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by bnegreve 3y ago
Do organizations really pretend they are not made of people? How/when?
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by bnegreve 4y ago
Still, it is a rare event and he had a camera without the IR filter set up to capture this particular phenomenon. So, either a lot of luck or a lot of dedication.
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by bnegreve 4y ago
I don't understand how does he knows where to point the camera at, before the event occurs?
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by bnegreve 4y ago
Activations of individual neurons are hardly relevant, quoting Szegedy et al. from [1] we find that there is no distinction between individual high level units and random linear combinations of high level units, according to various method
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by bnegreve 4y ago
Corporations are granted the right to sue me. That enough for me to expect that they show some level of human decency. If they behave like psychopaths in a systematic way, I don't think they should be granted that right.
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by bnegreve 4y ago
> This may shock you, but a company is not a person. Corporations are legally treated like people, that is the point actually [1]. Given that they have similar rights, it is not absurd to expect they also behave like people. [1] (from
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by bnegreve 4y ago
> For anyone who is curious what means, it means they must have 1311 cars in the database. They do, the list is available here https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/ . A quick pipe of this list into wc -l gives you
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by bnegreve 4y ago
Hum, I think you are misunderstanding Sutton here. He argues that the we should focus on search and learning , but nowhere he implies that ML is the only way to do it. In fact, many old school AI, non-ML techniques fit this description. F
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by bnegreve 4y ago
I'm not sure this is the most appropriate citation, the article argues that there have been problems with the développement F16 but the that the problems are particularly bad with the F35. The F-16 encountered months of delays, but th
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by bnegreve 4y ago
I don't know .. is it that more of these questions get answered, or that when one of these questions gets an answer, we all learn about it?
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by bnegreve 4y ago
Well, I am not saying you're wrong, but it could also be true that communities are in fact getting more dull as they get bigger. The fact that you've been reading this comment forever does disprove it since hn has been growing ste
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by bnegreve 4y ago
> You don't know, at all. Why is it so difficult to just admit that to yourselves and others? When he says 50%, Neil deGrasse Tyson is quite literally saying "I don't know".
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by bnegreve 4y ago
The driver drives on the left, so over taking on the right is the proper way to do it.
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by bnegreve 4y ago
Some crystals are very regular. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal#/media/File:Ho-Mg-ZnQu...
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by bnegreve 4y ago
> Life expectancy went up 10 years for all people. This is strangely misleading.
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by bnegreve 5y ago
I am also skeptic of the whole thing, but they say this: > After 12 further days, the patient was able to reliably increase or decrease his neural activity to hit one of two “target” tones. Isn't that evidence that this is not rando
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by bnegreve 5y ago
> physical quantities should [...] be encoded in the type system. But types are not just useful to specify the content of a variable, they are also useful to specify the required precision. So, if there is a type for seconds in the type
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by bnegreve 5y ago
You don't need RL to compute the trajectory of a falling object.
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by bnegreve 5y ago
I did that with my ti89 when I was in highschool and I remember having clock it down during exams because I was getting obviously wrong results. It's obviously a pretty stupid thing to do with a calculator. I think I was able to go
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by bnegreve 5y ago
> they try to vote the jokes into oblivion, rather than understanding that being exposed to the humor of other cultures is one way to learn about other cultures. I don't think reading cryptocurrency jokes posted on HN is the best wa
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by bnegreve 5y ago
Right, edited.
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by bnegreve 5y ago
> It seems more correct to me to say the Statue of Liberty is many thousands times bigger If by many thousand times bigger, you mean 15 000 times bigger. I have to admit that it is hard to say if that fits my intuition. But it is also ki
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by bnegreve 5y ago
Comparing volumes is a cheap trick to inflate the values. A cube that is 500 000 times as large by volume is only 80 times as large by side length.
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by bnegreve 5y ago
> the JWST could then rocket off on its own, fully-assembled I am no expert, but this has to be quite a challenge. How much fuel do you need to do that?
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by bnegreve 5y ago
41 mm/s is not fast, according to this website a black ant runs at 80mm/s: https://idswater.com/2019/12/13/how-fast-is-an-ant-in-mph/
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by bnegreve 5y ago
Found it:) Anteater: [...] I am on the best of terms with ant colonies. It's just ANTS that I eat, not colonies--and that is good for both parties: me, and the colony. Achilles: How is it possible that-- Tortoise: How is it possi
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by bnegreve 5y ago
> The ideal state of being would be one in which we have limitless fusion power or similar and we basically just do whatever we wish. If we get that and alchemy we win the Universe. No, using energy inevitably changes the state of world
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by bnegreve 5y ago
> That would have been a strong reason for me not to use FreeBSD. Well, with this new website, you can now enjoy defraging without having to suffer the consequences of a bad file system.
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by bnegreve 5y ago
> This cannot mean the longest trip by train in terms of time or in terms of total length of track covered – we could put in dozens of interim stops to make a trip as long as possible I think the longest shortest path between two cities
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by bnegreve 5y ago
> This move looks like trying to fight the previous war. With 12 millions visitors per year (pre fire/covid), they are probably willing to take that risk.

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