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by martincmartin 4y ago
So what's he been up to?
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OP was reading text on an old Cathode Ray Tube monitor. It broke such that, instead of being spread throughout the screen, all of it was squished vertically into a single horizontal line. However, different parts of the line are written a
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> There is also the issue of survivorship bias. The SP500 and Dow Jones indices regularly discard the losers and add new companies, so we don't know the true results of holding companies for a long period of time. That's certai
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How can a software engineer help the war in Ukraine?
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2FA exists because sometimes ne'er do wells get your password. Phishing, guessing weak passwords, password reuse from sites that are hacked, the list goes on.
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(2020)
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Ukraine is using foreign tech to mitigate Russian destruction(economist.com)
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by martincmartin 4y ago
Being sure you give a correct & coherent answer is important. You mention "as it's unlikely I'll write that post anyway", so I'd just hate if perfect were the enemy of the good and the answer was never written.
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That tweet is from August 14. Since then: "Last updated: October 11, 2022 Building access protocols remain largely unchanged from the spring 2022 semester, with several additional spaces now open to the public including in buildings 3
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by martincmartin 4y ago
I'm trying to give myself an undergraduate education in math and/or physics this way. When I study a subject, here's what I'd ideally need: 1. Explanation of the subject. Could be videos or textbook. 2. Problems to wor
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by martincmartin 4y ago
So carbon atoms are spaced about 0.15 nm apart in carbon metal. So a 3nm process is about 20 carbon atoms. Impressive.
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I mean it's literally in TFA: "In late September Micron, an Idaho-based maker of memory chips, reported a 20% year-on-year fall in quarterly sales. A week later amd, a Californian chip designer, slashed its sales estimate for the
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by martincmartin 4y ago
Yes, this is in the definition of theorems().
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If you sign up for notifications on both github projects, you can watch the watchmen.
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I once used them at work. I had a monitor that was too low, so putting a volume or two of Knuth under it raised it to the right height. That's the only time I've ever used them though.
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At what point does a hobby turn into an addition? People who have spent 6k hours in a casino, for example, would probably be happier if they could figure out why they're doing it, and find a more productive way to address that need.
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by martincmartin 4y ago
Boston had a Community Solar System Trail, where both the size of the planets and the distance between them were to the same scale. The sun was 11.6 ft at the Museum of Science. Mercury and Venus were in the building. Mars was in the Cam
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by martincmartin 4y ago
Yes, but the zero point is arbitrary, so a percentage of dBa is meaningless. You can say it's 14.2 dB louder, or 10^(1.42) more energy, neither of which is very meaningful to the average person.
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by martincmartin 4y ago
> As an advertiser your livelihood is dependant on an algorithm, not skill, not intuition, not experience, not even track record. In other words, companies now have to compete by making useful products at a good price, rather than gami
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> according to my education in financial analytics, there are no technical barriers until we reach 500. For those unfamiliar with technical analysis, it has been called "the astrology of finance." https://www.econo
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> Let us assume that building a rocket at 96% propellant (4% rocket), currently the limit for just the Shuttle External Tank, is the practical limit for launch vehicle engineering. Why would that be the practical limit for intelligent
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Wait, airplanes don't already use unleaded fuel?
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This terminology was common in the 1990s, before AI meant "machine learning" (aka adjusting parameters). Symbolic processing involves having an object in memory for things in the real world, and manipulating them. There's s
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In January 2017, several Democrats objected to the certification of Trump's win. See for example https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-democrats-object-mor...
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So then the question becomes "why do many democracies not develop strong and independent, judicial, law making and executive branches, whereas others do?"
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The country is in complete deadlock politically - all of the warlords from the civil war just became politicians and then systematically looted the country. I always wonder why many democracies devolve into politicians just looting the go
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Are the teams high functioning because of that, or despite that?
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"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses". -- Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++
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But that's my point. If the strength of the force is constant, independent of distance, then the farther away quarks contribute the same as the nearer quarks. In other words, distance doesn't matter, whether something's far
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Question for physics types: in a hydrogen atom, each quark feels a force from the other two quarks. But if the force really is constant over all distances, would it not feel an equal, or even greater force, from all the other quarks in the

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