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> Holy crap, YouTube ads are hot garbage This probably depends on your country. Here in Finland they are almost nice.
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> https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04368 Did you use Nota to write this paper?
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> Self-styled vigilantes attacked the home of a hospital paediatrician after apparently confusing her professional title with the word "paedophile" https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/30/
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> x – model state F – linear state transition model: x(t+1) = F x(t) Q – covariance matrix for process noise, so actually x(t+1) = F x(t) + N(0,Q) H – linear observation model R – covariance matrix for observation noise u, B – external c
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> They all seem to be in the style of 'draw the rest of the owl'. You need a linear discrete-time dynamical system model of your process. With the possible additions of external control action, and process noise. Your dynamical
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> My usual process for making tea is to walk to the kitchen and start the kettle. Then, because it takes an eternity for water to boil, I go back to my desk to wait. Instead of remote controlling the kettle, get a hot water dispenser. In
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Electric cars are good for both aggressive driving (lots acceleration and brake use), and also for energy-efficient driving (almost no use of brakes, slow down by converting speed back to electricity). I wonder which one dominates in city d
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The use of the scientific method.
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> smoking regularly in the same time-span increases your chance of lung cancer by over 20x. But what if you were to smoke only for the same amount as you mention using the fireplace, around a month per year?
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> Well, by definition it is. If given only mean and standard deviation, the normal distribution is the maximum entropy distribution i.e. maximally random distribution.
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> generate realistic driving videos Does it only generate video? Or does it tell you, with coordinates and geometry, where the nearby cars actually are located?
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I understand, low powered red laser pointers are difficult to see for people with color blindness. And the high powered laser pointers are legal only in some countries. A long stick just works.
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> 2015-2019 average baseline. Many European countries have an ageing population, and thus the number of yearly deaths increase year to year. For example Finland in 2010–2019 had about 0.8% increase in yearly deaths every year. If the dea
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> Sweden had negative excess mortality from Jan 2020 to Spring 2021 According to this, Sweden had quite bad excess mortality in 2020 in April and May, and some in June. And then again from mid-November 2020 to mid-January 2021. https:&#
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> Some places never locked down, like Sweden and South Dakota, and their death rate wasn't significantly higher. In 2020 it clearly was higher. Denmark, Finland and Norway avoided the spring 2020 death wave, whereas in Sweden mortal
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> I don't think weakened viruses go through our protein-making machinery (aka code execution) Yes they do. They are live viruses, and they attack cells and hijack their protein-making machinery for making more viruses. But the atten
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> Berlin until about 5 years ago had incredibly affordable housing for such a nice city Berlin, and may I add Vienna, are anomalies. Vienna's population peaked in 1910. Berlin's population peaked in 1943. They were both capital
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This 2004 paper "A new feedback mechanism linking forests, aerosols, and climate" in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics was the first time I read about this. https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/4/557&#x2
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In infrared, green leaves are more reflective than bare soil or concrete.
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> With its updated version of Autograd, JAX can automatically differentiate native Python and NumPy code. Nice. When did they make this change? Here is the old way in the docs, where you needed to define functions for the if-true branch
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> “Unable”? How did this manifest?! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4541501
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> Von Neumann(an Austrian aristocrat) Usually Von Neumann is thought to be Hungarian. Born in Budapest, which at the time was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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> graduate students As far as I understand, in America graduate student can mean both a M.Sc. student and a Ph.D. student.
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The story would be better, if they had kept the real numbers, and not added fake numbers afterwards (maybe they didn't keep notes, and forgot the real numbers). At the end of the story, that 3 millilightseconds is the one-way distance,
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> "everything nice is either illegal or bad for your health" And is known to cause cancer in the State of California.
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Link to full text: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep13977
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> to detect organic molecules in the atmosphere You don't really need to detect organic molecules. If anyone detected 21% oxygen (O2, inorganic) in Earth's atmosphere, they sure knew something was going on. Lifeless planets lik
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> This is known as Little’s Law Little's law lets you calculate the third variable easily, given that you know the other two. You can calculate from existing data . As such, it doesn't help you calculate forecasts . Or you ca
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This relies on the assumption that work time per ticket follows a distribution described by the second M. If you get tickets that require much more work, i.e. tickets that are outliers and not from the distribution described by the M, then
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> If you can gift it anywhere, can you gift it back to Tokyo (for example)? If you live in Tokyo, your residence tax goes to Tokyo by default. You don't need to do anything, you don't need to specifically gift it to Tokyo.

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