ubitaco

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by ubitaco 2mo ago
I didn't know that AP style recommended spaces either side of the em dash. Here in the UK we generally use en dashes instead, and I thought em dashes always had no spaces. Apparently the wire machines that AP sent their news out by in
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by ubitaco 1y ago
It's slightly buried in the readme on Github: > how can we store a 24 byte long string, inline? Don't we also need to store the length somewhere? > To do this, we utilize the fact that the last byte of our string could only
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by ubitaco 1y ago
fun! Here's a heart: https://tixy.land/?code=hypot%28x-7%2Cy%2Babs%28x-7%29-9%29-...
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by ubitaco 2y ago
Whereas GP is making reference to a case in which Italian seismologists were literally convicted after their predictions did not come true.
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by ubitaco 2y ago
I would back "blank" as the most likely to be understood by the other person.
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by ubitaco 3y ago
If you can make certain assumptions about the system (mainly that sources of noise follow gaussian distributions and are independent), then the Kalman filter gives the best possible estimate of the system state. And it can be computed cheap
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by ubitaco 5y ago
> Good DS understands the basics of web technology I'm not a data scientist but a portion of my job is creating pipelines, data analytics and such. I also only have a bare minimum knowledge of web technology. Why is knowledge of web
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by ubitaco 6y ago
I'm also not a physicist, but for the fun of the discussion... Radiative heat loss scales with the fourth power of temperature. I don't know what temperature the ISS radiators are but suppose they are around 300K. Then I think the
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by ubitaco 6y ago
This happened to me on an emirates A380, but on landing. The timing was comical because immediately after touching down (and being rained on) the entertainment screen prompts you to rate your flight.
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by ubitaco 8y ago
>In fact there is a 25% chance that the person involved in working that out has been asked to commit fraud at some point. But there's only a 10% chance of that.
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by ubitaco 9y ago
The market has spoken
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by ubitaco 11y ago
Perhaps you can start at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Free_media_resour... Good luck!