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by blt 2y ago
MPG-wise sure. Emissions-wise almost certainly not. Airplanes don't have catalytic converters, exhaust recirculation, etc.
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by blt 2y ago
If the author is here: Before the first code display, where you write: > Here's how to make an image in html: I think you meant "markdown" instead of "html".
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by blt 2y ago
I got sick of Homebrew after a while and tried switching to MacPorts, but it feels like an endless uphill battle when so many packages only offer source and Homebrew distributions.
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by blt 2y ago
I also thought it was silly, but maybe they mean that frequentist methods still have analytical solutions in some settings where Bayesian methods must resort to Monte Carlo methods?
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by blt 2y ago
I am not the original commenter, but I (and probably many CS students) have had similar moments of clarity. The key part for me isn't > there might be an even faster linear algorithm, but > it's possible to do selection of a
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by blt 2y ago
Totally agree with other comments that a sorted array will be hard to beat. I don't see how binary search could help with the "look for the next availability" query, but even a linear search could be fast on a strong CPU with
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by blt 2y ago
the first HyperNeRF cat video is quite interesting-looking and surreal!
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by blt 2y ago
no hardware interrupts? that seems like a big limitation for a microcontroller environment.
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by blt 2y ago
I'm no statistician, but the whole premise seems mismatched. Why are we using a tool from regression to analyze a classification problem?
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by blt 2y ago
Yes, the wright flyer came fairly soon after internal combustion engines became light enough.
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by blt 2y ago
I love Keynote, but after spending a lot of time in LaTeX Beamer when almost anything can be changed temporally within a slide using overlays, Keynote has frustrating limits. For example, you can't animate changing the background color
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by blt 2y ago
In the bullet point definition, > the function which maps sample space outcomes to numbers, the "numbers" referred to in the codomain are not probabilities. Similarly, in the Wikipedia definition, > a measurable function fro
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by blt 2y ago
The standard definition is the one given in the two bullet points at the top of the article we are discussing. Or, in more detail, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_variable#Definition .
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by blt 2y ago
> The random variable X is a function mapping the outcome to its probability This is simply wrong. Random variables are not defined this way.
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by blt 2y ago
If you are referring to slerp, the matrix version is trivial using the log and exp maps. slerp(A, B, t) = exp(t log(B A^T)) A Something more complex like splines, I am not familiar with the algorithms used for quaternions. I would
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by blt 2y ago
When you say "all quaternions" did you mean "pure imaginary quaternions"?
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by blt 2y ago
Interesting question. Seems like interior-point methods might terminate quickly when the overlap is significant. You could probably add some clever early stopping conditions too.
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by blt 2y ago
No, I want to set an alarm at 6:30 am because I know I need to be at work early at 8am tomorrow. The alarm time is not derived from the current time in any way. "8 hours from now" is helping me verify that I didn't mess up th
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by blt 2y ago
This is only reasonable if internal docs, design notes, research notes, etc. count as shipping.
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by blt 2y ago
The problem can't be solved with the information in the global variables. You need to know the arm lengths and the positions of the head and shoulders. The info is all hidden in `draw()` but I don't want to reverse-engineer it.
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by blt 2y ago
Recently switched from Android to iPhone and was dismayed that Apple doesn't have the "Alarm set to 8 hours from now" confirmation. Such a simple and effective UX. Overall I was frustrated with Android but it gets a few thing
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by blt 2y ago
In case the author is reading, some places that could be clarified: > Scatter a bunch of points in a plane. Connect some of them with lines. That’s all a graph is. This may mislead the uninitiated reader to think that the definition of a
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by blt 2y ago
I've never seen code with a long comment unbroken. 120 columns maybe, but never like 1000. What if the comment were indented? In most editors, the wrapped part would start at column 0 and break the appearance of indentation.
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by blt 2y ago
I can't point at a single reason, but I got sick of it. The interminable solves were awful. Mamba made it better, but can still be slow. Plenty of more esoteric packages are on PyPI but not Conda. (Yes, you can install pip packages in
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by blt 2y ago
For people of a certain age, 3dfx is iconic. As a teenager, you read a bunch of reviews about how great it was. This was before widespread broadband and there wasn't much PC gaming content on TV, so you didn't really know what it
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by blt 2y ago
"relegated" seems like the wrong word - the best ones IMO were the later arcade versions like Gunblade NY (pivot mounted machine gun style) or the Time Crisis series (big foot pedal to take cover) with special hardware that would
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by blt 2y ago
I had a co-worker once who reworded all his long comments to be perfectly justified at 80 columns. It seemed like a waste of time, but he was productive enough overall that nobody cared.
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by blt 2y ago
In that case, then a linter warning seems more appropriate for pointer->int than requiring "unsafe". I feel "unsafe" should not be diluted to mean "unwise". But what do I know, I'm a C++ programmer...
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by blt 2y ago
It's only dangerous if you can also make the reverse cast, right? From ints to function pointers. Does Rust also allow that in safe code?
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by blt 2y ago
oh crap, I guess my OS is too old

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