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by nestorD 4y ago
I just tried `I dreamt I was getting a tarot reading of the Hermit, the Wheel of Fortune and the Fool.`. Turns out, the Dream app is already an okay tarot reader! There is a definite business opportunity there...
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This feels like a false dichotomy: while you cannot change your sexual orientation, you can choose to make it more apparent and it has clear benefits for other lgbtq+ people around you (which, for me, gets it out of the selfish connotatio
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Good point. The essay misses examples of what is an inescapable part of one's identity. To answer other commenters: sometimes being queer can be as obvious to others as your skin color (because you are holding the hand of your partner,
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This is the course I used last time I wanted to get up to date, I would recommend.
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I was surprised to discover that several cafés in Berkeley carry kouign-Amann!
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Slavery has introduced a strong evolutionary pressure which has a measurable effect on the genetic mix present in African Americans. Sadly, the subject is barely researched (the last time I checked, the only paper tackling the subject dir
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My big disappointment is that the model does not provide sources and recommended reading. Which is something we can now do and would increase the usefulness of the model significantly.
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The method of loci is about imagining going down a known path while memorizing a list of items. It is an extremely powerful mnemotecnic device (improved versions are used in world competitions and on stage). What you stumbled upon is the ex
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I found that I am good at long periods of focus but tend to have a hard time getting into them without falling into distraction. My current solution is to: - minimize distractions (I mute websites and use an extension to block youtube/
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During my PhD, I had a friend famous for having a pillow on his desk. He would take a nap everyday and went on to finish his PhD 6 months earlier than all prognostications and with some great ideas.
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people loving the idea and upvoting before reading the text (they are still reading) or people intrigued and upvoting in the hope that someone else read and then summarizes the text?
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I was about to recommend it. The UI is lackluster but it doesa great job at collecting sources and taking both currency conversion and shipping into account.
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To be fair, their work is based on alpha-zero which is itself deeplearning on top of monte-carlo tree search, a search strategy. Having played with those algorithms, I suspect that one could obtain similar results with a solid Monte-Carlo t
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People should probably stop saying that rust is about memory safety, its design has impact on a lot of others things (that I arguably, care much more about). > many interacting systems resulting in unpredictable behavior[0], buggy level
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This has dropped all my needs for Photoshop down to zero (I use it about once a month for things that range from tweaking a picture for someone to cleaning up an illustration for a book). It is great, I recommend it a few times a year, and
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This link appears to be dead: > can also run it in colab (includes img2img): https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1NfgqublyT_MWtR5Csmr
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There are quantitative studies showing that TDD has little to no impact development time or code quality[0]. What has been found, however, is that writing code in short increments helps a lot (something that can be caused by using TDD). For
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The large constant problem might not apply here as NP problems suffer from an exploding complexity: you don't need to grow them that much to reach a point where that constant would be a non-issue. Ease of implementation could definit
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It starts terrible (I have read extracts of the first chapters to others and they don't fail to get laughs that the author did not intend) but you get used to its and the writer improves making it a very nice read by the end. Overall,
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She also has a very good blog with further data analysis on the subject: https://knowingless.com/old-posts-full-archive/
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Most of the time you see Rust lose on that kind of benchmark due to it not using buffered algorithm in the standard library (buffers are available and easy to use but they are an option you have to think about and search for).
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By an unmodified solver, yes (we did have a test/train split in case people are wondering after having read the above article).
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Machine learning is not about getting insight into what intelligence is (it might do so as a byproduct but very few people are using it with that goal in mind). However, ML is useful to generalist science as long as you are be aware of
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This is already a thing, LLVM has a JIT interface which is used by the Julia interpreter.
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I see it as a strength, some thoughts come easier in one language rather than the other so I pick the path of least resistance. It keeps me in the flow. It might also happen when writing to other people, in which case I will come back to th
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The paper is very well explained and, reading this post, they seems to mostly make its content accessible to non domain expert.
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There are several options but the Levene test should be appropriate: https://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/eda35a...
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If the authors of the article are reading this: I would also do a test to see if the variance of the two groups (bionic vs normal) is significantly different. I did not check it but bionic might be very beneficial to some and detrimental to
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One thing I learned recently is that some religions[1] do not try to explain the world and its origin. It is just that the dominant religions do so we assume it is part of a religion's definition. [1]: One example would be Gardneri
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It is still active[1] and he goal is indeed for it to be the next borrow checker. [1]: two months ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/ufmzcl/is_polonius_de...

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