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by inimino 4y ago
If you think a little further you'll realize that any precision between 1 in 6 and 1 in 5 or 1 in 7 would be pointless, so your argument is complete nonsense.
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by inimino 4y ago
No, that is not how that works. An engine evaluation saying that a position is better for black does not mean that it is easier for a human to play that position. Easy to play and winning for an engine are orthogonal concepts. Putting you
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by inimino 4y ago
It's a pretty low-effort article, combining speculation with zero evidence, some boring old gripes about how chess has changed, and wrapping it all up with some crazy stretched analogy to poker and a conclusion that doesn't make s
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by inimino 4y ago
But then what are eyes but a bunch of cells?
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by inimino 4y ago
If there's no results, you have plenty of room for a "No results. Try without quotes?" bright blue link.
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by inimino 4y ago
You can find proofs by making analogies in almost any direction, but it helps to know which direction leads towards solid intuition the student already has and can build on, rather than just leading to more abstract nonsense that's equ
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by inimino 4y ago
> closer we get to 0, the larger the number From above. What if you approached 0 from below instead? 1/-1=-1, 1/-(1/2)=-2, 1/-(1/4)=-4. So you just proved that 1/0 equals both positive and negative infinity,
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by inimino 4y ago
The author is poking fun at himself here; it's in poor taste to pile on.
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by inimino 4y ago
> ... 100% Pure Almond Wood with no fillers or additives ever ... Go ahead, try and rewrite that marketing copy for what's left over in a vineyard, as described in the article.
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by inimino 4y ago
It's not just the title: > When combined with gallium, the platinum becomes soluble. In other words, it melts, That's not what that word means, and the audience for this article probably knows the difference between "melt&
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by inimino 4y ago
There is a protocol for this... you flip the coin twice. HH or TT you ignore, HT or TH you keep (and treat as H or T). This eliminates any bias towards H or T that the coin or flipping procedure may have.
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by inimino 4y ago
> Maybe you had a dog in the fight at some point? No! But read the part where Rasmus Lerdorf "beams into" the conversation and his opinion is dismissed with "let's take a vote". I mean, if you wanted a language t
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by inimino 4y ago
What a childish rant that blog post is though...
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by inimino 5y ago
No, your 1, 2 or 3 don't help at all. If you see the elves or detect them, then they are not "invisible, undetectable elves", and your observation has no bearing on the truth of the sentence. So the sentence absolutely cannot
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by inimino 5y ago
The reason why we say "arithmetic mean" when we want to be precise is because "average" can mean any centralizing statistic. The great Carlin no doubt realized the joke would not go off as well with the word "median
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by inimino 5y ago
That's an interesting question. For example, if you're calculating the gravitational pull between the earth and sun F = G(m_1 * m_2) / r^2, you will reach for the distance between the centers of the two masses. This is the de
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by inimino 5y ago
The way to educate people is to say "less than 1/3 the distance to the sun (that is, less than 1/3 of an astronomical unit or AU)". It would have been easy to structure the sentence in a way to make it clear that this is
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by inimino 5y ago
> On this date, Solar Orbiter will be less than 1/3 the distance from the sun to Earth. That’s [...] about 1/3 of an astronomical unit (AU). Does the journalist know what an AU is? For those that don't know, an AU is the
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by inimino 5y ago
The frisking could have been done one-by-one in an adjacent room. But once you find the cheating, the best way is to let the test continue as normally as possible. Otherwise it creates a huge distraction for the other students as they wonde
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by inimino 5y ago
They way they handled it was exactly the correct one. You allow the test to continue with the minimum of disruptions for everyone. The academic consequences come later, after a university investigation, and they may face criminal charges as
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by inimino 5y ago
...posted on a site that was developed on a Lisp dialect.
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by inimino 5y ago
It's not wrong. Glass is transparent to you. It precisely means that you don't see it.
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by inimino 5y ago
If you cook with oil and heat, regardless of the cookware you're already eating some amount of burnt oil. At least, that is how I think about it...
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by inimino 5y ago
There is something called "EHS" and unfortunately there is lots of woo and pseudo-science around it, but also some legitimate anecdotal reports. Hopefully as another commenter has suggested you can do some double-blind testing to
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by inimino 5y ago
I came to the comment section just to say that I was surprised this wasn't called Flappy Pong. Nice game!
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by inimino 5y ago
You can't calculate probabilites that way when the process itself is improving.
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by inimino 5y ago
Another way to explain it is consider the prime factorization of both numbers. The product will contain all of the prime factors from both, so if there is at least one 2 and at least one 5 in then the result will be divisible by 10.
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by inimino 5y ago
Nobody wants to see a Rust utopia. That sounds like a monoculture nightmare. Do you want a Java utopia? A C utopia? A C# utopia? A Haskell utopia? There is no utopia, just a bunch of different choices! It's fine for there to be differe
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by inimino 5y ago
It could have put up a donation page, like Wikipedia.
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by inimino 5y ago
SQL isn't quite comparable today to punchcards in 1990, is it?

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