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by jpfed 7y ago
Maybe this is a dumb thing to ask, but would these microdroplets also evolve H2 gas then?
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by jpfed 7y ago
Bringing together this and what Simon321 said here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20686466 ), it may be that computers themselves have prolonged the current technological era by allowing us to wring out many more in
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by jpfed 7y ago
Other replies talk about how Promises can be implemented as monads. Aside from that, you can come up with your own, too. One monad that I occasionally use is something I'll call "Tracked". For "return" (when we make
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by jpfed 7y ago
Deception in various forms was incredibly common in U.S. studies when I was majoring in psych. Even if you didn't say anything like "We're studying weight loss" when actually you were studying anxiety, you might just no
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by jpfed 7y ago
This is not to contest your overall explanation, but I should note that teaching with phonics can be fun. When I would give baths to my kids, we used foam letters that stuck to the bath walls. They would randomly pick letters to build a no
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by jpfed 7y ago
> But even these aren't necessarily "the best" for getting lots of divisors for their size since, well, for example you multiple by 11 maybe you should multiply by a another 2 instead The concept you may be reaching for he
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by jpfed 7y ago
>but a curated photoset of Sides of Appalachia You May Not Know is aimed at the level of The New Yorker, and not something relatable to everyday folk in the suburbs or the Midwest FYI I'm a Midwesterner and problems relating to pict
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by jpfed 7y ago
>But if you watch both, the biases of both become blatantly obvious. I don't think this is true, though. You may be able to see differences between them, but without access to the "ground truth" (whatever that might be) yo
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by jpfed 7y ago
Are you kidding? There's a huge contingent of libertarians in tech.
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by jpfed 7y ago
Sure, they reduced the heating bill. But the tradeoff is that they can't throw stones anymore.
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by jpfed 7y ago
If you implement your own type that includes the right functions with the right signatures, you can incorporate expressions with that type into LINQ expressions. Crucially, SelectMany (most notably, IEnumerable.SelectMany, but the compiler
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by jpfed 7y ago
But seriously, put in your damn semicolons.
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by jpfed 7y ago
Well, it looks like the programs this article is talking about are not so much "reforestation" as "delayed deforestation".
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by jpfed 7y ago
It is possible, though, to take a wrong idea- or even just a slightly incomplete impression- and use your intelligence to run very far with it. Amusing example: my son refused, for a couple years, to learn single-digit addition facts. He al
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by jpfed 7y ago
They don't have to know, at least at first. There's a (super cute) built-in reflex that causes them to move their mouth towards whatever brushes their cheek.
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by jpfed 7y ago
They trained this model on Youtube videos. I'd be surprised if whatever fine differences goatees may induce didn't get crushed away by Youtube's lossy compression.
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by jpfed 7y ago
Deutsche Bank is somewhat notable from a political standpoint; Donald Trump got loans there after no other banks would work with him, and retired SCOTUS justice Anthony Kennedy's son worked there.
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by jpfed 7y ago
Um, guys, this is a little embarrassing but I was literally just making a lame pun about the dude's name. awkward finger guns
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by jpfed 7y ago
>a former deputy FBI director >He's also a former TSA director. That narrows it down a bit. With a name like that you'd hope he was more of a straight shooter.
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by jpfed 7y ago
They're called penal colonies, mate.
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by jpfed 7y ago
The way around that is to use particles that block/reflect EM radiation that is not useful to plants. For example, glass or silicon gel.
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by jpfed 7y ago
WSJ is not progressive.
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by jpfed 7y ago
In 2006 I worked on analyzing data that showed this. The principal investigator was plagued by health problems and I didn't know how to connect what I was doing with the previous literature, so we didn't end up publishing anything
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by jpfed 7y ago
I also play trains with my kid, and I might be thinking about the same stuff. When I build a track, I think "given a position and direction, could I reach every other (position,direction) pair from here?". There's a certain
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by jpfed 7y ago
I think programmers care about names more than mathematicians. Part of that might be the ages of their respective fields (if I wanted to rename "bubble sort" to "triangle sort", I would only be influencing something like
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by jpfed 7y ago
Yes, Steele had good relationships with our intelligence community. I don't see how that bears on the beginning of the investigation. I haven't seen anything actually credible that Mifsud was western intelligence.
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by jpfed 7y ago
>Please remember how this all started, with a dirty dossier Nope, it began when some foreign diplomats gave us a heads up that George Papadopoulos was bragging abroad that the Russians were going to help Trump by releasing dirt on Clinto
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by jpfed 7y ago
I wonder if the Photosynth models of Notre Dame still exist, or if they could be of any help in rebuilding.
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by jpfed 8y ago
I don't know anything about reinforcement learning, but >We can think of this as follows: the high-entropy parts of the sentence mark the starts of high-level actions, while the low-entropy parts represent the execution of those hig
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by jpfed 8y ago
Well, about 93% of it at least.

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