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by sesqu 10y ago
The newsworthy thing was that this was a trigger word or similar ongoing filter that the surveillors wanted copies on sight of, and not a specific email account.
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by sesqu 10y ago
It should be enough to show people that autonomous cars get into significantly fewer accidents. It's quite contrary to fooling them with agency, but it does support the safety-seeking choice of an autonomous vehicle over a manual one.
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by sesqu 10y ago
http://www.kurzweilai.net/beyond-interstellar-new-visualizat...
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by sesqu 10y ago
Did no one raise the possibility of having informative articles on ABA's website? They could/would then be sourced by Wikipedia authors.
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by sesqu 10y ago
> I was thrown off by the expression "quantum observation" because I thought you were talking about the observer effect I admit that the observer effect was the first thing that sprang to mind when I was thinking of how the unc
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by sesqu 10y ago
I was referring to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which states that there is an upper limit to the combined precision of a particle's position and momentum. Bohr's take on this was that the limit is due to these concepts
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by sesqu 10y ago
That's a human doing it. The algorithm just picks a timestamp to screenshot, and before people were allowed to choose their own thumbnails, they would put a single-frame picture at the timestamp the algorithm was expepected to use.
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by sesqu 10y ago
Heisenberg is remembered for his theorem on quantum observation being necessarily incomplete. It's not terribly surprising to find he had a perspective-seeking approach in other matters.
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by sesqu 10y ago
It's because power needs are reported as watts, and impactful devices are typically utilized for several hours. It's much easier to do your monthly utilization napkin math in multiples of kilowatt-hours than of 3.6 megajoules. I&#
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by sesqu 11y ago
Depends on how complex you want. Something like a Prewitt filter is super simple.
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by sesqu 11y ago
You stopped too early, then.
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by sesqu 11y ago
The whole brouhaha over P-values has really been annoying me, specifically because 95% (Bayesian statistic) of the condemnations I've seen have been about people picking bad models until they get convenient P-values, and 5% have been a
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by sesqu 11y ago
Azimuthal equidistant on my house.
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by sesqu 12y ago
Asking for downvotes won't stop me from giving you one more for the arrogant edit.
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by sesqu 12y ago
It's a useful pattern for anything recursive. I even came across it once when calculating asymptotics.
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by sesqu 12y ago
The short of it is that while the second installment is always a challenge, being forced to face the reality of being a sequel instead of a stand-alone story, the successful sequel usually ends up passing the buck by focusing on buildup and
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by sesqu 12y ago
Mass effect 2 was perhaps the best game in the series, but it was a very different game than mass effect 1. While the core mechanics were the same, it was extremely episodic and the plot was flimsy. I recall ME3 reeled it back a bit, doing
108.
by sesqu 12y ago
That question clearly fit the canned reason for closing. It was a homework debugging question on a tight deadline.
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by sesqu 12y ago
There is no need to steal the source code. As mentioned in the article (or a different article?), they can just demand the manufacturer send the source code for NSA review before the government buys any drives.
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by sesqu 12y ago
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by sesqu 12y ago
Combining a thousand networks into one signal is effectively one extra layer (though I don't think human neurons can actually handle a thousand incoming connections). The observation was a comment on how deep a network needs to be to p
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by sesqu 12y ago
I read a few reviews of the movie when it came out. All were positive. The movie may not be good (my personal opinion), but clearly it met expectations.
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by sesqu 12y ago
As with other things, a common way people become mods is by consistently showing up. Attitudes matter less than reaction time.
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by sesqu 12y ago
Change is not the same as progress. A lot of people are against change, for reasons both good and bad. I'm not familiar with the arguments over directory setup, but I'd almost bet money on them centering around tradition. Personal
115.
by sesqu 12y ago
The initial setup fee covers fireproofing and insurance.
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by sesqu 12y ago
They say they do a maintenance check once a year, and replace the server every 3-5 years. Half an hour or so, at the company's expense.
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by sesqu 12y ago
I tried to find a year for which $0.02 in today's money today would be approximately $10, but it turned out that you'd have to start somewhere in the middle ages, and the error bars get pretty large.
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by sesqu 12y ago
No, but GNU and X have. X got virtual desktops in 1989.
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by sesqu 12y ago
To expand on this, the protagonist writes personal letters for other people, not because of penmanship but because of wordsmanship.
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by sesqu 12y ago
I felt Bioshock had the wrong atmosphere. Too many bullets and dark areas to make it feel like an adventure instead of a shooter.

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