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   by gbrown 6y ago

   > Professors are trained (most at least) to teach in-person Generally, professors are not trained to teach at all . They’re trained to research. That being said, I was already teaching a hybrid online and in person course, so the tran
2. 272.▲
   by gbrown 6y ago

   Yeah, if you model New York with an appropriate epidemiological model using just mortality (which is more reliable than cases), the lockdown event is massive and trivial to detect. Anyone who claims otherwise is either dishonest or foolish.
3. 273.▲
   by gbrown 6y ago

   Recursively?
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   by gbrown 7y ago

   I've been working on this over the years, since I noticed a tendency to just go along to make the uncomfortable situation go away. Just having a mental flag helps a lot: "this is probably BS, don't agree to anything."
5. 275.▲
   by gbrown 7y ago

   and that changes things how?
6. 276.▲
   by gbrown 7y ago

   Exactly. Neither is ideal, but they're not exactly equivalent...
7. 277.▲
   by gbrown 7y ago

   > Unreal Tournament 99 though, has plenty of servers that put some dlls for "anti-cheat" software on your computer before you join. D: People put up with that?
8. 278.▲
   by gbrown 7y ago

   Security by obscurity... isn't.
9. 279.▲
   by gbrown 7y ago

   Good point. IP law is such a headache.
10. 280.▲
    by gbrown 7y ago

    Maybe they should just embrace it and open source the code (without giving away the trademarks). The community is pretty engaged, so I bet it would be a boon for both security and modding.
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    by gbrown 7y ago

    What about the work using SPIR—V as an intermediate representation for OpenCL? If anything, it seems like we’re moving towards a common foundation for GPU compute, with an expanding and diversifying array of higher level tooling.
12. 282.▲
    by gbrown 7y ago

    Except for that last part, you’re actually describing a return to the way things were decades ago, when accelerator cards of various types were common.
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    by gbrown 7y ago

    I actually like Gnome 3 a lot. I feel like it’s the first DE I’ve tried that I could interact with with the appropriate mix of 90% keyboard 10% touchpad on a laptop.
14. 284.▲
    by gbrown 7y ago

    But if the UX is objectively worse, requiring additional unnecessary steps, it’s super annoying.
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    by gbrown 7y ago

    I’ve had good luck ordering lumber and landscaping supplies from Home Depot. No problems in half a dozen orders.
16. 286.▲
    by gbrown 7y ago

    Or a distribution with Wayland instead of X11...
17. 287.▲
    by gbrown 7y ago

    > computational time Understatement of the century lol, especially for fully Bayesian versions.
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    by gbrown 7y ago

    Tons - in addition to the split between stochastic (statistical) and deterministic (mathematical) formulation, there's individual vs. population averaged models, various kinds and types of spatial generalizations, an alphabet soup of a
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    by gbrown 7y ago

    One thing I've noticed about it which rubs me the wrong way is that, on Linux, when I exit the application it keeps running in the background. There's no reason that it advertises why this should be necessary, and I don't see
20. 290.▲
    by gbrown 7y ago

    This has been essentially the tileset approach for a long time.
21. 291.▲
    by gbrown 7y ago

    Couldn't you just daisy chain a second router via Ethernet and use it? Bonus points for VPN-ing all of your traffic.
22. 292.▲
    by gbrown 7y ago

    You’re not differentiating between sensitivity and specificity - in this case the test is highly sensitive but not specific. That means that it could be effectively hard to rule out cases while failing to provide strong evidence of actual i
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    by gbrown 7y ago

    There's more than one definition of antisocial. The second definition from Oxford is "Not sociable; not wanting the company of others". This usage is colloquially extremely common. https://www.lexico.com/en&#x
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    by gbrown 7y ago

    The Neato vacuums do a much better job in this respect IMHO. They figure out the space with lidar and use a rectangular pattern.
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    by gbrown 7y ago

    For sure, but the problem is that innumerable true situations might give rise to a given "observed" logistic curve - something that you can describe with two parameters arose from a mix of incomprehensibly complex transmission dyn
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    by gbrown 7y ago

    The reality is even more complicated - sure, a logistic curve is a reasonable fit if we assume that the data is accurate and the population homogeneous and well mixed, but in practice things get more complicated quickly. There's a huge
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    by gbrown 7y ago

    The OnVIF specification allows data on motion to be transmitted with frames as metadata. This is really useful for, for example, IP cameras.
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    by gbrown 7y ago

    One super annoying thing I've noticed about OpenCV - no ability to read relevant metadata from streams. It seems like lots of applications of OpenCV would benefit from using the motion capture functionality of these cameras (for exampl
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    by gbrown 7y ago

    We all have high hopes for JWST, but it’s been a long and expensive road with lots of delays. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope
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    by gbrown 7y ago

    Is that true? I feel like the mainstream scientific picture has been alarming (correctly) for that whole period, and people (using ignorant heuristics) have incorrectly discounted the warnings since they don't feel the pain right now