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by orbifold 6y ago
Well the alternative would probably be empty food shelves like you had in planned economies like the DDR and Soviet Union. Just in time food production just doesn't work for things that have to start production ~2-6 months before they
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by orbifold 6y ago
Personally I won't upgrade until NVIDIA releases their next CUDA version officially for 20.04. Past experience leads me to believe that otherwise I can run into a few unpleasant surprises.
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by orbifold 7y ago
I imagine reading this article to a uranium mine worker in Namibia.
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by orbifold 7y ago
That is not censorship but removal of illegal content (with the exception of non-child porn)
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by orbifold 7y ago
I had to google the ratio of patients to nurses in various countries, because 2:1 seemed very low. In Germany it is 13:1 under normal circumstances and according to a German newspaper it is 5.3 : 1 on average in the US. So something very
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by orbifold 7y ago
I remember reading about growing these mushrooms online at some point. The article strongly cautionend against it unless you know very well what you are doing. Growing any kind of mushroom has the potential to also grow nasty and very unh
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by orbifold 7y ago
There was a post here a while ago, where someone made money from creating preview videos for podcasts, which contained a FFT like visualisation.
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by orbifold 7y ago
Both C++ and Java are pretty obvious choices aren't they? Both have probably billion lines of code or more investments into them and are the backbone of a huge number of very successful companies.
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by orbifold 7y ago
I think you underestimate how things can go from apathetic to extremely violent in a short period of time. There have been lots of violent (and non-violent) mass protests in several countries of Europe, for far smaller reasons, during last
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by orbifold 7y ago
Yeah no this is not happening, the young people will revolt before that. You can suspend civil liberties for a few months, that's fine, but not intermittently over several years. No way that governments in western countries will get a
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by orbifold 7y ago
There is a pretty nice parser combinator library in the capnproto compiler: https://github.com/capnproto/capnproto/tree/master/c%2B%2B/s... . Here is an example of how it is used: https://
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by orbifold 7y ago
In the case of differential calculus Leibniz (a German) came up with it at roughly the same time and his notation and approach is what actually stuck. In the case of Maxwell's equations it was Heaviside who came up with the vector form
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by orbifold 7y ago
Anyone that ever had close contact to what the UN does, knows that it is a corrupt, inefficient and grossly incompetent organisation, filled with cousins of African strongmen and other connected people. Same goes for people working in NGOs
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by orbifold 7y ago
Well they believed they would see supersymmetric particles at older colliders as well. The problem now is that the Higgs mass anchors the valid range for "natural" supersymmetric models. Last I checked most of those where ruled ou
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by orbifold 7y ago
I actually think it is the same in chemistry, knowledge of which approaches don't work are a competitive advantage that is passed around under the hand. I've definitely observed this is in theoretical physics and pure mathematics,
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by orbifold 7y ago
The interest over time graph uses spline interpolation to connect the datapoints, while that might look prettier than straight lines, it is something that is strongly discouraged in a scientific / data analysis context, because the cur
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by orbifold 7y ago
I've seen M4 used to implement instruction decoding logic (for the POWER instruction set) in a design and to describe a bus interconnect in system verilog. Still not sure if it was a good or bad idea...
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by orbifold 7y ago
Something related is happening with commercial real estate in Germany: Big retail chains like H&M, adidas, Deichmann have stated they won't be paying rent beginning in April (they were forced to close their stores). Ironically demo
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by orbifold 7y ago
There are a few themes that physics revolves around: 1. Action Principle: A lot of problems in mechanics can be boiled down to writing down the correct Lagrangian. 2. Statistical physics, this teaches you about to think in terms of "Zu
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by orbifold 7y ago
None of those can beat it in symbolic computation. You can write entire papers, by simply asking yourself the question: I wonder if this has an analytical integral? If you are lucky Mathematica spits out a solution in terms of a special fun
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by orbifold 7y ago
Just to clarify because it is not obvious from the homepage: This is not actually organized by the government, but by a private non-profit startup funded by the federal government. That makes some difference and now I've given my email
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by orbifold 7y ago
I have puts on a bunch of stocks that target the 52 week low or 10-15% below that in ~3 months. So far that strategy has been wildly profitable. There have been tons of stocks that doubled or tripled in value in 2019, no way that is a reali
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by orbifold 7y ago
All these people working on the foundations of quantum mechanics must somehow have missed the fact that quantum mechanics has been superseded by quantum field theory. Quantum field theory resolves basically all of the typically interpretati
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by orbifold 7y ago
The classical use case is EDA software, which still largely runs on Linux. I can run simvision (a cadence tool) on a large server with ~96 cores and ~1TB of ram and the spawned windows integrate (almost) seamlessly with my multi monitor Ma
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by orbifold 7y ago
I would say that while the above numbers are certainly the current academic consensus, what also is part of the consensus is that this missing matter is interacting weakly and at very high energies. So for all intends and purposes it is mos
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by orbifold 7y ago
In my estimation it is precisely the other way around. There are hardly any applications of blockchains that are not equally well solved by other methods, whereas computer vision alone has a huge number of applications and “neural network”
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by orbifold 7y ago
In my estimation it is precisely the other way around. There are hardly any applications of blockchains that are not equally well solved by other methods, whereas computer vision alone has a huge number of applications.
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by orbifold 7y ago
The smartest people I know are mathematicians or physicists most of them couldn’t care less about any of the historical narratives you‘ve just mentioned.
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by orbifold 7y ago
Grothendieck left IHES in 1970, the second edition was after that. There was a lot of drama in the aftermath, essentially Grothendieck was not happy about how the more advanced material (SGA 4) he lectured on was kept private to the small g
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by orbifold 7y ago
It really is insane, I know people who don't even work for SAP, are "IT consultants", whose credentials are a (very good) Art History degree and travel around nationally and internationally to essentially push a button to do

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