empiricus

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by empiricus 9y ago
I use a gaming mouse, it is very quick and precise. I can move 1 pixel if I need or move to the other side of the huge screen with a single movement.
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by empiricus 9y ago
Reading the chapter about time in "Good and Real" by Drescher blew my mind. See http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=11068 for a short version.
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by empiricus 11y ago
Surprisingly, at the end of the wikipedia article about Olber paradox there is a integral which describes the summation of all stars and takes the distance into account, and according to what we know currently about the matter distribution
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by empiricus 11y ago
Lets consider only the moment before the collision of the small planet pieces: these are all accelerating to the center of mass. If you revert time, you still have a lot of pieces, with high speed, but these are going away from the center (
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by empiricus 11y ago
So if I understand correctly, time reversal means that all the object speeds get inverted, but the fields remain the same. If you change the sign of the field (gravity becomes repulsive) then things will explode very quickly :)
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by empiricus 11y ago
Sports are 2-3% for a long portion of the day. This is actually quite a lot; consider that a person will exercise for < 1h, and maybe not every day.
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by empiricus 11y ago
The article is missing the control group; how often does this gait appear in other countries high officials?
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by empiricus 11y ago
Some issues I had last month with ubuntu linux: 1. When I plug my UHD monitor, linux tries to use 4k@60hz, but my video board does not support this, so no video signal. 2. tried to use latest intel video drivers, so I had to upgrade first u
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by empiricus 11y ago
The light elements that you prefer for fusion, have a lower absortion rate for neutrons than the heavier elements, which you don't prefer to absorb neutrons. In other words, to get usable fusion, you need so much neutrons that a lot of
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by empiricus 11y ago
The U-series of Haswell CPU-s only support 30hz for 4K resolution. Which is borderline unusable. However, using reduced blanking timings, it should be possible to get 50Hz. I have a ubuntu laptop with i5-4200U and after a couple of hours of
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4k monitor at 50hz. Guide for overclocking displays on GNU/Linux with Intel GPU(github.com)
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by empiricus 11y ago
In the article only the negative effects of Neanderthal genes are discussed. Is this because genetic datasets are mostly about gene/diseases correlations, or is it because the researchers did not analyze any gene/benefits datasets
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by empiricus 11y ago
The wikipedia article surprises me though.. The actual brightness can be calculated as an infinite sum of start brightnesses getting weaker with the distance. The result of an infinite sum can be finite or infinite. I would have though apri
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by empiricus 11y ago
If the universe is infinite, for each particular direction there are an infinite number of stars. So even if the probability of a photon coming from a distant star is very low, there are infinitely many stars in that direction, so that dire
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by empiricus 11y ago
The article is not about the functional C++ you mention. It is about using pure functions (functions that do not modify global context).
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by empiricus 11y ago
If I understand correctly, the CIE graph is just a 2D representation of the human eye spectral sensitivity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1931_color_space Basically take the human tristimulus response R, G, B; norm
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by empiricus 11y ago
Actually 4*H = He4. Or D + D = He4, etc.
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by empiricus 11y ago
Like others said, beware selection bias. On the other hand, when someone gets to 100 there is a big chance someone did not do something wrong too often. In other words, if you do wrong things (diet, etc) your potential chances to get to 100
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by empiricus 11y ago
I'm pretty sure that if you move just a little the image, the convnet is no longer fooled. So this kind of exploit works only for completely stationary images, and it is very to overcome.
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by empiricus 11y ago
Thanks, I see now. I was thinking that Poisson distributions look like distributions generated by Poisson disk sampling (with which I was more familiar).
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by empiricus 11y ago
Well, I'm still waiting for Cortana to be available on the Surface Pro tablets.
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by empiricus 11y ago
I can't see any possible reason for the distribution to be Poisson. It should be completely random, but the representation on the map is too regular.. Looks like the apparent regularity is an artifact of the way the data is filtered fo
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by empiricus 15y ago
The calculation uses the size of a pixel in arc-minutes (radians). If you specify a pixel size (in m, or cm) then you will need to also specify the eye-pixel distance. Easier to calculate using the arc-minutes size of a pixel.
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by empiricus 15y ago
In a couple of years we will start seeing a lot of computer vision applications - and robots will be one of them. This is because the computing power has just got at the needed level. Once you have vision you can really start applying the o