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by eutectic 5y ago
You don't have to use sorting networks; to differentiate (or get a subgradient, anyway) a sorted list you just pass the derivative back to the original index, so you can use any sorting algorithm as long as you keep track of the permut
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by eutectic 5y ago
I really love the auction algorithm for maximum-weight matching, especially the variant where bidders bid the price that makes them indifferent with their second-best option. It's so simple and elegant.
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by eutectic 5y ago
Bias is underfitting.
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by eutectic 5y ago
Urea doesn't smell like anything much. Leave it long enough and it breaks down to make ammonia, which does.
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by eutectic 5y ago
Isn't the log factor only in the alphabet size?
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by eutectic 5y ago
The poisson distribution is quite-light tailed. With a poisson distribution, the probability of completing the task per unit time is constant. Real world tasks are likely to take longer if they have already gone on for longer; maybe a Paret
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by eutectic 5y ago
Isn't diluted high-concentration electrolytes an oxymoron?
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by eutectic 5y ago
I'm English and I've always seen it as 'bat(ting) an eye'. I don't think I've often heard it said though.
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by eutectic 5y ago
We live in a world in which it is easier to collect 'sin taxes' than to tax the rich. The wealthy have resources to fight any attempt to collect a fair, let alone progressive, share of their earnings. And yet, it might be rational
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by eutectic 5y ago
I already appreciate bats for how awesome they are! They're the fastest (and only flying) mammals. Surely that should be enough. If I were a bat, would it be rational to harbour animosity about any of the myriad diseases spread by huma
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by eutectic 5y ago
How do you model the crop response to environmental factors? Did you have to run experiments?
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by eutectic 5y ago
I though Haar wavelets were good for text and other hard-edged images?
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by eutectic 5y ago
A nuclear power station is not exactly a university or an art gallery.
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by eutectic 5y ago
Water can dissolve KNO3, and ethanol can dissolve sulfir (slightly) and tar from the charcoal, so maybe it helped create a more intimate mix? It would also have kept down sparks and reduced the chance of ignition while mixing and grinding.
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by eutectic 5y ago
I had good success using a DAWG for pruning, and letter-wise (rather than word-wise) branching, picking the letter with fewest options. If you want to get fancy, you can use back-jumping instead of backtracking.
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by eutectic 5y ago
I wonder how well gpt-3 + search would perform as a crossword-solving agent. I guess the tokenization might be tricky to deal with.
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by eutectic 5y ago
Hydrogen peroxide is a very aggressive oxidizer compared to molecular oxygen and will break down molecules instead of just adding to them.
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by eutectic 5y ago
I'm also a Dvorak user with a randomly generated password, but I memorized it by coming up with an approximate pronunciation so it's still firmly lodged in my brain.
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by eutectic 5y ago
I meant how effectively can your body use it as a source of energy. I think the conversion efficiency is much lower than e.g. sugar or fat.
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by eutectic 5y ago
But how efficiently are alcohol calories metabolizied? (I think not very)
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by eutectic 5y ago
I got nerd-sniped and wrote a simple Python solver for this problem. You can find the ngram files at Norvig's site ( https://norvig.com/ngrams/ ). import collections import math import heapq with
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by eutectic 5y ago
I would try an n-gram model with dynamic programming. e.g. logp(_, "") = 0 logp(word0, text) = max(logp_bigram(word0, word1) + logp(word1, rest) for word1, rest in prefix_words(text))
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by eutectic 5y ago
Organic compounds burn up, lead just accumulates.
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by eutectic 5y ago
What about suspended water droplets?
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by eutectic 5y ago
Presumably you mean to rather than by?
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by eutectic 5y ago
Surely copper at least is worth recycling?
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by eutectic 5y ago
4096, here we come!
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by eutectic 5y ago
The work that most (even highly skilled) people do is more like playing chess or writing a novel than proving theorems. Not pushing the boundaires of human knowledge, but requiring skills which are not easily learned without experience and
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by eutectic 5y ago
Humanity is an existence proof for human level AI, and it seems arrogant to assume that our brains are at the limit of what is possible. Reproductive fitness requires many attributes which obviously compete with intelligence, and evolution
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by eutectic 5y ago
This shows that masks aren't perfect, not that they don't help.

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