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by cf 6y ago
Oh my god, I had the same thought and forgot how readily this features actually exists. I suppose I still like the idea of persisting those changes for websites I control but that's going to be way less straightforward.
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by cf 7y ago
Are there any good tutorials for how to setup Jitsi to work for 30-50 people? The discussion forums are hard to navigate.
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by cf 7y ago
I think we are agreeing. My point is you can get away with explaining Metropolis-Hastings in a useful way and never mention detailed balance. You will need it to work out a formal proof of convergence, but you don't need it to understa
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by cf 7y ago
While I think detailed balance is typically how we explain why Metropolis Hastings works at all. It's actually not quite what matters. What matters is ergodicity and detailed balance is a proxy for checking for that. That's helpfu
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by cf 7y ago
Many times things like comments are dropped and names are disambiguated. Printing the tree back out would yield an equivalent program but the source code would look way different.
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by cf 7y ago
My way or the highway doesn't work in politics. I'm sorry if you were told otherwise.
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by cf 7y ago
Alright, please see this as an olive branch to YIMBYs. The results are pretty clear. The YIMBYs do not have the votes on their own to get this done. Unless you are some suburban retiree you probably recognize that the solution is building m
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by cf 7y ago
This is old news but one thing I think Google misses. No one product they cancel is used by tons of people, but the amount of people fucked over by the cancellation of any one product is enough to be an ongoing reputation hit for them.
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by cf 7y ago
If you read HN you can figure it out. If you see the fine print on lobste.rs you can see there is a possibility to ask in their chat. On some level it's not open invite and you have to be ok with that.
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by cf 7y ago
Just updated my profile with it!
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by cf 7y ago
Oh crap I didn't realize it wasn't public in my posts. Hold on! Also you don't seem to be an asshole! Invite sent!
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by cf 7y ago
If you want an invite, email me with your username or some other places where you've commented and if you don't seem like an asshole I'll hook you up.
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by cf 7y ago
I think using numpy is always good first step after just trying to improve the algorithm. Numpy will be less effort than going to cython. After that cython is a good next step. I seriously don't know any situation where I would do the
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by cf 7y ago
I think for pure numerics using numpy basically recovers all performance loss. It's when you get tricky control-flow that you run into real trouble.
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by cf 7y ago
That's basically Collabora
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by cf 7y ago
This is a pointer that's a bit buried. For all the fanciness of different particle filtering algorithms, you are likely not using enough particles. Unless you having troubles related to running out of memory consider using more particl
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by cf 7y ago
No this has actually been measured by people. https://danluu.com/input-lag/ The computers are faster, can do more stuff, and monitors have higher frame rates. But for many applications that aren't games latency an
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by cf 7y ago
Intuitively for me probability theory is a bit clunky before measure theory. Like we have a different equation for expectations if something is continuous vs a discrete distribution. We use probability density functions (pdf) vs a probabili
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by cf 7y ago
As you can see the number is going up. I would also be careful with the HUD data as it is based on a yearly count conducted of shelters in January [1]. Counting homeless people is tricky as only 10% are on the street and the methods used to
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by cf 7y ago
Homelessness has been increasing rapidly in recent years across North America even while GDP growth has been adequate. You actually need to devote resources to fight homelessness.
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by cf 7y ago
Well that just means you capable of having good ideas. Just keep at it and I'm sure you'll do something great.
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by cf 7y ago
I expect John Carmack to follow a trajectory of someone like David Ha who with little previous background started to write very creative and thought provoking papers ( https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=J1j92GsxVUMC&am
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by cf 7y ago
From your remark you'd think these were two entirely different problems. I'll try to say it more clearly. There are people deliberately promoting fear of long-term problems as an excuse to not address these short-term problems. I&
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by cf 7y ago
I think applying agency to the software in my examples is actually very pernicious. It's not the software that dislikes the ethnic minority, it's the Chinese government. Blaming the software lets bad actors off the hook. Perhaps w
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by cf 7y ago
The real risk is that worrying about fantastical disaster scenarios distracts us from addressing the more immediate problems we already face with AI. Whether it is facial recognition being used by China to aid in ethnic cleansing of a minor
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by cf 7y ago
The original awk book from the creators is in my opinion really good. https://archive.org/download/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoIC7/The_AWK_P...
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by cf 7y ago
I make use of https://github.com/strukturag/spreed-webrtc . I self-host and this gives me the ability to offer a high-quality video or voice stream for somebody. While I still have some bugs when contacted from an iPho
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by cf 7y ago
What I remember being really weird is those books were always next to all these books on psychics and UFOs.
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by cf 7y ago
There doesn't need to be a limitless supply. In many cities if buyers aren't found, property owners are content to leave them vacant. You can see this in the relatively higher rates of vacanies in condos compared to other kinds of
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by cf 7y ago
Old units in many places are frequently renovated and re-sold to upper-middle class and wealthy tenants. The end result is an erosion of housing stock for average and low-income residents.

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