nanofortnight

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by nanofortnight 3y ago
Computers are better than humans at poker (DeepStack) and backgammon (eXtreme Gammon). XG for example is commonly used by expert backgammon players to analyse play, much like how engines are used in chess. There is no reason why computers w
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by nanofortnight 3y ago
Because it’s a completely misleading headline. The number of cores in the heuristic used to calculate task switch frequency was capped to 8. This is a reasonable thing to do as a heuristic, because you don’t want your time slice to grow ind
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Dynarmic – An ARM dynamic recompiler (AArch32/64 to x86-64/AArch64)(github.com)
2 points by nanofortnight 3y ago|0 comments
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by nanofortnight 3y ago
Vitamin D is fat soluble, and thus you can overdose on it. High dose frequently is not recommended, and most high dose supplements will have warning labels about vitaminosis.
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by nanofortnight 3y ago
This seems perfect for _Generic. https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/generic
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by nanofortnight 4y ago
This involves a manual left corner transform, so I would probably call this a variant of a left corner parser (LC parser)?
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by nanofortnight 4y ago
C₈F₈⁻ The extra electron makes it negatively charged by -1 (thus an anion).
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by nanofortnight 4y ago
The original was posted to USENET by Ed Nather (utastro!nather) on May 21, 1983.
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by nanofortnight 4y ago
"Communication in the human cortex" seems pretty clear. The abstract is there for an extended summary if one doesn't wish to read the whole article. One cannot possibly understand the nuances of something without reading it;
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by nanofortnight 5y ago
Federated/Decentralised identity/authentication is a solved problem. For example, this is essentially OpenID. Unfortunately this entire concept failed to gain traction.
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Vita3K – 3 Years Progress Report(vita3k.org)
2 points by nanofortnight 5y ago|0 comments
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by nanofortnight 6y ago
Clickbait.
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by nanofortnight 6y ago
Is Little embeddable? This seems like a perfect scripting language for embedding into a larger C application.
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by nanofortnight 8y ago
> into the nose It's not going into the nose, it's going into the jejunum (the intestines) via a nasojejunal tube, which is placed up your nose.
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by nanofortnight 8y ago
Medicine is a field I'm in where learning large bodies of unrelated facts is helpful, since it's a field where having a generalist's shallow understanding of a wide variety of fields is useful. Take biochemistry, for example,
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by nanofortnight 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_algebra Less ambiguously called "Clifford algebras", though Clifford himself prefered the term geometric algebra.
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by nanofortnight 8y ago
Yes, it does, because it is an identical representation to quaternions. Except it actually explains all the weirdness in quaternions without resorting to 4-space. This is because quaternions are a subalgebra of geometric algebra in 3-space.
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by nanofortnight 8y ago
Improper title. 1. This is specifically about non-SCLC. 2. This article is entirely about a downside to receiving PD-1/PDL-1 inhibitor biologics as immunotherapy; that approximately a third of patients develop HPD and should be switc
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by nanofortnight 8y ago
Yes? Very common in Engineering disciplines, for example.
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by nanofortnight 8y ago
"If you don't put your finger in it, you'll put your foot in it" is still a common aphorism. Enjoy your time on surgical assessment when you get to your clinical years!
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by nanofortnight 8y ago
Yes, obviously, if that can be proven to be the cause? Proper criminal rehabilitation and reintegration is very important.
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by nanofortnight 8y ago
Pilot wave theory (also known as Bohmian mechanics) imposes a single-world interpretation.
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by nanofortnight 9y ago
That's exactly it. Atom comes from atomos, meaning indivisible; if you take the literal meaning, it has no constituent parts.
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by nanofortnight 9y ago
Quite a large number of people use C++. C++ is 3rd place on the latest (July 2017) TIOBE index, behind Java and C. C++ sits in a niche wherein its competitors have mostly died out with the notable exception of D and few modern languages thr
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by nanofortnight 9y ago
> I do use git tags but I also include version numbers in my commit messages so that I can easily determine in which version a given commit was published. If we look at a commit on github, I'll see all tags that contain that commit:
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by nanofortnight 9y ago
Pancreatic islet transplantation is already a thing. Islets are isolated and are introduced into the portal circulation. They embed themselves into the liver. This is normally only done in patients with brittle diabetes because of the need
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by nanofortnight 10y ago
That's not actually a bad thing. The first signs of resistance occur on average 1~2 years after introduction of a novel abx; the search for variants helps to extend the usable life of a new family of antibiotics.
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by nanofortnight 10y ago
Teixobactin unfortunately isn't helpful to us. We really really need something that works against gram negatives at the moment. Also note that retrospective studies have shown that first observed resistance to an antibiotic appears abo
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by nanofortnight 10y ago
> Seems like this is time to research how antibiotic resistance is jumping species. We already know. There are four main mechanisms for horizontal gene transfer: 1. Free DNA uptake 2. Phage transfer 3. Conjugation 4. GTA Preventing any o
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by nanofortnight 10y ago
It doesn't violate W^X, because the same virtual memory address isn't writable and executable at the same time.

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