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by edejong 5y ago
Thank you. Thank you for your views. Thank you for the link to the documentary. Thank you for taking the time to find the words and sharing them with us. I feel we need beauty in our increasingly desolate world.
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Americans spent a third of waking hours on mobile devices in 2021(cnet.com)
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In the past I have designed, implemented and brought into production many Akka based systems with medior and senior teams. Most of these were akka-streams based. The Akka actor model requires a different mode of thinking which can cause pro
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by edejong 5y ago
It would start with us software engineers to be more exact in our communications. For an engineering discipline, we’re terrible at it. Take your example. I don’t know whether a web page is encrypted. I do however know whether the transmissi
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I’d love to dislike all and every autotuned song of the last fifteen years.
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Swallowed coin cells can lead to life threatening situations in children. It occurs frequently. https://www.poison.org/articles/button-batteries
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Everything to cause division among the populace. If you’re looking at the standpoints, you’re mistaking the player for the ball.
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by edejong 5y ago
Well, if you make broad generalizations like that, then software engineering has mathematics as a foundation. Perhaps you don't want to make broad generalizations?
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Driven by livestreams, consumer spending in social apps to hit $17.2B(techcrunch.com)
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Evolution of Social Media Apps: Live Streaming(appannie.com)
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No virologist or epidemiologist will say it is 'usual' that viruses tend to mutate to become less virulent. Perhaps, and even that is contentious, an expert could make a claim for a specific type of virus. This type of reasoning i
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Ok, instead of some handwaving from economist, I'd rather have Nature [1] with loads of good references and no paywall. My point is that we simply do not know. The word 'usual' is deceptive here. Usual for the viruses we stud
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The author of the article doesn't understand science: "Distancing, hybrid models, classroom barriers, HEPA filters, and, most notably, requiring student masking were each found to not have a statistically significant benefit. In o
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> True, though usually viruses mutate into less virulent forms. Citation needed. The delta variant is the prime counter-example with higher R0 and slightly higher mortality. SAGE admitted SARS-CoV-2 will very likely mutate to defeat all
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Well, if you dive into data science and ML, you'll see it is much more than just a bit of linear algebra. Some topics (and as a data engineer, I am not an expert): - Distributed computing - Feature selection - Budgeting / accounti
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That was the state of AI in the 90's. AlphaGo Zero and AlphaZero have shown that it does not need to search exhaustively when it can search intelligently using reinforcement learning. The 'direction' is something the system l
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There has been the hypothesis that it’s actually bad ventilation in schools and offices causing the asthma related problems. One thing to check before choosing a school for the kids.
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I very strongly second this. The zero COVID strategy with localized lockdowns and a high emphasis on tracing would have prevented millions of deaths worldwide.
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Same story as one I shared 4 years ago. Seems to be the best tactic! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14031932 Edit: don’t want to sound accusatory
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Sound synthesis: mostly when I was playing with PD (Pure Data). Linear algebra comes up all the time in sampling theory. Music composition: this is a bit more far fetched, but I always thought of composition as a combination of vectors whic
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W.r.t. combinatorics: I was thinking of tuning systems and scales. I have always thought about the theory, but never written it down. Some other people actually did a much better job than me: http://andrewduncan.net/cmt&#x2F
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by edejong 5y ago
Music and piano playing taught me things about (math related): - Exponentials and logarithms - Harmonic series - Combinatorics - Chaos theory - Some calculus - Resonance - Linear algebra It also taught me about physics, cognitive psychology
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Is Linux unreasonable? The kernel has been backwards-compatible to user-land from the start. Or TeX, C, RS232?
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One of those graphs that’d benefit from a logarithmic scale.
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This reminds me of framevr.io Totally 3D with support for headsets and very expandable.
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A bit like modern television series, isn’t it?
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Rates are persistently low preventing mass inflation which is a risk due to increased money supply. So, property is a nice holding zone, increasing demand thus increasing prices. In other words, nobody wants to hold liquid asset at the mome
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GPS urged to refuse to hand over patient details to NHS Digital(theguardian.com)
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Doesn't matter at all. If your eye can see it, it goes through the object detection process. Attention is not necessary. In particular, the brain associates it with all adjacent information.
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That’s exactly the intention. There should not be a conscious connection between the ads and the actions, because it would reduce the effectiveness. Thing is, your brain does all the processing: it reads the label, it detects the colors and

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