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by fho 4y ago
It definitely was not bad ... but compared to the first it was a bit off.
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by fho 4y ago
I commuted 80 km (as the car drives) every day for 5 years. This was in Germany and I used public transport most of the time. Driving by car was about 1h, public transport was 1:30h but I really prefered going by bike->train->tram ove
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by fho 4y ago
Came here to plug this ... great book. (The sequel ... not so)
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by fho 4y ago
> Also if the models show nobody is cheating, the data should be considered suspicious. Possible ... when the cost of getting caught is high, even if it is just a perceived risk, I would expect that people "cheat" on those ques
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by fho 4y ago
I just yesterday skimmed the documentation for statsmodels weighted generalized linear models and they use data from an affair study there: https://www.statsmodels.org/devel/examples/notebooks/generat... I ha
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by fho 4y ago
Due to data immutability, a lot of the standard data structures in Haskell are quite interesting. Eg `Data.Sequence` ( https://hackage.haskell.org/package/containers-0.6.5.1/docs/... ) is based on Finger Trees
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by fho 4y ago
> I just don't see how a single beer, even every day, can be classified as alcoholism. From what I understand it's the regularity and habituation that's the problem. For many one beer a day is not a problem ... as long as
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by fho 4y ago
413 comments and not a single mention of arabica beans? :-) Maybe it's a local/German thing, but here you will not find a single brand that will not praise its 100% arabica beans content. Now, we lived close to an old Italian guy
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by fho 4y ago
I once commented on Reddit that one beer per day theoretically makes you an alcoholic. To date that is my comment with the most down votes, with a net karma of minus several thousand points. Apparently there is a large crowd out there for w
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by fho 4y ago
One game I wasted my school years with was XKobo ( http://zkobo.online.fr/xkobo.html ). So simple, yet so addictive.
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by fho 4y ago
I think they came as examples with the BASIC interpreter? I recall having to run them from some sort of editor.
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by fho 4y ago
Uh ... That brought up some buried memories. GORILLAS.BAS and NIBBLES.BAS
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by fho 4y ago
The crazy thing is how good the ants are at this. Especially considering their brain size. With robots it works ok, but over time small errors accumulate. After travelling for a while the home error will be off. In contrast desert ants are
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by fho 4y ago
One thing that is missing from this simulation is that (at least some) ant species walk straight back to their nest once they found some food. They do this (as far as we know) by accumulating each step they take into what is called the &quo
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by fho 4y ago
Hey! I don't know if you remember, but I found out what that red gravel on playgrounds was about: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieselrot (only in German, but if you heard about the topic you are probably from her
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by fho 4y ago
Completely anecdotally, but I recently read that linen was much more common historically than anglo-centric history suggests.
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by fho 4y ago
The crazy thing is that the Autobahns are not exactly safe ... Sure, millions of people drive on them every day and most of them will never be in an accident. Still there are about 15000 accidents per year on the Autobahns [1]. More anecdot
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by fho 4y ago
Could this be a browser plugin? No idea how "invasive" a plugin can be, but ad-blockers and privacy plugins seem to be able to change a lot on webpages (including blocking ad videos on Youtube). So theoretically it seems possible
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by fho 4y ago
Same ... but for me it was plastic sleeves in a laser printer ...
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by fho 4y ago
Isn't there also a live action troll hunter movie by him that has nothing to do with the Arcadia series?
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by fho 4y ago
That was a surprisingly good show for something aimed at children.
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by fho 4y ago
Last time I checked in the displays in the sizes I am interested in (>= DIN A2) are in the lower five figure ranges ... for that price I could buy several real art pieces that I like :-)
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A Matchbox Game-Learning Machine (1991) [pdf](gwern.net)
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by fho 4y ago
Fair ... I just read your response and assumed it was answering to my complaints :-) He specifically asked for a 10" inch display and your proposal fits there.
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by fho 4y ago
Nah ... those are still tiny compared to even a DIN A2 poster.
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by fho 4y ago
I am still hoping for a large, reasonable priced eInk display that I can frame and hang up on a wall. Does not even have to be color, I would be fine with just changing through different black&white dithered images over time. But large
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by fho 4y ago
Hmm yes ... maybe the word "view" was not chosen well. It's more of a "there and back again" thing.
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by fho 4y ago
Somewhat, but even my pointer analogy just scratches the surface. Filtering/selecting is big, but another interesting thing is that there are lenses (which I think are called prisms?) that only provide a view of something. Eg you have
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by fho 4y ago
Right ... And lenses are not. Imho a better comparison would be to (safe) pointers that can point to multiple, conditional positions in a data structure. Example: in a game you want to update the health points of all enemies that are affect
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by fho 4y ago
No idea, asbestos was used a lot back then. I guess it is entirely possible that some random playgrounds in Bielefeld did not make big headlines. That was pre-internet also, no ideas if local newspapers from back then would be digitised and

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