redcalx

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by redcalx 9y ago
nitpick: World population is currently about 7.4 billion.
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by redcalx 9y ago
> I guess overall I think this is fair to call a "flaw" but not a "bug." Yes I agree, it's not a bug in the sense of a silly mistake that slipped through development and testing. It's a flaw / attack-ve
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by redcalx 9y ago
Yes it's designed in such a way that in a court of law they could claim they were announcing a bug, but most or many people reading it would come to the opposite conclusion. In other words it's deceptive.
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by redcalx 9y ago
It's kind of semantics though isn't it? If I write a piece of software that follows the spec and fulfils the customer's need, but then someone tries to do something with it that we hadn't thought of and that results in a
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by redcalx 9y ago
> I'd just make sure the server firewalls are super tight and not take in the future patches. At least for now. Good security is about layers. No one layer can be assumed to be watertight, but with enough layers you hopefully get to
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by redcalx 9y ago
> The Skylake/Kaby hyperthread bug has been fixed in microcode and is no longer applicable. It's perfectly safe to run HT on these processors now. Only if you can actually get the fix. My main home PC has this bug and the mothe
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by redcalx 9y ago
Indeed. When you see some of the waste that goes on - whole projects going in the wrong direction and having to be largely reworked. And the people in charge will never admit they made an error in how they set up teams, and that it's t
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by redcalx 9y ago
I completely agree with everything you said.
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by redcalx 9y ago
With 24 bit color you can create an array with an element for each of the 16 million colors and just build the histogram. Running k-means on that is going to be less efficient than just making the histogram buckets larger, e.g. 2x2x2 = 8 co
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by redcalx 9y ago
Depends what you mean by auditable. Not only is the blockchain tamper proof but it is also a public record. So with traditional audit trails even if there are multiple copies you could still have the government seize or modify all copies. W
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by redcalx 9y ago
As I understand it, the central point is that the audit log is tamper proof. E.g. consider what happens in the event that Chinese government officials followed a trail, found the culprits, and discovered a scam orchestrated by a high rankin
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by redcalx 9y ago
On the library front we've used IKVM a few times where there was a java lib that did what we wanted with no equal in .NET land, e.g. Saxon XPath2 would be a primary example. However, with the developer of IKVM stepping down this has cr
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by redcalx 9y ago
I believe gum disease is also correlated with cardiovascular disease.
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by redcalx 9y ago
I don't know of any online teaching material, I think this is because it is a relatively niche and under explored area of research - which is one of main reasons I continue to maintain and develop sharpneat. What has been useful for me
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by redcalx 9y ago
Author of SharpNEAT here if anyone has any questions.
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by redcalx 9y ago
> running diffs of consecutive values https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_encoding
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by redcalx 9y ago
Yeh I forgot that's what I did, it was a while ago now, and I admit the average over entire surface area isn't a very useful number :)
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by redcalx 9y ago
Ahh, I forgot that my calc was based on an average for the Earth's surface - so including high latitudes and day/night. On that basis I figure our numbers broadly agree.
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by redcalx 9y ago
That number sounds high. I make it about 300W for Earth. http://heliosphan.org/solarenergy.html
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by redcalx 9y ago
Or indeed, houses. E.g. postcode database.
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by redcalx 9y ago
Thanks very much. From what you're saying, I wonder then in a hypothetical scenario in which we were 100% confident that all local noise (all non-GW based noise) was eliminated, I imagine we'd be left with lots of actual GW based
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by redcalx 9y ago
My view/experience is that any music with lyrics = cognitive load / distraction.
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by redcalx 9y ago
Any idea what the duration of these GW events is, are we single blips talking microseconds or milliseconds, or a series of blips with distinctive patterns over several seconds/minutes? or something else?
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by redcalx 9y ago
Technically it's not infinite. The sun emits about 10^26 Watts of solar radiation energy produced from the nuclear fusion of about 4*10^6 tonnes of hydrogen per sec, i.e. a 100% efficient dyson sphere would capture that much energy at
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by redcalx 9y ago
Yes heuristic logic can have a role here, e.g. if list has length M and number of passes through it M, do N*M and if the result is over some threshold then make the effort of sorting the list. But a good value for that threshold depends on
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by redcalx 9y ago
> energy per transaction The lightning network may address this specific concern. I.e. bitcoin may become primarily a settlement mechanism for a much less resource hungry payment handling protocol/layer.
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by redcalx 9y ago
Question: Are the resource demands of the entire world banking system a perverse use of resources? If bitcoin supplants a large chunk of that system but in doing so uses less resources overall...?
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by redcalx 9y ago
I'm playing with the new(ish) C#/dotnet vector/SIMD support e.g. Vector<double>.Max() generates a vmaxpd instruction, whereas Math.Max() generates a method call. That method is implemented like so: if (val1 > val2)
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by redcalx 9y ago
CFC ban?
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by redcalx 9y ago
That's not correct. The proposal is a fixed amount per citizen, with the caveat that for those with debts the money must go towards paying off debts with priority.

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