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by merraksh 10y ago
Both fair points, but your link states that cats' killing statistics are perhaps exaggerated, not completely false, and we don't know by how much. My (seemingly incorrect) assumption would imply that even if we remove all wind tur
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by merraksh 10y ago
Adding 100x will still have wind turbines 100 times more innocuous than cats [0]. [0] http://www.treehugger.com/renewable-energy/north-america-win...
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by merraksh 10y ago
Quite a few times I saw that the tailgater got the message when I turned on the four indicators.
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by merraksh 10y ago
I'm genuinely curious about this too. In my uninformed opinion, for a car that's heading toward an obstacle (e.g. car, truck, pillar, wall, lamp post) there are a few possibilities: 1) heading straight while braking: probably the
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by merraksh 10y ago
What puzzles me here is that the SUV flips over after being hit in the right-rear corner by a relatively small car and bumping into the side barrier. Flipping over in a case like this looks more likely to happen to an SUV than a lower-cente
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by merraksh 10y ago
The car responding faster allows for a less steep braking, which makes a rear-end less likely as the car behind you has more time to react (even assuming it doesn't have auto-pilot).
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The Most Popular Language for Machine Learning Is(ibm.com)
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“Dear Major Textbook Publisher”: A Rant(andrewgelman.com)
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How terrible code gets written by perfectly sane people(linkedin.com)
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AirVisual Earth – watch pollution in real time(airvisual.com)
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How to harness Jupiter's gravitational energy?(worldbuilding.stackexchange.com)
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Apple Pins Hopes on iPhone 7 as Profit, Revenue Decline(wsj.com)
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Every LTE call, text, can be intercepted, blacked out, hacker finds(theregister.co.uk)
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by merraksh 10y ago
Two years ago, the drug maker boosted the list price for Calcium EDTA by roughly 2,700 percent. I understand the need for large numbers to wow the reader, but I find this less clear than "Two years ago, the drug maker multiplied the
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by merraksh 10y ago
Fine then, it will remain a claim. I'm sure after today more people will know about ESA :-)
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by merraksh 10y ago
What source exactly do you ask for? Some official poll giving the relative recognizability of European organizations and agencies? Yes. That would give a more accurate figure than my or your limited people network. Your source was having
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by merraksh 10y ago
>Source? a good percentage of the people I know from Europe does. Well, I don't just know people from Europe, I am from Europe. Me too. My "Source?" question is still standing. Computer programmers and geeky types are n
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by merraksh 10y ago
Does NASA come up in presidential elections, mid-term elections, or state governor elections? Given that the US is a federation and the EU is a union, I would not expect European elections (which are parliamentary) to mention that, as each
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by merraksh 10y ago
The average EU citizen has absolutely no idea what ESA is or does. Source? a good percentage of the people I know from Europe does. >Should politicians refuse to do anything that was not in their campaign leaflets? It would be great,
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by merraksh 10y ago
Funding decisions are made by the EU and by member states [0]. Given the executive and legislative structure of the EU and of its states, budget does involve decisions made by elected people. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by merraksh 10y ago
ESA needs to learn a thing or two from NASA about public relations. And then choose whether or not to practise these teachings based on space/weight constraints and the type of mission (scientific, in this case). I'm sure they d
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by merraksh 10y ago
The name of the probe is perhaps a dedication to Giovanni Schiaparelli, a 19th century astronomer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Schiaparelli
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5 Simple Math Problems No One Can Solve(popularmechanics.com)
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by merraksh 10y ago
As said toward the end of the article: We learn from our mistakes, but only if we recognize that they are mistakes. Debugging is a collaborative process. If you approve some code and I find a bug in it, I’m not an adversary, I’m a collabor
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by merraksh 10y ago
Then, as a sort of encore, he published a three-page note in September containing the most famous equation of all time: E = mc2. I can't believe the New Yorker can't typeset superscripts. The equation might be the most famous of
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Comcast Xfinity 3.8/5 stars on Amazon, but 86% of the 870 reviews are 1 star(amazon.com)
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by merraksh 10y ago
Sure, but in combinatorial optimization many heuristics appeared after 1992 (variable neighborhood search, feasibility pump, RINS to name just a few).
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by merraksh 10y ago
A few remarks. 1) Ant colony is one of many nature-inspired heuristics. They are not guaranteed to find an optimal solution. There are very advanced algorithms and implementations that can solve hard problem like the TSP to proven optimal
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Regular and almost universal hashing: an efficient implementation(arxiv.org)
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by merraksh 10y ago
ULONGLONG tableOffset; tableOffset = (l1Index * L1_TABLE_GRANULARITY) + (l2Index * L2_TABLE_GRANULARITY) + startingL3->StartingOffset; I'm tempted to point out that there's some HT

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