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by n4r9 2y ago
Do you mean that the reporting is less good recently? Or that the opinion pieces have been less smug leftie intellectual recently? Either way I take your point. There's been a lot of fodder for right-wing figures to attack the guardian
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by n4r9 2y ago
The reporting is good. It's more the opinion pieces that are notorious for giving off "smug leftie liberal intellectual" vibes.
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by n4r9 2y ago
Orwell's original essay says: > one should drink out of a good breakfast cup—that is, the cylindrical type of cup, not the flat, shallow type. The breakfast cup holds more, and with the other kind one’s tea is always half cold—befor
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by n4r9 2y ago
Orwell's detail on that point is as follows: > The milk-first school can bring forward some fairly strong arguments, but I maintain that my own argument is unanswerable. This is that, by putting the tea in first and stirring as one
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by n4r9 2y ago
I don't think we have particularly different mugs to what you'd drink coffee or herbal teas out of in the US. This is probably the most common shape you'd expect to see in someone's house: https://i.etsystatic
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by n4r9 2y ago
That comes from a 1946 essay by Orwell named "A nice cup of tea". He published it directly after the second world war when rationing and limited imports were a recent memory. But as you say it broadly describes how we've drun
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by n4r9 2y ago
A* can be tweaked to solve one-to-many shortest paths. You need to be careful about how you aggregate the heuristic function over all the targets [0]. Also, the performance improvements vs Dijkstra would practically disappear in many scenar
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by n4r9 2y ago
We are in agreement. None of this contradicts my original points. You can use BFS on a general weighted graph but you would have to search the entire graph to be sure of the shortest path. That's why no one does it.
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by n4r9 2y ago
> first time you reach a node you know 100% that it is the shortest path As you note later in your comment, this is only true in the case of uniform edge weights. In general you can come up with easy counterexamples e.g. a very long dire
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by n4r9 2y ago
Yeah. And A* simply generalises Dijkstra's algorithm by adding a distance heuristic to the priority expression.
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by n4r9 2y ago
The main criticisms appear to be that the film inflated Turing's contribution to the conception and development of Enigma. "Horribly skewed" seems like a bit of an overstatement.
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by n4r9 2y ago
Other potential reasons: * Making a strong show against China and Russia * Creating a legacy of the largest US territorial acquisition since the Louisiana purchase * Feeling humiliated by the outright rejection in 2019 * Exploiting avenues
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by n4r9 2y ago
Demographic risk pooling makes sense for moderate-risk individuals (despite being ethically horrendous). But for extreme outliers like this, the insurance company has a very high expectation that they're going to lose money in the comi
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by n4r9 2y ago
Well, you could have pulled jurmous up for digressing without accusing them of not reading the article. You're also free to criticise their comment for being emotionally charged, although in this case I would disagree with you.
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by n4r9 2y ago
Public surveillance should come with certain guarantees, though. Like being transparent about what data is collected and how/where it's stored. And purging the data after a fixed time unless it's involved in a case.
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by n4r9 2y ago
Your arguments aren't in conflict with jurmous, though. The article can be thin on details and jurmous could be correct that the EU needs to be tough. I get the sense no one is really sure what you're taking umbrage at. It doesn
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by n4r9 2y ago
Article makes some important points - especially re visualisation and cache effects. Some quibbles or glossovers: > A recursive algorithm is a depth first search. Any loop that explores candidates/neighbors without sorting the candi
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by n4r9 2y ago
Because Russia and Iran are on the other side.
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by n4r9 2y ago
Aahh. I think your extrapolation is indeed correct.
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by n4r9 2y ago
The situation in the UK is currently considered pretty bad by the public, but you can get free on-the-day appointments with qualified doctors who are paid roughly the equivalent of headteachers. Privatisation, middle-men, and private monopo
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by n4r9 2y ago
The film is alright, it's just not particularly accurate.
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by n4r9 2y ago
Still doesn't seem to add up. Consider someone that causes accidents at a rate of £20k/yr, and whose insurance is £4k/y. Either they're insanely wealthy and are paying the repair costs themselves via deductibles, or the
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by n4r9 2y ago
That doesn't make any sense. The insurance company willingly loses money just to avoid the possibility of someone driving illegally?
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by n4r9 2y ago
Hang on, why are brits suddenly being mentioned?
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by n4r9 2y ago
It's good to revisit old topics from time to time.
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by n4r9 2y ago
I think he's saying most people his age need to pee several times a night. Reminds me of being a new-ish parent. Not something I want to revisit in a hurry!
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by n4r9 2y ago
A few months ago our product manager copypasted into a feature squad chat the results of asking an LLM to give some options for encoding route-navigation data for transmission from a server to a client device (both running our software). It
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by n4r9 2y ago
I find this a little worrying from an ethical point of view. The suggestive power of web-based LLMs could be far greater than that of traditional search, and this could well be commercially exploited if we're not careful. With traditio
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by n4r9 2y ago
It's a meditation on the meaning and practise of "rest". I can imagine that wouldn't appeal to everyone. Perhaps it helps to see it a collection of small points.
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by n4r9 2y ago
It definitely heavily implies that creators are - or should be - trying to benefit the wider world.

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