mike-the-mikado

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by mike-the-mikado 2mo ago
A similar thought (about 1^x) had occurred to me, but I wasn't aware that it was common practice (in some field, at least). Do you have a reference?
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by mike-the-mikado 5mo ago
The Pythagorean addition algorithm is iterative and really quite simple. I'm glad I looked it up: https://blogs.mathworks.com/images/cleve/moler_morrison.pdf
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by mike-the-mikado 6mo ago
I recently implemented something somewhat similar, but from the perspective of set membership. I therefore needed to include a complement operation, so that I could do full Boolean analysis of interval membership. Your intervals are all clo
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by mike-the-mikado 6mo ago
I can't make an intelligent contribution, but I found it an interesting read, and thank you for posting it.
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by mike-the-mikado 8mo ago
Until someone forces you to use a file system that cannot tolerate commas...
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by mike-the-mikado 8mo ago
X makes its money selling advertising. France is the obvious place to have an office selling advertising to a large European French-speaking audience.
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by mike-the-mikado 8mo ago
I would guess that is intended for a daily cycle, perhaps using air source heat pumps at times of day when the air temperatures are higher and electricity prices are lower, then using it as required. As it works on phase change (e.g. think
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by mike-the-mikado 8mo ago
Presumably he is regarded as more sensible than some other candidates that might have appealed to the President.
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by mike-the-mikado 8mo ago
I was hoping that someone would be able to point me to some practical technical advance enabled by discoveries or measurements at CERN (or similar establishments). It seems plausible to me that better understanding of the properties the sub
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by mike-the-mikado 8mo ago
As someone who supports pure science research, I would be interested to understand if any of the discoveries of CERN (and related projects) in the last 50 years (say) have proved to have practical application. (Specifically, "discoveri
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by mike-the-mikado 10mo ago
I sometimes run my MATLAB code under Octave (generally needs some minor tweaks to catch up with a few new features) and while I don't hit bugs, I find it is much slower. I think the MATLAB JIT compiler is probably difficult to match.
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by mike-the-mikado 1y ago
I would look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Hossenfelder before I took this too seriously
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by mike-the-mikado 1y ago
Is that "No, I never open sourced anything"? Or, "No, I have open sourced things, but never regretted it"?
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by mike-the-mikado 1y ago
An interesting game, if you can come up with enough good questions. (At least it isn't telling me which digits are right, but in the wrong place). With a target of 20% accuracy, it won't make much difference, but I think that sym
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by mike-the-mikado 1y ago
> other countries would be wise to adopt that Until they can't import food and can't feed their people
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by mike-the-mikado 1y ago
The Tom Tom data is interesting, but time taken for 10 km is not really an appropriate metric. In a more densely populated city, journeys are likely to be shorter.
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by mike-the-mikado 1y ago
Interesting - I have believed for many years that it was around 17 MPH. I felt that this tallied with my observations - as traffic levels increase, vehicles slow down (increasing total capacity) until it falls to a critical speed (when slo
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by mike-the-mikado 1y ago
You probably have to go quite a long way into answering "is it feasible" type questions, before you can answer "is it cost effective" questions. Maturing a technology will typically take many steps, each with exponentia
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by mike-the-mikado 1y ago
I assumed that optimisation of run-time stopped when run-time on a modern computer was judged acceptable.
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by mike-the-mikado 1y ago
It doesn't need to replace conventional charging. But a phone that gained charge when unused might still be useful - being able to make a call later might be better than never.
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by mike-the-mikado 1y ago
(2016)
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by mike-the-mikado 1y ago
Quite possibly, with a suitable distribution of sites around the UK coast, the total power generation might be nearly constant over time. A guaranteed minimum power generation would presumably be very useful.
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by mike-the-mikado 1y ago
In 1948 it was the 5 Nations, not the 6 Nations (I assume that the question hasn't been rewritten since you saw it)
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by mike-the-mikado 1y ago
For those interested: Ian Fleming (1908-1964), Frederick Forsyth (1938-2025). So roughly a generation apart, but Forsyth lived to 84, while Fleming died at 56 (all those cigarettes?).
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by mike-the-mikado 1y ago
I find it really surprising that a current affairs report of this sort is not clearly dated. I wonder if NPR do better with more recent articles?
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by mike-the-mikado 1y ago
Rwanda was under German, then a Belgian rule. I don't believe Britain was involved.
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by mike-the-mikado 1y ago
Isn't sleep apnea associated with obesity, which undoubtedly has been increasing?
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by mike-the-mikado 1y ago
I think that head injuries are a known cause of dementia (my father suffered a serious head injury and developed dementia a few years later at the age of about 70). It has been implicated in connection with sports injuries (boxing, rugby,
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by mike-the-mikado 1y ago
It may be in Oxfordshire now, but only since 1974. For most of its life it was in Berkshire (until they decided to that the county should follow the M4 motorway, rather than the river Thames).
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by mike-the-mikado 1y ago
That assumes that it does not decay in the landfill. Even if that is true today, I don't think we can rule out the evolution of bacteria etc. (possibly bio-engineered) to feed on plastics.

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