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by kd5bjo 4y ago
The LeetCode version doesn't require linear time, and caps the number of elements to 10^5, so the brute-force O(n^2) time solution seems perfectly acceptable.
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by kd5bjo 4y ago
UTF-8 is designed so that this doesn’t happen: All bytes in a multibyte codepoint have the high bit set, placing them outside of the ASCII range.
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by kd5bjo 4y ago
Some of my writing is to help me think, some is for future me, and some of it is for others. All three are different modes of writing, and I approach them differently. Personal stuff, in particular, gets written on loose paper and shredde
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by kd5bjo 4y ago
From my limited understanding, in order for options to not be taxed as income by the IRS, the strike price must be the actual stock price when the option is issued. I presume that the loan in question is to cover the exercise cost for the
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by kd5bjo 4y ago
The originals were all 8x8 bitmap fonts with no extra leading. If these are true to the original, then, any multiple of 8px in height should work for you. Unfortunately, the specimens are rendered with a larger leading than would have appe
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by kd5bjo 4y ago
*octagonal
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by kd5bjo 5y ago
CRDTs don’t quite fit in this list, as these are all valid merge strategies that a CRDT can use. The fundamental idea of a CRDT is that all of these schemes have something in common: They’re based on iteratively merging a bunch of versions
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by kd5bjo 5y ago
Random initialization is already starting to give way. One of the more promising approaches right now is pretraining with synthetic data to obtain “good” initial weights. Once that converges, you’ve got a network that internally recognize
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by kd5bjo 5y ago
To my knowledge, Canon was the first to market with a program-mode camera with their A-1 in 1978. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_A-1
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by kd5bjo 5y ago
Is there a corresponding result that gives the number of examples needed to provide a sufficient training set for a given physical phenomenon? I’m imagining a high-dimensional equivalent of Nyquist’s sampling theorem. Coupled with this res
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by kd5bjo 5y ago
Multilayer neural networks weren’t really a viable tool until the backpropagation algorithm for determining internal parameters was developed in 1985 (cf https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA164453.pdf )
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by kd5bjo 5y ago
I always understood it to be rooted in raw materials: The silica mines were there, which attracted semiconductor fabs, which attracted hardware companies, which attracted software companies, etc.
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by kd5bjo 5y ago
To show the Turing-completeness of a functional programming language, it's usually easier to implement the S and K combinators [1] than to directly implement a Turing machine. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKI_
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by kd5bjo 5y ago
Do you mean baking powder? Plain soda usually requires some kind of acid to activate it.
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by kd5bjo 5y ago
Keep in mind that cryptocurrency algorithms don’t work only on your computer: You have to collaborate with the rest of the network to come to a consensus, and many of those counterparties reside in jurisdictions other than yours. I’m no
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by kd5bjo 5y ago
I use Obsidian for my notes; the only automation is some light quality-of-life stuff available in its core plugins. For example, I have a separate tag for each stage of the process, so I can work a step at a time instead of a note at a tim
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by kd5bjo 5y ago
I use a Zettelkasten system for keeping notes about my work. Every note I write gets put into an Anki deck as a Cloze deletion, which helps me remember what’s actually in my notes files and occasionally brings up new, unexpected connection
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by kd5bjo 5y ago
> I didn’t hear of spaced repetition in school, but isn’t flash cards essentially the same thing? The key part of spaced repetition is the exponential backoff for correctly-remembered items: An extended time between reviews appears to st
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by kd5bjo 5y ago
Obsidian is just a tool, like notecards are; you set your own process and organization. With the exception of handwriting in place of typing, it's entirely possible to set up an Obsidian workflow with all of the properties you list he
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by kd5bjo 5y ago
At a guess, it’s probably something like a Festool Domino. You dry-fit the pieces and draw a line across the joint surface wherever you want a tenon. From there, the whole process is pretty automatic.
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by kd5bjo 5y ago
You are assuming that the true rights holders of all the code in the package actually agreed to the given license. Someone unrelated to the package development can still claim it includes an illegally-copied, unlicensed version of their co
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by kd5bjo 5y ago
> I keep a diary, because writing it helps me to think and reflect on things, and reading it helps me to remember things, but I know that I'm not a great writer and I worry that I'm just recording uninteresting banalities. I of
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by kd5bjo 5y ago
Don't bother trying to remember details, especially about software: When you next need them, they will likely have changed. Instead, learn how to efficiently look up the current information when you need it. Actively look for relation
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by kd5bjo 5y ago
PNG supports an indexed-palette mode natively, so there’s no need to write a custom loader. cf. http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/book/chapter08.html#png.ch08.d...
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by kd5bjo 5y ago
The "chartjunk" here is generally presented as a counterexample . The octopus on p. 20, for instance, is explicitly called out in the caption as problematic because you can't accurately see the data. For another example, yo
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by kd5bjo 5y ago
As the trains move through the tunnels, they move a large quantity of air with them. I wouldn’t be surprised if that air movement was a critical piece of the ventilation/heat dissipation strategy for some equipment located down there.
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by kd5bjo 5y ago
Yes, it is. From the description given, they were probably turning the trees into charcoal , which isn’t technically a fossil fuel: The carbon being released was only captured within the last few centuries, during the life of the tree.
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by kd5bjo 5y ago
The intent of the "under the terms of this License" clause here is to require the conveyed "Corresponding Source" to be GPLv3 licensed as well. On a lay reading, this could also be interpreted as "in the manner spec
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by kd5bjo 5y ago
In the Justin.tv days, the median viewer count was zero: At any given time, 2/3 of the live channels had literally nobody watching.
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by kd5bjo 5y ago
> Another "niche" area is finance, insurance, taxes and anything nearby, fixed point in those area is, I hear, a must. Because all the usual invariants of high school algebra that FP breaks actually have significance. In partic

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