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by baking 8y ago
Phi is the most irrational of the irrational numbers, meaning that successive rational approximations are just slightly better: 1/1, 1/2, 2/3, 3/5, 5/8, 8/13, etc. There are no rational approximations that &qu
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by baking 8y ago
This is the part I was questioning: "(I believe we reached roughly every Facebook using inhabitant of the targeted neighborhood)"
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by baking 8y ago
I'm not questioning that Facebook sells ads, I am questioning their effectiveness and whether the OP is overselling it. Edit: For example, the only Facebook ads I've seen recently are for riding lawnmowers. I live in the city.
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by baking 8y ago
Do people even look at Facebook ads? On my browser they rotate through every ten seconds, so even if I was interested the chance that I could read them and decide to click on them before they go away is nil. In he past, every single Faceb
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by baking 8y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support seems to have it all in one place.
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by baking 8y ago
As a programmer with assembly language in my blood, all I can think is "Why should I care that this silly person thinks 'zero' doesn't exist?"
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by baking 8y ago
Unfortunately, the author perpetuates the myth that those Linkedin requests are coming from individuals. In fact most of them are auto-generated (and address spoofed) by Linkedin from email addresses collected possibly many years ago and w
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by baking 8y ago
https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.03590 Elucidating Reaction Mechanisms on Quantum Computers "We show how a quantum computer can be employed to elucidate reaction mechanisms in complex chemical systems, using the open pr
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by baking 8y ago
"the weird resistor, capacitor and whatnot which is plugged beyween, say, the arduino and the sensor" have to do with device termination and impedance matching so maybe that is a place to start.
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by baking 8y ago
Robert Marsh, Head Surfer http://web.archive.org/web/20030802132245im_/http://rackshac...
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by baking 8y ago
I disagree because your sent mail also appears in your inbox and vice versa as part of threads.
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by baking 8y ago
The comments there are fairly extensive with suggestions for additions. Quite worthwhile if your made it this far in the HN comments.
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by baking 8y ago
Richard Rorty "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature" Need a little Pragmatism on this list.
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by baking 9y ago
If I was over 65 (and I'm close) I would worry more about what put me in the hospital than what appeared on my death certificate. The two are surprisingly unrelated in the elderly.
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by baking 9y ago
It's a movie cliche. Shot on the left side, you are a gonner. Shot on the right, you'll be just fine. So you don't have to worry about whether your favorite character is going to make it to the end of the movie or not.
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by baking 9y ago
I think the data is for "unintentional injury" (or death from injury excluding homicide or suicide.) This category is actually the number one cause of death for ages 1-44. The numbers are fairly constant from ages 15 to 64 but th
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by baking 9y ago
Everyone dies. The only significance of death is if it occurs sooner than otherwise expected. For the vast majority of people that die in old age what to list on the death certificate can be a conundrum, but it is safe to say no one will
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by baking 9y ago
100% of people die from being born. If this data is not segregated by age, it is pretty much meaningless. People don't die of "natural causes" or "old age" any more because the doctors are required to list somethi
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by baking 9y ago
The title is still the same as the original link, but I wanted to comment on the use of the term "algorithm" in this sense. I'm wondering if that's the proper term for the output of a machine learning algorithm, and if
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by baking 9y ago
Well, kWh are the traditional unit for electrical power. (And yes, I know it is actually a unit of energy.)
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by baking 9y ago
100,000 GWh per fiscal year (2017-18) Edit: Wikipedia has them at 195,242 GWh in 2015 but that includes large-scale hydroelectric.
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by baking 9y ago
More context: "Let's say there are 10 hours of labour in final assembly (the part of the production line where parts, interiors and the powertrain are installed in a painted bodyshell). In a regular plant, final assembly typically
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by baking 9y ago
Someone doesn't like your comment, but when I searched to find context for a quote from the article, I found this expanded paragraph from the Bernstein Research report: "What is the inspiration behind Tesla's automation? Tesl
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by baking 9y ago
Make that random names with an apparent alt-right flavor. Yay for the internet.
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by baking 9y ago
There is no way you can justify the expense of development unless it is the plan. You can't make that much money selling self-driving as a very expensive (and finicky) option. Ride-sharing puts cars on the road, rolls them out region
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by baking 9y ago
Whoever is first to market will compete directly against Uber. There is no point in selling autonomous cars to Uber.
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by baking 9y ago
Sure,there are a large number of "computable reals" such as square roots and taylor series expansions (pi, e, sine, cosine, etc.) which can be estimated to greater and greater precision (always with rational numbers) so we can rea
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by baking 9y ago
Because an infinite series of non-repeating decimals . . . can . . . never . . . stop . . .
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by baking 9y ago
Well, you can describe a negative number or a rational number, but an infinite sequence of non-repeating decimals is a different matter.
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by baking 9y ago
The website is actually a pretty exhaustive resource on continued fractions, although I'll admit it's been 40 years since I read Khinchin and I can't honestly say which is more exhaustive.

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