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by macleginn 8y ago
Also this: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.04202.pdf (“Deep learning on graphs: A survey”).
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by macleginn 8y ago
They actually managed to predict the bi-lobed shape by keeping track of when the shadow of the object swept different points on the Earth’s surface. Amazing.
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by macleginn 8y ago
For totally different reasons, Moscow, the capital of Russia, has recently acquired a magnificently weird shape after annexing a huge tract of land shooting out roughly in the southern direction (nos. 11 and 12 on this map [1]). In Russia,
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by macleginn 8y ago
The reason, it seems, is that a lot of people come there to work, but live elsewhere: ‘Founded in 1905 as the first exclusively industrial city in the Southwestern United States, Vernon currently houses more than 1,800 businesses that emplo
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by macleginn 8y ago
It would. They got the accomplishment (“A precise and accurate C14 calibration is considered the Holy Grail of radiocarbon dating”, from the original paper) and the means necessary for it mixed up.
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by macleginn 8y ago
No, they are not. The meaning of an idiom is not predictable from its constituent words, that’s it. A metaphor involves some kind of meaning transfer. In this case some properties of the ‘prototypical’ Holy Grail (desirability mostly) are t
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by macleginn 8y ago
This works the same way in Spotify’s recommender system. It keeps recommending you records you not only have already listened to a couple of times, but also added to your library and even made available offline. This is so fixable.
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by macleginn 8y ago
As was proved recently, there are quantum algorithms that can not: https://www.quantamagazine.org/finally-a-problem-that-only-q...
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by macleginn 8y ago
A bridge falling under a train and a non-delivered project don't really have much in common. Major engineering projects keep being delivered very late or scrapped altogether, not that software is altogether different in this regard.
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by macleginn 8y ago
The Customs Act works nicely with GDPR: “Hague... said the actions of the ABF officers had put his business in breach of Europe’s tough new GDPR data privacy laws and he would now need to give privacy breach notifications to his clients.”
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by macleginn 8y ago
> * You can choose your metric! Specific a distance function and you're good to go. Haversine for a great orange peeling, Levenshtein for visualizing word spelling (and maybe provide an embedding for ML-based spell checking?) t-SNE,
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by macleginn 8y ago
Of course, but all over the world is not needed: a company with a presence in whatever country you go for holidays/work is enough, so an app with a nearly global presence will get all the travelers' money automatically. (For insta
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by macleginn 8y ago
Based on my travel experience and given that taxis are rather cheap in many countries, I’d say that most of the people jet setting around the world are very likely to use a universal cab-hailing app at some point.
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by macleginn 8y ago
You are right, I wantonly omitted some of the important properties. Cf. the response of one of the authors in another comment on how their method tackles general metric spaces.
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by macleginn 8y ago
But these more general results are kind of small print, right? The abstracts to both linked articles talk specifically about normed spaces. (Thanks for the correction. I just gave one of the properties, but should’ve been more precise.)
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by macleginn 8y ago
The subtitle claims that a “universal way” was found to solve the nearest-neighbour-search problem for any kind of data, but actually the result is restricted to the (rather huge, of course) set of normed spaces, i.e. spaces whose distance
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by macleginn 8y ago
My parents also live in Russia, but I would prefer setting up a VPN for them over their having to live behind a great information curtain any day. Also after the invasion of Ukraine, indiscriminate bombing of Syria, etc etc, I would persona
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by macleginn 8y ago
As was suggested below, what you mas actually want to do is inject untraceable money into a foreign financial system in order to use it later for some nefarious purpose.
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by macleginn 8y ago
> [T]he US has the only global taxation system in the world Not exactly, Eritrea is another case.