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by srean 8mo ago
Strike a light in front of a parked but otherwise active fin guided heat-seeker and its freaky to watch it come alive like a lazy beagle eyeing a treat.
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by srean 8mo ago
https://share.google/aimode/CoVNoZcR3YOotyg5o
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by srean 8mo ago
In the context of Iran I agree with you. Not so sure about South Lebanon. From whatever media coverage I saw, some look not that different from carpet bombing.
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by srean 8mo ago
They are using white phosphorus on populated areas in South Lebanon. That's as vile as one can get.
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Open Source Radar(hackaday.com)
6 points by srean 8mo ago|0 comments
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by srean 8mo ago
Yes. These and other email specific redundancies ought to be covered by any specialized compression scheme. Also note, a lot of standard compression is deduplication. Fundamentally they are not that different. Given that one needs to supp
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by srean 8mo ago
That's why a base and a delta. Whereas PP was talking about general compression algorithm, my question was different. In line with the original comment, I was asking about specialized "codecs" for gmail. Humans do not read th
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by srean 8mo ago
That is an interesting link. Does gmail use a special codec for storing emails ?
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by srean 8mo ago
US at least took some level of accountability, however much watered down, for Abu Graib. Maybe this is a different US now.
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by srean 8mo ago
This sort of moral decline bites you in the back years later. The same is going on in Israel - covering up of war crimes, covering of sexual and other abuse of prisoners
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by srean 8mo ago
True, I guess you understood what I meant, that they are different things. Indeed, as you allude, you cannot have both in an expressive enough system.
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by srean 8mo ago
It is also revealing that in Fourier series, the phase angle is represented as a sin, cos tuple and not as a scalar.
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by srean 8mo ago
Depends on the hardware type.
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by srean 8mo ago
That's right. However, one disadvantage of using the tan value (the y/x ratio) over that of (cos,sin) tuple is that the former loses information on whether the y coordinates or the x coordinate was negative. So, if you use the tan
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by srean 8mo ago
Indeed. Soundness and completeness are different things. There are two well accepted definitions of soundness. One of them is the inability to prove true == false, that is, one cannot prove a contradiction from within that axiomatic system.
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by srean 8mo ago
The contrived scenario is just a starting point. One can make more and more sophisticated ecological statistics models about the situation. Regarding why estimate at all knowing they can be wrong ? Estimates are very useful for planning. S
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by srean 8mo ago
Consider a contrived scenario where an opaque jar contains N distinguishable marbles. You take one out and note it's type and put it back in. You repeat this n times. If k out of n are unique it conveys information about N . I
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by srean 8mo ago
Not a bad analogy. Damn good.
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by srean 8mo ago
Are these speed boats manned ? Like with kamikaze pilots ?
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by srean 8mo ago
"Sound" means free of contradiction with respect to the axioms assumed. If you can derive a contradiction using his methods of computation I would study that with interest. By "sound" I do not mean provably sound. I mean
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Verification URL to India's Higher Secondary Exam Resolves to Rickroll(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
1 points by srean 8mo ago|0 comments
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by srean 8mo ago
Patriot of Persia https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12202123-patriot-of-pers... An important book to read. So many people think this started with the islamic revolution of the 70s. The meddling goes further in
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by srean 8mo ago
It's a little more than change of basis, although change of basis is an important part of it. It converts many apparently trigonometric operations into algebraic ones, root finding included. There are certain drawbacks. If the solution
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by srean 8mo ago
He maybe considered contrarian but his math is sound.
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by srean 8mo ago
This has been some sort of a mix of peeve and a moment of enlightenment of mine when I understood this. I wholeheartedly agree with the point being made in the post. I had commented about this in the recent asin() post but deleted thinking
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by srean 8mo ago
And India which takes pride in the notion that a guest is god, that shop was India's guest for ceremonial exercises. It was sunk just barely outside India's territorial waters. The government tried very hard to ignore it, to look
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by srean 8mo ago
That's a famous quote and age might have mellowed him. But he was not like that at all in person with his students. He did insist that one be precise with ones words. The origin of the quote may have more to do with cultural difference
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by srean 8mo ago
Happy to meet you. I was there and I remember that question being asked. I think it was 2010. If I remember correctly he had two immediate ideas, his first was bubble sort, the second turned out to be quicksort. He was already very frail by
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by srean 8mo ago
Seconded.
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by srean 8mo ago
As Dijkstra was preparing for his end of life, organizing his documents and correspondence became an important task. Cancer had snuck up on him and there was not much time. One senior professor, who was helping out with this, asked Dijkstr

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