shiandow

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by shiandow 2y ago
It could have, but for stuff you only do once per session that seems excessive. Better to have names that need no explanation, especially for stuff that I think is completely optional.
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by shiandow 2y ago
Yes. Not because it's a good idea but because facilitating learning is their primary job and uploading the slides is generally helpful for all students, including the ones that do take notes. Not doing so because it allows students to
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by shiandow 2y ago
Even so, a set if slides is a great reminder of whatever the professor talked about.
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by shiandow 2y ago
That's been a bit of a trend for the Python build specs. Pretty sure the pyproject toml predates the tomllib library. So for a few versions you had to specify your module in a language that Python couldn't read natively. Which is
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by shiandow 2y ago
In mathematics, if it matters what index your matrix starts on then you're likely doing something wrong. Besides, in the rare cases where it does matter you're free to pick whichever is convenient.
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by shiandow 2y ago
Oh I'll have to test that one. Turns out that the text justification kobo uses is very sensitive to the HTML structure.
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by shiandow 2y ago
You only need to check the actual powers of two. Checking about 10^10 of them is just about doable as vhcr correctly showed. (I mean it wasn't optimal, but 'leave this running for 400 hours' is far from impossible)
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by shiandow 2y ago
The minimal set is trivially connected. Though showing any two unit line segments have a homology between them is trickier.
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by shiandow 2y ago
Still looks a bit dark to me, though the main issue is that webbrowsers simply refuse to display the image in a 1-1 resolution. Edit: Oh and I see you suffer from the patterned runs of pixels that plagued madshi ;-) It's one of the rea
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by shiandow 2y ago
They seem to be using some kind of error diffusion. And getting error diffusion to play nice with linear colour space is nontrivial. I remember I had quite a bit of discussion with madshi when MadVR tried implementing it. You can do somet
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by shiandow 2y ago
Best I've been able to come up with is fractions. Though true fractions are rare (and can be converted to a sequence of integers that can be sorted lexicographically, see continued fractions). Technically floats qualify, but not in a
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by shiandow 2y ago
You can abuse the '>>' notation in python for pipes (or you could use |, I suppose), but you'll have to deal with whitespace shenanigans. I'm also not entirely sure about the order of evaluation. And you'll
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by shiandow 2y ago
In theory at least you could produce the mRNA and duplicate it and use it to produce the proteins. Though I'm probably missing a few steps here. A large part of this seems to be possible though, given the success of mRNA vaccines. Thou
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by shiandow 2y ago
I think those people 200 years ago mostly succeeded by having a very narrow definition of what was considered 'known' to 'humanity'.
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by shiandow 2y ago
Nontrivial yes, but it's not that complicated to figure out that floats are a piecewise linear approximation of the base 2 logarithm. Edit: or base 2^k, depends a bit how you view it.
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by shiandow 2y ago
Depends when you got used to office probably. To me Libreoffice looks more like office than office does nowadays.
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by shiandow 2y ago
That does seem lovely, I might experiment with that at some point. You don't need to make things all that difficult just to get some random looking blue noise though. You can get some pretty reasonable randomized ordered dithering by j
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by shiandow 2y ago
Well really this language just takes the next logical step by removing all but a single symbol. The next one would be () = t, to finally get a language consisting solely of parentheses.
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by shiandow 2y ago
More importantly, what do the AIs think?
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by shiandow 2y ago
Poisson processes are neat, they always end up working nicely in ways that many other distributions/processes very much don't. Splitting a Poisson process into two lower rate processes is a neat trick. Even better is that you can
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by shiandow 2y ago
You severely underestimate mathematicians' ability to cling to older more convenient forms of expression. I imagine blackboards and chalk will be used in advanced mathematics for a few centuries yet.
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by shiandow 2y ago
Probably worth mentioning the moment-generating function as well, since it's a bit more elementary than the characteristic function and shares many of the properties. It's also more simply related to the probability generating fun
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by shiandow 2y ago
A bit late, but if you do consider events with vanishingly small probability to be impossible then they do become equal. It's just that you then have to contend with the paradox that impossible events happen all the time, just not the
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by shiandow 2y ago
It's an oversimplification but at some point there is really no difference between impossible and 'incredibly small probability'. I mean sure it is possible for all air molecules to randomly all go to the same corner of the r
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by shiandow 2y ago
Hard to tell honestly. I just chose to fill in the blanks in a way that made for the strongest argument. I mean a Nobel prize category for advances in computing makes a lot of sense and I can easily name a whole list of people who could q
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by shiandow 2y ago
Well, society would collapse without computers so I think the description is apt. At best you could argue that they're the same phenomenon, but then you might equally well argue electrification is just the consequence of steam engines.
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by shiandow 2y ago
The size and age of the visible universe aren't that different in size though. I mean, they would have to be, the only reason they differ at all is because the universe expands. Meanwhile we measure time in hundreds of millions of mete
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by shiandow 2y ago
It's only marginally different. I can look out of the window right now and see objectively verifiable information that has lead some people to believe the earth is flat. What a belief is based on means squat, it is how that belief ca
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by shiandow 2y ago
Seems to me that it's up to you which license you use, so if one grants the right to fork then there's nothing Winamp could do to prevent that. At best they could invalidate the one license they control, but even that seems iffy
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by shiandow 2y ago
Depends, are you working in cents or whole euros/dollars?

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