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davidgrenier
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davidgrenier
5y ago
Yeah I guess... so to me that's the analog of conjectures conditionally true on the Riemann hypothesis being correct. There is indeed value in it, though I'm not gonna hold my breath.
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davidgrenier
5y ago
Very nice, thank you for sharing.
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davidgrenier
5y ago
There has been no experimental evidence for Hawking radiation, so does it matter all that much?
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5y ago
I have setup firefox to drop all cookies when closing and whitelisted a few websites I still need to bear cookies. Upon using the above link, I ended up on a paywall. I hit F12 and check the creation date of all the cookies and confirm they
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5y ago
Yes, my productive editor becomes useless with that kind of file content.
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5y ago
You don't seem to spend much time on anti-vaxx forums. I don't either but the stories my sister share with me are quite telling. Not to mention every news channel covid-related videos on youtube is swarmed with comments from a min
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5y ago
So I just did this command for the hell of it, and it worked: :e https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vim/vim/master/runtime/doc...
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5y ago
It's a matter of perspective and perspective is practiced. You are focused on positive outcomes, but those aren't under your control. Your focus should be on actions that you would expect to have positive consequences. If you'
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5y ago
I feel the other answers you got do not directly answer your question for the following reason. In practice, I believe it is Strassen's algorithm that is used for very large matrix multiplication. Strassen's algorithm improves on
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5y ago
This is where it all started: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strassen_algorithm
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5y ago
There are cases however for binary search where a hash table won't help. Pulling a sorted slice of data, for example, is useful in many domain.
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5y ago
http://simul.iro.umontreal.ca/testu01/tu01.html Maybe? I'm not familiar, summarily discussed it with research director.
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5y ago
I'd like to add that I'm highly skeptical you would learn as much while studying and holding a full time job. I knew I would learn a lot but didn't expect to learn so much. If you want a sense of everything you'd learn f
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At 36 I couldn't stand working for people who didn't realize building cheap software cost a fortune and sadly, that's just about every business out there. I believe there are very few sectors that will give you the luxury of
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5y ago
> “Hah maybe I don’t have an inner critic” I thought. If you've thought "Hah maybe I don't have an inner critic", how did this come about if not through an inner voice?
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5y ago
> Type system don't prevent bugs, they help you prove properties From a certain perspective, I disagree. If I write a function, let's call it sort. It takes an array of integers and returns an array of integers. I call the func
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6y ago
I'm just recalling from the Sorensen's LFTR's videos here, but I had the impression it was the exact opposite in terms of weapon-grade nuclear material.
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6y ago
How familiar are you with the ML family of programming languages? If the answer is "not at all", that might be the rabbit hole you are looking for... it'll take you places. I recommend F#. You seem to be concerned with... del
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6y ago
If I may recommend, try to find and read a copy of John Reppy's Concurrent Programming in ML. The book is a little bit of an eye opener if only for that. Hopac is a library that offers an excellent delivery of this model of concurrent
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7y ago
The day I learn Costco treats its employees the way Amazon does, I will find an alternatives just like I did with Amazon.
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I would like to block facebook but I'm on debian. Last thing I tried to block was reddit through /etc/hosts and it didn't work.
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7y ago
Your point of view might be changed by knowing more about the social cost of inequality (which we are all affected by), I suggest reading on Structural Violence and perhaps looking at this: https://sevenpillarsinstitute.org/
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7y ago
I must be really bad at this because to me this is the linux of today.
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7y ago
And here I was thinking I could finally use something from them.
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7y ago
Google map has a area measuring tool enclosed if you right click. Closing a region gives you approximate area. edit: There seems to be at least 35 sqkm.
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7y ago
If the consumer has no idea it received a fake product how is the proper decision not getting the cheaper conterfeit?
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I think this is routine statistics.
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Closest thing I could find was involved in proving the finite version of Ramsey's Theorem from the infinite version as a compactness argument. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compactness_theorem That being said, I&#
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8y ago
It should say... mobile phone as I'm sure this won't work with my landline.
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8y ago
You could probably get something by crossing your eyes instead... you will get the opposite image of what you would get by doing it properly, meaning that every 3d object will appear as carved out.
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