jstanley

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by jstanley 9mo ago
> If in a langauge there is one word for 2 different colors, speakers of it are unable to see the difference between the colors. Perhaps you mean to say that speakers are unable to name the difference between the colours? I can easily
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by jstanley 9mo ago
Applications for pure mathematics can't necessarily be known until the underlying mathematics is solved. Just because we can't imagine applications today doesn't mean there won't be applications in the future which depen
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by jstanley 10mo ago
Maybe all of these emissions are coming from yoga classes instead of coal mines? We've been looking in the wrong place all along.
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by jstanley 10mo ago
Oops! Thanks, the issue was with DuckDuckGo's calculator which I mistakenly trusted: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=log(64!%2F32!%2C+2)&t=ffab&ia=calc... It misinterprets "log(64!/32!, 2)" as "lo
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by jstanley 10mo ago
> Since each position takes up 6 bits ($2^6 = 64$), multiplying 6 bits by 32 pieces gives us 192 bits / 24 bytes (1 byte = 8 bits). But each position can only be used once, so you really only have 64*63*62*61*...*33 possibilities =
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by jstanley 10mo ago
What would a non-genuine reason look like?
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by jstanley 10mo ago
Doesn't this just put the stress on the other pane of the window? I don't see how it helps. EDIT: Oh. It helps because otherwise the bit between the panes would be at a different pressure to both the interior and exterior of t
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by jstanley 10mo ago
The difference in expected value between purchasing one ticket and fifty is 50x! Buying 50 tickets is 50x as bad as buying 1 ticket.
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by jstanley 10mo ago
If you have to bring your own vacuum flask, don't you lose half the benefit of doing it in space?
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by jstanley 10mo ago
In my experience that's only true in TV adverts from my childhood. I've never had one unable to reach in real life.
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by jstanley 10mo ago
What's wrong with pulling up to the wrong side of the pump? I do it all the time when the petrol station is busy, just pull the hose over to the other side and fuel the car anyway.
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by jstanley 10mo ago
As someone who daily-drives GrapheneOS, there isn't a single app that I want to use that is broken. I don't see any reason to use regular Android.
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by jstanley 10mo ago
There plainly was intent. The train operator deliberately drove the train, with passengers on it, to places they knew the passengers didn't want to go, and did not allow them a chance to get out sooner. If a taxi driver were to do the
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by jstanley 10mo ago
If the shortest route from your current location to the English channel crosses the M4 then you're in the north, otherwise you're not.
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by jstanley 10mo ago
> The term "kidnapped" is kinda over the top If you got in a taxi to take you 35km away and he drove you 60km away to a random other town instead, would you consider "kidnapped" to be over the top? Does it only count
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by jstanley 10mo ago
You don't think that as prices go up, the supply might also go up, and the equilibrium price will be maintained? And possibly even a lower equilibrium will be reached due to greater economies of scale.
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by jstanley 10mo ago
I don't think you're guilty of anything for failing to honour an offer in most cases.
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by jstanley 10mo ago
Are you saying that in the general case if you send someone a written offer for something and then don't honour it, you are in breach of contract? That doesn't sound right to me. A written offer is not the same thing as a contract
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by jstanley 10mo ago
Making convincing videos of the world without having a world model would be like writing convincing essays about computing without understanding computing.
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by jstanley 10mo ago
> Video generation models by definition are either predicting in noise or pixel space I don't see that this follows "by definition" at all. Just because your output is pixel values doesn't mean your internal world mod
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by jstanley 10mo ago
My guess is that is actually less information than you get from a variable width font.
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by jstanley 10mo ago
Where I live, the difference is almost six months!
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by jstanley 10mo ago
> Where are you getting this from? I asked a friend who is knowledgeable about this stuff, but he hasn't provided a source, perhaps he is (and by implication I am) mistaken.
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by jstanley 10mo ago
The theory is that there was an older and more advanced civilisation that built them using more advanced techniques which are now lost. And the Inca inherited pre-existing structures. The Inca did do stonework of their own, but not close to
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by jstanley 10mo ago
However many are left. In what circumstances do you care?
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by jstanley 10mo ago
I'm working on headless browser fingerprinting. We're focusing on "anti-cloaking" for anti-phishing and other Internet security applications at the moment. Phishing sites can "cloak" themselves so that they pre
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by jstanley 10mo ago
Not only is it pretty obvious why US independence day is not celebrated in the UK (although maybe that was tongue-in-cheek?), but we do have a fireworks night on a different date.
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by jstanley 10mo ago
After I finished my "industrial year" at university, we were all asked to give a short presentation on what we had done "in industry". Returning to university after my industrial year, I took a very dim view of the acade
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by jstanley 11mo ago
If a camera can see your eyes, why can't you?

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