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by mjhay 3y ago
Do you have any intuition you could share of why NNs work better in this case?
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by mjhay 3y ago
Plenty of places use DL models, even if it's just a component of their stack. I would guess that that gradient-boosted trees are more common in applications, though.
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by mjhay 3y ago
The legal definition of entrapment is so narrow it may as well not exist.
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by mjhay 3y ago
Good to know that the PA game commission has their priorities straight. PA has a tremendous deer overpopulation problem. You'd think they wouldn't want to discourage hunting with all sorts of ambiguous legal gotchas.
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by mjhay 3y ago
This article may have made sense in the heady optimistic end-of-history days of the late 90's, when climate change and global ecological collapse were not nearly is far along. In 2024, however, this kind of thing is just delusional. It
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by mjhay 3y ago
That doesn't get past the free-rider problem. That kind of thing can also wind up angering some people (which is kind of entitled, but that doesn't mean it isn't real)
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by mjhay 3y ago
Related to this, AlgebraicJulia has been doing a lot with applying concepts from algebra and category theory to data analysis and modelling. https://www.algebraicjulia.org/ There's some blog posts that are also interes
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by mjhay 3y ago
Of course they weren't tied to the steppe. They could leave it. However, they needed to steppe to form these huge empires, and conquer settled cultures in the first place. This is due number of related reasons that are fundamentally ab
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by mjhay 3y ago
The Mongols and the various steppe nomad invaders before them depended on the continuity of the Eurasian steppe though. The long, flat, grassy expanse from Ukraine to Manchuria not only supported their livestock and culture, but functioned
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by mjhay 3y ago
A bit of the pot calling the kettle black here. You still aren't providing evidence yourself while making strong claims. For your points: 1) Yes, immutability can cause performance problems in some contexts. However, it can also help
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by mjhay 3y ago
Don't say things people don't want to hear.
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Whatever you say about the rest of that, dethroning SAP would be a noble goal.
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> Take sweet cream 3/4 + pint. Flower a quarter of a pound. Eggs four 7 leave out two 4 of the whites. Beat the Eggs very well. Then put in the flower, beat it a quarter of an hower. Then put in six spoonfulls of the Cream, beat it
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by mjhay 3y ago
It may or may not be illegal (it probably would be in the case of fraudulently obtained grant funding), but academic fraud is career-ending. It is a very serious accusation. Besides, you are completely misunderstanding how defamation works.
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by mjhay 3y ago
"R" wound up being a terrible name in terms of Google-ability and such, although it can be excused given that it was created in 1993. Csharp and Fsharp have no such excuse, though.
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by mjhay 3y ago
Wolfram's ego is the size of at least two dozen Carl Sagan egos.
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by mjhay 3y ago
Wanting 2.5 million megawatt hours per year (an average of almost 300 megawatts) goes a bit beyond providing a basic utility. Doing that while not impacting other customers would almost certainly require big infrastructure investments. Th
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by mjhay 3y ago
It isn't mutually exclusive. Warming is a major cause of increased wildfires, and poor land use and overgrowth due to fire suppression make it worse.
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by mjhay 3y ago
In the US, usually not - but the US is comparatively spoiled for IPv4 blocks. It's pretty common in a lot of places for ISP customers to share public-facing IPs. This causes all sorts of issues with people being unfairly spam blacklist
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by mjhay 3y ago
You do realize that the first amendment protects individuals from prosecution for protected speech, right? It does not guarantee protection from professional or social consequences. For some reason this distinction is very hard to underst
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by mjhay 3y ago
IMO, it is bad to threaten people with painful deaths. Apparently that is a controversial opinion within this community.
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by mjhay 3y ago
e: should have said "large" not "larger". Ideally as much epoxy as possible is squeezed out.
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by mjhay 3y ago
Con artists seem to often have a psychopathy that even a lot of violent criminals don't possess.
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by mjhay 3y ago
A larger part is the epoxy, e.g., plastic. It being a composite would actually make it worse than just plastic under cyclic heating, because the epoxy and carbon fiber have different coefficients of thermal expansion.
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by mjhay 3y ago
Red Hat gave him a bunch of stock way back when. I'd guess whatever he makes at the Linux Foundation is a rounding error compared to that.
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by mjhay 3y ago
It's done routinely in ships and such. It's certainly much easier than the energy and machinery it would take for desalination.
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by mjhay 3y ago
Why do you need to desalinate it to use it for energy storage? Seems like an unnecessary step that would not increase the gravitational potential energy at all.
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by mjhay 3y ago
The great majority of water usage in California is for agriculture, not "coastal cities." Things like drip irrigation and not growing alfalfa in the desert are far more realistic (and cheaper) than what you are proposing. This is
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by mjhay 3y ago
> The CIA started feeding flawed shuttle designs — NASA rejects — to the Soviet spies, which they passed off as new “improvements.” It worked. Included in the phonies were outdated heat shield designs that could have risked the spacecraf
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The Arrow backend does allow for lazy eval. https://arrow.apache.org/cookbook/r/manipulating-data---tabl...

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