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by privong 7y ago
Here's a link for those who are interested in reading it: https://web.archive.org/web/20041204143417/http://www.sics.s... This was archived from http://www.sics.se/~joe/thesis&#
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by privong 7y ago
Okay, thanks for the clarification. I hadn't previously heard what the ultimate reason was.
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Part of the TMT agreement (from 2015) involved removing some of the telescopes[0]. At least one telescope has been removed (the Caltech Submillimter Observatory, CSO) but aside from the CSO I'm not sure what the status is of other remo
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> How much obesity and depression could be prevented or alleviated just by making sure people could get a decent night's sleep? There's some body chemistry where being sleep deprived can manifest itself as hunger. I forget the
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https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local-news/i-team-investi... And HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20438289
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It's been around longer than RFC-1149, dating back to station wagons carrying data tapes in the 1970s: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/20jlv3/n...
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> Just hearing this stuff, I would never imagine this production is profitable. It sounds like NBC doesn't even make money off their re-broadcast of it: https://www.velonews.com/2019/07/from-the-mag/i
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Amazon offers $10 to Prime Day shoppers who hand over their data(reuters.com)
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Science Has a Sustainability Problem(fivethirtyeight.com)
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> The heater required an active internet connection and available bandwidth? My guess is that the heater was being run by the machine that required the update and the update download process meant the machine was not available for usual
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Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20439425
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See Milton Friedman's Thermostat: https://themonkeycage.org/2012/07/milton-friedmans-thermosta...
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> Fly fishing for trout is the standard, but I strongly recommended getting some poppers and trying for bass/pan fish. Same fly fishing engagement but more strikes. Thanks, I'll see if I can give that a shot. I have a fly rig
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> I must be weird. I find fishing, sunning on the beach, sitting in a lawn chair, etc., extremely dull, and last about 5 minutes at it. I'm the same way, but for fishing it depends on the type of fishing. Bait/lure fishing I t
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Cities from scratch: what lies behind the global new cities epidemic?(theguardian.com)
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> Well it wouldn't be cyberpunk without breaking a few rules. The title says _cypher_punk not _cyber_punk. But I'd misread it myself on the first glance.
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Thanks for posting that. I find it odd that the URLs returned by the (test?) API[0] are bit.ly shortened. I'm generally not a fan of URL shorteners because I can't easily see where I'm headed, but it also seems that the gover
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We Can Predict Where Measles Will Happen. Why Don’t We?(fivethirtyeight.com)
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The Greenland ice sheet is melting unusually fast(economist.com)
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The long-awaited upgrade to the US weather forecast model is here(arstechnica.com)
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A similar evolutionary argument was put forward in "Why We Sleep"[0] by Matthew Walker. Its mention in the book was less specific, so I'm not sure if it's referring to the same study. [0] https://en.wikipedia.
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> But in a binary classification setting, that's not how the data would be presented to the model. Instead you would have one row per customer with a churn/no churn label for that customer along with values for a number of inde
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> Those numbers are as you might find them in a dataset from summing with this particular problem. The problem we're looking at here is a binary churn/no churn problem, as opposed to one that looks at how many people churn out
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I think this is minor, but I noticed the example doesn't use error bars for the customer numbers. The customer counts in the product/churn categories are counting statistics, so have an associated Poisson uncertainty. My guess is
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The Surfers of 10th Century China(magicseaweed.com)
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> This sounds closer to genetic programming -- they evolved a program that describes an antenna. Based on my understanding of the paper, the members of the population were individuals which each encoded an antenna design as lengths of w
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One of the neater implementations/uses of genetic algorithms that I have seen was the design of a spacecraft antenna. This is what the GA came with up for the design given the constraints: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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What You Didn’t Know About the Apollo 11 Mission(smithsonianmag.com)
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> Zero people wake up in the morning thinking "I'll just browse for new papers from people I've never heard of." Minor comment, but that's fairly dependent on the field. Every morning I am at work I take ~5–10 mi
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> There are rivaling explanations, one being that you estimated the distance wrong, the other that there is no Dark Matter. Isn't the first one the more likely one you should investigate? If you look back at the original paper claim

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