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by maffydub 6y ago
Surely "view" should also include the human doing the viewing? :P According to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24068986 , that's 1g every 90s, so 4g CO2 for 6 minutes reading time.
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by maffydub 6y ago
I read "providing proper economic benefits to the United States, including the United States Treasury" as just meaning Microsoft will make money (and hence pay tax) on this. Am I being naive?
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by maffydub 6y ago
It's possible you were the addict rather than the dealer. :( What's the easiest way of keeping you at the company rather than going to innovate somewhere else? Make it as easy as possible for you to get your next "hit"
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by maffydub 6y ago
I suspect Google felt they got burned with Kubernetes - doing a lot of the initial development, donating it to the CNCF and then not profiting much from it (e.g. still being distant 3rd in cloud).
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by maffydub 7y ago
I think that a "naturist" is a nudist - a "naturalist" (as used here) is someone interested in nature. Obviously, it's possible to be both!
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by maffydub 7y ago
I don't know the situation with the church in question, but I've been on the other side of a similar situation... For the last ~9 years, I've helped run a homeless shelter based out of a church in London, UK. We often get off
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by maffydub 7y ago
Not read the paper in detail yet, but it reminds me of Deep Image Prior ( https://sites.skoltech.ru/app/data/uploads/sites/25/2018/04/... ).
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by maffydub 7y ago
Agreed. I was just reacting to the parent's comment that > Non-differentiable here doesn't mean actually non-differentiable in the mathematical sense, it just means that the function does not expose a derivative that is access
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by maffydub 7y ago
I'm not sure. According to Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differentiable_function ), > a differentiable function of one real variable is a function whose derivative exists at each point in its domain
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by maffydub 7y ago
5G isn't just about bandwidth, though. There's quite a useful diagram at the bottom of https://techblog.comsoc.org/2017/03/02/itu-r-agrees-on-key-p... showing the three key use cases. As well as &qu
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by maffydub 7y ago
5G doesn't need masts every 200-300m. There are multiple different frequency bands you can use. The lowest frequencies are around the same as 4G, so you should need similar numbers of masts to get reasonable coverage. The highest are a
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by maffydub 7y ago
For a very hands-on, getting-started tutorial, Katacoda is pretty awesome: https://katacoda.com/courses/kubernetes
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by maffydub 7y ago
Still true-ish - it's methadone rather than heroin. From https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-body/drug-addiction-get... : > If you're dependent on heroin or another opioid drug, you may be offered a s
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by maffydub 7y ago
Good video - thanks! I didn't quite follow how information came back out of the black hole as it shrank - is it "encoded" on the Hawking radiation?
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by maffydub 7y ago
Thanks! Does the fact that the light red shifts towards zero energy mean that the information has been lost, or just that you can't observe it _at_the_moment_? If the black hole then shrinks due to Hawking radiation, what happens to th
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by maffydub 7y ago
(I am not a physicist.) One thing I've struggled with around black holes is what it means for anything to fall into a black hole. From a reference frame outside the black hole, observing an object falling into the black hole, don&#x27
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by maffydub 7y ago
Agreed - it would probably be the Software Freedom Conservancy, if anyone. See https://git-scm.com/about/trademark for their policy on this.
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by maffydub 7y ago
I don't think it's just the word - I think it's the combination of the word and the usage. If your "GitStart" startup was intended to help "unpleasant, silly, incompetent, annoying, senile, elderly or childish
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by maffydub 7y ago
Interesting! My neighbourhood in London (NW6 - not particularly upmarket) seemed to accept them fine... as well as most places in Central London.
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by maffydub 7y ago
I agree they're rarely used by locals. Having said that, when I have friends visit from Singapore, they often seem to carry £50 notes... and most places seem to accept them (although maybe this is less true outside London).
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by maffydub 7y ago
Can you elaborate on why they're unusable?
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by maffydub 7y ago
The article says... "Disabling [hyperthreading] increases the overall performance impact to 20 percent (for the 7980XE), 24.8 percent (8700K) and 20.5 percent (6800K)." ...so I think a performance impact of "20%+" (i.e.
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by maffydub 7y ago
Maybe I just have a really bad sense of taste, but I thought they were just "green" and "purple" (also in the UK).
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by maffydub 8y ago
I agree that there's no reason that these properties are axis-aligned. Isn't the normal approach to look at whether word2vec('king') - word2vec('man') ?= word2vec('queen') - word2vec('woman'
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by maffydub 8y ago
Interesting thought - I'm not sure. My guess is it's a combination of - increasing publicity of the propaganda (which I guess is a bit like your comment that it legitimises the claims) - if the propaganda is not already in the op
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by maffydub 8y ago
Presumably it depends on the modulus used? I think the article is assuming a modulus of 2^n-1. As the article says, Adler-32 is a specialization of Fletcher-32 that specifies a modulus of 65521 - that would seem to avoid this limitation.
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by maffydub 8y ago
It was solid, but granular - the article gives the example of crushed ore and mineral sands - so it's already broken up.
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by maffydub 8y ago
RAMCloud looks interesting. Does anyone have any experience with it?
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by maffydub 8y ago
FYI, for artificially generated rooms, there is already the SceneNet RGB-D dataset - "5M Photorealistic Images of Synthetic Indoor Trajectories with Ground Truth" https://robotvault.bitbucket.io/scenenet-rgbd.html
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by maffydub 8y ago
The Doom source is also what enabled ViZDoom ( http://vizdoom.cs.put.edu.pl/ ) - a Python wrapper around the Doom game engine for machine-learning research. I've certainly found it really useful for reproducing machine-l

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