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by dzdt 5y ago
I just hope the wordle developers manage to cash in on their going-viral jackpot without losing it to copycats or spoiling the experience for players.
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by dzdt 5y ago
Even with "desktop mode" enabled on mobile (android chrome) I still see only one column. You can click in for more information but it is pretty useless as an interface.
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by dzdt 5y ago
This study is 1.3million patients treated by 3000 surgeons, and reaches statistical p=0.004. Not small or weak!
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by dzdt 5y ago
There are strongly asymmetric risks for an employer in a hiring situation. Hiring a bad candidate is much more costly than rejecting a good one. The goal of the hiring process is to find a good candidate; there can be quite a lot of waste
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by dzdt 5y ago
I took it as short for "durable". But then again "git" is a common, slightly rude English word for "fool" or "imbecile" as usually applied to men...
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by dzdt 5y ago
For many purposes the correct specification of a future time is in terms of local time at a particular location on that date. This is true for financial contracts (including trillions of dollars in options markets -- 10am in New York means
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by dzdt 5y ago
But if you want to learn how to fix something on your lawnmower or car or around the house, youtube is absolutely the best place. If you want advanced math topics, usually wikipedia is on point. For programming questions, stack overflow.
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by dzdt 5y ago
The alerts are sent by police, not parents. I was curious and at one point went thru a year's records for NY state amber alerts. There were zero instances of stranger abduction. Most cases are as you say children taken by parent wit
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by dzdt 5y ago
Curiously missing from the abstract is their definition of "idle games". In the paper they define it as a games that "require players to leave the game and return to it at a later, unspeciﬁed point, where the game progresses
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by dzdt 5y ago
The DMA capabilities are present on all versions of REU. Somewhere MrSid said this Sonic game requires 256k of REU; I would assume that is mostly used for level data and extras; 128k should be plenty to handle the unpacked data for scrolli
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by dzdt 5y ago
A little background on how this works and why the REU is needed. The C64 has a 1Mhz 8-bit 6510 processor. Its video chip (the VIC ii) displays a 40 column by 25 row screen of customizable characters. That is 1k of memory for the characte
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by dzdt 5y ago
> The downside is if you select & delete two functions, and I concurrently insert a new function in the middle of that range, then the merged result will delete my function. If the document has a syntax tree format, you would get the
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by dzdt 5y ago
They did . The paragraph I quoted above defines what they mean by the word "gifts" very explicitly: > “gifts”—the concept that people need a special ability to be successful in a particular field
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by dzdt 5y ago
The point they are making is that the belief that one must be "gifted" to learn math is a damaging and destructive belief: it leads students who could otherwise be successful to not try and not learn, and this affects most to stud
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by dzdt 5y ago
Here is the full context. Our current media environment includes a lot of cherry-picking to provoke outrage. Better to judge from a more complete text: Learning Mathematics: for All Introduction Students learn best when they are actively
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by dzdt 5y ago
Basically the problem is the airlines don't want good flight search so they erect barriers, right? Airlines prefer to have pricing and route info be opaque so they can keep people using higher price options. So the infrastructure cos
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by dzdt 5y ago
Seconded. I went to check out a few example searches and the too-narrow search bar is the first annoyance I found. The next annoyance was that the crawled index seems much smaller than google's or bing's. I looked for things I kn
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by dzdt 5y ago
The Faraday cage failed (the phone rang?) or the phone failed to ring (Faraday cage succeeded)?
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Perceiving polarization with the naked eye: characterization of sensitivity(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
1 points by dzdt 5y ago|0 comments
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by dzdt 5y ago
The challenge with color spaces is that the fundamental goal is to reproduce human perceptions not a physical quantity. Color spaces are about human biology, physiology and psychology, not about physics. To a first approximation, humans pe
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by dzdt 5y ago
There are two kinds of optimum strategies for farmers, and there has been a long term shift from one to the other. The older strategy is for a farm to be no bigger than a single family can handle, and to be as self-sufficient as possible.
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by dzdt 5y ago
PurifyPlus was an old enterprise software similar to valgrind for Sun/Solaris. It eventually got Linux and Windows support, but for more than a decade has been one of those undeveloped systems milking legacy enterprise subscriptions a
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by dzdt 5y ago
Which makes tangible vs. fungible your next dictionary dive :^)
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by dzdt 5y ago
The interesting bit is the results are not entirely negative. They found one set of IRAS observations which could be compatible with a low-mass version of planet 9. (Or could be any of a number of other things.) But still!
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by dzdt 5y ago
Interesting that the story assumes a legible AI for the robot. If its behaviour was the result of a deep learning neural net, the story plot would necessarrily be quite different. There would be no talk of understanding the robot's
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by dzdt 5y ago
This is a same problem in financial markets. Things like options contracts depend on a value observed say at 10am New York time on a particular date a decade in the future. If the daylight savings time schedule changes between now and the
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by dzdt 5y ago
Source? If a major respected journalism outfit was using AI to generate stories I think that would be news itself, and I haven't heard it, outside of the corner-case of within-seconds earthquake reporting.
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by dzdt 5y ago
The massive disinformation campaigns remind me of Neal Stephenson's idea of an "artificial inanity" crisis on the fictional internet ("reticulum") in his book Anathem. In the past a major problem of information mana
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Firehose of Falsehood(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by dzdt 5y ago|1 comments
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by dzdt 5y ago
So Michelle Obama should have tried to position the push for improved nutrition in school lunches as a pro-military effort to get conservative support?

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