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by telchar 5y ago
I mean, springs would do that. Maybe a latch with slightly delayed release mechanism would work better to time the energy release for optimal running. But unless you want to violate conservation of energy (like flubber presumably does) then
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by telchar 5y ago
That's a nice summary of the problem and a solution I think I can agree with. One quibble is I think your notes could maybe fit into a DAG, but (as I think you meant) not a tree. In practice I don't think there's an easy way
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by telchar 5y ago
You’re not seeing how the delta variant would have spread in a fully unvaccinated population. Notice how the original variant and the more infectious alpha variant failed to thrive post-vaccine. There was some competition effect from delta
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by telchar 5y ago
Such a loss. If you want to know what a hive mind really is (it’s not how pop culture portrays it), read The Ants. Fascinating book.
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by telchar 5y ago
There are a number of textbooks available, if you were interested in serious self-study. I don’t know of specific names off-hand. A dictionary would be important as well to have as a reference. You could start with a beginning textbook to g
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by telchar 5y ago
That seems to me to be a big mistake. People talk a lot about affordable housing but as far as I can tell they aren't talking about housing that would be affordable to build. People seem to only want to talk about subsidized housing in
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by telchar 5y ago
Also, if you use the Firefox search bar only the first 20 chars are sent to google, so longer calculations are truncated before they're calculated and wrong answers come back with no warning. Not a Google problem per se but a risk of u
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by telchar 5y ago
I don't think there's a need to be confused here. Parent liked it when the tool empowered them, but most people don't like when tools give others power - potentially power over them. The difference in like/hate is in how
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by telchar 5y ago
Can you expand on how those repositories are written and how you use them for unit testing?
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by telchar 5y ago
You're right, it's a fine line. I think it falls on the engineering side of the line because the hypothetical and the consequences in the Martian are pretty mundane when you remove the setting and price tags. Imagine the same stor
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by telchar 5y ago
Admittedly calling the Martian not sci-fi is a bit of a hot take, but I’ll defend it. To me sci-fi is speculative fiction. That is, take a counter factual or hypothetical and run with it, explore the consequences of the idea. The Martian su
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by telchar 5y ago
I don’t see how anyone could call Banks hard sci-fi. (Possible spoilers?) The culture is so extremely powerful that they’re scarcely less magical than the dimension-bending aliens in TBP, which I agree are pretty fantastical, though I’m hap
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by telchar 5y ago
Hard sci-fi is No Real Scotsman: The Genre. The hardest sci-fi is just called fiction, because there is no room in hard sci-fi for speculation about science. At best you could call it fiction where technology figures heavily, like The Marti
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by telchar 5y ago
I don't see why the training data would need to be provided. The model would, and that's derived from the training data, but the training data itself shouldn't need to be provided. It is hard to explain a model with any degre
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by telchar 5y ago
Epic would tell you that they have been very successful in predicting sepsis too. But it's hard to train a model that generalizes to data from other sources (the problem described in the article). How does BH's model work outside
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by telchar 5y ago
The point is that an image of consequence, if real, would have a signed raw copy available which people could check to verify that there was in fact a real image that showed what a given edited image purported to show. If an image is being
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by telchar 5y ago
That's a factoid that has been going around, but lost some information as you stated it. Large container ships produce tremendous amounts of NOx and SOx pollution compared to passenger cars, true, but CO2 is a different story. Still a
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by telchar 5y ago
Credibility matters. Denying the big problem exists in spite of an overwhelming consensus results in being distrusted and ridiculed when (perhaps rightly) playing up a small problem over the big problem in a particular space. Likewise no on
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by telchar 5y ago
Since this comment got some attention, my source for this was [0] Ranney, Wayne. “How Rivers Carve Canyons.” Carving Grand Canyon - Evidence, Theories, and Mystery, 2nd ed., Grand Canyon Association, 2012.
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by telchar 5y ago
Not to take away from your point, but from what I have read, the Grand Canyon was most likely not formed by little drops of water, but instead by occasional torrents of water. There is ~70 feet of boulders and detritus at the bottom of the
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by telchar 5y ago
You've piqued my interest. Do you mind sharing a few of the things you have observed and/or learned in this process?
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by telchar 5y ago
That link is both very damning and very succinctly informative of the problem.
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by telchar 5y ago
The taxable amount would be the loan amount, not the value of the property. The loan is trivial to value. If the property later sells for less than the loan amount then it would be a capital loss that could be carried forward from there.
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by telchar 5y ago
This sort of wealth tax probably would be targeted at amounts over a $5-50M threshold so it would never hit the primary residence of anyone except billionaires, who could surely pay cash.
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by telchar 5y ago
Here's one for you: https://innovation.cms.gov/innovation-models/bundled-payment...
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by telchar 5y ago
I suspect this rather obvious flaw (from the article: not taking deletion into account when calculating trends) is due to it being easier to create a data pipeline that is purely additive at the scale they're operating at. Not having t
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by telchar 5y ago
The Joint Commission (healthcare field) seems to do this. There is at least some churn in metrics for each triennial inspection of healthcare facilities and operations. Aside from reducing gaming, it's a good way to make sure BI teams
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by telchar 5y ago
That's an interesting example to choose, because almonds have a small amount of cyanide naturally. I think that highlights that quantity matters
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by telchar 5y ago
Cycles can't as a general rule keep up with cars, unlike motorcycles. There's no integrating them with auto traffic whether or not you force them into the same roadway. Part of good separate path design is planning the intersectio
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by telchar 5y ago
This argument - which I see often - ignores that land doesn’t have to be used for growing crops or grazing. Leaving some land wild allows biodiversity which has quite literally unquantifiable benefits now and far into the future. Using less

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