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by tgv 2y ago
But some form of evolution might make it a local optimum. It would at least require 3 or more offspring per pregnancy, and could not happen in mammals, though.
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by tgv 2y ago
That is understandable, but counterproductive. Tou can’t walk away from this by pretending it doesn’t exist. It only takes one troll to ruin the achievement.
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by tgv 2y ago
Do you remember writing the proof for quicksort, which is say 0.1k lines? 15k lines of verified code is a pretty good indication of effort. But the problem may come from the headline, which is somewhat clickbaity. HN forbids changing it, an
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by tgv 2y ago
> This portrayal is far from the truth. Your arguments don't form a rebuttal. Alimony does make divorce easier, and child support makes it easier for the children to go to the mother; courts predominantly assign children to her, whi
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by tgv 2y ago
Possibly refering to google now tracking who visits which articles.
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by tgv 2y ago
Am I reading correctly that your software generates 25 million error messages per day?
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by tgv 2y ago
> What I wrote is correct What your wrote is pretty much trivial, and not related to the topic of the article. It's also not practical, since the space needed to represent even a small program as an FSM is very large. Just try to wr
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by tgv 2y ago
You hear the addiction speak. These people are afraid their dependency may be taken away from them.
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by tgv 2y ago
People will call anything social media, or refer to Luddites in order to deflect criticism of their addiction.
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by tgv 2y ago
> given how incredibly unfathomably vast the universe is ... we ... But the probability of developing a highly developed civilization can be much, much smaller than 1 / number of planets in the universe.
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by tgv 2y ago
Nobody is talking about a finite state machine in complexity. Its time complexity is n, and its space complexity is 0. The Halting Problem specifically pertains to Turing Machines.
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by tgv 2y ago
This technique yields so many false positives and negatives, it's practically useless. Possibly it works reliably for mono-lingual, prolific writers. Someone like the Qanon shaman (or whatever the name was) might be picked up, if it do
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by tgv 2y ago
At least also accept a log-normal distribution. Sometimes you need a factor like .2 ~ 5, but that isn't the same as N(2.6, 1.2).
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by tgv 2y ago
But then the assumptions behind the article is not general, and the conclusions would have to amended to the radiation dosis and/or tissue. Which makes sense, of course.
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by tgv 2y ago
I think they should be functions: G(50, 1) for a Gaussian with µ=50, σ=1; N(3) for a negative exponential with λ=3, U(0, 1) for a uniform distribution between 0 and 1, UI(1, 6) for an uniform integer distribution from 1 to 6, etc. Seems muc
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by tgv 2y ago
I worked for a small shop that provided something MS couldn’t/wouldn’t, but which was essential for their international business anyway. So we too had engineering support.
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by tgv 2y ago
This might be to placate the "where's the .exe?" crowd. A release and a hint where to find the .exe might have been more appropriate, but I doubt they will use this repo for development: there is no sign of branches, tags or
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by tgv 2y ago
That's my point: if CT scans cause cancer, cancer in the wrist or knee should be much more frequent among people who had a wrist or knee CT scan than among the general population. CT scans are relatively new, so there probably is a rec
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by tgv 2y ago
I didn't read the JAMA article, but shouldn't it be possible to test that hypothesis differently? E.g., people get CT scans for fractures in knee or wrist. Cancer in those places is very rare, so of CT scans cause cancer, shouldn&
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by tgv 2y ago
MRI's magnetic field is not strong enough. CT scans use Röntgen radiation, and that's known to cause ionization (the waves can displace electrons), which --in DNA-- potentially causes cancer.
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by tgv 2y ago
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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by tgv 2y ago
IMO, you need to be a domain expert in order to produce something ergonomic, easy to use. You (or the team you're part of) have to understand the topic and users extremely well. There's no catch-all design, not even a process that
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by tgv 2y ago
It's not only the excess, it's the ease of access. Kids can produce lewd pics of class mates, and make their lives hell. This technology is fundamentally evil.
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by tgv 2y ago
What good can it be used for? Because I haven't seen anything that makes faking pics with AI so good we can ignore the negatives. The article also seems to take the relativist stance: nothing new to see here, move along now. Why? For t
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by tgv 2y ago
I seems to send all urls you visit to Microsoft, Symantec, Emisoft, Webshield, Norton, Gdata Security, and/or BitDefender, depending on your settings. And of course, those URLs can be changed on the next update.
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by tgv 2y ago
This is getting quite off-topic, but I do love music. At least, that's how I would describe it. I just heard a fragment of something truly beautiful, and the my emotional attachment to that music is quite real (in this case, the Largo
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by tgv 2y ago
But an editor is something where you navigate for a long time, whereas the average web page navigation is brief. In 99.99% of the cases, it doesn't make sense to attach a (complex) keyboard interface to it, and a specifically vim-like
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by tgv 2y ago
Yes, they are. A lot of sociology and its surrounding fields is just talk. Idle speculation. The rather small empirical part is riddled with methodological errors. There are now people trying to build more detailed, computational models, bu
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by tgv 2y ago
That's such an irresponsible take. If you don't know how to program, you can't even begin to judge the output of whatever model. You'll be the idiotic manager that tells the IT department to solve some problem, and it ha
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by tgv 2y ago
OTOH, not so long ago, a colleague and I tried to guess the number of piano tuners in large cities, e.g. New York. I find your idea nice, but the execution could be more flexible, more puzzle-like. E.g., you could have units (like #passenge

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