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The Miyawaki Method: A Better Way to Build Forests? (2019)(daily.jstor.org)
166 points by nkurz 6y ago|62 comments
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by nkurz 6y ago
That's a great article, and very relevant. Thanks for posting it!
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by nkurz 6y ago
I'm not sure how it affects your argument, but in the interest of accuracy (and presuming I haven't missed hearing about another controversial documentary) I'll mention that "Cuties" is not a documentary, but a fict
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by nkurz 6y ago
Good to see this getting some traction! While I did start with Usenet, and do remember reading this long-long ago, I didn't post it as a historical curiosity, but because I thought the advice within was still relevant to places on the
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A Primer on How to Work with the Usenet Community (1984)(krsaborio.net)
21 points by nkurz 6y ago|4 comments
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by nkurz 6y ago
How would one go about watching this in the US?
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by nkurz 6y ago
https://archive.is/j5cFq
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by nkurz 6y ago
> A newborn is not one year old. Similar to the indexing question, this is only true for some cultures: "East Asian age reckoning originated in China and continues in limited use there along with Japan and Vietnam, and is still comm
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by nkurz 6y ago
The best analogy is sorting forks, knives, and spoons when we are putting them in drawers. We can throw all silverware together. But then finding a spoon in that pile will take time whenever we need a spoon. The task changes from getting a
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by nkurz 6y ago
While you may be right that the total amount of mercury is not an issue relative to other sources, allergies to thiomersal are a real thing. Here's a page on it: https://dermnetnz.org/topics/thiomersal-allergy&#x2
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The Dark Past of Algorithms That Associate Appearance and Criminality(americanscientist.org)
78 points by nkurz 6y ago|12 comments
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The story of Thunder Bay’s socialist Finnish restaurant (2018)(tvo.org)
38 points by nkurz 6y ago|46 comments
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by nkurz 6y ago
> I'm not sure why anyone uses any other website at all. I'm in the US, and use both http://weather.gov and http://windy.com . I think they complement each other. weather.gov is best for the "fore
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by nkurz 6y ago
Normally, the "flag" text changes to "unflag". If you click that, it undoes the flagging. This does require that you be able to find the post that you flagged. Are you saying that it disappeared when you flagged it?
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by nkurz 6y ago
Great comment, and great accurate explanations of complex stuff! I'm still going to disagree with the conclusion, though. Yes, x64 has to jump over horrible hurdles to prevent instruction decode from being a bottleneck. Yes, this ma
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Avoiding instruction cache misses (2019)(paweldziepak.dev)
69 points by nkurz 6y ago|18 comments
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by nkurz 6y ago
The caching of the random[] array (almost) shouldn't matter, as the access is sequential. I'm wondering if the difference is the the number of active memory channels. How many channels does your respective computers support? Do
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by nkurz 6y ago
> it's pretty clear that the M1 would not perform as well if its decoders were as narrow as current x86 cores This would imply that it's able to sustain ILP greater than 4 (or maybe 5 with macro-fusion). Does it actually manag
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by nkurz 6y ago
> For instance, it's hard to combine instructions together, which is actually an advantage for x86 (the complex memory operands come for free). True, although I just looked at the ARM assembly for Daniel's example, and it'
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by nkurz 6y ago
One could argue that it's not "fundamental", but it's definitely a functional limitation of the current Intel cores. The memory bandwidth of a single core is hardware limited by the number "Line Fill Buffers".
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by nkurz 6y ago
I think the current consensus among experts is that the instruction set is not the limiting factor. Modern x64 microprocessors have a separate front-end that handles instruction decoding. These instructions are decoded to internal propri
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by nkurz 6y ago
> In the early 90's I remember being able to buy 4 whoppers for $1. The simple answer is that your memory is wrong, and that at no point in the 1990's were you able to buy 4 Burger King Whoppers for $1. Other than your recoll
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by nkurz 6y ago
This blog post concludes with an overlayed population-adjusted graph of the Covid death numbers for Sweden and Massachusetts: https://blogs.umass.edu/covidbalance/2021/01/02/why-is-swede... You are right
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by nkurz 6y ago
How does this series relate to the film and other series that have previously been announced? As far as I can tell, there is a movie by Yoozoo that was finished in 2015 but never released: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by nkurz 6y ago
A copy of the article is here in case the site goes down again: https://archive.is/xRdB4
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The case for moving to a red state(scottaaronson.com)
26 points by nkurz 6y ago|33 comments
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by nkurz 6y ago
This could be a good place for that, but it would bolster your case if you were to add some more details. For example, did you conclude that it increased your blood sugar because you wear a continuous glucose monitor and did a self-blinde
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by nkurz 6y ago
If others aren't aware, the somewhat formal sounding "Campbell v. Acuff-Rose" regards the legality of 2 Live Crew's cover of Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman". The Supreme Court held that it was clearly a paro
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by nkurz 6y ago
Thanks, I wasn't really aware of that distinction. I haven't read the decision yet. Do you have a sense of how important the distinction actually is in this case? I assumed the larger question was whether it was "transform
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by nkurz 6y ago
I think a reasonable summary is that the homemade versions are cheaper and actually more effective than most commercial versions, with the downside that they are usually larger and often noisier. The largest factor for effective air purifi

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