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by bainsfather 6y ago
I just had a look at your comment history. These are (of course) just my own opinions ... You appear to have mostly commented on 'controversial' topics - you are more likely to be downvoted (and maybe also upvoted) in such discus
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by bainsfather 6y ago
I just realised that using * twice to represent a power shows up as just a single * - here is the correct version (the numbers are anyway correct): Prob(0 cases) = (1 - p)^N = 0.9450... Prob(1 case) ~= p * N * (1 - p)^N = 0.0534... Prob(2 c
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by bainsfather 6y ago
If the rate were 1 in 2.3 million, then with 130,000 people vaccinated: p = 1/2,300,000 N = 130,000 Prob(0 cases) = (1 - p)*N = 0.9450... Prob(1 case) ~= p * N * (1 - p)*N = 0.0534... Prob(2 cases) ~= p*2 * (N*2 / 2) * (1 - p)*N
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People Need to Reclaim the Internet(craigmurray.org.uk)
2 points by bainsfather 6y ago|0 comments
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by bainsfather 6y ago
I was very struck by this when watching Citizenfour (the documentary on Snowden leaks). The newspaper journalists had little understanding of good procedures (even "don't have a very short password") and thought Snowden hidi
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Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 11(craigmurray.org.uk)
85 points by bainsfather 6y ago|102 comments
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition Review(tomshardware.com)
2 points by bainsfather 6y ago|0 comments
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by bainsfather 6y ago
Well, it is something that I didn't know until a few years ago - ok, I would often disagree with bbc articles, or think them a little biased. But this is something much worse. And I am still shocked that the bbc does this. Also, I am
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by bainsfather 6y ago
Remarkable that the bbc website shows 1 article about the current hearings [0]. Meanwhile there are about 20 on Johnny Depp's recent libel case [1]. I'd love to see bbc reports on each day of Assange's hearings, in the sort o
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Extinction events: The man helping protect earth(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by bainsfather 6y ago|0 comments
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Neutrino Asymmetry Passes Critical Threshold(quantamagazine.org)
59 points by bainsfather 7y ago|20 comments
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by bainsfather 7y ago
My father bought a lifetime subscription to the uk magazine 'Private Eye' in, iirc, the 1970s, for £10 (they were being sued and on the verge of going bust). He still gets his copy delivered every fortnight.
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by bainsfather 7y ago
As the title says, this is day 4 of what looks like being a rather long proceeding (now adjourned to May 18th). The magistrate will rule on whether Assange should be extradited. This is not about guilt at this stage, but whether the US gov
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Your Man in the Public Gallery – Assange Hearing Day Four(craigmurray.org.uk)
131 points by bainsfather 7y ago|16 comments
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Gopher: When Adversarial Interoperability Burrowed Under Gatekeepers' Fortresses(eff.org)
1 points by bainsfather 7y ago|0 comments
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The Animal Origins of Coronavirus and Flu(quantamagazine.org)
69 points by bainsfather 7y ago|57 comments
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A Deep Learning Approach to Antibiotic Discovery(cell.com)
5 points by bainsfather 7y ago|0 comments
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by bainsfather 7y ago
These are 5 games between Deepmind's AlphaStar and probably the best human Starcraft player. They are analysed in detail by a pundit who is also a good Starcraft player. I find it awe-inspiring to see how AlphaStar has mastered so man
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AlphaStar vs. Serral(youtube.com)
3 points by bainsfather 7y ago|1 comments
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by bainsfather 7y ago
Previous video from the same author is on the z-transform.
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by bainsfather 7y ago
Sure. But to pace Bannister on e.g. lap 3, his pacemaker had to run those 3 laps at wr pace. And Bannister had to run the final lap alone.
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by bainsfather 7y ago
No, it was a genuine race (the 'pacemakers' were also competing, were not lapped, and had to finish the race).
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by bainsfather 7y ago
Hanoz - can you give some info on the coverage of the lidar data? From viewing your map, it seems ~ 70% of England is covered at 1m resolution. Is the other 30% covered by different resolutions or are there some areas not covered at all?
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How interchangeable parts revolutionised the way things are made(bbc.com)
2 points by bainsfather 7y ago|0 comments
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by bainsfather 7y ago
In the uk, we had e.g. the ten hours act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factories_Act_1847
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by bainsfather 7y ago
What is he resolution like? Is it as good as Google's aerial imagery that they show with their maps? (or Bing's)
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by bainsfather 7y ago
I am sorry, no. I do not have such expertise. When I read economics textbooks, I see a marked contrast to physics textbooks. e.g. in physics, they might explain about a pendulum using equations etc, but then they show you real experimenta
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by bainsfather 7y ago
So, you need to lower all prices - i.e. as an exporter you ask your workers to take wage cuts, they must ask their landlords to reduce their rents, shopkeepers to reduce prices etc. This is a slow process (especially because many contracts
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by bainsfather 7y ago
"Isn't it like the state forcing exporting and tourism companies to lower their prices (by devaluating the currency)? Why is that the states job instead of the individual companies'?" With a free-floating currency, price
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by bainsfather 7y ago
Is your Mazda 3 electric?

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