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carry_bit
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It's usually used with the formatting functions, so you have something like: <Some big expression here> // Column Useful where the function in question is an "afterthought".
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Not fossil fuels, but rather hydrocarbon fuels. You can technically synthesize fuel for those use cases in a carbon-neutral manner.
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It's only 2.8 at -8C though. The best heat pump on https://ashp.neep.org/ [1] has a COP at Max Capacity @5F (-15C) of 3.7 [1] https://ashp.neep.org/#!/product/56885/7/25000/
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To the degree it's news, it's not "good" news, but further research is needed to see just how "bad" it is. The concern here is if the worse-case scenario turns out to be true: that the mRNA-based vaccines, and
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I have a textbook on processor design from 1979, and microcode was the go-to technique described in it.
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Thanks for the update!
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From a tweet of one of the authors [1]: "KataGo was trained on Tromp-Taylor rules so we evaluate our attack using this too." This is incorrect. According to the KataGo paper [2], KataGo is trained using modified Tromp-Taylor rul
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According to this article, New England is risking winter blackouts due to strong LNG demand in Europe and the Jones Act making delivery of domestic supplies nearly impossible: https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-england-ri
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Full thread unroll: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1581643197427523584.html
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I wonder if it flopped for anyone because they had a different keyboard layout (like Dvorak) set.
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If you use EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN rather than just EXPLAIN, you get a high level description of the plan rather than the bytecode.
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The Long, Twisted and Slightly Ridiculous Story of Avgas
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You can optimize reference counting: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.23... With allocating as dead, you're basically turning it into a tracing collector for the young generation.
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It was announced that the pricing would be based on the performance of tier-3 titles (the ones not receiving special attention), so it could be a good deal before the drivers improve.
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Scoping: Symbols belong to "contexts" (namespaces). You get lexical scope using With and Module, and dynamic scope with Block. The variables in Module are replaced with a uniquely named temporary symbol (removed when all reference
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And capital isn't free. With physical goods, there is already a number of existing roads, train tracks, and ports. Capital costs is why Hawaii has traditionally imported oil versus having an undersea power connection to the continental
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As we're seeing from Russia and Europe, depending on someone else means you can find yourself being threatened or actually being cut off.
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It's not though; that's one of the reasons all of the grids aren't interconnected yet. "Don't underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with tapes" also applies here. The amount of energy you can de
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You could have bigger arrays, what was missing were the trait implementations. Originally the traits were implemented using a macro, and the macro only generated implementations for up to length 32.
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It's exciting to see Datomic's architecture realized using more conventional technology.
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That's another trait it would share with SQLite + litestream, until SQLite's BEGIN CONCURRENT is released.
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-10F isn't that cold. Maybe extend the bottom of the range (or provide a number input) for those of us who like the cold?
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With search taken as a whole, the search results a person gets varies depending on a personal factor (namely, their go-to search engine) and not just the query. That's similar to a filter bubble, even if it isn't precisely one.
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His blog posts are reposted on multiple other platforms. If you can already see all of those posts on your favorite platform, what incentive do you have to visit the actual website?
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Meanwhile nuclear plants come with months worth of energy storage, as fuel is storage. For long term (like seasonal) variations in wind/solar output, you're probably not going to be building enough batteries to bridge that gap, so
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Overall life expectancy was low due to massive childhood mortality. If you survived to adulthood your life expectancy was much higher.
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In Wolfram Language, a "pure function" is what others would call an "anonymous function" or a "lambda". It doesn't actually imply the lack of side-effects. The older Compile function also does the same thi
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The effects are how I tested this out; I used FunctionCompile on a function that uses first uses KernelFunction to call a user-defined function that increments a counter, and then calls Sqrt on the function's argument. When you give it
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By GC info in my post I mean tracking which registers and stack slots at each safepoint contain object references so the tracing GC can precisely identify all of the GC roots. Since Wolfram Language uses referencing counting instead, it doe
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I wouldn't really classify "soft failure mode" as OSR; from my experimentation it reinvokes the entire function when there's a failure rather than migrating over the execution state. In terms of tests, I get the impressi
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