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by prestonh 4y ago
I'm curious, what sorts of speeds do you mean for "slow"?
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by prestonh 4y ago
La
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by prestonh 5y ago
> The woke disease. Which has also taken our world close to WW3 recently. Reference?
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by prestonh 5y ago
I don't think there's much direct evidence to support natural spillover event other than that much of the initial spread could be localized to a wet market, which may have had vendors selling meat from animals known to carry these
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by prestonh 6y ago
Just restart your kernel if you think something spooky related to state is occurring. This is the number one criticism I see of notebooks, but it is so easy to deal with if you are aware of it. The benefits of being able to rerun an isolate
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by prestonh 6y ago
Why do you believe the next will be worse? Covid is already a global pandemic and will likely reach a majority of the global population before going away.
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by prestonh 7y ago
How does Windows hurt science?
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by prestonh 7y ago
It's because we usually dont multiply percentages, but instead work with normal decimal figures.
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by prestonh 7y ago
Sure, but if we can match that number of fatalities with self driving cars it will inarguably be a success from a utilitarian standpoint.
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by prestonh 7y ago
Given your learnings, how are you going to redesign your engine to have less tightly coupled components?
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by prestonh 7y ago
I got that reference.
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by prestonh 7y ago
I know nothing about cars, but I've been wondering how anything remotely resembling what was shown could pass a crash test. It's going to have to be radically transformed, so why bother even showing a design at this point?
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by prestonh 7y ago
Moving with a pickup truck sounds miserable. Why not just rent a uhaul?
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by prestonh 7y ago
That's exactly what I thought of when I first saw the car.
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by prestonh 7y ago
I agree calling it a success is too rosy, but I think people are really thinking od this as progress, not a regression like the event itself would naively suggest, because the company relies on hardware failure to inform design improvements
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by prestonh 7y ago
I havent researched the orbital dynamics much here, but wouldnt it be possible for the satellite fragments resulting from a collision at orbital speeds to have much greater speeds, possibly ending up in elliptical orbits with lower total dr
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by prestonh 7y ago
This is hilarious, because this is the exact album I'm listening to right now (I've probably listened to it over 100 times...). Youtube's algorithm, for all the evils it does radicalizing people, has led me down a deep music
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by prestonh 7y ago
It seems like the tool was mainly invented to deal with the issue of hidden state in notebooks, but I don't honestly see what the big deal is. Jupyter notebook is a tool with hidden state being a gotcha that you can learn how to deal w
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by prestonh 7y ago
Was there anyone there with you that also saw?
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by prestonh 7y ago
Perhaps you got lucky. Belltown isnt as bad as some other areas, but in my one year of daily walking commutes through Belltown I saw 1. A person OD'd (presumably dead) at a bus stop 2. Someone passed out, face down in the gutter 3. Mul
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by prestonh 8y ago
Huh? People communicate about work all the time in my office and having the ability to initiate conversations fluidly means more efficient collaboration. Fewer meetings, and easier to keep all parties in the know.
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by prestonh 8y ago
Is it, though? If every car that drove that route was a Tesla on autopilot, you'd probably have more traffic fatalities than the national total, and that doesn't even factor in every other similar traffic barrier this can occur at
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by prestonh 8y ago
You're right, I was trying to dumb down p-values to make a point about perverse incentives in academic publishing. What's worse is that other factors that increase the Type I error rate (only positive results are published) only c
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by prestonh 8y ago
What's good for the field (we've decided) is when we only allow a 5% Type I error rate (95% of published positive results are correct). What's good for the individual is to drive their Type I error rate up just enough so that
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by prestonh 8y ago
I get that Musk is a controversial figure and that this event was a debacle, but I dont know how you can ignore SpaceX and Tesla, both arguably the most successful companies in their fields right now by some metrics.
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by prestonh 8y ago
My own experience confirms that article's point (for myself, at least) as a negative example. I tend to, maybe because of my academic background, view the end of a project as always on the horizon, never near. That subtlety in my minds
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by prestonh 8y ago
Depends on your priors for the parameters in the Drake equation.
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by prestonh 8y ago
But the total probability of the event happening "recently" (even if this is a fuzzy description) is far lower than the probability of it happening further away. If there's an event known to occur once in a trillion years and
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by prestonh 8y ago
Sneaky
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by prestonh 8y ago
We could use both to be honest.

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