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by aqme28 5y ago
I don't see how this works. > The index of that position is a uniform random integer in a range from 1 to the size of the table. Use your favourite method to extract unbiased bits from that unbiased integer. Why is that position unb
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by aqme28 5y ago
As with so many algorithms, he's trading compute time for memory and pre-compute time. Generating that table is costly, but once you have that table it's pretty efficient.
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by aqme28 5y ago
Fascinating to me that the one thing the Senate unanimously agrees on, HackerNews finds it incredibly controversial and discusses it for 2000+ comments.
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by aqme28 5y ago
> I predict a lot of people will want to move school start to a later hour then. I'm a proponent of this regardless. Forcing teenagers to be awake at 6AM is not helpful.
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by aqme28 5y ago
I used to live near a stadium and can echo that. Depended on what it was used for too. If it was a concert it usually made the neighborhood fun and lively. If it was for a hockey game then the neighborhood was awful.
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by aqme28 5y ago
"being involved in terrorist activities" is pretty poorly defined. In the US at least that could amount to charitable giving that accidentally finds its way to the orphans of suicide bombers.
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by aqme28 5y ago
If you’re asking how to solve difficult differential equations in general, we use numerical methods like finite elements or finite differences
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by aqme28 5y ago
Yes, but sadly I’m not convinced that “private companies can’t do what they like” would necessarily turn out different.
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by aqme28 5y ago
I feel like it must be intentional. The original Far Cry AI is far better than anything coming out these days.
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by aqme28 5y ago
Russia _did_ have a puppet in Ukraine, but he was ousted in a populist uprising in 2014.
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by aqme28 5y ago
This is another issue though. Nothing burns you out quite like realizing that you don't even want your boss's job. It makes your career feel hopeless.
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by aqme28 5y ago
It's true. If all you get is acceptance and never rejection, you have set your sights too low.
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by aqme28 5y ago
Isn't that kind of how all sanctions work? Eliminating trade hurts both parties equally, though the effects will be felt less to the bigger party.
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by aqme28 5y ago
I'm confused why you need a global total game-time anyways, or if you have one why it has to be precise. Could you use your precise time in float, and then increment a larger but less-precise total gametime value every 10 minutes?
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by aqme28 5y ago
>But what is the value of the protocol? Wish I knew! Investing would be a lot easier. > Are there actually profits if the protocol is worthless? Nope, therefore these protocols are not worthless?
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by aqme28 5y ago
I mostly agree with you, but how does crypto.com's marketing relate to what I was talking about in the parent comment?
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by aqme28 5y ago
> The way that I am interpreting this is that if I were to invest in one of these (i.e. Maker) then the returns that I would see are there purely because other people are investing in it. That's the opposite of what I'm saying.
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by aqme28 5y ago
What are you talking about? APY on a loan is not P/E.
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by aqme28 5y ago
> Basically what's missing is the ability to even guess at the "true" value of cryptocurrency. There's no P/E ratios to consider because the only thing Crypto "produces" is Crypto transactions. It'
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by aqme28 5y ago
I don’t think it’s all or nothing. Look at anonymous public personas like Banksy or Dril. People have tracked them down, and you can look up who they are if you try. But for the most part these people are anonymous, and get to enjoy some of
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by aqme28 5y ago
There are much simpler ways to destroy enemy satellites. You wouldn't necessarily go out of your way to gently decommission them.
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by aqme28 5y ago
> This isn't doing the cultural perception of science any favours. But they're acknowledging the limitations of the study. As it is, it's a jumping off-point to do more research on the subject. They even mention confoundi
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by aqme28 5y ago
There have been a few studies that people have actual sympathy for robots in distress.
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by aqme28 5y ago
“In the near term” doesn’t really make sense for fusion. It won’t be economical at all in the near term.
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by aqme28 5y ago
Technically also the plot of Spider-Man 2. Controlling a burning plasma with an AI was Doc Oc’s field of study.
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by aqme28 5y ago
YES. I have lived on some incredibly busy streets in New York. Cities aren't loud. Cars are loud.
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by aqme28 5y ago
This doesn't really make sense. If you don't care about performance then you have no use for Numba. Also, the comment you replied to was explicitly comparing Numba to vectorized Python, so you should not abandon that comparison in
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by aqme28 5y ago
Yes, that's the implication. E.g. Poor and rich alike are at risk of losing the capital they put into the business. For the rich that might be daddy's money, while for the poor that might be their life savings. Both are at risk of
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by aqme28 5y ago
I don't think that's true. You lose some functionality, but since you can call Numba on select critical methods, it's not so bad. You can often sequester your performance-critical logic into some Numba-decorated methods, and
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by aqme28 5y ago
I'll echo the comment that every startup founder I've worked under has come from extremely wealthy parents.

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