mikorym

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by mikorym 7y ago
> he’s definitely brilliant enough to do the work That was not the impression I got from him. He did a cheap trick (on his own computer!) that would make a novice think he is Satoshi (he called a variable and then misspelt it deliberatel
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by mikorym 7y ago
For some background reference. Khaki is a word that has its origins (edit: English language origin) in the Anglo-Boer War. The British in all their pomp and ceremony decided to invade what was then the two Boer Republics of the Orange Free
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by mikorym 7y ago
Wait until you hear what happens to the camels.
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by mikorym 7y ago
And when you click in Excel while it is stuck computing, does it prioritise the cell you are clicking on, or could it be that it actually does compute more quickly then?
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by mikorym 7y ago
Now the only thing left is to figure out why Dungeon Keeper II crashed roughly 50% of the time at startup. Don't ask about my procurance of said software; we do not speak of such things. EDIT: And of course, a person who should not be
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by mikorym 7y ago
I don't see why people spend time on this. Someone mentioned recently (or maybe I dreamt this) that programming is really, really much more about the specification than the implementation. If your specification is done flawlessly, then
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by mikorym 7y ago
Yes, all African languages that I know have many metaphors and simile's compared to a proto-English (discounting English loaning from other languages) and these have intrinsic knowledge built into them. For example, in Nortern Sotho: &
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by mikorym 7y ago
I think that knowing a language has many purposes, only one of which is direct communication of semi-objective statements. It's one thing to say: "I am thristy, do you have water?" It's another to say: "She walks in
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by mikorym 7y ago
That's why the toy example is described as "Euclidean".
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by mikorym 7y ago
It is more about studying the universe within a framework than about going through a magic door to other universes. For example, if you take a mathematical group one thing you can do is view every group as a group of permutations. That chan
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by mikorym 7y ago
Yes sure, that's true. But what my toy example does provide a way to understand chirality and what it means to switch chirality. As far as I can tell, mathematics is agnostic with regards to chirality. But we can partition into two set
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by mikorym 7y ago
Barring the terrible style of the article, I think the concept of a mirror universe is not difficult to understand. If we take our three spacial dimensions, and add another time dimension, then we can do a reflection at t=0 and this will pr
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by mikorym 7y ago
I think another thing to take into account is geography. My impression is that there are many international readers that would not consider jobs inside the US. I know there are international job postings as well, but (and I may be wrong) I
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by mikorym 7y ago
Is this possible on an existing house? (And will it break the bank?) EDIT: Okay well of course it should be as this is what you have done already. So, maybe what I am asking is how complicated is the process...
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by mikorym 7y ago
In South Africa everyone is cold in the winter (if you are not in places like the KnP) due to bad designs and insulation, bad clothing perceptions and cultural factors. A guy once told me that they install thermostats in corporate buildings
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by mikorym 7y ago
I don't know the details of how this would work, but I can see rationale in general of compartmentalising and furthermore making each compartment self sufficient. It can easily happen that a department in a company becomes unprofitable
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by mikorym 7y ago
There was a post about Sage not long ago that it is used commonly among cryptographers. As an aside, the statistical libraries and conveniences of R ("missing value" is a data type; every object is an array meaning you can call fu
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by mikorym 7y ago
Whereas this may be useful for a social science class, I don't think it is useful for a more precise discussion. PS: Why call this bottom up vs. top down? That terminology sounds imprecise and confusing to me.
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by mikorym 7y ago
Cool, thanks. I've seen that sampler on my Nord installation disk but I assumed that there would be some level of loss of quality? Or can the output from the sample engine interpolate cleverly and recreate a faithful (or, at least, hig
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by mikorym 7y ago
The two synths were called "solo star" and "hovering machine". They come standard with the default installation.
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by mikorym 7y ago
A while ago I recorded two songs (inter alia) that each used a Logic / Garageband synth. I can't perform these songs live without using my laptop. Currently my setup is with a Nord Piano 2 (which does not use Apple synthesisers an
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by mikorym 7y ago
So can I call it "second year linear algebra" now instead of "AI"?
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by mikorym 7y ago
Where is the finished project pictures? It doesn't look like there are on the thread.
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by mikorym 7y ago
Source [1] is quite an amazing story. Has there been no update from NwAvGuy since that time (25 February 2014)?
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by mikorym 7y ago
In South Africa almost all of our electronics are imported. Given the high amounts of unemployment, the technical recession, lack of secondary industries and manifacturing, the brain drain and scarcity of technical skills, etc., I would rea
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by mikorym 7y ago
I would venture a guess that this kind of construction did not happen in mass historically due to cost and materials? EDIT: (That includes manifacturing cost and ability.) In Britain I have seen that their glass conservatories are quite pop
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by mikorym 7y ago
As a South African, her definition did sort of make sense to me in a social context, but I understand that metereologically it would be incorrect. The amount of months that Johannesburg would require heating I would say is probably 3—4 or 4
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by mikorym 7y ago
TLDR: It's Craig Wright again, move along...
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by mikorym 7y ago
Yes, I think so. Intuitively, how I would like to think of this is that we are getting to this from the Euclidean distance metric. But skimming the proof seems like we use variance (which is defined using squares) as a presupposition.
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by mikorym 7y ago
As someone else mentioned, the BLUE is what we are usually looking for the Gauss-Markov theorem linked tells us why it is least squares. EDIT: I am a bit suspicious though, since the definition of variance implicitly uses least squares. May

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