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901.
by phreeza 7y ago
A logistic curve looks exponential until it doesn't. There is no telling just from looking at this when it will plateau.
902.
Cities have a negative impact on navigation ability: evidence from 38 countries(biorxiv.org)
3 points by phreeza 7y ago|0 comments
903.
by phreeza 7y ago
If you want to do something like DDG, proxying some other search engines results, a point of reference could be Ecosia, which publishes financial reports. It looks like they operate on somewhere in the range of 12M/year. https:/&
904.
by phreeza 7y ago
My understanding is that this would only make sense for satellites in the same orbital plane as the debris.
905.
Eight centuries of global real interest rates(bankofengland.co.uk)
2 points by phreeza 7y ago|0 comments
906.
by phreeza 7y ago
It happened to Concorde?
907.
by phreeza 7y ago
I wouldn't discard the bandwidth of EEG so quickly. Clinical EEG has low bandwidth (<100 Hz), but in principle you can get up to the kHz range, enough to pick up individual neuron activity. Of course you will pick up mix of many neu
908.
by phreeza 7y ago
Very easy to get SIM cards in Iran when I was there some months ago.
909.
by phreeza 7y ago
In Germany, people generally do ignore red lights when there are no cars around. The big exception is when kids are present. Crossing a red light when a kid is watching you can get you reprimand by strangers, or will earn you dirty looks at
910.
by phreeza 7y ago
> Fact is SAS and Lufthansa used to do more than the mandatory pilot training Citation needed?
911.
by phreeza 7y ago
The alternative would be calling it something like stochastic methods, which would probably be even more confusing. Monte Carlo is a convenient term to make it clear the stochastic part is in the method itself, and not in the measurements o
912.
by phreeza 7y ago
Maybe something like K-BERT, the idea is simple enough, and can leverage pretrained transformer models. https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.07606
913.
by phreeza 7y ago
That is a EC, not an ICE, I think. Often full with drunk tourists sadly.
914.
by phreeza 7y ago
Maybe the franchisees could buy the brand and set up a coop with an app? Not sure what the main value proposition for the franchisees is, is it the customer stream or does Supershuttle have some kind of important infrastructure at the airpo
915.
by phreeza 7y ago
Trondheim?
916.
by phreeza 7y ago
You can't control for your dependent variable.
917.
by phreeza 7y ago
Non-hydro renewables overtook hydro a couple of years ago in the US, and are on track to overtake nuclear, too, in a couple more years. https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/images/Fig34.png
918.
by phreeza 7y ago
Could people who plan to return to earth live in large centrifuges?
919.
by phreeza 7y ago
To do what?
920.
by phreeza 7y ago
XLnet is Bert with a bunch of additional training tricks.
921.
by phreeza 7y ago
Or a play to increase stock price?
922.
by phreeza 7y ago
Reminds me of this article, which I think was also discussed on HN https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2012/03/08/halls-law-the-nineteen...
923.
by phreeza 7y ago
Something similar happened to me once when submitting a scientific paper. The publisher merged a line number into the number I was trying to write. Caught it in the proofs, luckily.
924.
Honoring Petrov Day(lesswrong.com)
1 points by phreeza 7y ago|0 comments
925.
by phreeza 7y ago
Oh man, growing up I had a book of aeroplanes, with diagrams and stats for hundreds of planes that I would obsess over. But the editors did a very cruel thing which was putting a photo of the YF-23 on the cover, but the plane was not in the
926.
The First Practical Uses of Underwater Acoustics: The Early 1900s(dosits.org)
1 points by phreeza 7y ago|0 comments
927.
by phreeza 7y ago
When was this moment, sometime briefly after the invention of agriculture?
928.
Did 'Vertigo' Introduce Computer Graphics to Cinema?(rhizome.org)
2 points by phreeza 7y ago|0 comments
929.
by phreeza 7y ago
Those multiple comparisons are quite obvious from the text, so a rigorous reviewer may have asked them to do a Bonferroni correction. Not sure if this was the case though.
930.
The Great Silence (Ted Chiang)(m.nautil.us)
6 points by phreeza 7y ago|0 comments

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