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by choeger 5y ago
It's not entirely true that this is caused by the ECB. In fact, only 10% of a typical German bank account (Sichteinlagen) are required to be held with the ECB. For other countries it might be even less (minimal reserve is 1%). Out of t
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by choeger 5y ago
While I totally agree with your post (especially the point that a course where you implement your own OS for real hardware is great), I would like to add that USB is a massive foundation/abstraction layer. Once you got USB going for HI
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That's definitely an enhancement.
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by choeger 5y ago
Of course it does not. The model generates "believable" images not exact ones.
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by choeger 5y ago
As I wrote, the problem is not the license itself (although we see more and more problematic cases with liberally licensed software). The problem is that google does it explicitly to support propietary modules better . If you don'
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by choeger 5y ago
Fuchsia is going to hurt humanity. If that sounds exaggerated, consider that its license's sole purpose is to allow propietary drivers and other kernel modules. In a world where google wants to have clean hands and governments want to
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by choeger 5y ago
There are no rare materials used in the blades. That being said, yes, the recycling (and presumably also the environmental impact while they are running and constantly weathered) of these composites remains problematic. But they don't
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by choeger 5y ago
Nuclear is most economical when run 24/7. So I don't think it will be a good backup. Hydrogen and its derivatives (ammonia, methane) will take that role, I guess.
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by choeger 5y ago
We live in interesting times, indeed. All the devices we own now become bricks in the walls government wants to build around us. Make no mistake, China is just the first state to implement such a measure and video gaming is just the first u
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by choeger 5y ago
More interesting question (for me) in the context of cities: Do apartments induce demand similarly to roads? That is, does building more and more (and smaller and more expensive) apartments actually fuel the housing crisis in big cities?
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by choeger 5y ago
> Intelligence is not a single dimension, so “smarter than humans” is a meaningless concept. That's not the point. We can map any multi-dimensional form of intelligence into a single dimension with any suitable norm. It just matters
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by choeger 5y ago
I wonder if that's really the right direction to go. Admittedly, the gains in output are impressive for comparatively small increases in size (I think there's a cubic growth somewhere). But the main problem with offshore wind ener
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by choeger 5y ago
Not that much smaller, actually. A typical run-of-the-mill turbine will have a capacity of 2.5MW. You can easily get up to 5MW onshore (but that's often constrained by proximity to villages or towns - renewable energy does not happen i
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Somehow I doubt that this tribe had a lot of successful wars...
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I did not expect a positive answer here. I wanted to know what the implicit constraints are so I chose an example that was obviously impossible. I worked across domains for a while (CS, simulation, mathematics) and one thing that was really
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by choeger 5y ago
Thanks. That makes a lot of sense, indeed.
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Thanks. So we are talking about ODE in state-space form, right? So in my example, if x was a (largish) time constant integer (f(x,u,t) = 0) and the observation function was h(x,u,t) = sha256sum(x,u) What could a control theorist tell about
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by choeger 5y ago
Could someone here enlighten me what a nonlinear system in this context is, or rather what it is not? What I mean is: If I give you an arbitrary black box that computes outputs based on inputs I could make it arbitrarily hard to find any re
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Did you ever came across the wonderful "sign in with Google" functionality?
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TIL that there are grazing monkeys.
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I think there is an error in one of the examples, or the implementation is odd: >>> print(x?) /* the number 4.0 */ Should yield /* the number 4.0 */ /* a comment */ Right?
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The thing is that upper/middle class parents value education more than lower class parents (on average). Unless you take the kids completely away from their parents (horrible thought, was somewhat tried in the GDR), the former kind of
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by choeger 5y ago
Simple answer, no they are not. There are people that need to be locked up to protect society. Think Breivik, or the psychopaths that eradicate whole families for their perverted pleasure. That being said, prisons as a punishment seem to
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by choeger 5y ago
Tightly coupled code is, and should be, the norm. Loose coupling is a pipe dream as soon as domain-specific data structures are involved. Loose coupling over domain-specific data structures (and their related procedures) just means that err
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by choeger 5y ago
It's also a boring claim in its generality. We already think that conservation of energy is not universally (for the lack of a better word) true: Big Bang. Obviously, there is no before of that event, so it's a little tough to
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by choeger 5y ago
Livermorons? Really?
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by choeger 5y ago
Do you ask for a comparable alternative when a road gets closed or slowed down? Or when a particular, well working, herbicide gets banned? Or when carrying guns openly gets banned? Did you ask for a comparable alternative to leaded fuel?
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Yeah, China just defines a country as "not another country" when they want to interfere. See Hong Kong, Taiwan, or pretty much every other neighboring country and their territorial waters or exclusive economic zone. It is importan
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by choeger 5y ago
Teaching a (bright) kid reading at age two may be possible by my experience. At that age, with a lot of talking to grown-ups or listening to stories, kids can have a surprisingly immense vocabulary. But "teaching himself" is a lit
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by choeger 5y ago
It's a matter of quality. That frozen cake pales in comparison to something truly self-made. If I do some bread from basic ingredients (flour, sour dough, water), the result more often than not is great (after some experimenting) and

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