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by bryan0 6y ago
> Unfortunately, there’s a catch. Ullisch’s solution ... can’t tell you, in a practical sense, how long to make the goat’s leash. Approximations are still required... Ok, then in what sense is this an exact solution?
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by bryan0 6y ago
> Wada is also interested in investigating what he calls the "type-II snap" which has the opposite qualities: it’s easier to pull apart and challenging to push together. What is a good real world example of this? Maybe somethin
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by bryan0 6y ago
I agree with this. I never understood why philosophy is always structured as a history of the subject. It would be like learning math from a history of math class. I would like to see a philosophy course which starts from a modern perspecti
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by bryan0 6y ago
Some of the commentary on HN has been about how polls are especially bad now because of the types of people who actually respond to them. But the article shows that presidential polls have been historically "bad". "[N]ational
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In San Francisco, Virus Is Contained but Schools Are Still Closed(nytimes.com)
3 points by bryan0 6y ago|1 comments
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by bryan0 6y ago
If you're interested in the history and the weird world of competitive scrabble I highly recommend Stefan Fatsis' book "Word Freak", as well as the documentary film "Word Wards" (2004) https://en.wik
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by bryan0 6y ago
I don't know how I never knew this before, but I was confused with the number "1,19,000" in the article and found this explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system Basically commas
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by bryan0 6y ago
I guess the roof flying off a Model Y on the way home from the dealership isn’t covered under this policy because I would consider that “damage to the vehicle” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24708233
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by bryan0 6y ago
well put.
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by bryan0 6y ago
Yes I totally agree. In this case I was using the ios app so ad blockers do not apply and I was also using YT without being logged in. I need to find a better solution for this.
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by bryan0 6y ago
I agree but ideally I do not want to log in to youtube.
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by bryan0 6y ago
> I also can't block it for my daughter because she has school assignments that involve watching YouTube videos. Our school uses http://www.viewpure.com/ to avoid this. Also, I agree you don't even need to watc
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Computers Are Hard: Building Software with David Heinemeier Hansson(medium.com)
4 points by bryan0 6y ago|0 comments
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by bryan0 6y ago
Thanks for posting this. After watching I searched for some diagrams on this process and came cross another one of George Gammon's videos ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLhO7tIAtoY ). He comes off super sketchy trying
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Cosmonauts mock Russia’s space leader on Twitter, a robot calls them drunks(arstechnica.com)
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by bryan0 6y ago
a bit more detail on the discovery from a few months ago by Thommaso Dorigo: https://www.science20.com/tommaso_dorigo/higgs_decay_to_muon...
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by bryan0 6y ago
> a crazy theory that a universe existed before the big bang, and that the heat death of the universe starts a new big bang. I realize this isn't what Penrose is saying, but is it really that crazy that random fluctuations will crea
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by bryan0 6y ago
should have (2018) in the title. > "There are three main ideas as to why language-learning ability declines at 18: social changes, interference from one’s primary language and continuing brain development." I wonder which is th
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by bryan0 6y ago
Not a doctor, but the treatment for "adverse effects resembling Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis" that was successful (N=1?) is surprising to me: > Manual treatment was provided to aid central lymphatic d
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by bryan0 6y ago
One great thing about mindustry is you can play on mobile. Shapez says “mobile coming soon” and Factorio would be just about impossible to play mobile
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by bryan0 6y ago
3blue1brown’s channel is also really great for these types of videos. He has a series on DEs: https://youtu.be/p_di4Zn4wz4
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by bryan0 6y ago
> Problem is that it was pushed on people... Pushed by whom? Who was prescribing these drugs and why? How did this become standard care? There’s obviously plenty of blame to go around but it appears to be a general failure of the healthc
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by bryan0 6y ago
I think that may have been true in the early days of QM, but I do not think that is the main viewpoint anymore. The ontic reality of QM is the wavefunction. The measurement problem we currently do not understand, but it is an active area of
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by bryan0 6y ago
> Don't we generally know that we need to do more prescribed fire burning? Yes, everyone generally agrees we need to do more prescribed burns, but it's easier said than done. The three main impediments (at least in CA) seem to
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by bryan0 6y ago
If you find water analogies helpful for circuit elements, here is one for the memristor: "The closest analogy I can think of is a sand filter, an item of apparatus used in water-purification plants. As contaminated water flows through
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Ask HN: Why does Google Home require web tracking to function?
1 points by bryan0 6y ago|1 comments
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by bryan0 6y ago
For some reason I thought Spotify and Google were united against Apple on this issue. I guess not anymore!
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by bryan0 6y ago
Sorry I was referring to the relative performance, I edited my question to be clearer
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by bryan0 6y ago
Can someone explain the difference between fp16 and fp32 in these benchmarks because the difference is pretty dramatic. I assume it's floating point precision(?) but why would lower precision be slower relatively on the 3090? For train
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by bryan0 6y ago
I read this as "All of Hacker News, except for cloud news". I was thinking who would want to hide only those stories?? hah!

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