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by matheist 2y ago
> intended to be sent upstream to the Mozilla Firefox This part is difficult if you actually want those changes to be accepted. I recently had a patch accepted into Firefox. More than three months from submission to merge, including on
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by matheist 2y ago
I've heard it as "If someone goes in, then it'll be empty!"
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by matheist 2y ago
One of my favorite videos of Louis Armstrong performing: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_CnEotIqMKg
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by matheist 2y ago
Take a look at the other reply, which says it's actually not dispersion. My mistake!
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by matheist 2y ago
Very interesting, my mistake! I'm more familiar with acoustics and assumed it was the same phenomenon, but it looks like I jumped to a mistaken conclusion.
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by matheist 2y ago
The waves when the water is first entering the area is called numeric dispersion, it's a consequence of discretizing. It can be mitigated somewhat by smoothing the entering wall of water so that there's not a sharp discontinuity.
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by matheist 2y ago
See also Thompson sampling[+] for a different approach to multi-armed bandits that doesn't depend on explicitly distinguishing between explore-exploit. [+] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_sampling
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by matheist 2y ago
The linked proof doesn't work when the floor is too steep. I wrote about it here: https://haggainuchi.com/wobblytable.html My preferred proof goes through a theorem of Dyson that any continuous real valued function on
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by matheist 2y ago
I've also experienced this. My guess (I don't know for sure) is not so much "so you can't go behind their back and cut them out of a fee", but rather "get you to commit time to them so they have a chance of for
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by matheist 2y ago
I use a vibrating alarm on my cell phone under my pillow (off to the side, not directly under my head). I sleep with both earplugs and a white noise machine, so an audio-based alarm can't work for me. (City living! the garbage trucks c
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by matheist 2y ago
Nice explanation. I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who used to feel negatively about the "SSO tax" and then switched to feeling positive/neutral about it — what changed your mind and why? Vice versa, too. (Not in
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by matheist 2y ago
When I was a kid I enjoyed Kathleen Krull's "Lives of the Composers" -- and it looks like she's written a whole bunch of similar books (e.g. Writers, Artists, Athletes, etc). They're illustrated too.
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by matheist 2y ago
The name has "Colorado" in it but it's a SCOTUS case that turns on the 14th amendment to the Constitution, so it's valid in Florida too.
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by matheist 2y ago
Semi-serious answer: Shapley value ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapley_value ) would provide a "fair" division. Unfortunately it wouldn't be easy to actually calculate. The inputs to the formula are &q
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by matheist 2y ago
New podcast from patio11 aka Patrick McKenzie, featuring Ricki Heicklen. There's a transcript too for those (like me) who prefer reading to listening. On a personal note this topic is nostalgic to me because I learned about trading fro
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by matheist 2y ago
> should i expect the exercise window and % ownership be mentioned on the offer In my experience it's unfortunately somewhat common to not provide this information up front, and more so when it's not favorable. If you're l
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by matheist 2y ago
I've done this myself as well, and for similar reason (not wanting to install additional add-ons). Mine is: https://github.com/nuchi/gmail-inbox-high-contrast-restorati... It restores the appearance of Gmail from
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by matheist 2y ago
Oh very neat, I didn't know about that! Thanks!
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by matheist 2y ago
Transfer function would need to be learned online because room reverberations contribute a lot.
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Continuous Pitch Wind Instruments(glissonic.com)
13 points by matheist 2y ago|6 comments
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by matheist 2y ago
Interesting, see also the glissotar ( https://glissonic.com/ ) for a purely analog variation. That one is more analogous to a fretless guitar (if the linked sax is more analogous to a guitar with adjustable frets).
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by matheist 2y ago
Agree. I think the approach in TFA is like trying to analyze, say, improv comedy via a context-free grammar for English. There might be something there, in the syntax, but it misses a huge amount of semantics and paralanguage.
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by matheist 2y ago
I believe the Discworld MUD had (has?) a short term lease by auction system for player housing. Probably for 15-20 years now.
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by matheist 2y ago
Should be https://www.ommo.co/careers (note the trailing s)
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by matheist 2y ago
. Location: San Francisco, CA, USA Remote: OK Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, C++, robotics, computer vision, ML, ML infra, geometry, signal processing Résumé/CV: (see my profile for my email -- you can find m
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by matheist 2y ago
In the context of differential geometry, π is still π even in the context of non-Euclidean manifolds. The distinguishing feature (again, in differential geometry) of non-Euclidean geometry is that it has non-zero sectional curvature. One wa
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by matheist 2y ago
I've been thinking about this a bit and concluded (surprisingly!) that it is probably not an asymptotic speed up! First thoughts: The memoization algorithm is linear in n, and the repeated squaring algorithm is logarithmic in n, so the
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by matheist 2y ago
To my taste this is not very illuminating, it feels like the answer is produced via a magic trick. My personal preference for understanding linear recurrence relations (and understanding where/why sqrt(5) shows up for the Fibonacci seq
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by matheist 2y ago
Agreed. It's straightforward to check that a token was the argmax, but it seems difficult to check that a token appeared with the probability you wanted it to. You could still do the fine-tuning step I guess, where you train the trajec
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by matheist 2y ago
Looks really neat! I'd love to be able to click on the individual words in the report to hear back how I said it. Also I'm a native speaker and I'd argue with the errors I got :). I think in each case they're valid alter

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