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by ced 7y ago
Being "Green" was always about Reducing first and foremost, which is what would happen collectively under a carbon tax scheme.
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by ced 7y ago
This is becoming the new normal... It won't stay normal for long... https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/styles/large/publ...
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by ced 7y ago
hoarding cash, avoiding debt, and cutting spending Most of the people around here immediately buy something as soon as "they can afford it" - with credit. I find it hard to believe that these same people would suddenly hoard
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by ced 7y ago
Can anybody explain to me how British & France culture felt about colonialism post-WWII? Especially for France, I would have expected that "being invaded and exploited by a foreign nation" would suddenly take a completely diff
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by ced 7y ago
affordable air travel network is a capability the business world needs to operate our economy Is it? Why? Frequent air travel is super recent.
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by ced 7y ago
Julia? It depends on what you're looking for, but IMO apart from the non-lispy surface syntax (which Dylan also had), it's very much a Lisp with a focus on multiple dispatch.
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by ced 7y ago
It's not like North America doesn't have its share of immigrant doctors. However, at least in Canada, their diplomas are often not accepted. I know a dentist operating a daycare, for example. Is it any different in the EU?
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by ced 7y ago
When formatted like this: result = (cond_A ? 1 : cond_B ? 2 : cond_C ? 3 : 5) they look quite a bit nicer than the if/else equivalent IMO.
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by ced 7y ago
based on extremely unlikely/ minimal outcomes. I often get the same feeling, but there's _so few numbers_ in these articles. Where do you get them / how do you come to that conclusion?
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by ced 7y ago
Where are you from? If you mind sharing, could you tell us at least country, and urban/suburban/rural?
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by ced 7y ago
Every country has excuses. Russia is cold. Brazil is poor, can't afford paying for clean energy. China is making everybody's stuff. Canada's emissions don't come from its empty land. Half of its electricity comes from hy
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by ced 7y ago
Are they seriously counting Joe's car's CO2 as Exxon's responsibility? Can I ask for a reference/quote on that?
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by ced 7y ago
All companies exist to serve customer demand, or to serve companies that serve customer demand. Sure, they should be regulated (... thus increasing the price of consumer goods?) On an individual level, traveling less, buying less stuff, or
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by ced 7y ago
Americans' Air Conditioning Habit Is Eco-Friendly Is there any part of the article that supports the claim of the title? Did I miss it?
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by ced 7y ago
> It is amazing how much infrastructure and technology is in place for a process that is proving incompatible with reality (both in terms of capability of the tech, and economics of the commodities). Is it incompatible? The article makes
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by ced 7y ago
That article is glorious, thank you for posting!
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by ced 8y ago
A long time ago, Yann LeCun wrote Lush, which was a numerically-focused Lisp dialect, with a focus on C interop. It might be one of Julia's closest sibling. > Lush is an object-oriented programming language designed for researchers,
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by ced 8y ago
if I spend an hour fixing this; this is an hour less I spend with my kids or an hour I miss chatting to my wife. Doing chores and fixing stuff can be an interesting activity for a kid, depending on the age. Granted, I'm not good at m
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by ced 8y ago
According to that article, the last little ice age dates to 1850, so that's a bit too far back, no?
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by ced 8y ago
You seem to place a lot of faith in uncontrolled social science studies.
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by ced 8y ago
OT question: why does a car with financing cost less (summing up all the monthly payments) than a car paid cash?
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by ced 8y ago
I spent a year in southern China ten years ago, and it seemed like lots of people had a brother or sister. I asked about the one child policy, and their answer was "Beijing is very far away" (although I'm sure it's more
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by ced 8y ago
Great change rarely comes without at least some individual action, that brings the possibility of great change into the collective consciousness.
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by ced 8y ago
What do you mean? It wouldn't be "if". You'd just have function hit(p::Player, m::Goblin) ... end function hit(p::Player, o::Ogre) ... end In Julia, there's limited inheritance, so you
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by ced 8y ago
I've never liked classical OOP much, but multiple dispatch is a lovely paradigm. One doesn't define _classes_ per se, but rather just plain old boring structs. struct Player xp::Int end struct Monster hp:
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by ced 8y ago
Which country are you from, that is such a beacon of moral righteousness on the global stage?
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by ced 8y ago
Eh, that is certainly true in the suburbs, but we live in the city with a child and no car. We can buy 99% of what we want within walking distance. Bigger items we would have delivered. If I had a driving license (which I would if it wasn&#
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by ced 8y ago
Man, I wish I understood frequentist statistics to know if your reasoning makes sense. Bayesianly, if O = "the XXXYYY ordering", and F = "algo B is faster than algo" A, then P(F|O) = P(O|F) * P(F) / P(O) th
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by ced 8y ago
In our case, "last value" isn't good enough. We do interpolation, and use compression algorithms for which interpolation minimizes reconstruction error.
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by ced 8y ago
You don't have "missing rows". For time series A you have a time point at 12:01 AM, a datapoint at 12:02 AM, and another datapoint two weeks later at 5:04 PM. For time series B the times are different. You need some notion of

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