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by kirrent 10y ago
That reminds me of an SMBC comic which coincidentally mentions chess when joking about a similar idea. http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2010-01-29
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I've read people who theorise that as index funds grow larger their shortcomings increases the rewards for more active traders who now have more opportunities available that aren't being taken advantage of by those index funds, no
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Wilful misunderstanding of the research in the field? Or is it a gut reaction that spurs them into alternatives, based on a pretty meaningless label, which have no real proven health benefit? Perhaps it's the easy narrative of painting
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One of the most experienced climbers I know clipped into a gear loop instead of a belay loop without looking down at it and sat on it. He's only alive because he's got really fast reflexes. Checklists and rituals save lives.
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This is judge Aslup. The same judge who learned Java so he could adjudicate the Oracle v Google case with some level of expertise and was impressive with his insight in every aspect of that case I followed. IMO, he embodies the professional
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One of my most enjoyable projects was writing a Mandelbrot generator for the Gameboy. It was so slow that if you wanted to fill the very low res screen you'd be the better part through your battery life. Great fun though.
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If you want something that will feel more intuitive then quantum computing since democritus has a proof related to Turing machines that always seemed far more intuitive to me. http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec
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The EELV program doesn't actually require two different providers to guarantee access to space. It requires two different families of launch vehicles. ULA had the Atlas V and Delta IV families.
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I got a Rift over a Vive partially because I knew him, or at least knew of him, on the benheck forums back when we were all kids trying to make our own portable consoles. I was always impressed by his work ethic and designs. Enthusiastic, i
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You mean people will get the opportunity to pay their ISP not to sell them out? Sounds pretty consumer friendly to me.
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Do you have any references at all for a winged stage being feasible in any way? Considering that there are plenty of rocket stages out there that can't even be moved horizontally unless they're pressurised I doubt anything vaguely
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The mentioned discussion by Antony Green: http://blogs.abc.net.au/antonygreen/2011/02/more-australian-... I think his points are pretty good ones. There was a lot of anger and unhappiness after the 2010 elect
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My country has ranked voting. Compulsory ranked voting. No-one seems to have any difficulties with it. What's so hard to understand about rank the candidates in the order that you want them? I did get the chance to flick through a Cali
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It's not just the prep, even though that material probably took a couple of years to develop in its entirety. When they sell a special like that to Netflix they know that anyone who's even slightly interested in their work is goin
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My fiancees parents live out in a tiny country town with an awful phone line an internet connection. They can't really make landline calls, they frequently can't load a lot of websites, youtube is usually right out, but somehow th
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Interestingly, that's apparently because they're keeping the old gameplay code. That's great to hear because units like the Reaver and Dragoons are only balanced because of their issues.
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I remember attending an interview where Barry Marshall jokingly claimed that he was the only person who'd ever earned a Nobel prize with a study size of n=1. At the time it seemed like a reasonable claim, not just a joke, and it's
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You can, but it's worth pointing out that cars don't really run on the Carnot cycle because, unlike your air conditioner, they're not reversible. Usually they use something like the Otto cycle. To improve efficiency you can c
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Even more interesting to me is the question of if Go players will be able to apply the novel strategies of AlphaGo which break with decades of conventional wisdom or if there's something in their execution that requires such perfect pl
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Could you provide a citation for that figure? It's not one I've read but I don't necessarily disbelieve it. It is worth considering this perspective from one of the Deepmind Nature papers: "During the match against Fan H
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Not only does it use a form of intuition, but it's an intuition that it's developed itself, rather than just copying others. Professional Go players are learning from the creative strategies of AlphaGo and if that doesn't imp
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AlphaGo played plenty of games online after the Lee Seedol match. It went 60-0 against some of the worlds best players. Granted they were fast games but that's a challenge for AlphaGo as well as its adversaries.
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I just came back to my esp32 after a 6 week hiatus and the framework has evolved impressively in that amount of time. It's an awesome product for a steal of a price. Definitely at the usable stage.
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Not to mention that he had to look up how to use SVN.
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I'm not sure why you were being downvoted. There's a huge amount of theory relevant to sailing any boat and no special reason one would need to consider keels above any other interaction of a sail with a boat. I do a bit of kite s
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One of a couple of reasons. It's not likely to be as well developed in a review from 81 but an important part of modern high performance sailing is gust and wave response. That is, when you get hit by a gust or a wave, how does your ri
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Common usage would have you believe that all keels need a keel weight, but many catamarans have sharper structures on the bottom of their hulls that are called keels. Generally a keel is not retractable, a centreboard is.
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Not yet, and as every stage requires refurbishment the question is more, what do you need to replace or inspect after how many flights. Gwynne Shotwell said that while this stage's refurbishment took 4 months it'll be less than th
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No, the fact that it's not stable isn't what's being talked about. It's merely the fact that an additional force from the solar wind would act to shift the equilibrium point of L1 slightly towards the sun.
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For a real world example, consider government bonds which have relatively low returns but are almost guaranteed.

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