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by dzdt 7y ago
This reminds me where many years ago I learned about the world record holder for computer optical character recognition (OCR) accuracy. The computer scientists took as a target an eastern European chess journal which printed move-by-move re
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by dzdt 7y ago
I would expect it to happen in the deepest sleep cycle with the lowest brain activity. I picture REM more as a testing environment run of higher level brain functions. Some things are stubbed out (voluntary muscle control and long term me
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by dzdt 7y ago
The typical thing that goes wrong with computers from the 80's and 90's is the electrolytic capacitors dry out and go bad. This got even worse with the "capacitor plague" of the late 90's/2000's. I would
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by dzdt 7y ago
One of the main ways that employers keep salaries down is information asymmetry. A large business knows with certainty what salary their employees accept, and will have high quality statistical reports on what their competitors pay. Indiv
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by dzdt 7y ago
Addictive drugs
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by dzdt 7y ago
The key finding in that paper is downright scary: Given that 2019-nCoV is no longer contained within Wuhan, other major Chinese cities are probably sustaining localised outbreaks. Large cities overseas with close transport links to China c
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by dzdt 7y ago
At my pediatrician's office the norm is to sign forms without seeing them at all. The receptionist has a computer screen; the patient has a signature pad with no display. They will say "please sign for permission to treat" t
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by dzdt 7y ago
Correction: the Chinese colleague was from Shanghai. She had been visited by her parents, who live near Wuhan, shortly before her trip to Germany.
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by dzdt 7y ago
I don't think you've got the right conclusion. The earlier estimate of the total cases was too low. Probably the newer estimate of total cases is ALSO biased too low. The reason for underestimate is they are assuming internation
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by dzdt 7y ago
This estimate is broadly consistent with that published last week by a Imai et. al. [1] That previous work looked at foreign cases up to 18th January, and concluded the number of contagious cases in Wuhan as of that date is likely in the r
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by dzdt 7y ago
Its ironic. The author formed a theory that the black hole image research was flawed, specifically that the researchers are filtering for images with the right shape and merging these to produce an image similar to predictions. The author
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by dzdt 7y ago
> How can they kick you off the insurance plan? They can investigate whether you failed to report any preexisting conditions, or otherwise violated terms of your insurance. Things that would seem to you to be a technicality may be to th
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The Great New England Vampire Panic (2012)(smithsonianmag.com)
23 points by dzdt 7y ago|4 comments
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The primary purpose of the fingerprint scanner is to prevent password sharing. Bloomberg terminal access costs about 20,000 per seat per year. Bloomberg cares deeply that every individual who uses the system is paying for an account; sho
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by dzdt 7y ago
Color me cynical, but I don't see how the dollar amount of the fine matters if it can't be effectively collected anyway. Recently it was revealed that the FCC had collected a few thousand dollars of $208 million levied in fines. [
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by dzdt 7y ago
This is a really good read! I am not deep in machine learning research but the exposition and diagrams make the point clearly. I really feel like this us advancing deep learning as a science.
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As usual, I like Matt Levine's take. [1] Page and Brin ran Alphabet as a highly funded system of moonshot programs with near-infinite runway to make profits, which is unusual or unique. Basically it only worked that way because Page a
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by dzdt 7y ago
My wife utters obscenities when I do something stupid, but there is no Tourette's involved!
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by dzdt 7y ago
For sure it couldn't work with a diamond shaped table. A diamond table would have two pairs of legs at the same radii on opposite sides of the center. Imagine the floor is bowl shaped radially symmetrically around the center of the t
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by dzdt 7y ago
I think you are getting at the same question Alan Cox had. As quoted in the article: IMHO the question is what is the actual semantic here. What are you asking for ? Does it mean "at any cost", what does it guarantee (100% or st
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by dzdt 7y ago
I am not sure how much in good faith this author is, but honest discussion about mitigation of climate change needs to take place. A huge amount of sea level rise is locked in already; the uncertainty is about the rate of change not the ine
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by dzdt 7y ago
The shape that the screen must make to fold flat while avoiding a crease is quite obvious. The mechanics of a hinge that keeps the screen protected and supported as it folds between open and closed states is not so obvious. I expect when y
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by dzdt 7y ago
The tradition of singing "happy birthday" isn't much older, but I would surely say it is part of our culture!
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by dzdt 7y ago
Netflix put a lot of work into recommendation back in the dvd delivery days when their catalog was absolutely massive. Now in the streaming space the catalog they license is much smaller so recommendation is less important; basically they
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by dzdt 7y ago
Cromulent made the OED last year: https://public.oed.com/updates/new-words-list-june-2018/
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by dzdt 7y ago
Cray Blitz chess might be a fun one to get running. Source code is at https://github.com/swenson/cray-blitz/ . "It is a mix of FORTRAN source code and Cray Assembly Language (CAL), and looks like it supports
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by dzdt 7y ago
For countries like the United States, sea level rise is basically a real estate problem. Either shoreline communities will need expensive infrastructure improvements to rise faster than the water or will have to abandon the lowest lying ar
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by dzdt 7y ago
The reason for naming the variables as they are seems to be to keep consistency with Vitter's paper [ http://www.ittc.ku.edu/~jsv/Papers/Vit87.RandomSampling.pdf ] Since the paper is really the primary documen
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by dzdt 7y ago
That may be a good guess: people who prefer words to pictures and keyboard to mouse would prefer menus to the ribbon. That pattern holds for me anyway. And I would believe that word/keyboard people are in the minority, so a UI study
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by dzdt 7y ago
After 13 years there are still things I have trouble finding on the ribbon that were easy with the menu. And the ribbon totally kills the menu item->keyboard shortcut learning path to efficiently activate things you use in your personal

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