eindiran

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by eindiran 9y ago
This was a very interesting read.
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by eindiran 9y ago
This test has been around for a while, more recently under the name "veil of ignorance" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_of_ignorance
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by eindiran 9y ago
When you encrypt an email with PGP, you use the public key of the individual you are writing to, not your own private key. You should only use your private key to read the mail encrypted with your public key, or to sign messages.
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by eindiran 9y ago
Regarding your list of cons, what was "extremely racist" in Portland's past? I am mostly unaware of the city's history, but I visited the city recently and it seemed quite progressive in that regard (lack of diversity no
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The Portlandia Effect: How Did the Show Change the City It Satirized?(vulture.com)
21 points by eindiran 9y ago|14 comments
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by eindiran 9y ago
FTA: "Nearby signs show the speed limit was either 35 or 40 mph, though the 40 mph sign was closest to the accident site." Unlike earlier articles, this seems to imply that the SDV was not speeding.
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Inside the Alexa Prize(wired.com)
3 points by eindiran 9y ago|0 comments
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by eindiran 9y ago
While that has a lot of issues for open source projects that need to be fixed, most of the ones I can see there are projects that have hundreds or thousands of contributors maintaining them. From my reading of the question, OP is asking fo
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by eindiran 9y ago
This was as juicy as something can be while remaining a discussion on cryptographic hash functions.
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by eindiran 9y ago
The live visualization was a lot of fun to play around with.
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by eindiran 9y ago
If you would like to write Python 3 but need to maintain support for any particular version of Python 2, something that I can personally recommend is using the Coconut transpiler: http://coconut-lang.org/ The Coconut langua
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by eindiran 9y ago
WRT "What's OT?": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_transformation The wiki article includes information that should answer your last question as well.
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by eindiran 9y ago
I get an error when trying to use the submission form: Check form address This submission came from "appenguin.com/" but the form was confirmed for address "webapptoapp.com/"
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by eindiran 9y ago
I studied that manuscript a bit at university, and the questioner in the audience was definitely on the right track wrt the Bible being valuable as a source of training data. We trained on the pre-15th century translations of the Bible in a
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by eindiran 9y ago
Here is the guy in question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Zhdanov He was a Soviet virologist that generated the initial push to eradicate smallpox.
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by eindiran 9y ago
What do "SINK" and "DINK" mean?
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by eindiran 9y ago
Can someone who has enough karma flag this?
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by eindiran 9y ago
That was a pretty anti-climactic outcome: "Million dollar battle deals out $3300 in damage"...
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by eindiran 9y ago
The wiki article says twice that a the motivation for studying continuous variable quantum computing is to understand "the ways in which quantum computers can be more capable or powerful than classical ones". But it never explains
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by eindiran 9y ago
Yes that helped quite a bit. Looking over that section, I thought this summarized it quite well: "For the outcome y = 1, the constraint requires that Yhat has equal true positive rates across the two demographics A = 0 and A = 1. For y
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by eindiran 9y ago
The paper was beyond my level of stats-comprehension, so I couldn't figure out the answer to this question while looking it over. How does their methodology get around the 'redundant encodings' problem?
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by eindiran 9y ago
On the Wiki page for the meme, they list the IPA pronunciation: "often pronounced /ˈdoʊʒ/ DOHZH or /ˈdoʊɡ/ DOHG". Personally, I'd guess the first pronunciation is more common. https://en.wikiped
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by eindiran 9y ago
I meant both the widgets and the text: I tried changing the color of the widget to grey and with the default text color it was very difficult to read, but I didn't see any way to change the color of the text. Having the option to chang
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by eindiran 9y ago
I really like this and can imagine using it regularly. Do you have any plans to support more color options in the future?
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by eindiran 9y ago
It indicates that the account was just made. In the case of the GP the account was made about an hour ago.
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by eindiran 9y ago
I decided to read a bit about category theory last year. I quite enjoyed "Category Theory for Programmers" as a practical introduction. You can read it online here: https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28&
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by eindiran 9y ago
As mentioned by jrsmith, I try to minimize the amount I am switching to a new context, so I generally avoid any 'time waster' which is mentally involved. I do like short breaks, however, so often I will walk around for a few minut
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by eindiran 9y ago
Home-brewed context managers are new to me: I had only encountered using them in the standard "with open(...) as f:" case. Can someone who has used them before point out a use case for writing your own?
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by eindiran 9y ago
What exactly do you mean by abusive?
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by eindiran 9y ago
It appears so. If you go to their 'products' page, you can find vulnerable chips, as well as laptops using them. For example, they are currently selling the unfortunately named 'HP Spectre' here: https://www.i

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