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by tesdinger 3y ago
> efficient markets are pointless You are profiting off workers as a middle man in the economy by doing HFT, and trying the justify it by some vague concept of the "correct price". You are producing nothing of value, merely tak
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by tesdinger 3y ago
> Given the embedded browser is not secure, if a lot of kids do this Sounds like a parenting issue, not a software issue.
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by tesdinger 3y ago
Try except isn't silly it shortens the code a lot. An exception can simply break out of a function, checking for error requires an explicit check at every line of the function and an added return statement to get out of the function.
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by tesdinger 3y ago
Stopped playing after the first question because I don't care and i don't know why anyone would. After all this is just a website asking questions without context. It seems as interesting to me as the political debate in Star Wars
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by tesdinger 3y ago
The model has to be trained repeatedly to update the information.
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by tesdinger 3y ago
Climate change is real and we are running out of CO_2 budget.
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by tesdinger 3y ago
The article is forward looking, while SAP etc. is likely not going to increase its processing needs on orders of magnitude from now.
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by tesdinger 3y ago
»For example, when the cutting-edge image-recognition system Noisy Student converts the pixel values of an image into probabilities for what the object in that image is, it does so using a network with 480 million parameters. The training t
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by tesdinger 3y ago
You cleverly wrote "sort" two times without referring to actual sorting in a thread about sorting. The first algorithm that you linked is easy to explain. As soon as a value has been stored in another location its original locatio
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by tesdinger 3y ago
This is like a mutation in a dungeon crawl game, that affects most of your stats negatively but gives you the ability to discover the effect of scrolls.
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by tesdinger 3y ago
Just use one note, or a wiki.
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by tesdinger 3y ago
git branch -d god git branch -d master
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by tesdinger 3y ago
| If you think we’re living in a computer program, trying to segfault it is inconsiderate to everyone who lives in it with you. A reality in which most sentient beings brutally prey on each other.
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by tesdinger 3y ago
Given that players register with their name and card, checking using random samples, or spot check, is enough to catch cheaters. They probably also have statistical data of the wins and losses.
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by tesdinger 3y ago
If they weren't monitoring, there wouldn't be a lawsuit, so logic says, they were in fact monitoring and noticed it.
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by tesdinger 3y ago
At that point, you could just use currency that is worth nothing
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No
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Running a casino
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by tesdinger 3y ago
What would you do if you see an observation outside of the interval?
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by tesdinger 3y ago
Not following the games rules to gain a monetary advantage is criminal. If the casinos owner would do the same while dealing cards, you would be saying the same.
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by tesdinger 3y ago
It's entertainment and you pay for it in losses. That's the deal you make with the owners of the casino when you enter the game. If you try to profit off it by cheating, you are failing to comply to your part of the deal. You don&
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by tesdinger 3y ago
Are you trying to argue that it goes from illegal to legal as long as no one is watching?
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by tesdinger 3y ago
> any value is as plausible as any other as far as I know” That isn't possible to use as a prior as the uniform distribution from negative to positive infinity is zero everywhere.
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by tesdinger 3y ago
The prior is a way to condense knowledge into math. A prior doesn't make sense if there is a lack of knowledge.
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by tesdinger 3y ago
Quote |How do we compare between hypotheses that are entirely consistent with observations? |... Occam's razor The answer is, build an experiment that makes it obvious. According to Occam's Razor, the Sun was burning coal, before
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by tesdinger 3y ago
Bayesian statistics is dumb. What's the point of using prior assumptions that are based on speculation? It's better to admitting your lack of knowledge, not jumping to conclusions without sufficient data, and processing data in an
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by tesdinger 3y ago
If you do not train on the training set, then there is no training set, and your example is degenerate.