johnaspden

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by johnaspden 4y ago
And do they call me 'Dai the boat-builder?'
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by johnaspden 4y ago
Y'all remember about ten years ago, when there were all those weirdos worrying about this sort of thing?
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by johnaspden 4y ago
In England we have proper laws, so car headlights aren't so bad (even though they're still way brighter than they need to be, they point down). Our problem is insanely bright LED lights on bicycles (and even joggers)! I speak as a
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by johnaspden 4y ago
As I remember PWM is to control the brightness of the LED. LEDs can only shine at one brightness, they're either on or off, so to dim them to half-brightness you need to have them on half the time, off half the time. That's how yo
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by johnaspden 4y ago
it's an ironic sarcasm marker
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by johnaspden 4y ago
Comparing 90% to 5% would be very silly. What percentage of cancer-related deaths are attributable to tobacco use? (In the same sense of "attributable" as for the alcohol?)
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by johnaspden 4y ago
Lancet's British
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by johnaspden 4y ago
Using the power of not pronouncing most of the letters and speaking very very fast, they can get it down to: batlefe pend ki letencoshow which is more manageable.
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by johnaspden 4y ago
It's true, I have no idea what Mastodon is, but if some bastard's trying to stop me finding out about it, I am going to go and find out about it right now!
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by johnaspden 4y ago
I imagine you'd hear more about the Opera. But then I am British.
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by johnaspden 4y ago
> This is a line I draw in the sand and will hold to. Would you play him for money at a game where you are both equally skilled and it's easy to cheat?
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by johnaspden 4y ago
They also claim 100 million subscribers, so that's 140,000 cheats. Since if you're cheating you probably do quite well (I pity the engine that could lose to me!), that's likely most of the high-rated players on their site. An
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by johnaspden 4y ago
But muh perfectly predictable catastrophe a moderately intelligent twelve year old could see coming and that we could avoid by just not doing that, that we're blundering into because our short-term and long-term incentives are not well
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by johnaspden 4y ago
To save anyone else the trouble: ---- The book’s core argument is that an artificial intelligence that could equal or exceed human intelligence—sometimes called artificial general intelligence (AGI)—is for mathematical reasons impossible. I
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by johnaspden 4y ago
paywall
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by johnaspden 4y ago
This is really great, and looks like it might tie into the idea in negotiation theory of 'splitting the pie'.
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by johnaspden 4y ago
Indeed! If only people would eat their vegetables, they'd be immortal.
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by johnaspden 4y ago
Say researchers in their mid-fifties, the prime of life.
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by johnaspden 5y ago
> shebang of old English style college, the Ivy Leagues aren't the Ivy League I'm not quite sure what this legacy thing is, but I don't think English universities do it. It sounds corrupt to me, and I think it would be a n
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by johnaspden 5y ago
This is how all of maths is. Before you learn it, it's incomprehensible frightening gibberish. After you learn it, you wonder how anyone can not understand ideas so simple and obvious. How to get from one state to the other is the whol
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by johnaspden 5y ago
> teacher's solution guide If the person teaching a maths course needs to look the answers up, you are just fucked.
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by johnaspden 5y ago
Very few of the maths textbooks I've read have had the answers to the exercises in them. If the author wants to put in a worked example, that will be in the chapter itself, rather than the exercises. In maths, you know when you'
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by johnaspden 5y ago
(8+8+8)*100
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by johnaspden 5y ago
I'd be pretty damned suspicious of someone claiming to be a maths professor who couldn't tell me what seven eights are.
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by johnaspden 5y ago
That's a good tip. I just speculatively typed "!r cats adjust" into the search thingy in firefox and got lots of nice reddit threads. Someone somewhere (probably duckduckgo) thinks 'search on reddit' is useful enoug
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by johnaspden 5y ago
I'm not sure you can call structured programming a fad! An awful lot of languages (I'd say all commonly used ones) use if/then/else, do..while, for..next, and so on, but I can't remember the last time I saw a progra
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by johnaspden 5y ago
centigrade surely?
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by johnaspden 5y ago
Hmm, 100 for human body temperature is good, but 0 for the lowest temperature achievable in a lab 300 years ago is not so good. The Aspden scale has its zero at water-freezing and 100 at this-will-kill-you-if-you-can't-sweat. 50A is &q
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by johnaspden 5y ago
I've also noticed that murderers tend to be real jerks to non-murderers, and non-murderers tend to be real jerks to murderers. There's a true moral equivalence there.
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by johnaspden 5y ago
This is priceless, thank you!

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