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by ordu 4y ago
> I have no idea how spaces won, and I don’t really care (other than my slight annoyance that I will get over, eventually). Does anyone know? I think, the reason is no one really care. But a common convention is better than everyone
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> A denser rock of iron or similar might be more difficult to divert. May be, or may be not. But I think it doesn't make it impossible to divert them, even if it is more difficult. The idea is to struck it in a carefully chosen mo
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Does clock ticks on Moon when no one there can hear in vacuum?
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Yeah, I can. And you can also. You can try this button yourself. You can ask others. You can try to get light-bulb off, and to repeat all other your experiments. You can bring another button and see how people would act. Any kid can find th
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by ordu 4y ago
> So why we need AI to understand causation when even we don’t have it. We have causation. For example, it is impossible to communicate ideas, for example, without resorting to clear distinction of cause and effect. "To turn light
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I think the article gives us a very shallow take on a problem. The first question should be "what is an age perception". The article even calls this perception a bizarre thing (and I agree), but then it throws the question out of
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by ordu 4y ago
I didn't use debuggers since switched from C to Rust. By the way I switched from emacs to VSCode and I do not know how to debug here. I never used debugger with lisp. Debugging is a language dependent technique.
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by ordu 4y ago
Chris Voss, Never Split the Difference. It is a crash course on a negotiation from an FBI negotiator who moved to teaching business negotiation. Very pragmatic approach, no grand theories, just tools to use and how to use them.
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by ordu 4y ago
> Other than the grand view, it's not very readable. It is not very readable, but it is very searchable. I rarely read Wikipedia articles through, mostly I skim them to read excerpts I need. Map view seems great for that.
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Hydrogen balloon is being put on fire (and a balloon with 2:1 hydrogen-oxygen mixture): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_RKdWYqgu3Y
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> High quality code can simply be defined as code that has few bugs. Unfortunately that's a little harder to measure, but they could've at least analysed the issues for a start. It is nearly impossible to measure directly. On
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by ordu 4y ago
Well, your hypothesis is easy to check, one needs to repeat the study controlling for a dev team size. It would be harder to measure culture's openness and honesty.
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> you generally expect the value of a literal to be obvious, but with floats its almost unpredictable Fractions in positional notations are not exact as a rule. There are some exceptions, but mostly they are not exact. 1/3, 1&#x2F
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by ordu 4y ago
> most bodybuilders go through a lot of trial and error to find the right diet. Scientists sometimes go through a lot of trial and error and fail, despite of using n>1, despite of collecting a lot of data and processing it with tric
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> What's wrong with this? I do not know what happens. Do reviewer really cannot understand, or he is trying Socrates on me? Or maybe he have some undisclosed anxiety issues, and keep himself vague on purpose, because he is afraid
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> Today I would have more strongly made the rather Feynmanesque point that if you have a theory that says everything we observe today is an exception to your theory, then the theory you have isn’t terribly useful. I've found this
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> How long do you think it will take until very large AI models show general intelligence without any apparent failures? No one knows. People do not know how their minds work. Some parts of it were discovered but we do not know how muc
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> It appears, in the commotion all photographers forgot to do what they came for: take a picture. What's a shame. They successfully scared the elephant so she jumped into the river, and forgot to take pictures of the event.
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So the second scenario is at play. 0 is converted into floating point.
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I'm not a javascript guru, but I see two ways how it may work. 1. The right part of equation converted into integer because the left part is integer. Conversion is done by rounding to nearest integer, and it will work this way. 2. The
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by ordu 4y ago
"It's used" clearer indicates what is frustrating than "the writer uses", isn't it? It doesn't matter who uses this technique, it may be the writer, or the editor, or the censor, or whoever, it will be fru
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The booster does seem frosty. I didn't noticed Falcon 9 to be frosty. Is it because of a white paint making it hard to see, or it is insulation at work? Probably not a paint though, because boosters often dirty, covered in soot from ea
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I think, the problem here stems from making vomit draft a social technique instead of keeping it at a personal level. It is potentially harmful if other people can read it. OP describes it as a personal method and it may work by breaking
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It is not unlikely. Why? Because it supports our view of USSR and Stalin. But if this story was fabricated to support our view, then it doesn't add weight to our view. Moreover the possibility of a fabrication makes me want to reject a
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English is not a native language for me, and I'm really not sure what is a correct answer. The question is "how many chairs do we have in a room". But those 19 initial chairs was stated without any reference to "we"
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It is a v0.93 of simulation, which was run a long time ago. Software was patched since and now simulation is much smoother.
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There is helium inside. Very leaky. But, I think, you mean that helium is non-flammable and do not do any environmental damage.
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> I would take it even farther and claim that very little in experimental psychology / sociology has any value whatsoever. You are right, probably. I'm not exactly sure, because "top papers" like Standford Prison Ex
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> And as long as those humans are there you can't really say it's 100% AI, can you? I don't know how real artists do things, but I suspect that at least some of them rely on other people opinions about their new piece of
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by ordu 4y ago
Wow. I always was flummoxed by the first part of the story, especially by the fox thinking about hobbits sleeping under a tree. It just feels to be out of place in the book. An echo of The Hobbit. But if the real story of LOTR started later

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