mdiesel

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by mdiesel 6y ago
Optimisation isn't the problem, optimisation is always a good thing. Deciding what the objective is on the other hand, that's the tricky part. Right now we're optimising to an incomplete or incorrect objective function. Of co
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by mdiesel 6y ago
Yes, and Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot in Sarajevo to make a specific point, the point had nothing to do with the war we ended up with. It's naïve to say "we were just trying to make the point X, we didn't think it would
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by mdiesel 6y ago
"My kingdom for a horse" being the famous cry of Richard III, though he carried on fighting on foot in the play before being killed by Richmond. When they found his body a few years ago he'd died of head wounds implying that
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by mdiesel 6y ago
My understanding of the belter language was it was partly driven by the necessity to communicate in a vacuum so gestures were also important. Does that feature in the linguistics at all, or is it purely supplemental?
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by mdiesel 6y ago
You're right, and I'd never considered it before. Thanks for the link.
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by mdiesel 6y ago
Ah, you were too young to use the correct image for all testing purposes: Lena Forsén.
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by mdiesel 6y ago
I've got Pi memorised more precisely than 355/113 as well for no good reason, and for engineering applications it doesn't serve any purpose. But the fraction is weirdly close and that's interesting for other (more academ
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by mdiesel 6y ago
If interested then search on github for "voxel" rendering engines. There are plenty of repos, including some with good clean code that are great for learning the techniques used (s-macke/VoxelSpace for example).
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by mdiesel 6y ago
"... slain, after all man’s devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, has put upon this earth." - I suspect this might be a more likely outcome (courtesy of Wells). A single strain or a novel virus is far
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by mdiesel 6y ago
Interesting other take I've seen: The continued fraction of Pi is [3; 7, 15, 1, 292, ...] The 292 is a pretty big number, so at that point the fractional approximation is very good. 355/113 is good enough for anything you're
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by mdiesel 6y ago
"There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to
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by mdiesel 6y ago
There is a history command, with a way to reload, so this would be possible by writing to bash_history from bashrc, then reloading the history I think. Not tested. This is a short guide that is an eye opener as to just how much can be done
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by mdiesel 6y ago
My OnePlus (not sure how widespread the feature is on android) has a Zen Mode, once started you can't use the phone for most things until the timer elapses. A bit different, but good if you want a break.
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by mdiesel 6y ago
It's a sure sign of a public school boy, which I associate more with being posh than being very rich. I wouldn't expect someone from "new" money to wear red chinos.
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by mdiesel 6y ago
Youd spot someone missing an apostrophe missing commas, not making things uppercase, or some other, like, bad english. There's then "Standard" English, where one is expected to utilise the language correctly. Beyond that, you
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by mdiesel 6y ago
Now if we arranged them on a 2d grid, could use 4 cards, then the different shapes (even discounting the similar looking shapes) would get you to >1000. You'd have to allow more than just the standard tetrominoes.
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by mdiesel 6y ago
The answer is: It reduces to a question of permutations. 7! > 999, so we could do it with different arrangements of just 7 cards. Can we do better? Good question...
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by mdiesel 6y ago
For those interested in reading further, the ideal (unloaded) shape of an arch isn't a semicircle, but a catenary. It sounds so simple: so hangs the chain, stands the arch. Took until Hooke in the 17th century before that was written d
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by mdiesel 6y ago
I play village cricket, and the scoreboard has cards with numbers on, then hooks to hang them up depending on the score. The problem is: Given the full range of possible (or at least plausible) scores, how many of the cards do we need for a
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by mdiesel 6y ago
I work with fpgas, but from LabVIEW. NI have put some effort into making the same language work for everything including fpgas, and a graphical language is great for this kind of work. It's so easy that it's quite common to see pe
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by mdiesel 6y ago
I make distinction between dimensionless and unit-less. Radians are a unit, but are dimensionless. You'll end up in a world of trouble if you got rad/s and rpm mixed up.
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by mdiesel 6y ago
In my limited experience, driving across the UK on FM is a pain due to regional differences. A couple of hours driving and I'll need to retune a few times, and my saved stations won't be applicable. DAB solves that minor issue at
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by mdiesel 6y ago
From looking at history, it seems to me that every generation brings about social change, and it starts off being criticised by the previous generation as rebellion without cause, or that its gone too far. So far looking back we've yet
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by mdiesel 7y ago
Digital computers were in their infancy - at one point in that brilliant movie the critical calculations are passed through the digital computer twice and got different answers. Katherine was asked to repeat the calculations and her result
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by mdiesel 7y ago
I really like this view on the incompressibility of a uniform distribution. However, the channel is probably not the same. Just as we moved from AM to FM, I'd expect then that a more advanced civilisation can make further improvements
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by mdiesel 7y ago
I agree, and I think it's an important distinction as sizeof('\0') is not the same as sizeof((void*)0). However, the standard does talk about null characters throughout as being a character code of value zero, as opposed to N
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by mdiesel 7y ago
If you browse the internet, they could know what websites are visited by the same person, but not who they are exactly. If you visit a load of websites, then also log into google, they connect the two and they know what websites were visite
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by mdiesel 7y ago
I can only really comment on UK institutions. The article is talking about between 730 and 1453. Oxf*rd wasn't teaching until 1096, so I think it's fair to say England was behind for at least 300 years. It wouldn't be until t
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by mdiesel 7y ago
It's a fascinating read the complete Le Monde article [0], but there's an extended quote in the second to last paragraph. Google translate gives me: "The gap that has widened between the beauty, the seriousness of the work, a
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by mdiesel 7y ago
They serve the same purpose (optimisation). The advantage of ML is that you don't need to be able to define an objective function instead you just have a data set.

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