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by tgb 9y ago
I found the large number of cards available at once to be overwhelming when playing dominion the first (and only) time. In that regard, Star Realms is better since it only offers a rotating selection of cards to purchase. It also gives you
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by tgb 9y ago
Might as well link directly to the source: https://pastebin.com/jCDFcESz which really I think should be the article URL anyway (the tweet just links here too). Very interesting find!
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by tgb 9y ago
How does the new tax bill simplify it? Before, I got charged taxes on the income that I had. Afterwards, I would get charged taxes on the income I have plus the tuition I never receive. I honestly don't even know how much that is, let
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by tgb 9y ago
It's worth noting that geocentrism wasn't held onto for no reason either. At least the ancient Greeks had solid logical reasons for believing it: if the Earth orbited the sun, then there would be parallax visible between the stars
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by tgb 9y ago
The article gives statistics broken down by mother/father time as well - there is a substantial increase in both.
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by tgb 9y ago
Parallax mapping shaders do this kind of computation in actual games. In the case where the entire scene is rendered this way, you might see it referred to as a "two-triangle" shader like at [1] (since there's only two '
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by tgb 9y ago
Now I'm googling this and it looks like what you wrote would be a compiler error (assuming Foo.h was included into at least two files) unless the keyword inline was used so that the same function could be defined multiple times. That c
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by tgb 9y ago
Love the bug and it's been a while since I've done anything in C++, but isn't your description slightly wrong? There would be one instance per .cpp file that #include'd Foo.h, not one per getInstance() call. I don't
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by tgb 9y ago
Yeah, it's definitely arguable. They clearly were trying to be cute with the paper. Though note that the published version of the paper was slightly longer (but without really enhancing its clarity).
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by tgb 9y ago
That surprised me since I saw the "generalization to digits beyond the first" in the article and it's clear that powers of 2 or 5 clearly don't have a Benford-style distribution of their last digits. However, that was
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by tgb 9y ago
What are the numbers whose powers don't satisfy the law? 0 of course and any power of 10 will have only leading 1's. Any product of just 2's and 5's, probably?
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by tgb 9y ago
I disagree: the paper is clearly not trying to answer it's titular question, in fact it is justifying why that question is interesting to ask. In particular, it demonstrates that the answer to the obvious other question to ask (with
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by tgb 9y ago
It looks like that's correct though, as supported by the first google hit [1] for that subject, which in fact is arguing the stupidity of the alkaline diet. It's also supported by the table in this paper [2]. The only catch being
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by tgb 9y ago
This is my bane. Or they only have them facing the directions cars come from so that there's a 50% chance you can see one as a pedestrian without going well out of your way.
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by tgb 9y ago
I don't know anything about this, but how do you make randomness in Ethereum? I assume it has to replicable across any computer and therefore would be pseudo-random and predictable. Do you use something like the NIST randomness beacon
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by tgb 9y ago
Yeah it's a widely advertised feature and you can obviously pull up tabs from one Chrome on one computer onto Chrome from another computer. There's no other way for this to work and it's actually useful. There's nothing
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by tgb 9y ago
I hate that it saves it enough that I often perform 'dumb' googles in an incognito window just so it'll never suggest "how do I parallel park" again. But how is this unexpected behavior? It also saves every URL you
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by tgb 9y ago
Which makes them easy to spot if you get a number from a far away area. The only calls I get from my phone's area code are misdials or spam, but my doctor's office stands out without a whitelist.
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by tgb 9y ago
In fact that's where I found it from!
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by tgb 9y ago
I won't dispute the main point of the article but a couple minor errors bug me. First, he kept referring to a Gaussian distribution as being the unit sphere, when of course the radius depends upon the parameters of the Gaussian (the
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by tgb 9y ago
You're of course completely correct, but I feel like that misses the point. The great thing about this algorithm is not that it works - there are plenty of ways to figure out the binary representation of a number. Rather, it's tha
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by tgb 9y ago
My takeaway (since I'm okay at multiplying numbers) is the algorithm for figuring out the binary digits of a number. I've always just done "okay, it's bigger than 256, so subtract that and then it's bigger than 64 s
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by tgb 9y ago
There's a great New Yorker article [1] from April that talks about this specific example for trying to make machine learning methods to spot melanoma from pictures. What I learned (as a non-physician) is that ABCDE is what you tell the
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by tgb 9y ago
I only watched the first season, but wasn't it the reverse of the suggestion?
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by tgb 9y ago
What has always annoyed me about this is that < and > (de)indent but also unselect the text and put you back in normal mode. Why? I often want to indent more than once but don't want to count ahead of time how many it will take,
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by tgb 9y ago
The article says that most of the footage was taken by humans. The sheep are apparently not the best photographers.
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by tgb 9y ago
Though the beauty of the English language is such that the word "modern" refers explicitly to now but the word "contemporary" can refer to any time period at all, depending on context! With the ultimate fun being that
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by tgb 9y ago
It's possible to hide curvature in singularities like that, but that's not the classical "grid with wrap-around on the top and bottom" you see in video games. In particular, there's nothing "special" about
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by tgb 9y ago
But there you usually have a "flat torus" which cannot exist in euclidean space. I.e. the distances between points in a PacMan style world are such that the loops around the world are always the same size. That's not the case
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by tgb 9y ago
Well no, the conclusion was that the available inefficiencies should be just about enough to pay the salary of an average person working in that field. Since salaries in that field tend to be really quite good, it's going to far to say

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