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by cochne 6y ago
The point is that these taxes help offset costs that you pay for other people, not yourself. If there was a car factory spewing toxic waste into the local water supply, would you say to your neighbors just don't buy the car if you don
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by cochne 6y ago
Ironically I think a Gaussian blur is one of the few transforms that should be totally reversible. Since the Fourier transform of a Gaussian kernel is also Gaussian, it is nonzero everywhere, meaning you can in theory just divide the Fouri
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by cochne 6y ago
Original publication by Cloudflare: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cyberattacks-since-the-murder-of...
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by cochne 6y ago
Would the non-linear mapping actually produce aliasing though, since it's in the discrete time domain? My understanding is that you only get aliasing when converting from analog to digital. While the discrete time sequence does map t
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by cochne 6y ago
You are right, the STOCK act to prevent insider trading was passed in 2012. Since then, it seems studies have shown the advantage has disappeared [0] [0] https://www.nber.org/papers/w26975?utm_campaign=ntwh&utm_med
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by cochne 6y ago
The data are old, but from 1993 to 1998, US senators outperformed the market by up to 12.3% [0] [0] https://insidertrading.procon.org/view.answers.php?questionI...
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by cochne 6y ago
It's less controversial than those because it's actually true. The latter statements are not true with the traditional definition of a sum.
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by cochne 7y ago
Socialism for the rich, and rugged individualism for the poor.
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by cochne 7y ago
Wow, really nice! I will try using this as an extra resource for teaching my coding classes.
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by cochne 7y ago
Well cubic is at least much better than exponential.
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by cochne 7y ago
You could also look at it like this: We want this general property to hold: sum([ sum(x[0:n]), sum(x[n:]) ]) == sum(x) define sum([]) (n = 0) so that it holds It works the same for prod, all, and any, and gives a hint as to what the answer
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by cochne 7y ago
For anyone curious, this is a more full context: "One of my people came up to me and said, “Mr. President, they tried to beat you on Russia, Russia, Russia.” That didn’t work out too well. They couldn’t do it. They tried the impeachmen
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by cochne 7y ago
Which avenue is that? Whenever I am cycling I see most people in the bike lane if there is one available.
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by cochne 7y ago
> And transformers are just glorified AST parsers. Can you explain this?
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by cochne 7y ago
It might be helpful to have some actual example code of what this looks like. In Python it would be def invert_2_by_2_matrix(matrix): # matrix is of form, for example ((1,2), (3,4)) ((a, b), (c, d)) = matrix det = (a*d - b*
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by cochne 7y ago
I disagree. In logging for example, ‘%s’ with the value as an argument to the logger is preferred because the formatting can be ignored if the log level is not sufficient to print.
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by cochne 7y ago
This would not apply to your street art. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990: "No individual shall be discriminated against on the basis of disability in the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges,
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by cochne 7y ago
Just a cute little P5JS script to render Julia sets in real time depending on the cursor location. Here are some high resolution renders of a pattern I found: https://corynezin.github.io/julia.html
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Show HN: Explore Julia Sets(openprocessing.org)
10 points by cochne 7y ago|1 comments
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by cochne 7y ago
Yep this happened to me.
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by cochne 7y ago
I think this article explains the general idea of why it might work, theoretically: https://nsidc.org/news/newsroom/20050801_floatingice.html
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Chomsky's “The Responsibility of Intellectuals”(chomsky.info)
2 points by cochne 7y ago|0 comments
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by cochne 7y ago
It looks like the free services provided by GitHub are still available: "A selection of GitHub services such as access to public repositories will remain available to everyone, the company said in a statement on its website. “This incl
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by cochne 8y ago
I think Tensor in machine learning is more akin to array, just an n-dimensional collection of numbers. It faces the same confusion with a real tensor, as "2-d array" does with "matrix". While a matrix can be represente
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by cochne 8y ago
It's not true that they have the same expressiveness on the real line, -inf to +inf
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by cochne 8y ago
It's not true. They make their main claim as follows: "For general activation functions and implementations, we can at least say that the function is at close to a polynomial, by appealing to the famous Stone-Weierstrass Theorem