mikenew

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by mikenew 5y ago
> The contestant chooses a door. If they choose right, they win. Otherwise the host effectively flips a coin and, with 50% probability, the game starts over. Otherwise the contestant loses. That isn't what happening in the first sim
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by mikenew 5y ago
I don't know what to tell you at this point. From the wikipedia article: > Most people come to the conclusion that switching does not matter because there are two unopened doors and one car and that it is a 50/50 choice. This w
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by mikenew 5y ago
Didn't realize that gitlab.com doesn't allow you to view things if you're not logged in. Here it is on github: https://github.com/michaelnew/monty_hall/blob/main/monty_hal... By "the
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by mikenew 5y ago
Edit: Sorry, didn't realize that gitlab.com requires you to be logged in to view things (that's dumb). Here it is on github: https://github.com/michaelnew/monty_hall/blob/main/monty_hal... That
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Here, I wrote some code to prove it: https://gitlab.com/mikenew/monty_hall/-/blob/main/monty_hall... If you have nim installed you can run it yourself with `nim c -r monty_hall.nim`. I ran 1 million
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Here, I wrote a simulation in nim: https://gitlab.com/mikenew/monty_hall/-/blob/main/monty_hall... If you have nim installed you can run it yourself with `nim c -r monty_hall.nim`. I ran 1 million i
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by mikenew 5y ago
Whether or not the host knows where the prize is absolutely makes a difference. There's a reason why it's stated twice in TFA, very unambiguously, that the host is intentionally opening a door they know does not contain the prize.
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by mikenew 5y ago
Maybe I'm just misunderstanding something then? I'm not trying to be dismissive or act like I think I have some special intuition here. It really does just seem straightforward. Imagine the problem this way: The host of a game sho
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by mikenew 5y ago
So the author presents the Monty Hall problem this way (very explicitly saying that the host knows where the prize is an will not reveal it): > You are given a choice of three doors, behind one is a prize. You can choose one door. The ho
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by mikenew 5y ago
FTA: plant protein is also associated with lower mortality. So... more protein is just better? I wonder if strength is part of the explanation. We know that there's a strong association between strength and mortality, so maybe a highe
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by mikenew 5y ago
Covid can't just mutate to become more and more transmissible off to infinity. The likelihood of a new variant being able to out compete Omicron is lower than a variant that can out compete Delta. There's also selection pressure t
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by mikenew 5y ago
I'd love to nitpick and disagree with some of these, but I think that misses the broader point: I'm someone who believes that it would be a huge benefit to the world if desktop Linux were 10X more popular than it currently is. And
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by mikenew 5y ago
From the article: > There are, however, no conclusive studies on humans that indicate an optimal period of fasting to achieve autophagy
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by mikenew 5y ago
I wouldn't think of them as recessed dongles. After installing them I haven't changed them out at all so far. It's more that you can configure things how you want. If you wanted 4 usb-c ports and that's all; just do that
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by mikenew 5y ago
Been extremely happy with mine the past couple months. The little modular port attachments seemed like a novelty at first, but now it feels absurd that you'd buy a laptop with a bunch of "hardcoded" ports that you can't
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by mikenew 5y ago
> the UI is very subtly different to Discord? I use Discord and Element/Matrix exclusively, and have groups of friends that use both. They always gravitate towards Discord for voice. I think there's a couple small reasons that
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Optional Value Handling in Nim(peterme.net)
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by mikenew 5y ago
> Will Apple back out of them or give in? They will give in, at least in China. They currently host all of their iCloud content in China on Chinese servers (and turn over encryption keys), they have banned all VPN apps from the Chinese a
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by mikenew 5y ago
My odds of getting in a car wreck today are tiny. If I wear a seatbelt today it will almost certainly not matter. My odds of getting in a car wreck over the course of years are not so tiny, and wearing a seatbelt makes a big difference.
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by mikenew 5y ago
Not eventually: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/07/cheat-maker-brags-of-...
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by mikenew 5y ago
> There are probably plenty of ways to tell "fake controller input from a bot" from "actual human controller input" today. Only in the "do these movement patterns appear human-like or not" sense. These aim b
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by mikenew 5y ago
Ha, do you have that public anywhere? That seems like it would be fun to play with.
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by mikenew 5y ago
> under the faulty assumption that they're too big for users and consumers to live without them It is, unfortunately, not a faulty assumption. I'm a piano teacher on YouTube, and I'm able to make money there. My entire aud
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by mikenew 6y ago
Do you mean that they come stock running postmarketOS, or just that you can install it?
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by mikenew 6y ago
The Index controllers can do everything other controllers can do + extra stuff. If you play a game that doesn't have finger tracking, that just means you don't get finger tracking. But the controllers themselves work just fine. Th
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by mikenew 6y ago
I've logged over 200 hours in Beat Saber, mostly playing with friends. What you're talking about is definitely a real problem, but the solution is to just have the game rendered to the TV as well as the headset. Everyone sees and
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by mikenew 6y ago
The Valve Index and the Quest have been sold out for just about the entire year. Half Life: Alyx is one of the best gaming experiences I've had in my life. I have witnessed everyone who tried Beat Saber completely fall in love with it
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by mikenew 6y ago
> we’ve actually shown console footage, but never on the last-gen consoles. The reason is that we were updating the game on last-gen consoles until the very last minute, and we thought we’d make it in time. [...] That was not intended; w
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by mikenew 6y ago
AppCode. I used to use it a lot, and in many respects it's just plain better than Xcode. You can one-click install a plugin to use vim bindings, for example, whereas in Xcode you have to strip out the code signature so that you can ins
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by mikenew 6y ago
If you choose to start exercising you will improve your health, full stop. Being stuck in a chair all day isn't good, but there's no need to change your thinking about exercise. They seem to be two independent things. From what I&

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