taw55

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by taw55 9y ago
Pyramid schemes and appealing to ideologues isn't what I personally would call a compelling use case...
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by taw55 9y ago
Would one get much out of this course with only minimal ML background?
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by taw55 9y ago
Which also resulted in that jolly good time called "The Great Depression".
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by taw55 9y ago
I don't think that's correct. The way I understand it tripple buffering adds latency in exchange for higher sub display hz framerates. Double buffering renders the next frame while displaying the current. That results in latency
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by taw55 9y ago
Another recent new contender: http://sluglibrary.com This draws the curves directly in the pixel shader.
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by taw55 9y ago
I'm far from knowledgable in the field, but I did a survey some time ago and think these items should provide a decent basis: Dijkstra and A* Pathfinding, Finite State Machines, Decision Trees, Hierarchical Task Networks (SHOP, etc) Ke
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by taw55 9y ago
A couple of years ago I read about some printer manufacturer evolving the shapes of their nozzles. Apparently the problem was nontrivial and rather than doing complicated analyses up front they found it more efficient to simply generate and
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by taw55 9y ago
Exponential economist meets finite physicist is a fun read. https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist...
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by taw55 9y ago
Good luck on improving the situation as long as you have people running around who consider this all fine and normal. https://ptrthomas.wordpress.com/2006/06/06/java-call-stack-f...
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by taw55 9y ago
I don't think I fully grasped the explanation, it's like some sort of slit-scan pinhole camera? Aren't those images going to be super noisy compared to lensed cameras with larger sensors?
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by taw55 9y ago
What about the logistics industry?
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by taw55 9y ago
Debts are denominated in money, if that money becomes more scarce, people will spend a lower fraction of their income on consumption articles out of fear of not making ends meet. At any point in time total spending equals total income, so t
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by taw55 9y ago
Something like Deror, perhaps? http://deror.org/currency.html
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by taw55 9y ago
> Exactly -- economics is a science Nope. To anyone who still hasn't gotten the memo: neoclassical econ is mystery religion dressed up in poor mathematics[1]. If we held other sciences to the same norms as economics we'dd still
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by taw55 9y ago
Austrian economics is not "objective".
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by taw55 9y ago
And very ideologically biased...
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by taw55 9y ago
Lugaru Gametick. A succesful indie game written by a highschool student. https://hg.icculus.org/icculus/lugaru/file/97b303e79826/Sour...
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by taw55 9y ago
Indeed, privatization of public utilities for example have created more government bureaucracy, not less, exactly for these reasons. Market fundamentalists (the anarchist leaning side at least, less the Hayekians and such) seem to believe t
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by taw55 9y ago
Which is a completely orthogonal thing...
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by taw55 9y ago
I might be wrong, but I think agricultural societies had very long working days at harvest time but relatively short ones on average. During the transition of feudalism to industrialism working hours rose significantly (as did productivity,
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by taw55 9y ago
The problem with the Venus project is that it basically looks at human individuals as robotic entities that will behave and function if only put in the right environment and subject to the right inputs. It's all horribly modernist&#x2F
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by taw55 9y ago
It appears his claim to faim was 2008, which imo wasn't a black swan event at all (to anyone watching private sector indebtedness figures).
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by taw55 9y ago
I think he means that A pixel is not a little square: http://alvyray.com/Memos/CG/Microsoft/6_pixel.pdf