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by contravariant 11y ago
I use both, but the '!bang' syntax is more convenient when you simply want to repeat a search using a different search engine, or want to use an engine you don't have a quicksearch for (you could of course add them, but somet
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by contravariant 11y ago
>is there a theory that encompasses General Relativity and defines a theoretical largest possible distance/time? It's possible to define a universe of nearly any possible shape, but most aren't really compatible with our o
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by contravariant 11y ago
Now is possibly the worst time.
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by contravariant 11y ago
>If your code reads do_something_to_foo(foo), then very often usually it really ought to be foo.do_something() Personally I'd make an exception when using extension methods in C#. If you make an extension method which looks (schemat
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by contravariant 11y ago
From what I understand the particles you need to probe distances on the order of the Planck length are so energetic that their own gravity would start interfering. Their Swarzschild radius would become bigger than the distance you're t
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by contravariant 11y ago
Quite a few of them do. For example: Mersenne twisters, linear congruential generators. Not sure about cryptographic random number generators though, but most of them probably use primes one way or another.
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by contravariant 11y ago
So a number ending in 'x' is as likely to be followed by 'y' as a number ending in 'n-x' is to be preceded by a number ending in 'n-y' (where n is the base). Can't think of a trivial reason why t
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by contravariant 11y ago
> It appears to have the same transition probabilities as in base 5 (with the two center rows and columns swapped): Well, yeah that's because 1,3,7,9 modulo 5 becomes 1,3,2,4 which is 1,2,3,4 with the centre two swapped.
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by contravariant 11y ago
Shouldn't be a problem, from what I understand in cryptography you randomly generate numbers and check if they're prime, the result is a uniformly random prime. Even if you know exactly which numbers are prime that still doesn&#x2
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by contravariant 11y ago
Weirdly enough, even the proportion of points within a distance of 1/2 to the midpoint becomes really small for higher dimensions.
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by contravariant 11y ago
It's not quite the same. The government could (conceivably) dictate the content of the code, but the argument then goes that signing the code conveys the message that Apple has 'approved' of the code, similar to signing you
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by contravariant 11y ago
>over 1 meter of water in 24 hours That's the first time I've seen rain measured in metres instead of millimetres.
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by contravariant 11y ago
You can view it as induction, although the general case is slightly different. In the general case you have a while loop with some condition and invariant, and after the while loop stops your invariant is true and the condition is false, if
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by contravariant 11y ago
Pretty sure you can't have one with 4 quarks, there'd be no way to make it colourless (so it couldn't occur in isolation). It seems 2 quarks and 2 anti-quarks is the only possible combination. The paper probably considers thi
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by contravariant 11y ago
Viewing RNNs as a generalisation of Markov chains ia a bit confusing, because what you're calling a Markov chain isn't really a Markov chain in its most general form. The one characteristic a Markov chain must have is that the tra
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by contravariant 11y ago
This theory requires the 'dark matter' to be in its superfluid phase in galaxies, but in a different phase outside. Also, an important difference between dark matter and empty space is that the expansion of the universe doesn&#x27
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by contravariant 11y ago
Neither of those two are particularly difficult.
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by contravariant 11y ago
Be careful not to take the base rate fallacy too far, with enough difference in likelihood even a small base rate won't prevent an effect from being significant, and regardless of the base rate you'll still get some information
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by contravariant 11y ago
He could have measured the angle of the desk's diagonal makes with the longer side, that would give him tan(w/l), no inches or centimetres required. You do need radians, but that's not a unit in the same way a 'meter&#x2
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by contravariant 11y ago
So, if he measured the width and height again, using different units, would he get a different answer?
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by contravariant 11y ago
Like you said, the sun is 1 AU away, we're getting a fraction of its energy. Actually that fraction is still way beyond what were able to generate, and will remain that way for quite some time. However, we only need to illuminate the
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by contravariant 11y ago
That would be one hell of an exam question. Best method I can think of is to measure the proper time of both the trajectory of the earth and the trajectory of Halley's comet, and compare, but with the combined effects of gravity and a
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by contravariant 11y ago
It's silly to claim you're not allowed to disagree with something unless you consider it the decisive factor when determining who to vote for.
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by contravariant 11y ago
Who thought it was a good idea to use bigger bubbles for larger groups of people? Those values should have the least spread, drawing them bigger for no purpose is just confusing. Simple error bars would have been a lot better.
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by contravariant 11y ago
I think what you're trying to describe is something like 'confinement'. I'm not confident that a massive graviton will necessarily lead to confinement, neither gravitons nor confinement are that well understood.
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by contravariant 11y ago
>(1) We should see this as some inconsistency in how gravity scales with the mass of a black hole. The larger ones would have proportionately greater 'drag' on leaving gravitrons. Perhaps, no clue how a quantum mechanical gravi
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by contravariant 11y ago
Force carrying particles in general don't have mass. Except that some of them seem to do, which was rather puzzling for some time, but was solved using the Higgs mechanism. I can't think of an obvious reason the Higgs mechanism wo
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by contravariant 11y ago
In this case it's not an inverse square law, the amplitude is simply inversely proportional to the distance.
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by contravariant 11y ago
One particular example that I recall was that if you calculate something like foldl (+) 0 [1..1000000] (i.e. calculate the sum of the first 1000000 natural numbers) Then the obvious way to do it is to simply keep a running total, b
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by contravariant 11y ago
That's a remarkably close guess. A small non-zero curvature would correspond to a non-zero cosmological constant, which is precisely what seems to be driving the accelerated expansion of the universe (there are other explanations but t

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