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by shiandow 2y ago
I mean the initial method is just ((46+23)/2)^2 - ((46-23)/2)^2 so you kind of need to be good at halving to use that method in the first place.
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by shiandow 2y ago
Or you could do ((46+23)^2 -(46-23)^2) / 4 Or one of several similar formulae, but each has its own pros and cons.
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by shiandow 2y ago
CIELAB uses the same Y. Sure they apply a nonlinear function to it, but if all you do is convert to CIELAB, remove chroma, then convert to sRGB you'll get an identical result. The only real difference is what gamma function to use, but
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by shiandow 2y ago
You could have just said 'no'. Equating secrecy of letters with nuclear weapons isn't helping your argument.
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by shiandow 2y ago
So by that token FFOS encryption and software using it should not exist?
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by shiandow 2y ago
Oh thanks! I had one heck of a difficult time trying to find the author and title of 'the glass bead game' by Herman Hesse. It's pretty hard to find with simple keyword based search. Though short comments seemed to score a bi
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by shiandow 2y ago
I guess this is always going to raise some eyebrows, with this amount of money it's hard to say it's not political. However I would like to say that the Dutch privacy authority actually seems pretty sincere at enforcing privacy le
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by shiandow 2y ago
Common sense if I had to guess. Or maybe the app connected to the servers in the US directly.
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by shiandow 2y ago
When there is a decent probability that you may crash the financial system I'm nor even sure if a strictly monotonically increasing function is appropriate.
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by shiandow 2y ago
Lately I've begun thinking that the way maths is taught, with each new concept following on the previous and no real way to revisit older content, just might be why people think there is a sharp divide between people who seem to unders
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by shiandow 2y ago
One possible resolution to that paradox is to recognise that money is not linearly proportional to 'value'.
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by shiandow 2y ago
The Bayesian stance is that you should not care. The frequentist stance is that a test that has a p-value of 1 is the worst possible. My stance is that you should know why to care about either. Oh and that the thing you're calculating
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by shiandow 2y ago
For what it's worth in the Netherlands you have about 1 postal code per 21 addresses. Typically one code is a street or the even/odd half of the street.
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by shiandow 2y ago
In the Netherlands the situation wasn't too far removed from the situation the UK is in now. The postal codes are managed by a private company (PostNL), and while the details are scarce and hard to find there was a fight between them a
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by shiandow 2y ago
The Bayesian approach to A/B testing gives an interesting example of how frequentists and Bayesian approaches can differ. A frequentist approach tries to limit the probability that a test setup will accept a 'false' result, o
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by shiandow 2y ago
This is missing my favourite rule. 0. The directions of all arrows not part of a collider are statistically meaningless.
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by shiandow 2y ago
If you want to make this more predictable you really ought to take advantage of the golden angle. I mean there is a free well known way to assign successive ranges integers to near equally distanced points on a circle, so why not use it?
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by shiandow 2y ago
If there's one thing I've learned from image processing it's that the idea of a pixel as a perfect square is somewhat overrated. Anti-aliasing is exactly as it sounds, a low-pass filter to prevent artefacts. Convolution wit
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by shiandow 2y ago
Netflix at least could easily provide a link. When it is on a fileshare somewhere, is that something Chromecast can handle? If so it will be essentially serving the file from your device, and I see no reason you couldn't similarly ask
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by shiandow 2y ago
Practical or not most default integer types do not support arbitrarily large numbers
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by shiandow 2y ago
What does a protocol for casting need that UPnP/DLNA doesn't provide?
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by shiandow 2y ago
How much are you allowed to take without manager approval?
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by shiandow 2y ago
I'm almost getting it but I feel like I need a step by step explanation. From what I understand the JPY had a low or negative interest rate which made it effectively 'free' or at least cheap to borrow funds in it. So am I cor
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by shiandow 2y ago
Their response may well have been stellar, that just doesn't matter all that much after you've rendered a whole fleet of PC's incapable of starting up.
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by shiandow 2y ago
I prefer Simple Tab Groups for roughly the same purpose, but it took adding some mouse gestures (in particular a simple one to switch to the next/previous group) to really make it useful. Annoyingly firefox is a bit hotkey/gesture
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by shiandow 2y ago
Interesting and very educational article. I do wonder why in the first example of inserting multiple tags with get_or_create_tag the id of 'C' suddenly changes to 4. Were some queries perhaps not run in the order they appear?
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by shiandow 2y ago
True, but the generating functions make it easier to prove that this works, rather than relying on the properties of a particular function (properties that you can most easily prove by reverting to the generating functions).
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by shiandow 2y ago
First time I've seen someone claim you have to go out to eat in restaurants for a bit to build resilience. Here I thought you were supposed to enjoy the food.
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by shiandow 2y ago
You don't need to disable cookies, just make sure that users are aware of what they're doing (which I'd argue is the browser's job, not the website's). If you send people a ticket number do you need to ask their per
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by shiandow 2y ago
When browsers finally step up and start managing cookies properly for once, can we finally get rid of the silly cookie banners? I still find it odd how I'm constantly being asked if I'm fine with a website storing information in a

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