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by plafl 6y ago
For the uninitiated like me it's confusing at first the following sentence when deriving the Nash equilibrum: "If first player has a K, because of 1. and 2., he would only lose if he bets. So first player should pass if he has a K
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by plafl 6y ago
Class size impacts at all levels up to college. I think teachers will be the first to acknowledge that they enjoy classes with a a dozen or less students.
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by plafl 6y ago
It seems not all in Twitter is evil after all. I will have to create an account.
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by plafl 6y ago
Certainly not unwarranted! Very cool idea, I will send the link also to my workplace chat. I will have a look but at first sight I'm missing some indication about the expected age of the students.
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by plafl 6y ago
I have registered a free account and the lessons look great. Thanks!
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by plafl 6y ago
Thank you, very interesting point of view. I don't plan to homeschool full-time my children, they love to meet their friends at school! I actually read a lot but nowadays mostly on my phone or eink tablet which is not very visible for
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Ask HN: Any ideas for children education at home?
48 points by plafl 6y ago|40 comments
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by plafl 6y ago
It has taken much more than 30+ years to create, mostly by people on their free time. Isn't it amazing? I think it says a lot about perseverance and good engineering. How many editors have you already seen to rise and fall? Emacs tries
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by plafl 6y ago
On the other hand I really liked the interview. He gives straight answers, no bullshit, no need to read between the lines. It's his own version of it but looks quite sincere precisely because he is not painting himself as a hero, just
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by plafl 6y ago
I will talk about features I do use. My emacs is not very customized for that matter, some keybindings for moving frames and buffers and a few packages: I have not seen something similar to undo-tree in other editors: https://www
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by plafl 7y ago
And gym at home equipment is completely sold out, at least here in Spain, except the very expensive.
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by plafl 7y ago
Your comment sounds quite disrespectful. I would say that they are perfectly aware of what chaotic behavior is.
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by plafl 7y ago
What do you think is the ethical option? If you are positive shouldn't the people in contact with you know it? I'm genuinely asking, it's not a rethorical question. I think they should know they have been exposed to the virus
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Covid-19 statistics by group age in Spain [pdf](mscbs.gob.es)
2 points by plafl 7y ago|1 comments
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by plafl 7y ago
Awesome. I will try this next Monday on a code base at work, I hope it will improve readability. I admit I'm a little skeptical about the adoption of optional typing if it's not going to affect performance but maybe this will chan
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by plafl 7y ago
Lot of people avoid it precisely because of indigestion. The really good siesta is before lunch.
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by plafl 7y ago
I like to question about the models the candidate has used. I'm fine if someone has never used a CNN or another method. For me the signal is whether or not they care to know about the methods they use. If not it usually means that they
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by plafl 7y ago
I would say it's similar with neural networks and real neurons. They are established ways of referring to the algorithms and I doubt the authors of the paper use them in bad faith
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by plafl 7y ago
One of the main benefits for me (I would consider it in the "Ability to work from home" category mentioned in the article) is how much better is the environment at home: I don't need to use headphones to avoid getting distrac
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by plafl 7y ago
Congratulations, it's really cool. It's late here now, I will play with it tomorrow. I actually have a lot of questions! - How well the CA rules "compress" the image against a typical image compression algorithm? - Have
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by plafl 7y ago
It's certainly true sometimes one must do acrobatics to avoid writing a simple for loop. The main problem for me is usually the unnecessary use of memory (I use memmap quite liberally). In that regard Julia at least is able to chain to
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by plafl 7y ago
Machine learning in Prolog... Could you suggest a starting point?
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by plafl 7y ago
Thank you very much for pointing this out. Also very interesting the article about the first person to write about it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athanasius_Kircher
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by plafl 7y ago
I have started to learn Julia recently after some following the news. The addition of a debugger finally decided me to give a try. For the record I have been using Python for scientific programming before numpy existed, also a little Matlab
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by plafl 7y ago
Isn't it the history of computing? We started trying to do some number crunching and here we are a bunch of strangers maintaining a conversation across the globe.
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by plafl 7y ago
You read flags are working OK, I found the article dishonest. I live in Madrid (suburban town to the north of the city) and I think the El Pais article mentioned in another response to your comment is much better, I read it several days ago
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by plafl 7y ago
My first job consisted in updating Visual Basic code behind an Excel file that specified the hydraulic circuit for an aircraft. It was a simplified version of the circuit for use in a simulation that was used to calculate pressure loss base
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by plafl 8y ago
There was a taxi strike in Madrid recently and it seems it improved traffic, according to this: https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/01/31/inenglish/1548938901_32...
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by plafl 8y ago
I submitted a similar story some time ago, although it didn't raise any interest: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalina_de_Erauso
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by plafl 8y ago
Little Schemer first and Seasoned Schemer second. The other ones are about different independent topics and can be read in any order once you have read the first two ones.

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