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by jmpeax 3y ago
> print output using print, or prin for printing without a newline Crappy design when a common typo silently and slightly alters the functionality of your program.
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by jmpeax 3y ago
Anyone who's programmed knows intimately that any such rules/laws by humans in RL is basically undefined behaviour.
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by jmpeax 3y ago
SimStroads 2, meh.
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by jmpeax 3y ago
Science is also a weak-link problem. Wakefield's paper on MMR vaccine and autism is a demonstration of the damage low-end outliers in science can do.
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by jmpeax 4y ago
> A perfectly fine response to the above is "Oh yeah, that reminds me of the time when I [similarly crazy story]." I do this, and get the feeling that people think I'm trying to one-up them.
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by jmpeax 4y ago
What an incredibly frustrating video. Here is the actual run without all the unnecessary fast-and-furious computer graphics rubbish at the start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjDK0LhKkMs&t=76s
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by jmpeax 4y ago
So, you're not worried about the potential obliteration of the arbitrator's way of life?
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by jmpeax 4y ago
You would use a smart contract to settle a bet rather than hiring an arbitrator?
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by jmpeax 4y ago
> "Mars month" I though marzec came from marznąć meaning "to freeze".
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by jmpeax 4y ago
"Maxwell" is mentioned 5 times. Are we sharing well-written advertisements masquerading as organic marketing on hacker news now? Are we becoming reddit?
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by jmpeax 4y ago
> Twitter has said in its SEC filings that it estimates that fewer than 5% of its monetizable daily active users are “false or spam accounts” Is this different to total percentage of false or spam accounts? The monetizable daily active
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by jmpeax 4y ago
Microsoft's own machine learning repo "Project azua" ( https://github.com/microsoft/project-azua ) runs on JAX. Let that sink in.
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by jmpeax 4y ago
Cool write-up. A 10 minute read + 1 minute deleting the annoying gifs from the DOM.
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by jmpeax 5y ago
I'd just be happy with a search engine where you can choose to remove an entire site from the results. Sick of getting towardsdatascience pages written by students rehashing chapter 1 of textbooks.
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by jmpeax 5y ago
My favourite part is that it is not called "thiscitydoesnotexist".
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by jmpeax 5y ago
Beautiful lesson in just building something cool that people will love, and completely forget about monetization. If it explodes, the money will come.
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by jmpeax 5y ago
> The report says there is little evidence that calls for major platforms to remove offending content will limit scientific misinformation’s harms Sounds like we need more evidence, rather than accepting the null hypothesis. C'mon R
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by jmpeax 5y ago
An embedded 3d viewer to let you control the orientation
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by jmpeax 5y ago
Terrible scrolljacking interface.
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by jmpeax 5y ago
It's important to note that "at a later date" means 10 minutes... not exactly a longitudinal study.
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by jmpeax 5y ago
> Despite this CWT implementation runs on GPU and this “advanced” FFT runs on JS, CWT is about 50-100x slower. Sounds like a really crappy implementation of CWT. Besides this, the mother wavelet used was not specified, so maybe the auth
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by jmpeax 6y ago
Isn't autoupdate the antithesis of what Docker represents?
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by jmpeax 6y ago
An interesting approach to lossy compression.
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by jmpeax 6y ago
What a beautiful library and api! I don't 3D print, but I'll be studying your code as a master-class in how python should be done.
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by jmpeax 6y ago
Dear Agence France-Presse, "900m" is 900 metres, use "900M" instead.
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by jmpeax 6y ago
It's probably not the case that testosterone being lower is a result of society being kinder and gentler, but that society is kinder and gentler as a result of the lower testosterone.
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by jmpeax 6y ago
"Our ADRIFT-QPI method needs no special laser, no special microscope or image sensors; we can use live cells, WE DON’T NEED ANY STAINS OR FLUORESCENCE, and there is very little chance of phototoxicity" Are they suggesting their me
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by jmpeax 6y ago
If the water very slowly gets more and more polluted, will the clams notice? Do they need to be periodically recalibrated?
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by jmpeax 6y ago
So, 2024 is when Apple will be suing mechanics for trying to repair Apple cars?
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by jmpeax 6y ago
> Slack is fine and works fine. As a user, you can very easily turn it off and on at will, mute it > Same goes for the open office; that can work just fine if you make sure everyone shuts their mouth while working The analogy is not e

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