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by anon_123g987 4y ago
The paper: O. Keleş, E. Anarım: Adjustment of Digital Screens to Compensate the Eye Refractive Errors via Deconvolution. Link to PDF: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Emin-Anarim/publication...
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
From user throwaabolt 's profile page: "troll account. didn't actually get laid off from bold. curious to see how long it takes HN to realize this."
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
Syntax can be simple or complex, and - independently - easy or hard. IMO Lisp's is hard, but simple; Python's is hard and complex. Tooling can make it easier (keeping track of parentheses and significant whitespace, respectively),
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
A.k.a. "Move fast and break things".
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
What if someone specifically asked for faces that can bypass the filter? Is this AI its own adversary that filters its own output? Or is that another, better AI?
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) has a similar element: several people obsessing over a mountain-like shape, they paint it, sculpt it, etc, and want to travel there. Later it turns out to be the place where the UFOs arrive.
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
There's no such operating system as "Linux". I don't know what these "workarounds" are exactly, but if it's something like installing a driver for a fingerprint reader that's present in a standard Fed
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
Social justice warrior (SJW) is a pejorative term and internet meme used for an individual who promotes socially progressive, left-wing and liberal views, including feminism, civil rights, gay and transgender rights, identity politics, po
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
The Wikipedia has this list of password managers with feature comparison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_password_managers
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
If robustness is what's important to you, then your challenge is to do that efficiently. For example, maybe you can use something like the Reed–Solomon error correction, which allows you to balance between no redundancy and full dupl
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
Uzi Nissan.
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A product is not overengineered when it has many features, but when its many features make basic usage problematic, generally because the thing becomes less robust and fails too often. These features in the video look useful, but we haven&#
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by anon_123g987 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addition
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by anon_123g987 5y ago
> "Science is prediction, not explanation." - Fred Hoyle I don't know about string theory, but this is totally wrong. Exploiting a simple correlation gives you the ability to predict to a certain extent, but that's
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by anon_123g987 5y ago
A mirror is an object that reflects an image / light / photons. There are mirrors with different reflectiveness and different construction. In the video the prof says they are using a "highly reflective nanostructured mirror&
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by anon_123g987 5y ago
The problem with machine translation is not the obvious general mediocrity, but the occasional undetected catastrophic failure, especially in medical context. I don't think DeepL (or any other fully automated system) is any more reliab
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by anon_123g987 5y ago
Or press the Alt button to show the Menu bar temporarily.
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by anon_123g987 5y ago
This question is relevant when 1: one of the most important (perceived) adversarial is the NSA; 2: as of 2012, 80% of The Tor Project's $2 million annual budget came from the United States government; 3: the Underhanded C Contest exist
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by anon_123g987 5y ago
If satire, it's hilarious. If not, it's ridiculous. The same people will take it seriously either way, so there's not much difference.
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by anon_123g987 5y ago
By size of fan base, cricket is worldwide #2, basketball is #7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport#Popularity
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by anon_123g987 5y ago
> [...] "A miracle of interoperability" that allowed a movie made in Hollywood to be recorded on a DVD manufactured in China to run on a player assembled in India, according to standards designed in Nederlands and Japan, playin
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by anon_123g987 5y ago
It worked for me when I studied Japanese, German and Russian, even though the language of instruction is English, which is not my native language. The trick is that you have to follow the instructions, not just "listen to some tapes&qu
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by anon_123g987 5y ago
In some programs those keys will move the cursor to the start/end of a line of text horizontally (text editors, web browser when you type in a form, etc.).
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by anon_123g987 5y ago
Here you go: > As for military affairs, even after the dissolution of the USSR and losing a considerable part of its capabilities, today’s Russia remains one of the most powerful NUCLEAR states. Moreover, it has a certain advantage in
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by anon_123g987 5y ago
You quoted the "wrong" part of the speech. Here it is, I highlighted for you: > As for military affairs, even after the dissolution of the USSR and losing a considerable part of its capabilities, today’s Russia remains one of t
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by anon_123g987 5y ago
The Pledge form on this page contains an "Entity type" field, in which there's a "Freelancer/Consultant (self-employed)" option.
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Ukrainian NGOs need tech support to build resilience(techtotherescue.org)
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by anon_123g987 5y ago
> I don’t have a good feel for how fast the Game Boy runs, so I did a bit of speed optimization. This sounds like a very wrong approach to optimization. I mean, if you don't know exactly what and how to optimize, or if there'
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by anon_123g987 5y ago
What language? Prolog?
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by anon_123g987 5y ago
+1 for the reader. -1 for the writer.

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