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by redcalx 9y ago
The main problem appears to be how it would be implemented in practice. We already did the money 'printing' part, but QE as a means of getting that money into the economy has been pretty awful (IMO and by an number of accounts), b
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by redcalx 9y ago
Hmm, it definitely wouldn't be a deposit per bank account, that would be deeply unfair and biased to the extent it would be politically infeasible. The intention, realistic or otherwise, is for the cash sum to be awarded per citizen. Y
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by redcalx 9y ago
Steve Keen suggests that automatic government spending increases in the form of unemployment benefits (and similar) have been a major economic buffer in many countries.
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by redcalx 9y ago
I noticed recently that there are conditional select vector instructions, so e.g. you can implement max(x,y) with an instruction instead of doing a CMP and JMP. When I tried it it was substantially faster than the CMP/JMP approach, lik
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by redcalx 9y ago
You can't settle a tax bill with gold either.
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by redcalx 9y ago
> essentially curve fitting on steroids Biology is essentially simple chemical reactions on steroids. I.e. you have assumed there is a qualitative distinction between biological brains and artificial neural nets that cannot be overcome
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by redcalx 9y ago
Bear in mind that 8000 is the number of nodes accepting connections. There are likely many more nodes connected to the network that are not listening. I base this on the fact that by default each node will attempt to maintain 8 outbound con
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by redcalx 9y ago
Funnily enough I'm only here because I'm waiting for just such an operation to complete. Yeh I'm on here a lot it seems. <sigh>
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by redcalx 9y ago
> for some reason When training a model you're typically following a gradient which may be very small so you want high precision. One a model is trained and you're just using it you can generally get by with very low precision,
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by redcalx 9y ago
Yes (partially). See the table in this article: https://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/anton-shilov/intel-sk...
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by redcalx 9y ago
I assume you already tried this, but here is google's data download page: https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout If it aint in there then I assume it's gone and only the NSA and/or GCHQ will have a
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by redcalx 9y ago
> just as economical to move into "luxury" apartments Come now; choosing where to live is a complex balance of pros and cons for most people, I can't imagine many having this anywhere near their list of priorities.
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by redcalx 9y ago
Yeh I was thinking DPD. Seems to have some bad reviews online but I've never had any trouble, the timeslot thing is accurate and is very handy indeed. The key issue IMO is that the buyer of these services (the merchant) doesn't ca
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by redcalx 9y ago
For instance, there's at least one courier in the UK that gives you a one hour estimated delivery window and a URL where you can check your delivery's progress live. I find this very useful, mainly because I don't have to sit
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by redcalx 9y ago
... because the gradient that is being followed may have a lower magnitude than can be represented in the lower precision.
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by redcalx 9y ago
Any suggestions for a good quality virus scanner in which I can have some confidence in regarding a reasonable choice in how it operates. If I'm understanding correctly Defender runs with high privilege and has a very large security fo
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by redcalx 9y ago
You're forgetting tax on fuel, which at 57.95 pence/litre for petrol/diesel is almost a tax rate of 100%. Unfortunately most of this money goes into the general budget rather than being used to improve transport infrastructur
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by redcalx 10y ago
I imagine the greater concern is the deep integration between the NSA, GCHQ and ISPs in the UK and USA.
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by redcalx 10y ago
I agree. Not unless growth in the last 12 months was similar and still rising (ie. the growth rate was rising) or the growth rate is high than 2.5x. Yeh, it's bonkers.
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by redcalx 10y ago
Huh. On my android phone it's practically unusable. Seems like it's a very large app and thus I think it's causing the phone to run out of RAM (or get very close to).
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by redcalx 10y ago
Good point. There will also be an optimal efficiency speed and power level for a given internal combustion engine, which is more likely to be achievable in hybrid cars where the engine powers a generator and is therefore decoupled from prov
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by redcalx 10y ago
Note there are significant losses in gas turbines, electricity transmission and battery storage. If you burn the gas near to where it's needed then you avoid most of those losses.
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by redcalx 10y ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superalloy
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by redcalx 10y ago
If using mono-crystalline titanium can achieve the same hardness, strength, durability, etc. at less mass then why wouldn't you choose that option?
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by redcalx 10y ago
However, the pure/single crystalline form is potentially strong enough that it would be possible to use less material than for the non-crystalline form.
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by redcalx 10y ago
I assume they're titanium. I wonder though if they use titanium crystals as per jet engine turbine blades?
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by redcalx 10y ago
My initial best guess is that the style of analysis you're suggesting (TV guides, etc), doesn't offer sufficient safety margin in the event that a prediction is wrong. If reducing the safety margin was an option then there are pro
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by redcalx 10y ago
Yeh I'd guess electronic exchange financial time series have a lot of interesting dynamics at very fine detail because of high frequency trading, so it's a very different system than a power grid in that respect. And for the recor
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by redcalx 10y ago
I doubt this will use deep learning though. DL works best at detecting patterns in large quantities of data, whereas the time series data here is limited to just a few years...and the system has changed over those year, and continues to cha
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by redcalx 10y ago
Is there any work showing correlation with Vitamin D status?

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