jnhnum1

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by jnhnum1 2y ago
Lost me when they got the definitions of semigroups and monoids wrong. Semigroups are not required to have any identity, and the monoidal identity needs to be both a left and right identity.
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by jnhnum1 4y ago
The answer is no: every time you apply Human(), you reduce by one the number of legal moves at every given game state. After some finite number of iterations, there are no longer any legal opening moves.
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by jnhnum1 4y ago
Or by packing the Supreme Court...
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by jnhnum1 8y ago
FWIW, I found the EPA [1] and CDC [2] sites on these chemicals to be extremely informative. Definitely gives me an appreciation for the "good" parts of government. 1. https://www.epa.gov/pfas 2. https:/&#x
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by jnhnum1 11y ago
Exactly. So suppose at some generation, the fraction of mosquitoes with the modified trait is p (and the unmodified fraction is 1 - p), and suppose that all mosquitoes are equally fit. A random child in the next generation will have the mo
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by jnhnum1 13y ago
I don't think the data requirements are that realistic. While the actual interference patterns on a hologram would be ridiculously large to send as a bitmap, it's easy to compute the interference patterns for the superposition o
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by jnhnum1 13y ago
Actually, the full title is "Things I love in Haskell that don't exist elsewhere at all"
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by jnhnum1 13y ago
> Completely ignore the credit collection agencies. They are utterly impotent, especially when it comes to medical debt which has no effect on your credit score. Source? Googling for medical debt and credit score seems to indicate that i
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Ask PG: Accessing HN via Tor
40 points by jnhnum1 13y ago|10 comments
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by jnhnum1 13y ago
^ or me
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by jnhnum1 13y ago
Yes, it could be bad, but at the same time the "@case" isn't the only indicator that this class is special. A case class definition can be very visually distinct compared to a normal class. One thing case classes let you do is implement fu
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by jnhnum1 13y ago
Yes, probably if you're starting from scratch. But I think in general it's good to have a flexible language which lets you write code in any reasonable style. Hopefully this library (the AST transformation part, not the specific macros) i
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by jnhnum1 13y ago
Other author here: Like lihaoyi said, it's true that the way we defined things doesn't match standard Python namespacing, but it saves some typing and I think it's easy to get used to the semantics of our case classes. Our macro just trans
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by jnhnum1 13y ago
It looks like the API doesn't give access to the whole shape of a ship - only its centroid position and the direction of the sharpest vertex. Do the other vertices not matter? In any case, we should probably be able to compute which edge
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You Are Not Adam Lanza's Mother(thegirlwhowasthursday.wordpress.com)
7 points by jnhnum1 14y ago|0 comments
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by jnhnum1 14y ago
One thing the article mentioned was that people are choosing not to have kids. In this case, it seems that there should be an extremely high selection pressure for people to be genetically more predisposed to want kids. And if this does e
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by jnhnum1 14y ago
Sure, I may have actually done better on the Putnam than he has. I've gotten top 100 and top 200 before... but that really wasn't the point I was trying to make. I was just making the correction because the original claim is, at least to
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by jnhnum1 14y ago
Nit-picky corrections: 1. Top Putnam score in Colorado . There's a pretty big difference between that, and say, top Putnam score in Massachusetts (which is more likely the same as top overall due to many Putnam Fellows coming from Harvard
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by jnhnum1 14y ago
On the other hand, it could also end up like hotel phone calls or wine uncorking fees - ridiculously expensive just for a convenience.
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by jnhnum1 14y ago
Do you have any sources to support dietary fiber as the real causal factor, as opposed to other diet / lifestyle variables?
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by jnhnum1 14y ago
Down in Tokyo as well..
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by jnhnum1 15y ago
Energy is certainly not being generated. The energy of the light output will be equal to the heat absorbed plus the electric energy input. If you want to think of it in terms of temperatures, I'm a little fuzzy on the details, but I think
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by jnhnum1 15y ago
The linked article and the title are pretty misleading. But if you go and look at the abstract for the paper, they mention that the extra energy comes from pumping heat out of the environment.
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by jnhnum1 15y ago
The problem is with the hypothesis that Apple would stay impartial and fight attempts by government to abuse revocation. This is highly unrealistic, and we've already seen Apple use the App Store policies to keep competitors' apps out (Goo
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Feynman: "I love my wife. My wife is dead."(lettersofnote.com)
5 points by jnhnum1 15y ago|0 comments
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by jnhnum1 15y ago
It's not "finally real" until it's released. According to this article, it's at least a year away.
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Beginner's Guide to Linkers(lurklurk.org)
3 points by jnhnum1 15y ago|0 comments
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by jnhnum1 15y ago
For the curious, I believe this works by doing a Fourier decomposition of both images. Then the composite image is produced by taking the low-frequency components from Monroe, and high-frequency components from Einstein. This way the "det
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by jnhnum1 15y ago
look, you said this: "Most areas where men are at a broad disadvantage are caused by male tendencies acting against themselves, not by other groups discriminating against men (e.g. the violent crime issue, which is not caused by discriminat
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by jnhnum1 15y ago
Please read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masculism#Masculist_concerns And after you've read that, please don't make the claim that there is no "real" discrimination against men.

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