ravi-delia

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by ravi-delia 3y ago
They believed you were asking why they thought it might be useful to lobby for a change in regulations, not why they thought there was a regulation in the first place
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
It is funny that our society has the additional threat surface of a guy who really will give you $100,000 if you do This One Weird Trick
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
Plenty of water in space! One of a few things you don't need to bring from home- just mine it up there
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
There's gotta be a point where the cost of running enough fiber drops below a sufficient amount of starlink capacity though. Hard to say where that number is though.
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
pretty much, yeah
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
I couldn't find where he says the powder alone is worse than powder and gel. There is a section discussing how any gel detergent will have at most one out of enzymes and bleach- is that what you're thinking of? The actual test you
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
None that go against the thesis- though there's a lot of additional information that's pretty interesting.
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
They're using evil mode! It briefly interfered with blimpy mode
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
Fine-tuning is usually used to specialize a model. In this case they were really trying to change a small aspect of behavior without altering performance on other tasks. It's not surprising that it worked or anything, but I'm not
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
I mean if you can look at the "expressions" example on the homepage and say the SQL is more readable than PRQL, then more power to you. Hell, actually more power to you, that's extremely impressive. But I think for many peopl
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
That's a really simple example though. I think the real pitch for PRQL is that the syntax is way more regular- the group operator just runs a normal pipeline on each group and multiple derivations with different operations between them
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
They're used to make very compact sets when the number of possible items is relatively small.
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
There is a particular notion of "radix economy" which takes into account both the length of a number compared to its size and the informational complexity of more symbols. It doesn't really have anything to do with data stora
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
I definitely found Python easier to learn, although now I find common lisp easier to use (Commas are terrible, and for what- infix syntax?). But in terms of why the README might say that not everyone has time to learn common lisp, my point
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
Setting aside the fact that naively we'd obviously expect basic python to take less time than basic CL, there's plenty of people who are already working in python. So time to learn python (remaining) is 0, compared to non-zero f
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
Depends on the implementation, but SBCL has all the usual suspects to decent precision. The standard specifies branch cuts and such, and I've never heard any complaints. This is just a backbone for array computations, at a lower level
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
> with exactly the probability you'd expect from pi being normal In this case you win it when you check enough digits of pi that, if pi were normal, the expected probability of finding your string. Probably not gonna happen, but if
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
Most pitches for Everett branches (which are a specific enough concept that it's silly to get all technical, but whatever) hold that there is an amplitude distribution over the entire configuration space of the universe. While the prop
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
Look we know that pi is normal. You know that pi is normal, I know that pi is normal. I'll give you 10,000:1 odds that we find any string you want with exactly the probability you'd expect from pi being normal, and before long you
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
No one has proved that pi is normal, true. But pi is normal. I mean come on! Like just between us, two friends talking, we both know that pi is normal. It'll be a nightmare to prove but I'd put extremely good odds on it. Probably
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
That's not even what the original study claimed to find though! It caught on because it seems so intuitive, yes, but the specific curve of confidence vs. skill doesn't seem to look like that at all.
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
I feel like Crypto generally delivers on what it promises in terms of technology. If I go to investors to found Holebucket to produce the worlds first bucket manufactured with a one inch hole straight through the bottom, it isn't exact
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
Uncle Ted had plenty of time for exposure to lead, there have got to be hundreds of better domestic terrorists for you to choose from
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
Essentially not at all, unless they have a weird enough mutation that they produce some protein unique to them. They're tracking this person because the only thing they know about them is the strain of covid they have. If you have a
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
We would expect other effects though! Probably that's where the hallucinations come from (There are cool articles suggesting that the spiral patterns many see are due to other artifacts being altered by a polar -> rectangular transf
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
var var i<10> = 0!! var var i = false! when (i) { print(i)! i++! } I think this should print 0,1,2 and then stop, assuming checking the condition is a line of code, and that lifetimes are for lines executed and n
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
You could do it with 'const const const' if you don't need it mutated, but perhaps a 'const const var' would serve.
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
Might be worth opening a pull request! Lots of people might prefer starting at something more intuitive, like -0 or NaN
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
My apologies. Please take the first ":" of the first paragraph and replace it with the following string: " is as follows:".
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by ravi-delia 3y ago
Breathlessly approving tone of a language readme: Readmes on Github, especially for languages, often have a recognizable tone. Look how cool this is! Isn't this so neat!? Why would you ever do it differently!? Comedic timing (in text):

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