mike-the-mikado

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by mike-the-mikado 1y ago
> it has been considered important to provide 10 and 11 as single characters for pence. I'd not really thought about the issues involved with financial computation pre-decimalisation. Presumably, computerisation was an another argu
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A close reading of the AI fake cases judgement(davidallengreen.com)
3 points by mike-the-mikado 1y ago|1 comments
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by mike-the-mikado 1y ago
"Why it is the very plausibility of AI-generated case law that should put lawyers on their guard"
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by mike-the-mikado 1y ago
Not wishing to be flippant, but I have lots of bits of string that are knotted.
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by mike-the-mikado 1y ago
If this technology becomes common place, what is the future of speed bumps? It seems as if speed bumps are a rather questionable approach to traffic calming, as larger vehicles (which should be a priority for calming) are less affected.
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by mike-the-mikado 1y ago
A more user friendly option would be to separate them into a hardware and a software company. The hardware company would have to publish specs allowing anyone to offer operating systems running on Apple hardware.
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Thoughts Upon Slavery (1774)(msa.maryland.gov)
35 points by mike-the-mikado 1y ago|21 comments
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by mike-the-mikado 1y ago
In all cases, the phone was charging at the time.
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by mike-the-mikado 1y ago
Do you mean "common" rather than "rare"?
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by mike-the-mikado 2y ago
I would have though https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORDIC was the way to go
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by mike-the-mikado 2y ago
Post-natal depression affects many mothers who subsequently go on to have happy lives. Suicide among new mothers has a terrible effect on their surviving family and friends. Anything that can be done to reduce this death rate must be worth
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by mike-the-mikado 2y ago
I recently came across miller ( https://github.com/johnkerl/miller ). I don't know how these tools compare.
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by mike-the-mikado 2y ago
I think this is quite right. The government should get out of the business of building roads and giving them away for free. If they were privately owned, they would be priced appropriately and we would not have all the problems with traffi
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by mike-the-mikado 2y ago
Much of the impact of comedy comes from novelty and originality. We have had several generations of comedians influenced by Adams and Python. Unsurprisingly, younger people who didn't hear them when their work was new do not apprecia
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by mike-the-mikado 2y ago
It's quite likely that he heard the original radio broadcasts in 1978. Entertainment choices were much more limited then and it was very popular, particularly among young people with technical interests.
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by mike-the-mikado 2y ago
If the passengers all ride up hill and walk down hill?
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by mike-the-mikado 2y ago
It is interesting to note that the UK was on summer-time all year between 1968 and 1971. At the end of the period, Parliament voted by a large majority to revert to the previous system. I think this is a case where people only understood t
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by mike-the-mikado 2y ago
Perhaps they know that ADP security is broken. That would justify both changing the recommendation and asking to read it.
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by mike-the-mikado 2y ago
I think that 3 or 4 years is too large a chunk of one's life and education to take on an all or nothing basis. If 3 years of college are good, aren't 2 years of college 2/3 as good? Or more appropriate for some people? The
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by mike-the-mikado 2y ago
In n dimensions, the first derivative is an n-element vector. The second derivative is an n x n (symmetric) matrix. As n grows, the computation required to estimate the matrix increases (as at least n^2) and computation needed to use it i
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by mike-the-mikado 2y ago
We already have hundreds of millions of people on connected electricity grids. Loss of a few interconnections would not lead to catastrophic failure of the whole system.
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by mike-the-mikado 2y ago
In my experience a lot of people "know" maths, but fail to recognise the opportunities to use it. Some of my colleagues were pleased when I showed them that their ad hoc algorithm was equivalent to an application of Bayes' r
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by mike-the-mikado 2y ago
I think the big difference is dimensionality. If the dimensionality is low, then taking account of the 2nd derivatives becomes practical and worthwhile.
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by mike-the-mikado 2y ago
I'd be interested to know if any F1 drivers actually use git.
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by mike-the-mikado 2y ago
Some interesting suggestions. However, from a number of starting points I was pointed as "Songraes", a band that doesn't seem to rate it's own Wikipedia article. I wonder if this has been "fixed" somehow?
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by mike-the-mikado 2y ago
Or perhaps from someone who doesn't think it's useless
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by mike-the-mikado 2y ago
As in Random Access Memory? (I'm not sure of an application for memory that can only be accessed randomly).
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by mike-the-mikado 2y ago
Does anyone have a recommendation of a good starting point, outside the works of Shakespeare?
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by mike-the-mikado 2y ago
I can't see what I should do with my second guess.
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by mike-the-mikado 3y ago
In the 1980s, I would doodle at work when my mind was taking a break. A helpful diagram might get embellished. Nowadays, I would be finding some excuse to check the internet. And I'm less likely to have scrap paper to hand.

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