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by tgb 6y ago
Okay thanks, that all makes more sense now.
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by tgb 6y ago
So is the right interpretation to think of "_" not as part of the variable name at all but rather as a unary operator (that acts on its left) which denotes a variable as unbound?
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by tgb 6y ago
So any underscore at all makes it a symbolic variable? (Or trailing/leading underscores only?) And the name of the variable on the right-hand side of the substitution is that name with the (or all?) underscore removed? It seems very
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by tgb 6y ago
What's the magic going on in substitutions like: Sin[a+b] /. Sin[x_] -> Cos[x] which yields 'Cos[a+b]'. Is the underscore after the x what indicates that "x_" can take any value? And Mathematica the
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by tgb 6y ago
It's being mocked for being insufficiently well tested. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/russia-s-claim-succe...
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by tgb 6y ago
But also the control group is significantly physically active too.
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by tgb 6y ago
That's a summary of other, prior research (and observational, this one is randomized).
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by tgb 6y ago
I recall that the word "constable" was used in the big voter rights posters we had to put up, but frankly don't know any more than that.
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by tgb 6y ago
Mail ballots come from different counties with highly different demographics. You get massive Biden support in one city and massive Trump support in another rural county - it's not surprising at all. There's also differences in wh
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by tgb 6y ago
This was literally predicted ahead of time based off the known demographics of the regions and the time it would take to count the ballots in different counties and the expected differences between in-person and mail-in ballots. It's a
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by tgb 6y ago
I also worked polls in Philadelphia and we were also visited by non-uniform cops at the end of the day to do the (critical!) step of picking up the paper ballots. We got their badge numbers and names of course, but it was a little sketchy.
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by tgb 6y ago
Moreover the Trafalgar head of polling went on Fox a day before the election claiming that there would be 4% points of systematic election fraud happening in Pennsylvania. So "nutjob" and "wacko" would be underselling th
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by tgb 6y ago
> In order for this to work I'd have to work all day with a camera on my face, if I understood this correctly. This sounds awful to me. Yeah I wasn't sure, is that what they're suggesting as the use-case? Always-on video a
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by tgb 6y ago
Yeah other uses seem more plausible. My boss wanted to use it as a virtual office, where he sits at his desk and us at our cubicles, that kind of thing.
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by tgb 6y ago
My boss got excited about this a few weeks back, but none of the rest of the office wanted to really use it (and we had some issues with video/audio feeds). I don't really get the idea: what problem does this solve that Slack&#x2F
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by tgb 6y ago
I think my "theory" is false for other reasons, but that they advertise where allowed doesn't contradict any of the theory. They just haven't successfully colluded to get the prisoner's dilemma solved by the local g
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by tgb 6y ago
Moreover, some GOP-controlled counties in PA decided to not count mail-in ballots on election day either (they were allowed to start when polls open) and instead saved them all for the following day and beyond.
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by tgb 6y ago
My pet conspiracy theory is that the tobacco industry tried this in the US by getting the government to ban advertising of tobacco.
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by tgb 6y ago
You don't want a transfer confirmation from your bank? Or a ticket number from your airline? Or an alert that your tax documents are available?
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by tgb 6y ago
Electoral College is completely unrelated. Court battles happen even after votes are counted, so are unrelated too. Results aren't certified until December anyway.
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by tgb 6y ago
My immediate solution is to stop actively miseducating the populace .
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by tgb 6y ago
Or we can educate people accurately about the elections so that there is no concern over a normal and above-board process proceeding as expected instead of spreading FUD. That's the real "we can have it both ways."
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by tgb 6y ago
There's nothing more degrading to the credibility of the elections than the people running around pretending that suddenly counting votes quickly (rather than accurately) is the important thing.
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by tgb 6y ago
I just worked the polls in Pennsylvania - the new voting machines are pretty great. You get a paper ballot, you insert it, you use a touchscreen to make choices, the machine prints the ballot with your choices on it, shows it to you behind
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by tgb 6y ago
Can you explain what "page tearing" is?
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by tgb 6y ago
Avoiding one-tick hiccups was exactly what got me thinking about this. I've only played Mindustry and it looks like the tick rate is slower there with all conveyor belt movement happening in discrete one-cell-at-a-time movements (anima
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by tgb 6y ago
But what deterministic order do you use? Any order seems problematic to me, once loops are involved. Certainly if you just pick a naive order like "lowest entity ID runs first", then you end up with a lot of items not moving when
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by tgb 6y ago
Right, but what's in the doTick of a conveyor belt cell? Presumably it would look something like: if nextCell.isEmpty(): moveContentsToNextCell() But what happens when you have A connected to B connected to C and A an
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by tgb 6y ago
I'm imagining a discrete system here, like a tile-based map. I haven't actually played Factorio, so I'm just assuming that's how it works (seems like it from the link a sibling post gave). As such, I'm not sure phys
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by tgb 6y ago
I was wondering, what's the "right" way to run a Factorio-like simulation, algorithmic ally speaking? I.e. You have conveyor belts bringing items to/from producer/consumer objects. A conveyor can only move its item

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