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by andrewla 3y ago
Instead of having a dotfiles git repository, I find it more useful to have my entire `.config` directory be in a git repository, and by default ignore everything. My .gitignore then looks like /* !.gitignore !/dotfil
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by andrewla 3y ago
Yes, if you need an approximate pdf. I've found that when I'm working non-parametrically (or in robust statistics) I like to stay in cdf space or use quantile functions more than trying to use those nasty derivatives.
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by andrewla 3y ago
scipy even has a built-in method (scipy.stats.ecdf) for doing exactly this.
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by andrewla 3y ago
Agreed -- very odd to use a parameter (bin width) in a nonparametric estimation. Just use the raw data. In numerical analysis, broadly speaking, integrals are stable while derivatives are wild; an empirical cdf is a nice smooth integral of
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by andrewla 3y ago
Putting aside the Wolfram Language related content, this is a really interesting introduction to the mechanics of solar eclipses. The notion of a "synodic" vs "draconic" really clears up a lot of my questions about why t
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by andrewla 3y ago
The native support for logging in to Google services is unique to Chrome. This should either be expanded to support other identity providers, or (preferably) removed entirely from the browser.
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by andrewla 3y ago
The sticking points for me are just the integration of Google services into Chrome itself. I should be able to log into a website (say Google Docs) and have the browser be blissfully unaware of the semantics of being "logged in".
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by andrewla 3y ago
The Iraqi Swiss Dinar is another example of a currency surviving without a central bank -- in that case, even with the central bank directly opposed to the continued circulation of the currency.
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by andrewla 3y ago
Same experience -- felt a shaking; thought maybe a heavy truck had passed by for a second, then saw that all the monitors were swaying. Checked USGS and saw nothing, so figured it was nothing, because on the west coast they have the reports
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by andrewla 3y ago
Some of these are quite amusing. "The Grave of the Last Saxon" written in 1833 by William Lisle Bowles looks like it shows up because of an AI-generated blurb: > ... As of my last knowledge update in January 2022, I don't
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by andrewla 3y ago
I was not aware of that; I thought that it was pretty deterministic. Nonetheless, for this particular case, comparing jpegs decoded into lossless formats is unnecessary -- you can simply compare the two jpegs directly based on the default r
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by andrewla 3y ago
Other commenters have pointed out that hydrogen may not be feasible, but the other direction -- methanol or higher hydrocarbons, seems way more interesting. Storage and density are orders of magnitude easier, and since we're synthesizi
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by andrewla 3y ago
As an aside, jpeg is lossless on decode -- once encoded, all decoders will render the same pixels. Since this library produces a valid jpeg file, it should be possible to directly compare the two jpegs.
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by andrewla 3y ago
For the moon that potentially works because we're close enough to the moon that the drift is dominated by local gravitation rather than relative motion. But for any other context, say Mars, the problem is that the clock drift will be n
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by andrewla 3y ago
> speed basically borrows energy from time This is close to the main intuitions of special relativity as a geometric theory. I would phrase is more as "speed borrows space from time". In general relativity (and special relativi
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by andrewla 3y ago
What you are describing is not just impractical, it is actually impossible. Someone linked to "falsehoods programmers believe about time" but I think maybe "falsehoods non-physicists believe about time" might be more apt
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by andrewla 3y ago
He cannot get a bench trial unless he waives his right to a jury trial and the prosecution agrees. It is remotely possible that they could amend the charges to include "providing material support for terrorism", in which case they
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by andrewla 3y ago
Boy is this being downvoted. Sorry to see that since this is very real. The "you can get half-price if you submit paperwork showing that you make less that $50k" is a joke. I think like many things in NYC there's a bimodality
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by andrewla 3y ago
Apparently if you use any tolled access route you get a $5 discount on the congestion fee.
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by andrewla 3y ago
> Do you think the US would be pushing extradition if they thought a judge would dismiss the case based on that? Just because they don't think it will happen does not mean that it will not happen. Nonetheless, you are correct -- Ell
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by andrewla 3y ago
This is the core of the injustice of what is happening to him. He is currently in prison (in England, not the US) with no charge, no trial, and no conviction. It is a mockery of justice. The US has drifted far from our principles of "s
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by andrewla 3y ago
> He will not be tried as a journalist. The US govt will not recognise his status as a journalist It's not something that the US govt gets to decide. They can argue it in court, but this sort of finding of fact is a matter for the j
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by andrewla 3y ago
Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a secret? But if you know about it ... and I know about it ... then ... maybe it's not a secret prison?
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by andrewla 3y ago
> The conviction the US seeks under the Espionage Act is as good as automatic I find this assessment to be unsupported. Name a single journalist successfully prosecuted under the Espionage Act. If you have to go back to the 1920s to find
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by andrewla 3y ago
Sure, they'll send him to the same secret military prison where they store the UFOs. Assange is a public figure; if extradited he will have a trial, and if convicted will go to the same federal prisons that all people convicted for fed
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by andrewla 3y ago
He will have to be put on trial (by a jury if he so elects) and convicted before he goes to prison; there is no automatic conviction and even if he is refuse bail he will not be in prison. If the UK refuses to extradite him, then it's
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by andrewla 3y ago
From your question, I take it that you do not believe this is possible. I certainly do. It might be worth further interrogating why you believe that he would not get a fair and impartial trial. That said, I don't believe that a fair an
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by andrewla 3y ago
As someone who wants to see Assange go free, I continue to believe the best outcome here is for him to be extradited and face trial in the US. I do not think the government's case is strong enough to convict him, and his being acquitte
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by andrewla 3y ago
What's the "sharp edge of the knife" here? For use of web sites, the assumption has been that the user agent is responsible for preventing websites, no matter how malicious, from performing harmful operations. Even before the
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by andrewla 3y ago
> In turbulent times, the tallest grass gets chopped first. This is an incoherent metaphor. Why would turbulent times cause a change in grass-chopping behavior?

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