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Reevaluating Google's Reinforcement Learning for IC Macro Placement(newscientist.com)
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
He also wrote the memorable Soul Bossa Nova used in Austin Powers. https://youtube.com/watch?v=FF258xH5bNw The video is not authentic, but it should have been.
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
It seems reasonable to apply to NGOs the same skepticism you would apply to anyone else trying to sell you something. If the same level of fluff was written by a crypto startup, would you accept it at face value?
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
This is gross. > “There was an emphasis both within the [psychiatric] profession and pharmacological companies to make these medications sound not addictive,” he told Psychiatrist.com. Therefore, when SSRIs first became popular, very few
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
> Tor's development team aren't on the payroll of the US gov't, and their funding comes from many sources. That's not serious. From the Tor official blog: > U.S. Government (53.5% of total revenue) > Individual
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
I saw a speculation on r/lebanon: https://www.gapollo.com.tw/rugged-pager-ar924/ I can't find the link now, but it was based on an image of the back of burned pager. Edit: wayback machine link: https:/
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
The WSJ report claims that: > The official said some people felt the pagers heat up and disposed of them before they burst. Sounds more like a battery explosion, but it's way too early to tell.
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
It's Android (TV boxes), not (Android TV) boxes.
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
No comparison to random texts, no test of statistical significance. Any reason to assume this is any better than finding codes in the bible? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_code
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
Wait another week and you'll be fine. Anyone who's ever done keto for any length of time knows that.
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
> But then you have to ask if the institutions doing the application verifications were criminally negligent. That wasn't negligent. It was intentional. Not by the institution, but by the officers acting against the interests of the
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
You must be European. In the US, nutrition facts are per-serving and the amounts are rounded. A single serving of Tic-Tac is less than 0.5g, and therefore it has 0g of everything.
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
Weird, I could swear that I haven't seen that message. Thanks for the correction.
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
The only thing the link contains is a bunch of people claiming that his achievements were built on other people's. Yet not even a single a achievement is mentioned by name, nor any specific detail is given. It's evidence for nothi
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
> Eye color and hair color have been studies pretty intensively and they definitely have models which are more complex than "if you have value Y at position 37 of gene X, you have blue eyes". The way it's normally stated i
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
It would probably a very good idea if you can keep to it. Doing so with mild T2 diabetes could lead to complete remission (as long as the diet is kept). In more advanced T2 diabetes it could lead to significant improvement, and reduction of
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
Weird that nobody bothered to do a simple google search. "Bart, don't make fun of grad students. They just made a terrible life choice."
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
> Intel started using automated place and route techniques for the 386 processor, since it was much faster than manual layout and dramatically reduced the number of errors. Placement was done with a program called Timberwolf, developed b
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
Some people do have six fingers.
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
Sounds like a classic case of Algorithm Aversion to me. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40760962
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
Weird, I have never encountered a single case of aversion to Booth's multiplcation algorithm, quicksort, binary search, DFS, BFS, Miller–Rabin primality test, or Tarjan's strongly connected components algorithm, . Is there somethi
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
> (4) ignorance about why algorithms perform well; Au contraire. It is the correct understanding, born out of deep expertise, that algorithms, outside very structured artificial environements, often do not work well at all. Even provably
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
You can do far far worse than naive optimizing for profit. Optimizing for *REPORTED* profit. People learn very quickly to manipulate the reporting, modeling, and accounting. Just less than two decades ago we had the entire financial system
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
> GPS had no encryption or authentication; indeed, such security is only a recent addition to the L2 frequency. This was a long time ago, but I distinctly remember the encrypted P(Y)-code and anti-spoofing being operative in the mid 1
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
> GPS is very similar in that regard. GPS originated as a military protocol and has some level of encryption and authentication, but this is not available to the general public.
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
Scratchpixel existed way before widespread generative AI. The content is great.
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
> 2. Crucial observation: -x == ~x + 1 To be annoyingly pedantic, this is not simply an observation, this is essentially the definition of 2's complement arithmetic.
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
But a lot of great advice. I became a half decent home bike mechanic through reading it, and of course Park Tool videos.
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
Reddit is a magnificent source of useful knowledge. r/AskHistorians r/bikewrench To name just two. There is nothing even remotely comparable. But you need to be able to detect sarcasm and irony.
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
> It's meaningfully affecting people today near the equator. Look at the April 2024 heatwave in South Asia. Weather is not climate, as everyone is so careful to point out during cold waves.

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