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by tsbinz 7y ago
In the old days in C++ we'd try to assign it to int and look at the compiler error message. (That literally was the instruction of how to figure out the type to use in one of boost's libraries in pre-c++11 times ...)
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by tsbinz 7y ago
You probably saw it in person as well, it's called a river :) In Zurich there's multiple places where you can swim in the Limmat, and it takes quite some effort to stay in place - one example is https://images.app.goo.g
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by tsbinz 7y ago
I agree that office has a nice granularity there, but the UI is not very good. People don't understand that they have to share a specific link to a document and they can't just copy & paste the address of the page they are see
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by tsbinz 7y ago
8 gpus and a week is cheap even, there are popular papers that need upwards of 10k GPU hours.
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by tsbinz 7y ago
I don’t know how long ago this was, but Italy is notorious for taking a long time to deliver tickets (like, a year because that’s how long they are allowed to take). If it’s a small fine they might just decide that it’s not worth it.
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by tsbinz 7y ago
you mean like you checking out some repository from github or you unzipping a file that you downloaded or ...?
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by tsbinz 7y ago
Things I do with gbit fibre at home: * Buying a game on steam and playing it very soon after. * Buying a movie right before I leave on a trip and still being able to watch it on my iPad offline. * Putting a video on a cloud hoster and not n
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by tsbinz 7y ago
We are already doing that (or rather, the moon is doing it to us), more by changing earth's rotation than by changing distance. We just need to wait a couple billion years for earth to be tidally locked to the moon (and not just the ot
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by tsbinz 7y ago
Swatch tried to do something like that in '98: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time Instead of hours and minutes, the mean solar day is divided into 1000 parts called ".beats". Each .beat i
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by tsbinz 7y ago
"normal" mirrors don't really work for high-power lasers. If you try to reflect a high-power laser with your bathroom mirror, in the (very short) first moment it will reflect most of the beam, the part that's not reflect
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by tsbinz 7y ago
Where did they say it started Thursday? The blog post says it was discovered Thursday ...
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by tsbinz 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenian_democracy ? The initial implementation doesn't seem to have been very forceful ...
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by tsbinz 7y ago
It's kind of sad to see these statements repeated so often ... * "ultimately handily defeat StockFish in almost every single game it plays against it" the vast majority of the games were draws actually * Regarding "stock
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by tsbinz 7y ago
Also, the article doesn't mention a crucial part of the universal approximation theorem: It is about functions on compact subsets of R^n, so it doesn't say anything about functions that take the whole of R as input.
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by tsbinz 8y ago
Electronic gyroscopes measure rotational speed . In order to measure orientation you need to integrate over time and align it with a reference frame, typically by estimating gravity using the accelerometer. An inertial measurement unit has
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by tsbinz 8y ago
A possible problem with this is that now the callback keeps this alive. A possible solution (in some situations) is to use a weak pointer and check if the object is still alive before using the callback, but there's some additional wor
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by tsbinz 8y ago
See jorvi's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19264960 there are some bugs that drive me back to chrome when I try it
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by tsbinz 8y ago
Almost all "free" mobile apps?
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by tsbinz 8y ago
What are you missing? Not involved with the project, just using it, and so far we've been able to work around the limitations (for computer vision).
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by tsbinz 8y ago
Lee Sedol was not the best player anymore at that time (not saying it wasn't an impressive/important achievement, but overstating it doesn't help either - the "beat best human players part" came later in 2017).