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by pps43 9y ago
On the other extreme, top Steel Challenge competitors can consistently shoot 5 different targets in 2 seconds, starting with hands above shoulders.
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by pps43 9y ago
When the time comes he needs one, it's already too late to learn how to use it.
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by pps43 9y ago
Like other martial arts, shooting sports have to be different from actual combat to avoid actually killing the participants. Some (e.g., paintball or tank biathlon) are more realistic than others (e.g., sumo).
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by pps43 9y ago
> martial arts in the age of firearms has become relegated to the fringe But also new martial arts appeared such as IPSC or 3Gun. > running in the age of automobiles There's Formula 1 and other motor sports that are pretty popula
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by pps43 9y ago
Semyorka (the first rocket that delivered a payload to orbit) has very little in common with V2. Fuel, staging, control, launch facilities - pretty much everything is different. The soviets did start by copying the V2, but immediately after
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by pps43 9y ago
There are many examples of small data that is distributed, so distributed data is not necessarily big. But big data has to be distributed simply because there is no single computer big enough to hold all of it.
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by pps43 9y ago
A good definition of "big data" is "data that won't fit on one machine". Corresponding rule of thumb is that you don't need big data tools unless you have big data.
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by pps43 9y ago
The other book [1] is even better. Unfortunately, there is no free lunch. Knowing when it's ok to cut corners is more important than how to cut corners, and there does not seem to be an easy way to learn that. [1] https:/&#x2
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by pps43 9y ago
But that's not how you should measure it. You goal is not to minimize MSE. Your goal is to rank movies in a way that users like. So the test would be to randomly split users into test and control, show ranking based on Bayesian averagi
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by pps43 9y ago
The choice of m and C need not be exact. It is enough to choose them so that 1. If there are no ratings, Bayesian average is close to overall mean, and 2. If there are many ratings (how many depends on how big the site is), C and m do not a
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by pps43 9y ago
Technical term is overkill. Just use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_average
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by pps43 9y ago
Charlie Hebdo editor applied for a carry permit and was denied, because France is a civilized country and nobody needs guns. Not even police guards at Charlie Hebdo. In America, he would have killed Saïd and Chérif Kouachi and got away with
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by pps43 9y ago
> what are we supposed to do about it? Kick Turkey out of NATO first. If things get worse, impose sanctions.
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by pps43 9y ago
Let's count the signs. Applying to emotion ("the blood, the pictures of bodies torn by bullets"). Showing only one side of the story (ignoring all the people who were able to defend themselves with a gun). "Rafi Colon wa
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by pps43 9y ago
The fundamentals are still missing. 1. Bootstrap. In order to really take off, AI needs to be able to build better AI. 2. AI needs to be adaptable. Any human go player can play on 19x20 board. AlphaGo (a program that that on 19x19 board bea
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by pps43 9y ago
Self driving cars also offer the chance to dramatically increase that figure. They have failure modes that do not exist with human drivers. Cautious is good.
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by pps43 9y ago
Ok I'll bite. Let's back of the envelope the probability. In the past 17 years I experienced 5 blackouts, so return period is about 1,241 days. Among the cities that were mentioned, San Francisco is the smallest, with population a
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by pps43 9y ago
That's why I said "not likely" rather than "impossible". It's just conservative Bayesian prior. Remember last time nefarious hackers infecting computers at power plants were in the news, that later turned out t
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by pps43 9y ago
Like with birthday paradox, denominator is important. Considering how many large cities and days there are, this might not be an unusual coincidence.
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by pps43 9y ago
Not likely because of Hanlon's razor: "don't attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
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by pps43 10y ago
I actually have not seen any recent cases when a human with chess engine was beating the same chess engine more often than a random chance would imply. It used to be the case before about 2012-2014, but now the gap is so large that a human
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by pps43 10y ago
The key idea of human+computer is that human does strategy and position evaluation, and computer calculates tactics and acts as a safety net to prevent human blunders. A weaker chess engine would still perform that function. Granted it&#x27
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by pps43 10y ago
As early as 2013: http://www.businessinsider.com/computers-beating-humans-at-a... Next year: https://www.chess.com/news/view/stockfish-outlasts-nakamura-... And computers were only getting better
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by pps43 10y ago
I thought people stopped doing Centaur chess when it turned out that human+computer usually loses to computer alone. There are still positions that people evaluate correctly but computers misjudge, but those are pretty rare.
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by pps43 10y ago
Sure it has. For example, 42 is more likely than 48884566544542789. People play rock-paper-scissors competitively and good players win more often than a pure chance would imply.
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by pps43 10y ago
Yes, but why?
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by pps43 10y ago
> potential extinction-level event that continues at Fukushima That's an exaggeration. Even if containment were to fail completely on all reactors at Fukushima, the release of radioactive products would make some area uninhabitable
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by pps43 10y ago
Diffusing the return is actually good for the radar. If all return goes in one direction and there happens to be no radar receivers in that direction, radar won't detect anything. With diffused return at least some of it is reaching th
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by pps43 10y ago
> The problem is that it's likely the first realization you'll have a stealth aircraft is around is when it launches a missile at you. Stealth aircraft still reflect radiowaves, they just don't reflect them back at the sou
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by pps43 10y ago
The version that played against Fan Hui was reportedly trained that way, but if I recall correctly the more recent one that played Lee Sedol did't rely on self-play as much. Also the objective was different - they tried to train a netw

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