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by xvedejas 5y ago
My narrow perspective is that Python is the one language that both companies engaged in ML research (like Google) have been using, and also a very common language of instruction, for instance in the CS program at the school where I studied.
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Zompist was one of the sites that got me interested in linguistics as a kid -- nice seeing it occasionally, very nostalgic, and the writings have aged well.
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Not just money; I've read that political scandals have a much larger effect size on who wins political elections than all of campaign spending does[0]. This suggests to me that there's a huge political incentive to fabricate scand
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In the US, the letter of the law is that cyclists must make a full stop, yes. But cycling activists often argue that this is a law that needs changing, and would help get more casual riders on bikes. Additionally, most bike riders in cities
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I have been explicitly told by my local bike coalition not to stop fully for stop signs. Stopping fully is not particularly safe and local motorists don't even expect it. Given that information, what do you think is the correct behavio
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You have to really nit-pick to tell some of them apart, for sure. I had to go by things like "these proportions look maybe 4% closer to what I think is reasonable" to end up with Noto Sans Mono over Cousine.
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by xvedejas 5y ago
I didn't say you did, I was agreeing with you. I recommend reading comments' tone on HN as more neutral than the average internet comment.
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There are two ways to increase the partial pressure of oxygen: either raise the overall pressure, or increase the concentration of oxygen (at the expense of nitrogen concentration, surely). Assuming a change in nitrogen partial pressure isn
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by xvedejas 5y ago
It's easy to feel weird as a kid with less perspective over the world. I have empathy for anyone who felt they weren't like the other kids around them for good, productive reasons. Sure, thinking interest in computers = Asperger&#
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Switching clocks changes the schedule only by one hour, in a one-size-fits-all fashion. Even at 30deg north, summer and winter sunrises are multiple hours apart. This is why summer and winter schedules for businesses are multiple hours apar
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Keylogging? Depending on the bar for sophistication, I'm told this could be done by a microphone at the other end of town, or by measuring the power consumption of your building from the grid... but there's probably something at t
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Surely schedules would adjust, right? In northern latitudes I commonly see different summer hours for shops for instance, it's about time middle latitudes adopt this simple strategy instead of abrupt time changes.
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This resonated surprisingly well for a secular guy like myself. Have I unknowingly been influenced by Jewish culture (likely enough)? Or has engineering school culture perhaps found a similar style of casual argumentation by convergent evol
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The capital costs mean the plants cost more to run than they would otherwise, but this wouldn't necessarily factor into the price. There's no reason to pay more for extra energy that costs more, so adding a plant that charges even
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by xvedejas 5y ago
Has it been quite a month yet? If there is an effect I'd guess we won't even see it in the statistics yet, and that's without accounting for the fact that it takes time to find and start a job even in a favorable market.
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by xvedejas 5y ago
This is an important question. The pandemic response added both extensions to unemployment and additional payout beyond the typical maximum ($300/week extra, if I remember correctly). If you were laid off any time over the last 18 mont
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The image shows a number of pentagons, so it's not just hexagons unless you consider a pentagon some kind of degenerate hexagon. That said, you can indeed cover a sphere with only hexagons, if you relax the requirement that they all be
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If they were entirely not motivated by money, we could just have them do it for free. I think clearly teachers expect at least a little money, and perhaps many potential teachers would expect even more.
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I'm not the best person to explain or recommend it, but I'll suggest "immediate mode" GUIs partially because I want to hear more about the pros/cons from those more experienced (I haven't ever worked on UIs pro
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It sound probably be "std dev", shorthand for "standard deviation".
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Same here, except a 3pm cutoff has been adequate. That said, I usually have just one cup a day, and many (most?) other coffee drinkers seem to have more per day than I do. How long it stays in the body is about both how much coffee _and_ ho
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Sublingual tablets are available which result in a much more reliably fast absorption. I recommend them for anyone who wants less variability from their melatonin use.
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"The official Israeli position is X and the official Palestinian version is Y" might be one factual way to state opinions. You can choose exactly how much should be decided as "fact".
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The Mittelstand mentality seems contradictory to me: I've always associated financial risk-taking with a long-term mentality. You have to be thinking in growth terms to take financial risks, and it's the exploit end of the explore
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This is the concept of a Land Value Tax (LVT), except that unlike a property tax, LVT wouldn't tax your own improvements to property (like building a house), only 100% of fortune gained from land appreciation.
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When do these start-ups typically decide to announce? When would we know all of the batch?
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Coming at it from the other direction though, the very small percentage of people who, in my experience, do have a good reaction to "you are being unreasonable", have ended up realizing that they were in a scenario where they need
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So, better for California to compete with cattle raising in Brazil, and then Iowan soybean would be marginally more preferable for cattle feed over Amazonian soybean? I realize it's a more complex system than that, but I would indeed g
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I'm trying to understand the operation of the rollbook. Is the voter required to go to one specific place to vote? This seems at least moderately inconvenient.
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EVs' lifespan matters (I'm not sure how it compares to ICEs today): if after a year you then sell the car as used, that's a significant amount more efficient than assuming the car is destroyed each year.

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