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by jointpdf 4y ago
The local version of this is: there are only two seasons in Michigan—winter and construction.
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by jointpdf 4y ago
So this writer took an gorgeously-designed and adorable little machine, and haphazardly stuffed it in an old white sock as a travel case? Grody and a bit sacrilegious. At least get a sock of comparable craftsmanship, like Darn Toughs.
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by jointpdf 4y ago
Not OP, but I think this is a great (and obscure?) book on neural networks: https://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/rojas/neural/ Published in 1996, but the content is all foundational.
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by jointpdf 4y ago
Levy is also a very talented (and entertaining) teacher, in my opinion.
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by jointpdf 5y ago
That should be covered in the original A layered grammar of graphics paper: https://vita.had.co.nz/papers/layered-grammar.html And then there is an entire ggplot2 book (there are many, but this one was written by Had
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by jointpdf 5y ago
By comparison, the fastest supercomputer in the year 2000 was ASCI White, which did 4.9 TFLOP/s. It cost $168M in 2020 dollars, took up 12,000 sqft, weighed 106 tons, and used 3 megawatts (+ another 3MW for cooling... = 6,000,000 wat
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by jointpdf 5y ago
They probably meant: explicate — to give a detailed explanation of https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/explicate It seems like a relatively newer word in its usage: https://books.google.com/ngram
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by jointpdf 5y ago
Fun(?) fact: Demis Hassabis (CEO of DeepMind) was the lead AI programmer for Black & White.
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by jointpdf 5y ago
My experience with a Michelin star restaurant (Maydan, in DC) was “what I normally eat, but better”—much, much better. The menu items themselves were not exotic (hummus, beet purée, pickled vegetables, ribeye, chicken kabobs), but the e
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by jointpdf 5y ago
Along the same lines is the McHale Packs site (legendary custom backpacking/mountaineering packs): http://www.mchalepacks.com/
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by jointpdf 5y ago
The terrible irony of this post is that they use a completely wrong definition of expected value. They write down an integral...but then implement something totally different. You cannot calculate the EV of a random variable X by taking the
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by jointpdf 5y ago
Top comment from the post announcing HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=124 ): > Well its not a totally useless link submission... Even our earliest comment ancestors had the signature HN venom.
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by jointpdf 5y ago
I like the time pressure aspect, but I agree the animations should be snappier. Different TOKES for different FOLKS, I GUESS. I’d also enjoy some form of global leaderboard of some sort (maybe a scatterplot comparing time and accuracy?), so
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by jointpdf 5y ago
> Fascinating to think about cosmic events as large as two galaxies passing near/through one another. This simulation of Andromeda doing a mating dance with the Milky Way is definitely fascinating: https://youtu.be&#x2F
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by jointpdf 5y ago
You can see it spreading into Ohio (and elsewhere) in these maps from 2001 to 2019: https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/stats/maps.html
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by jointpdf 5y ago
> It would be difficult to do if the person had worked themselves into a situation where they have unreasonably high debt burdens (e.g. $200K+) but no career to speak of, so it's not a magic bullet. There is a way: income-driven r
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by jointpdf 5y ago
All of the planets orbit the sun on approximately the same plane (since we started as a swirling pancake of gas and dust that eventually snowballed into planets, and then you and me). It looks like this: https://media.nationalgeo
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by jointpdf 5y ago
But Delta has been the only game in town for a while now (>99% of cases since late August), so this recent rise in the wastewater viral levels shouldn’t be attributable to a change in the proportion of variants (TBD on Omicron?). https:
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by jointpdf 5y ago
Maybe there is a Pareto principle (80/20 rule) effect with these side projects: for these, you get 80% of the benefit (vs. working on it full-time) with only 20% of the hours. And for the main gig, maybe it’s 90% of the benefit for 80%
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by jointpdf 5y ago
Hmmm, a damp sea-sponge-on-a-stick doesn’t sound so bad... > “ Worse, the tersoria were probably reused and shared by all fellow butt-wipers who came and went throughout the day. ” Ok, I’m logging out for the day. Before I go, here’s a l
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by jointpdf 5y ago
This is completely wrong—being vaccinated does reduce your likelihood of getting infected (and thus reduces likelihood of infecting others). > In September, unvaccinated persons had a 5.8X risk of testing positive for COVID-19 and a 14X
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by jointpdf 5y ago
It’s a reference to a 50+ year old economics joke: https://worldin.economist.com/article/17506/edition2020dont-...
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by jointpdf 5y ago
This person is prolific and has a ton of great tutorials, free books, and more in their repo (I like the numpy book: https://www.labri.fr/perso/nrougier/from-python-to-numpy/ ). Major thanks to the author for
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by jointpdf 5y ago
I mean...what mood is red light for? When you want to feel like a reptile basking in a terrarium? I’m on team having many light fixtures with dimmable warm light LED bulbs—adjust the mood via intensity and number of fixtures turned on (so t
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by jointpdf 5y ago
> ...boss expects you to work more than the standard 8 hours and not be paid for it. In many many places you're shamed by co-workers if you leave on time (leaving earlier isn't even an option), or if you need to take days off
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by jointpdf 5y ago
I think you may have misinterpreted this (subtle) comment. They likely meant to imply that the US lost the war (context: in the US, “Afghanistan” and “Vietnam” are essentially synonymous with the wars in those countries, sadly).
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by jointpdf 5y ago
And then there are people like me, who seem to believe that if their resume spacing is off by a nanometer, then the entire world will view them as an unemployable failure.
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by jointpdf 5y ago
Excellent, I love a good mystery. I mis-remembered the Bongcloud as: 1. f3 2. e5 Kf2 (i.e. “fianchettoing” the king :D), but that is apparently called the Hammerschlag. https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Chess_Opening_Theo
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by jointpdf 5y ago
From the article: > Nigel Short played against a strong player on Internet Chess Club who used the opening; Short suspected his opponent of being Bobby Fischer. > English Grandmaster Nigel Short dubbed the opening an "insult t
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by jointpdf 5y ago
You can get Mathematica for free on any Raspberry Pi (~$35), so that more or less renders the point about expense moot: https://www.wolfram.com/raspberry-pi/ There is also a pretty nice introductory book that is aimed

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