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by shoo 6y ago
It's a blur operation. Blurs are often defined as transforming input function by convolving it with some kernel function (often a Gaussian, see the Wikipedia page on Gaussian blur, similar idea holds for blurring 1d, 2d, 3d, nd signals
902.
by shoo 6y ago
> "I'd argue the smoothstep version looks better" Why would this be? I would have thought the theoretically correct sinc version would look nicer. For a fixed well-defined mathematical problem, you might be able to solve i
903.
by shoo 6y ago
It's the difference between stocks versus flows: the flow has been negative for the last 40 years, depleting stocks accumulated over the last n hundred million years. Earth overshoot day is defined from the imbalance in flows, it doesn
904.
by shoo 6y ago
The Economist's weekly US election podcast "Checks & Balance" interviewed Elliott Morris about election modelling & this model: https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2020/06/12/modelle
905.
by shoo 6y ago
this way of framing things is only valid if outcomes of events are somewhat linear, but in real life this isn't true at all: some uninsured bad events can wipe you out completely, whereas insured bad events might not wipe you out. it d
906.
by shoo 6y ago
"efficiency erodes resilience" is a good line, at a loss of symmetry. resilience also erodes efficiency.
907.
by shoo 6y ago
agreed. the two objectives of efficiency and robustness are not necessarily in conflict in all situations, but if you start trying to optimise a given system focusing on only one objective, the other one may degrade arbitrarily. better to d
908.
by shoo 6y ago
how about this: the scary part is when the individual nodes are rigged to be able to operate autonomously, and are able to elect new leaders or form consensus with peers and select new mission objectives as required by the situation if the
909.
by shoo 6y ago
You need to rebalance if the stocks included in your top 5 index change, i.e. if some new stock displaces one of your original 5. Otherwise you've got a fund of 5 stocks chosen by some metric on historical date blah -- which may be a r
910.
by shoo 6y ago
The real trick would be if you could select the 5 stocks to include in the fund based on the largest future price appreciation rather than something simple such as the top 5 stocks with largest market cap.
911.
by shoo 6y ago
I once paid for legal advice about a non compete & received advice that it was worded as too broad to be enforceable or that it likely would be diluted & reduced in scope if it ever ended up in court. So getting individual advice is
912.
by shoo 6y ago
> christianity has an inbuilt awareness about the scapegoat mechanism [...] if you understand this mechanism you don't tend to fall into it [...] therefore the west became almost immune to this self created violence leaving aside th
913.
by shoo 6y ago
No big gnarly teeth, but re: the sibling comments, searching "dazzle cows" reveals https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figures?id=10.1371... sadly not genuine dazzle camo but in the ballpark
914.
by shoo 6y ago
https://www.coursera.org/learn/discrete-optimization > This class is an introduction to discrete optimization and exposes students to some of the most fundamental concepts and algorithms in the field. It covers cons
915.
by shoo 6y ago
It'd be interesting to see some examples of queries that operate on the graph structure of the repo. mercurial offers a language where you can build expressions to select revsets: E.g. > Changesets mentioning "bug" or &quo
916.
by shoo 6y ago
scheduling people, scheduling trains, scheduling production jobs. figuring out where to locate telecommunications equipment and how to route cables to avoid digging new holes in the ground. figuring out the most profitable way to blend toge
917.
by shoo 6y ago
have a look at what processes are running & consuming resources in task manager next time it happens. from memory I think there's some kind of periodic job that causes a lot of disk IO (some kind of defender antivirus scan? Indexin
918.
by shoo 6y ago
to challenge the premise -- it is worth thinking this through: why is it necessary to drive what you're working on over the finish line? if you reduced your inputs of energy, time and caring to moderate levels that can be sustained wit
919.
by shoo 6y ago
bugs objectively exist regardless of if they are discovered or not
920.
by shoo 6y ago
readers may tangentially enjoy yosefk's "cardinal programming jokes" -- the first one featuring a manhole: https://yosefk.com/blog/the-cardinal-programming-jokes.html > I must warn you about those jo
921.
by shoo 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayce_Pollard#Apparel
922.
by shoo 6y ago
Many sectors can use custom software. there's also lots of scope for software to help plan or schedule or optimise business decisions in large orgs. e.g. scheduling & routing trains, packing traffic onto ships, scheduling staff for
923.
by shoo 6y ago
they're not the same, but they're both symptoms of the same underlying python behaviour: when you run a python file or import a python file, the interpreter immediately starts executing statements from the top of the file down.
924.
by shoo 6y ago
Speculation from June: > Current projections from Pivotal Research suggest Alphabet’s ad income will dip on an annual basis for the first time in the second quarter of 2020, then again in the third, before a recovery in the final three
925.
by shoo 6y ago
I guess in some games there are many loops within loops within loops. E.g. in "slay the spire", a game i am very fond of, the smallest loop could be "you draw a hand of cards from your deck and decide which card to play on wh
926.
by shoo 6y ago
you can define github projects that source and display issues from github issue trackers across multiple github repos. this is certainly a feature of on-site deployments of github enterprise. i am not sure if it is offered as part of github
927.
by shoo 6y ago
beyond compare gets bonus points for having special features for diffing and merging tabular data. for example, if you're comparing a couple of CSV files, you can mark some columns as unimportant to help focus on diffing and merging di
928.
by shoo 6y ago
Good question. I reckon the answer is mixed: some customers are individuals -- where the person who decides to make the purchase is the end user -- some customers are small businesses, while some customers are enterprises. It does appear to
929.
by shoo 6y ago
One potential workaround - don't sign on as a permie employee, instead arrange to work as a contractor where you bring your own tools instead of using whatever standard machine the client would otherwise give you. You may be able to br
930.
by shoo 6y ago
https://danluu.com/startup-options/

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