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by tgb 7y ago
Similarly, the botanical definition of "nut" excludes basically everything we think of nuts. Pedants seemed to have learned that peanuts are "not nuts" but have yet to pick up on that almonds, pistachios, walnuts and pec
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by tgb 7y ago
That doesn't seem to be what the grandparent post is saying Bush did.
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by tgb 7y ago
That's not what the article states, though it's not very explicit about why you shouldn't do what you suggest.
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by tgb 7y ago
Can you elaborate? This doesn't sound right to me but I don't know much about this.
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by tgb 7y ago
I've just started learning Mandarin and would say that the characters have been easier than I've expected. Within a week of starting, I could read a dozen characters from Mandarin-language packaging of food items. Learning the cha
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by tgb 7y ago
Where do you get that from the article? They even say tha the memory deficits were observed in constant darkness conditions as well (and therefore due to intrinsic clock not extrinsic light per se). Also keep in mind that mice are nocturnal
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by tgb 7y ago
There's also Marching Tetrahedra which wasn't covered by the marching cubes patent and was kindly allowed to be used freely (and had some small improvements). [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marching_tet
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by tgb 7y ago
That makes sense, thanks for resolving it for me.
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by tgb 7y ago
My first instinct would be that this is due to entropy rather than minimizing energy, but the article doesn't mention that hypothesis. Is it easy to rule this out?
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by tgb 7y ago
Which would have been a good article, but that's definitely not all the article was saying, since the author was clearly arguing against CO2-emission reduction strategies (see the very opening paragraph).
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by tgb 7y ago
It varies by field. Some have standard repositories for data to go in - all RNA seq experiments get their raw data uploaded to GEO or similar, for example. But they usually don't specify their pipeline sufficiently precisely to be able
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by tgb 7y ago
He's still an active mathematician, too, for example a 2018 pre-print: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07129
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by tgb 7y ago
That was my thought - isn't refraction going to mess up the trigonometry involved here? Like in the Bedford Level experiment [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedford_Level_experiment
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by tgb 7y ago
My experience with this was trying to get my dad, who basically doesn't use his phone, to a cheaper phone plan. He was on Verizon and paying $60 a month but usually keeps his phone off. He didn't want to move to a different provid
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by tgb 7y ago
What makes these specifically for wood and not, say, metal?
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by tgb 7y ago
Compound/interval null hypotheses basically solve this effect-size problem and probably should be used more.
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by tgb 7y ago
I think p-values are actually somewhat demonized and I have grown to like them more and more over time. The standard interpretation is actually overly complicated for some reason and it can be simplified to "your p-value cutoff is an u
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by tgb 7y ago
The method used to solve RH would almost certainly contribute substantially to our understanding of mathematics and give new directions to tackle other questions in mathematics. For example, the resolution of the Poincare Conjecture by Pere
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by tgb 7y ago
It's the more recent sequel that's being tested here.
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by tgb 7y ago
This was my first question, too. Disappointing that HN downvotes good-faith, on-topic questions.
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by tgb 7y ago
Some things you need to identify and understand: lane markings, police officers, temporary road signs, construction workers guiding traffic, traffic lights, someone waiting at the "yield to pedestrians" crosswalk, emergency respon
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by tgb 7y ago
I agree that we should move past 24fps. Panning shots judder to my eyes in a very unpleasant way, even if not panning particularly quickly. It's not just action shots that suffer at the low frame rate. If people hate it because they&#x
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by tgb 7y ago
I can't tell if you're joking, but I purchased a math text book as an undergrad that I needed last-minute as a Kindle ebook and it was an awful mistake, in part because of text reflow. You'd see a formula at the top of a page
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by tgb 7y ago
A year or two ago, the TV my roommates and I had would give weird artefacts while watching sports. I wasn't sure if it was the TV or the broadcast but the effects were things like people's eyes would move relative to their head or
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by tgb 7y ago
The same problem happens with immutable types. Does a function of type Int -> A extend a function type Int -> B? How about A -> Int extending B -> Int? The answers to these are opposite.
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by tgb 7y ago
Do you know that Letter 6173 makes such a request? I would guess that it's more likely it requires you to either simply acknowledge receiving the letter or to agree to something like the statement that you already had to sign to when
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by tgb 7y ago
Luckily we don't have to speculate. See a web interface at [1]. Select English from the dropdown and it says that the closest word to king is kings and second is queen, then monarch. And to test my second statement I also tried "r
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by tgb 7y ago
I've pondered making a video game based off Word2Vec. User collects words from conversations with NPCs and had to combine them to get new words which they use in conversation or maybe as physical items to cross barriers, etc. Not quite
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by tgb 7y ago
The other reason to not exclude King is that it's pretty likely that Queen is the closest word to King. Then King - X + Y = Queen is just saying that X and Y are close to each other, not an interesting result.
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by tgb 7y ago
I agree. I never would have imagined calling a multimedia piece ostensibly about football the greatest work of art from the 21st century that I've seen but, well, it just is. Go experience it for yourself without knowing anything more,

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