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by kwaugh 6y ago
Those are fair points. I guess I'm most confused by the inclusion of mid section rims. This makes me think they're targeting people who want to go really fast, but then their other choices don't pair well with going fast enou
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by kwaugh 6y ago
I definitely agree that high gears are overrated except for racing, but when the bike markets itself as a lightweight semi-aero bike, isn't the point to go fast? If you're not going faster than 25kph, then why are you need deeper
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by kwaugh 6y ago
> A double chainring setup likely offers smaller gaps between gears but likely a comparable overall range from lowest to highest. This isn't true. This bike is using a 40 gear crank in the front with an 11-40 cassette in the back. T
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by kwaugh 6y ago
I mean no offense, but many of the advantages that you've cited are more of claimed advantages from the marketing departments of big manufacturer rather than proven advantages that the tech gives you. The author of the comment to which
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by kwaugh 7y ago
They let you get third party cases valued at up to ~$30 for free. This wasn’t just for Apple branded cases. In fact, I believe this was before Apple sold first party iPhone cases.
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by kwaugh 7y ago
Apple handed out free cases for the iPhone 4 for a while to mitigate issues where the cell signal would drop when you held the phone a certain way. This type of action wouldn’t be unprecedented.
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by kwaugh 7y ago
No
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by kwaugh 7y ago
> Now, that being said, there is one minor question I have, and that is, how would backpropagation apply to this apparently one-way model? The author mentioned that this is only for inference of neural networks (not training), so this do
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by kwaugh 9y ago
Aarsonson has since commented on this paper on his website. He still believes that it's a bogus proof.
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by kwaugh 9y ago
Aarsonson has been one of my favorite professors. His undergrad quantum information sciences class was great. Super smart guy, approachable, good lecturer, good person. A+ dude. I recommend following his blog if you don't already.