penteract

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by penteract 5y ago
This is a bit of a tangent, but while it may be conventional to round to the value with the smallest difference, is that convention good? In a case such as this where it's fine for the prescision to vary with magnitude, then I'd a
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by penteract 5y ago
I have an objection to a particular paragraph: > > We understand that nearly everyone who provides material to a reporter is doing so in ways that reflect their worldview, agenda or biases. We have long held that those motives are irr
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by penteract 5y ago
Here's a Heighway dragon (it follows the same idea as your Koch snowflake). It could be shorter if 45 degree turns were possible. rrr@4[a rrr rrr rrr [c@0.5a]f rrr [d@0.5[b cf rrr df rrr rrr rrr cf rrr rrr rrr df rrr]]f rrr cf rr
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by penteract 5y ago
The "would" makes the claim conditional, so you can't get rid of it without potentially changing the meaning.
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by penteract 5y ago
I'd guess that it's related to the sun's rotation - the sun's equator roughly lies on the ecliptic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_rotation
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by penteract 5y ago
The title seems to contradict the content of the research - to quote the abstract of the paper, "Technology engagement had become less strongly associated with depression in the past decade", i.e. there is a link between depressio
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by penteract 5y ago
I've had thoughts on similar lines to the top level comment, by the following line of reasoning: In US and Europe, policies and behavior (such as mask-wearing and social distancing) have become stricter as the number of cases rise and
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by penteract 5y ago
This is very interesting and has helped me understand something I hadn't realised before - if a disease is primarily spread by a small subset of the population(superspreaders), but you assume otherwise, it gets very hard to do statisti
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by penteract 6y ago
Would this mean that either the strong Church-Turing thesis(any model of computation based on physical reality gives the same class of problems solvable in polynomial time as a Turing machine) is wrong or P=NP?
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by penteract 6y ago
Assuming that by "word" you mean a finite string over a non-empty alphabet, then there are infinitely many - only a finite subset of them have mathematical definitions :) .
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by penteract 6y ago
But the automatic single-click selection doesn't fill the X clipboard (meaning it isn't pasted by middle click), so when I want to copy it I have to triple click anyway. Since it looks like it's selected, I frequently forget
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by penteract 6y ago
It's not exclusively sold on steam, so that's an underestimate :).
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by penteract 6y ago
Sorry to be pedantic, but you may be thinking of a group of Dwarves, not Calormenes. There was a Calormene at the end, but he did "see the light".
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by penteract 6y ago
For a JIT, the easy way to guess is to wait until it's already taken 10 seconds and if it hasn't stopped, assume it will take at least 10 more.
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by penteract 6y ago
The article refers to p about 30 times, including in a diagram, so I can understand why they'd pick a shorter name.
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by penteract 6y ago
It's an outlier if you assume nothing's changing, but there are better ways to say that sea ice is generally shrinking than by pointing out that the current year is an outlier. I meant that it doesn't look like an outlier if
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by penteract 6y ago
The more recent graphs https://sites.uci.edu/zlabe/arctic-sea-ice-extentconcentrati... (linked to in that tweet) look less immediately alarming (this year is no longer an outlier), but the general trend is still perfec
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by penteract 6y ago
They may mean that it stops 99% of people.
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by penteract 6y ago
If we would simulate realities different to our own, then it seems possible that we might be simulated by realities different to our own, perhaps with very different computational constraints.
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by penteract 6y ago
Actually, using that method, you'd need much less than 8GB, since a collision would mean you'd hit a cycle, so you could store something like 1 value for every 2^10 iterations. When you found a collision with one of those, you cou
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by penteract 6y ago
It still seems like an overstatement to argue that use of open source licenses indicates a belief that method declarations are copyrightable.
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by penteract 6y ago
I agree that part of the reason open source software is so popular (particularly for programming language implementations) is so that there is no ambiguity about the fact that people can make adaptations/alternatives without worrying a
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by penteract 6y ago
My least favorite part of the arguments was when the US government representative used the existence of open source licenses that explicitly allow copying declarations to claim that it's not commonly believed that such rights don'
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by penteract 6y ago
Does adding them together double count CO2 emitted for goods produced and consumed in the UK?
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by penteract 6y ago
That argument doesn't really work. You supposedly know whether you have "nothing to hide" (and don't dare to admit it if you do have something to hide), they need to look to check this.
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by penteract 7y ago
For a proof of correctness, you can consider the operation of a circuit, treating it one full adder at a time. The output carry bit is monotone in the inputs, so if an unknown bit could affect whether the input carry bit is set, it will be
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by penteract 7y ago
According to the blog post, the effect remains when company size is taken into account.
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by penteract 7y ago
https://github.com/JunoLab/atom-latex-completions is one that does this.
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by penteract 7y ago
Since you want to draw both lands and petitioners, there's an advantage to having a smaller deck, so this probably wouldn't be the case.