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by twanvl 7y ago
> We're basically waiting for the boomers to die off at this point, before being able to fix the shit they left behind. Where does idea that all problems in modern society are the fault of the baby boomers come from? We are talking
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by twanvl 7y ago
> - Only 2 languages in this study had both a significant impact (impact coeff) and enough fiability (p-value): Clojure and Haskell. But the impact is still small, and there may be other influencing factors. They also found a significant
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by twanvl 8y ago
That sounds easy to abuse. Just create some users, have them like obvious bad videos, then have them like videos of <insert competitor>.
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by twanvl 8y ago
This library is essentially a generic version of radix sort. For example to sort an array of strings in O(n k), where k is the maximum length all strings: use bucket sort to split the strings into 256 buckets based on the first character
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by twanvl 8y ago
How did you get that number? Assuming a binomial distribution with p=1/10^7 and n=150*10^3 samples as the null model, the probability of 2 or more accidents happening by chance is 0.011%.
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by twanvl 8y ago
> A classifier generally outputs a vector of weights, so it’s likely classifying, say [0.8, 0.75] and then the output is selecting the highest and saying “bunny”. Then you rotate it, and the classifier says [0.75, 0.8] and the output say
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by twanvl 8y ago
> But that's precisely the point I'm getting at - if Pi is normal, you need to use base 2 for this to work because your codomain is just {0,1}. You can use any base that is a multiple of 2 (like 10) and then apply a parity func
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by twanvl 8y ago
No one is talking about "throwing out billions of years of biochemistry". Rather, by changing a small part of biochemistry we will be better able to understand it. Not all research is about making something better. Artificial base
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by twanvl 8y ago
With the example of U given, U(2 apples + 2 oranges) > U(5 apples), which would not be true for a linear variant of U. You could transform this utility function into exp(U) = apples^a * oranges^(1-a), to make it more linear. But I believ
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by twanvl 8y ago
Could use use <table> for the semantics but set display:block to get <div> style layout?
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by twanvl 8y ago
This is still a meaningless question, because different languages are good for different things. Are you as productive in rust when doing web front-end development as in javascript? Are you as productive when doing one-of scripts as in perl
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by twanvl 8y ago
It is hard to define what "ordering of memory operations" actually means if there is no memory model that takes multi-threading into account. Most styles of formal semantics will allow operations to be reordered as long as the fin
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by twanvl 8y ago
Another solution is to only allow commands from a whitelist to be run. If the user types something not on the list you say "rm is not on the list of allowed commands, press enter to run and add it".
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by twanvl 8y ago
Over half the electricity in China is generated with coal ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_China ).
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by twanvl 8y ago
Wikipedia is not just for the general public, many pages go into a lot of detail, and to people who understand the details of certain subfields of chemistry, these people might be well-known. I'm not a chemist, so I wouldn't know
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by twanvl 8y ago
Small correction: there are only 48 (not 58) numbers out of 210 that are not multiples of 2,3,5,7.
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by twanvl 8y ago
Haskell still uses head:tail linked lists a lot. However, a lot of effort has been spent in optimizing away the data creation entirely. For example `sum [1..100]` will not actually allocate the list in memory.
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by twanvl 8y ago
Even then, linked lists are only faster than arrays if the list has at least 100s of items.
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by twanvl 8y ago
> Thus I can visit any of the above listed website they are processing my data, and GDPR applies to me. "Provided your company doesn't specifically target its services at individuals in the EU, it is not subject to the rules of
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by twanvl 8y ago
> GDPR requires restructuring of applications to keep data on a temporary basis with the consent of the users The GDPR requires mostly that you document what data is stored and how, and that you have a legitimate reason for doing it this
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by twanvl 8y ago
> Amazon affiliate links also aren't necessary to use the service, and that sets cookies. Have to get consent before users can click on those links. Assuming that these cookies are only set after clicking the link, and that there is
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by twanvl 9y ago
If you don't store the salt, then you might as well generate random numbers.
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by twanvl 9y ago
I would love it if you could filter Facebook to only show posts of friends, and not their likes of clickbait news articles, shares of stupid math puzzles, or them wishing their third cousin a happy birthday. Actually, the fact that your fri
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by twanvl 9y ago
IIRC there was a NIPS 2016 paper that showed that the blurry images are because of the variational approximation used in the generator/decoder network. They replaced this by doing MCMC inference on the encoder network, and showed that
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by twanvl 9y ago
I looked up your claim. The ProtoNets paper by Snell et al. reports 1 shot accuracy 49.42 and 5 shot accuracy 68.20 on miniImagenet, while the new Reptile paper reports 48.21 and 66.00 respectively. I wouldn't call Reptile sophisticate
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by twanvl 9y ago
They might have to buy keys from the publisher. They can't give out a 'stolen' key again, because then paying customers wouldn't be able to activate or download their game.
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by twanvl 9y ago
Wouldn't it be enough to submit a hash of the photo? Then sure, that hash is around forever in the blockchain, but without the original photo that hash is useless. It can only be used to prove that the photo existed at the time the has
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by twanvl 9y ago
> What do you need from Email that a messenger lacks? Discussion threads. Say I work on two different projects with the same colleague, or that I am also friends with a coworker and do things together outside of work. In whatsapp the dif
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by twanvl 9y ago
It looks massively different because your browser is not doing any actual rescaling. The 'browser' images are actually just as small, and might be screenshots of the author's instance of Chrome.
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by twanvl 9y ago
I have been keeping a digital notebook: each day I make a new file `~/logbook/YYYY-MM-DD.txt`, and there I write my thoughts, small code fragments, results of running said fragments, etc. As well as quick summaries of meetings and

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