rhaps0dy

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   by rhaps0dy 9y ago

   I cannot find anything on Google about the "Gaes-Marreau Law" or "gaes-marreau". Could you please link me to something that explains it?
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   by rhaps0dy 9y ago

   But startups usually have more positive externalities than an Everest climb.
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   by rhaps0dy 9y ago

   I guess; I didn't realise there was a difference in the terms.
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   by rhaps0dy 9y ago

   This is so cool! I learned about tilapia when looking into closed-loop hydroponics; apparently they are good at growing in tanks, growing fast, and fertilising the water. (if you look it up in youtube though you will get tilapia harvesting
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   by rhaps0dy 9y ago

   >My thoughts exactly. The information they gained is worth orders of magnitude more. Which information did they gain? The accounts of Whatsapp? If you read the press release, it says that even if the European Commission had known that th
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   by rhaps0dy 9y ago

   What does the author mean by this? "For a company that has attracting pirates built into its DNA, it’s perhaps fitting that it tempted them with the same bait found on pirate sites. Certainly, the company’s history of a pragmatic attit
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   by rhaps0dy 9y ago

   I'm curious, what is usually the cause of code starting to work when it is compiled with -O0?
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   by rhaps0dy 9y ago

   The only difference of using Hy instead of Python are the macros though. What can you do easily with macros that is cumbersome to do with regular Python?
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   by rhaps0dy 9y ago

   PEP 3113 -- Removal of Tuple Parameter Unpacking http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3113/ These seem like OK reasons, but I find myself continuously needing the destructuring idiom in lambdas, while these
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    by rhaps0dy 9y ago

    Iterables are so much better on memory though. I wonder why isn't "lambda (a, b): a+b" allowed?
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    by rhaps0dy 10y ago

    I suppose you can compete with other people on who brushes the teeth more regularly and for the full required time. Gamification of dental health! I think this is a good thing.
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    by rhaps0dy 10y ago

    Jane Street use OCaml https://www.janestreet.com/technology/ Erlang was developed for Ericsson phone switches with a large proportion of uptime. Whatsapp also use Erlang.
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    by rhaps0dy 10y ago

    "My, what a shiny red motorbike." Totally what happens inside of a NN :D
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    by rhaps0dy 10y ago

    I think you hit the nail in the head. http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html I'm ashamed of myself now.
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    by rhaps0dy 10y ago

    >Even for highly parallel workloads like ray tracing, the performance increase levels off at about 20 times. “No matter how many processors I apply, ray tracing ain’t going to go any faster than 20 times faster,” What? That's just n
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    by rhaps0dy 10y ago

    The first bottle of milk I bought in the UK got spoilt without me even opening it. I left it outside the fridge, not realising that you can only do that with UHT.
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    by rhaps0dy 10y ago

    It also implies some sort of pay to win - with more compute you can presumably do search algorithms that act smarter.
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    by rhaps0dy 10y ago

    Is it more demanding than Starcraft 2 or Starcraft without expansions? Why?
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    by rhaps0dy 10y ago

    >Why would I trust that some online coffee merchant I've never heard of isn't up to the same tricks? Because they use "recurringcheckout.com" as a payment processor, which lets you do this.
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    by rhaps0dy 10y ago

    Ready Player One in real life? Hunting eggs.
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    by rhaps0dy 10y ago

    What prevents you from subscribing and then unsubscribing just afterwards? (I don't know, maybe the webpage does, but there's no mention of minimum times anywhere and recurringcheckout has let me unsubscribe without problems in th
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    by rhaps0dy 10y ago

    I didn't do it until now, when I looked at the actual borgs :) https://c.o0bg.com/rf/image_960w/Boston/2011-2020/2012/07/15...
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    by rhaps0dy 10y ago

    > receipt for $4,137.25 [...] by my own standards I had just thrown away a small chunk, roughly 4.3 writing days, of my independence Wow, this person earns a lot by writing o.O
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    by rhaps0dy 10y ago

    Elbakyan! Elbakyan!! :D Also, who runs Library Genesis? Those people could use the prize too!
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    by rhaps0dy 10y ago

    I've now been digging for a little and apparently it was finished! By someone else. https://www.reddit.com/r/theeternalwar/comments/uzm4w/took_5...
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    by rhaps0dy 10y ago

    I wonder how they deal with the change of the mapping from states to vectors h from the CNN changing as training advances. I reckon they _don't_ train the CNN, rather, they use it as pre-trained from DQN or something. In that case, no
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    by rhaps0dy 10y ago

    Which traditional RL methods do you mean, and what kind of comparison? If you mean they are returning to tabular Q-learning, then yes, sort of. They still use function approximation (as required; tabular Q-learning stands no chance of gener
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    by rhaps0dy 10y ago

    Yes, that's probably the point of the maker. To prove that they can do a preimage attack.
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    by rhaps0dy 10y ago

    I just updated! It seems to work :D (I had switched to Sierra but not updated the PGP suite. Nobody I send email to uses PGP :( )
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    by rhaps0dy 10y ago

    For Apple Mail there is this: https://gpgtools.org/index.html I use it (in El Capitan), it works really well, it's the first time I've been regularly signing my messages with PGP.