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by jampekka 2y ago
I think the easiest way depends on your background knowledge. If you understand linearity of the Gaussian distribution and the Bayesian posterior of Gaussians, the Kalman filter is almost trivial. For (1D) we get the prior from the linear p
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by jampekka 2y ago
Why would analyzing something as Markov chain be dismissing it? Perhaps its Markov chains that are being dismissed?
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by jampekka 2y ago
NYT would of course never back erroneous allegations by US officials on geopolitical matters like these.
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by jampekka 2y ago
Seemed to work for the space and arms races for example.
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by jampekka 2y ago
Import substitution. Before the free trade ideology it was quite a popular and (usually) deliberate method for industrialisation and technological progress. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Import_substitution_industri..
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by jampekka 2y ago
It was specifically about methanol. Methanol wasn't explicitly used as a denaturation agent but ethanol methanol mixture sales were (forced to be) allowed. Can't find much in English but here's a brief story. Methanol sales w
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by jampekka 2y ago
In some countries it's done so and poisoning is banned. E.g. Finland and Poland got an exemption from the EU to do this because so many people died from the poisonings.
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by jampekka 2y ago
> If the alternative is that you are not allowed to keep private copies of anything... That's of course not the only alternative. But the recording media levy isn't that bad at least in Finland. The income from those is distrib
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by jampekka 2y ago
Tariffs aren't to protect you. They are to protect domestic industry. https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/eu-to-hit-some-di...
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by jampekka 2y ago
> Status symbols can be shifted with marketing Or by buying a brand. Happens all the time. BYD already bought full control of the luxury brand Denza from the Mercedes-Benz joint venture.
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by jampekka 2y ago
> A Porsche is a Porsche, a truck to show you're manly and outdoorsy is a truck. A Rolls-Royce is a BMW, a Chrysler is a Fiat, an Aston Martin is a Ford, a Jaguar is a Tata, a Lamborghini is an Audi. And a Porsche is a Volkswagen.
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by jampekka 2y ago
They caused their own disaster with the Microsoft marriage. Nokia was still huge, market share and coffer wise, and had plenty of options, but killed them all for MS.
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by jampekka 2y ago
Symbian^3 (Anna and Belle) introduced Qt for the strategy for smooth transition from Symbian to MeeGo. This was killed to go all in on Windows Phone.
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by jampekka 2y ago
There was even the Qt strategy for making the transition smoother (and better hedged) by having apps portable across the different OSs. It was of course killed too because it could have challenged Windows Phone.
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by jampekka 2y ago
Google was doing quite well?
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by jampekka 2y ago
It was born dead, or at least an orphan. Elop had started the Windows Phone strategy before it was launched.
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by jampekka 2y ago
> Any folks from Nokia in this time care to shed more light on that? Cellular connection was not allowed for the Linux devices so they don't compete with the Symbian phones. Nokia had deeply dysfunctional internal politics at that p
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by jampekka 2y ago
N800 and other Open Source Software Operations' devices were not allowed to have cellular connection because of Nokia internal politics. N9 development was also hindred by the Maemo->MeeGo and the GTK->Qt transitions. And it was
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by jampekka 2y ago
And inefficient to boot!
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by jampekka 2y ago
There are many models used in different jurisdictions. Typically it's a government body for negotiation, assessment and sometimes price caps.
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by jampekka 2y ago
A lot of changed in the 70s. End of Bretton Woods, Nixon goes to China, oil shock, Southern strategy changes party politics, War on drugs starts, 1968 movements fail, FED turns to monetarism culminating in the Volker shock, Thatcher elected
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by jampekka 2y ago
Electromagnetic radiation is about 1.5 times faster in air than in glass (depending on wavelength a bit).
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by jampekka 2y ago
> there are microwave links operating closer to the speed of light, though these are mostly reserved for high-speed trading This is so sad.
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by jampekka 2y ago
B Corp is a certification stamp that companies can buy from the B Corp non-profit. It has no legal ramifications. It's like UTZ, FSC and Fairtrade. Benefit corporation is a form of legal corporation in the USA that allows for other dut
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by jampekka 2y ago
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by jampekka 2y ago
Firefox on Android is a no-brainer because of the extension support. It was a bit rough experience few years ago but has been solid for a long time.
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by jampekka 2y ago
Mostly on par with Chrome, at least for basic (95%) usage. Although for some cases I switch to Chromium.
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by jampekka 2y ago
Decoding (sampling) uses (pseudo) random numbers. Otherwise same prompt would always give the same response. Computing entropy generally does not. See e.g. https://huggingface.co/blog/how-to-generate
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by jampekka 2y ago
JavaScript's undefined is great. It's sort of similar to a maybe monad. Or IEEE 754 NaN. JS could have nicer mechanisms to handle undefined though.
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by jampekka 2y ago
Here you go: https://www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/opinion/opinion-pieces/... "RM: What was key to SQL becoming the standard language for relational databases in the mid- 1980s? Was all down to good m

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