montebicyclelo

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   by montebicyclelo 6y ago

   Excellent write up. I've coincidentally been experimenting with the same thing. Any idea whether this approach could be used to speed up a search for exact solutions?
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   by montebicyclelo 6y ago

   Beautiful! Would be awesome to have as a desktop background.
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   by montebicyclelo 6y ago

   I mentioned that I do this, with gpsbabel on the Garmin thread the other day, but got downvoted. :( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23926528
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   by montebicyclelo 6y ago

   a = how much `thing` benefits community b = how much community values `thing` a != b
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   by montebicyclelo 6y ago

   > ...the latest wave of intolerance began in universities. It began in the mid 1980s, and by 2000 seemed to have died down, but it has recently flared up again with the arrival of social media. > the decline in the spirit of free inqu
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   by montebicyclelo 6y ago

   They tend not to put standard USB in the watch, but connections like this: https://media.dcrainmaker.com/images/2014/06/IMG_3109_thumb....
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   by montebicyclelo 6y ago

   I've recently started processing the GPX data from my (oldish) Garmin watch myself, thanks to https://www.gpsbabel.org .
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   by montebicyclelo 6y ago

   Amazingly, the website has recipes on it that aren't even of British origin.
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   From scratch: reverse-mode automatic differentiation (in Python)(sidsite.com)

   114 points by montebicyclelo 6y ago|17 comments
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    From scratch: reverse-mode automatic differentiation (in Python)(sidsite.com)

    1 points by montebicyclelo 6y ago|0 comments
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    by montebicyclelo 6y ago

    [This is a rough summary of the video, which explains things much more clearly and thoroughly (using animated plots). I have no affiliation with the creators of the video.] The goal is to be able to quickly solve a particular mini-game (Spl
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    We Solved the Worst Minigame in Zelda's History (2020) [YouTube](youtube.com)

    1 points by montebicyclelo 6y ago|1 comments
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    by montebicyclelo 6y ago

    > Those who somehow confuse our “neural network architectures” with the actual biology in our skulls are really misguided.. To be fair, many lectures/books/articles/blog posts on ANNs start off by presenting a biological n
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    by montebicyclelo 6y ago

    Great use of interactive visuals/audio to help explain things. (I look forward to this becoming more common.)
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    by montebicyclelo 6y ago

    I suspect there is motivation for a news organisation not to send users away from their website.
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    by montebicyclelo 6y ago

    Having used a Macbook for the last 10 years, I can confirm that the trackpad feels better than trackpads on windows laptops, Chromebooks, and Macbooks with Linux installed (IMO, that I've tried). However, I think the tracking may chang
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    by montebicyclelo 6y ago

    I've been using Tree Style Tab [1] in Firefox for a while now. IMO it's much better than standard tabs. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta... (To anyone who plans to try
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    by montebicyclelo 6y ago

    Thank you for explaining why you think Scheme is a better langauge for SICP than Python. As a fan of Python, my reaction to seeing this course was: "oh cool, a course on interesting things in a language I'm comfortable with".
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    by montebicyclelo 7y ago

    Seems the author of the article has now addressed this: > It’s been pointed out that you can get something close to this with R1C1 notation. R[-2]C is the cell two columns to the left on the same row. This notation is not as general; for