/zadam/trilium ). It was also recently featured on HN. I since host it on my private serv
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Ask HN: Do you ever feel powerless in sight of a problem?
2 points by andischo 8y ago|2 comments
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by andischo 8y ago
Curiosity and persuit of knowledge are what drives many people. I would like to believe that HN is a place where these traits are encouraged and not looked down upon as you seem to do with your comment. If I could down vote your comment I w
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by andischo 8y ago
Short answer: yes, crowd sourcing would work better. Long answer: It's difficult to determine how good/bad people actually are at detecting the correct sentiment, as data sets containing phrase/sentence <-> sentiment pa
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by andischo 8y ago
Having written my bachelor's thesis on how negation in sentences affects their sentiment: it is really, really difficult. Even just differentiating between negative/neutral/positive sentiment is successful only about ~65% of
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by andischo 8y ago
I get the advantages of generic algorithms. But sometimes overfitting can be very useful. Imagine wind or water turbines where this method could be used to increase their efficiency based on the individual hardware.
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by andischo 8y ago
"Five individual logic cells were functionally disconnected from the rest— with no pathways that would allow them to influence the output— yet when the researcher disabled any one of them the chip lost its ability to discriminate the t
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by andischo 9y ago
This interview makes me wonder where we are heading as the human race. The Japanese society, so certainly very different in some aspects, does strike me as a glimpse into the future of western society. Technology has a much bigger impact on