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6y ago
Get is idempotent because it's the identity function. It does not change the state of the data. So it's a trivial case of idempotency. A more interesting function is PUT (idempotent) vs POST (not idempotent)
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6y ago
self-reversing is not nilpotence. In mathematics, a self-reversing function is called an involution, and it's f^2 (or f(f) ) = Id, the identity function. Nilpotence is very different. It says that if you apply your function a certain n
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6y ago
You could do small random variations (evolving the network) and assign some score to them (either number of sales, or scores by the staff)
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6y ago
Yeah that's exactly asking a stranger to tell you your address
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Wasn't it extremely common on the contrary? There was even a movie about this, where all programmers were women (the movie is called Hidden Figures).
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The important point in the FAQ: > The encrypted data pieces are scattered across our community of users, using small portions of our member’s unused hard drive space So it's not really comparable to S3 or B2. It's more like sto
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6y ago
But the number of digits should reflect the precision.
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6y ago
Most of them are ascii as well.
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That's the "next step". In some companies the only way to earn top money is becoming a manager.
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And you notice the NN software doesn't even use the accelerator half of the time
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6y ago
They would surely compare the number to the one they have registered, right ?
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6y ago
master of coin seems crypto related especially as tesla bought a lot of bitcoins recently
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Now France and Italy Join Germany in Suspending AstraZeneca
(telegraph.co.uk)
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6y ago
> Effective as of March 15, 2021, the titles of Elon Musk and Zach Kirkhorn have changed to Technoking of Tesla and Master of Coin, respectively. Elon and Zach will also maintain their respective positions as Chief Executive Officer and
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Sorry it was not clear, I didn't mean that all countries in europe have the same taxes. I was saying that they should in my opinion.
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All companies shoud benefit from future projections. It's just that other companies are growing much slower.
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No. At least not if you're part of a free trade union like europe.
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Of course, and my point is that it's perfectly fine, and even desirable, as better models lead to better outcomes. Of course, for cases where explainability is needed, either required by law (such as banking), or by common sense, then
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6y ago
I'm not sure I understand your comment. Bank credits are auditable, because there are some precise algorithm around them. Humans created the algorithm specifically so that it is interpretable. Then they must apply it the same way to ev
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6y ago
I don't really agree with you. > If you were rejected by a bank for a home loan, you would want to know why your creditworthiness wasn’t evaluated positively (and banks must explain precisely why to regulators). This is why we don&#
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Humans cannot really explain their reasoning. It has been shown that they usually invent an explanation that matches what has already been decided in their black-box.They mostly use post-hoc explanation, but cannot explain the true decisio
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6y ago
Could you give a high-level explanation of what's an offline-first blockchain here, and what's the difference between TrustChain and Bitcoin ? The draft seems very low-level and complex to read, and the article contains very few t
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What's BA?
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But the non-profit is spending the money, and is not earning any money. If you decide to ask for repayment, how could they pay you back?
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Would you say what drives you to write so much on those sites ?
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6y ago
Thanks, I had no idea.
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Did you try rclone ?
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And yet users prefer progress bars. You know the average duration of a data transfer and can show a progress bar even if it's not very accurate.
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Do you earn enough to live, or did you save enough by working at FAANG to live a few years (decades) like this ?
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6y ago
> I honestly hope that it's high enough to deter a nation state sized attacker. What's the point though? Bitcoin has no real use case apart from speculation.
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