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US government is entitled to all Snowden book proceeds, judge rules(arstechnica.com)
79 points by mikorym 7y ago|34 comments
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You can also mention for interest that your scale is actually a logarithm. x + 12 = 880 Hz in your notation. The reason and importance of intervals are due to the harmonic series. Perfect 5th = 3/2 * x (or x + 7 in your notation) Perfe
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Yes. Because of Gödel, von Neumann and others stopped trying to build machines that can prove anything. Of course, following the critiques and further revisions of Zermelo’s set theory by Fraenkel, Skolem, Hilbert and von Neumann, a young
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> doesn’t exactly make me feel optimistic about my prospects of getting someone to listen to me Show, don't tell. I don't know how things work in physics (maybe they need a grant) but in mathematics, if you make a ruckus withou
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I'm not sure what exactly the problem is with measurement (Sounds like it is that physically we don't know what it means?) but current quantum categorical logic research usually does have a working definition of what they call mea
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I think the main benefit (apart from practical reasons) to learn a language is the associated translation of culture that suddenly is not removed by a degree of separation as before. You can think of it as lossless vs. lossy information tra
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I've noticed that some companies implicitly do this. Instead of hiring from the pool of people with the skill they need, they hire someone else with potential and whom they like better. Then when it comes to the job, they don't te
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This explains why there are banners in macOS that say "x is supported by Catalina!" where x is one of the companies using osxfuse.
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The point he is making is that FOSS as an idea is independent from OP's post and thus not necessarily influenced by it.
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After you figure out what to do with the code and vestigial structures of your startup (lots of advice here), what are your plans? A lot of readers are probably keen on owning a business and your reality check can maybe turn into good advic
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Talking about OpenGL, there was something else released in 2002 that a resourceful fan [1] has modified to use OpenGL [2] and it works pretty well. [1] https://verokster.blogspot.com/2019/03/disciples-i-ii-gl-wra..
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Sorry, I should have mentioned that I am not from the US.
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I understand the cost of living issues, and appreciate efforts that try to improve things. Having said that, California is an amazing place with more opportunities that almost any other place. I definitely think that people there have the a
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Alright; a historical artifact that supports that (or any other claim) would be intrinsically valuable.
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You're being downvoted by people who don't agree with you. That doesn't mean that you are wrong. According to dang this is actually encouraged. [1] [2] I don't think it's a good practice to downvote things you don&#
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> Apparently, money is meaningless. I am not going to argue in favour of the banana. But I am going to argue in favour of (expensive) art. If I had only $10 and $1 would buy me food and shelter, then I would pay $9 for a Monet or van Gog
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A cool conversion is a Piper Malibu with a propjet. As far as I understand, the bodywork can handle speeds quite a bit faster than the stock model. Edit: If you buy one of the piston versions second hand. I just checked Wikipedia and it see
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> political And financial!
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I'm sorry but these kind of studies tell you nothing. I've done the "San/Khoikhoi" approach to eat and fast. I've done the "eat small amounts" frequently. All of these have their virtues and under any
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I have some background to understand this (bioinformatics Honours), but am not an expert. What I can say is that the study at this point, if based on DNA methylation, does not even suggest that the effect is of physical contact is positive
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I think the point of ads is to bother you. The more expensive the ad, the more it bothers you. I don't think there is a "solution" (yet) to the ad-as-a-model problem. Edit: The only ad I see there is for their book. Maybe try
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Reminds me of an anecdate from South America: "This is not like Europe, if you see a river in a city on the map, it is not a river, it is a sewage storm drain."
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I think they are one trick ponies (evaluting risk in insurance, pensions and medical funds) that can't appreciate why 0^0 = 1, and if they do, would rather make money for the time it takes to explain. But, to not sound like a completel
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> It's a bit like solving FizzBuzz with Tensorflow I had to wiki that, but it's a good point. The first thing about NN that interested me, rather than images or audio or anything like that, is that a one level NN (IIRC) can app
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Or PyCharm, or Eclipse, or ... It like asking what do the cool kids code in? And happily, one prudent quora.com user answered: "Smalltalk!" [1] [1] https://www.quora.com/Which-should-be-my-first-programming-l... .
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I think you should use the environment that makes you the most productive (and happiest). For me that is vim. But I also have the questionable (and questioned) opinion that, for that matter, you can write a state of the art program in Fortr
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Until you go on holiday or buy online...
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Great! This means that I was right when I mentioned to a co-worker that Excel (and its filtering) would have an intersting implementation underneath (from my category theoretic perspective). In fact, I am quite interested to understand th
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But in this case, is it mastery? To me, mastery would be if you can use mathematics to trivialise an implimentation in a counter intuitive way. I understand that this is a different kind of mastery. But does the essay write code that is a s
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>> to make the quadratic equations easy They mean: to make the quadratic equation easy to remember. However, I don't think this will have any impact on the average high school student. The key is: >> Loh points out that the

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