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by atwood22 4y ago
Neural networks have loss functions. In a sense, feeling good and bad can be looked at as outcomes of a loss function.
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by atwood22 4y ago
Super weird decision from BMW. The brand is all about luxury and performance at all costs. Trying to nickel and dime on seat heaters just seems cheap.
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by atwood22 4y ago
> This shift can turn lotteries into a de facto tax on being bad at math. Would lotteries be ok if the expected value of the players prize equaled the price of the ticket? Being bad at math and lotteries being a regressive tax seem ortho
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by atwood22 4y ago
Yes, it was a good idea to do that. I didn't realize that addresses were essentially a hash of the public key, but it makes sense.
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by atwood22 4y ago
How is the transaction signature verified without the public key? This link seems to indicate spender public keys are inside of the transaction: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/102667
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by atwood22 4y ago
I recently had a child. Watching her learn inspires a sense of amazement. It starts slow with basic grasping, then shaking, then hitting, then tracking, then pointing. You really see how human's learn from first principles. One differe
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by atwood22 4y ago
Basically, people are expecting the Fed to have a stronger response to inflation compared to the ECB. The Fed is expected to have a stronger response to inflation than most of the world, which is why the U.S. dollar is so strong against oth
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by atwood22 4y ago
What does it mean to be supply constrained? The simple definition means you don't have enough supply to meet demand, but that's too simplistic a definition. Supply constraints can happen for two reasons. The supply curve can shift
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by atwood22 4y ago
Classical asymmetric encryption algorithms like RSA and ECDSA (which Bitcoin uses) can be easily broken by a quantum computer. Brute-forcing symmetric algorithms like AES gets a speed up on a quantum computer, but not enough to consider th
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by atwood22 4y ago
Isn't there a spot market for power? Why are pricing changes hard-coded to a specific time?
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by atwood22 4y ago
I can tell you're very passionate about these issues. I think you're falling into a trap, however, that has basically consumed the U.S. and all but ensured its fall from grace. I live in the U.S., but spend a large amount of time
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by atwood22 4y ago
> “My family joined that religion and our life became harder after donating money to the organization,” Tetsuya Yamagami, who is unemployed, was quoted by the sources as telling police. “I had wanted to target the top official of the org
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by atwood22 4y ago
I think you're entirely missing my point. You're going off on a tangent about mortgages, regulations, and titles. That's at a much higher level than what I'm talking about. To use load balancers as an example, you'r
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by atwood22 4y ago
Another piece of supporting evidence: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/growing-up-with-a-... . Those that grow up with dogs may be less likely to develop Crohn's. Dogs have been shown to increase the stren
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by atwood22 4y ago
I think the utility is the medium itself. Your TradFi loan was delivered to you using a financial system maintained by thousands of highly specialized bankers and engineers leveraging billions of dollars in infrastructure. A DeFi loan is de
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by atwood22 4y ago
Some genetic modification does make plants pest resistant. For instance, Bt corn is pest resistant without the need of additional pesticides.
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by atwood22 4y ago
It will definitely be tough, but the Shinkansen at least proves its possible. Taking the Shinkansen is almost disorienting with how fast it is. Not so much its raw speed while in motion, but rather the fact that you hop in in a very normal-
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by atwood22 4y ago
Just FYI, Go's GC mantra is "GC latency is an existential threat to Go."
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by atwood22 4y ago
My point is that you can write fast code just as easily as you can write slow code. So engineers should write fast code when possible. Obviously you can spend a lot of time making things faster, but that doesn't mean you can't be
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by atwood22 4y ago
Yes, you can spend a large amount of time making things faster. But note that Go's GC is fast, even though it is simple. It's not the fastest, but it is acceptably fast.
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by atwood22 4y ago
> Python was meant as a scrypting language that was easy to learn and work with on all levels. Being fast isn't contradictory with this goal. If anything, this is a lesson that so many developers forget. Things should be fast by def
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by atwood22 4y ago
Your longer explanation would be much more meaningful to a child. Using your analogy, telling a child to "use the right hand rule" before you've explained (and they've internalized) the relationship between current and a
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by atwood22 4y ago
While ICE are more complicated, they’ve been around longer. The QA process for ICE vehicles is probably better established. As more data is collected on common BeV issues, more defects will be able to be caught by the factory.
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by atwood22 4y ago
You keep saying "it's a reminder not a full instruction set." But what is the difference between a reminder and an instruction set? You're not responding to the main issue, which is that this "reminder" is inco
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by atwood22 4y ago
Antibiotic use in food-producing animals is regulated by the FDA.
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by atwood22 4y ago
If you tell a kid that words shouldn't hurt them, but words do hurt them, then what other conclusion can they come to other than that they're emotionally deficient? Kids trust their parents. If parents say the world works in a cer
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by atwood22 4y ago
I think it is disingenuous to tell kids that. Learning to disregard others’ opinions of you is a skill learned with time. The best way to teach that skill is to instill a sense of self worth and high self esteem in kids. Words very obviousl
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by atwood22 4y ago
> Many of the conditions that vets see don’t have specific drugs associated with them (or even high quality studies), so vets often have to get creative. > If I want to market to doctors, I’m best served by having high-profile researc
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by atwood22 4y ago
For what it’s worth, a lot of developers I know who work on complex iOS applications have more or less abandoned SwiftUI after trying it.
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by atwood22 4y ago
Ah yea that’s right. Now I remember why we didn’t use JSCore. We had a cross-platform C++ library for both Android and iOS so it was better to use a single JS Engine.

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