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by yk 6y ago
That's actually a special case of a general phenomenon, which I seen here on a link on HN being called the Conway or Neumann problem (in any case, that blog post did purposefully misattribute for a joke, so I am not too concerned in ge
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by yk 6y ago
Apples customers don't know that. The entire strategy of Apple is, selling to people who compare a EUR 1500 MacBook to a EUR 500 HP laptop. Of course the MacBook is a lot better. Similar, these need to be a lot better than AirPods. The
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by yk 6y ago
Very interesting, however now the problem becomes to characterize such machine learning approaches. With traditional simulation methods the authors can usually explain easily in which situation a specific approach is good or bad, with neura
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by yk 6y ago
OP suggested they fly 737 Max
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by yk 6y ago
> ... we can’t be so happy about having issued that 96% win probability. Our model messed up. As it stands now, that sounds pretty good, however we have to wait for the end of the count of course. And in general, I am a fan of not overly
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by yk 6y ago
That was a thing before everybody used android.
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by yk 6y ago
Somewhat interesting, however the guy lost me more and more the longer he argues. So, the various anomalies in the dataset are somewhat interesting, but having weird outliers in the margins is an entirely expected effect. Just because there
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by yk 6y ago
> The largest meta-analysis ever conducted of studies published between 1966 and 2013 showed that 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels <75 nmol/L may be too low for safety and associated with higher all-cause mortality, demolishing the pre
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by yk 6y ago
From a technical perspective I have actually a hard time to argue what is an API, and what is 'normal code,' in particular because a lot of code uses internal interfaces and DSLs. However as an open source radical, I would lean in
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by yk 6y ago
That is precisely the question, is a clean room reimplementation copyright infringement? And of course, this is Google doing a clean room implementation of the famously litigious Oracle's code, so we get basically laboratory conditions
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by yk 6y ago
The first is not well defined, the second is and as long as we are talking countable infinity, it is not. (In the uncountable case you are running into problems with definitions again.) As a matter of fact, you will not hit almost all numbe
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by yk 6y ago
Assume that the volume of the visible universe grows, and then consider a ball that just circles on larger and larger circles. Clearly, the ball does not need to get back arbitrarily close to where it started.
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by yk 6y ago
Nothing happens (locally) at the event horizon, everything works as normal. The analogy that is often used is fish upstream from a waterfall. At some point the current of the stream becomes so strong that the fish can no longer escape from
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by yk 6y ago
Well, I guess Boeing was in trouble after the 737 and then came Covid and the associated collapse of air travel. Together with the announcement of moving the 787 production to North Carolina last week, this feels like grasping for straws.
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by yk 6y ago
It is precisely security by obscurity, it only helps against attacks one would not need to worry about in a well administered system. All the drive by traffic on port 22 is just trying to log in with absurdly simple passwords and two or thr
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by yk 6y ago
The newspaper is called "der Freitag," however the German Zeitung (newspaper) is feminine and therefore would suggest "die." So it appears that people do not recognize that "der" is part of the title, and then
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by yk 6y ago
Depends, chemistry looks very differently simply because in such environments it is better to think of an electron gas that moves in a magnetic field, and is slightly perturbed by the presence of nuclei, rather than thinking of electrons be
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by yk 6y ago
I can think of two scenarios where this security feature is helpful. First, somebody breaks into a server room, replaces the motherboard with a compromised one, and notices mid replacement that they forgot a processor. (Since the processor
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by yk 6y ago
In a scientific paper, the author would just write down what they do, and trust the reader to be experienced enough to discount such problems themselves. Now, journalists write for a general audience, that is they write for the lowest commo
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Intel Suffers Apparent Data Breach, 20GB of IP Leaked to Internet(anandtech.com)
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by yk 6y ago
Porsche should publish an api for the blinkenlights, so that we can play pong while driving.
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by yk 6y ago
Yes, but notice that the shock goes sled -> spine -> head -> helmet in sledding and other player -> helmet -> head in football. So, strapping an accelerometer onto the helmet looks quite a bit better for sledding. (And especi
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by yk 6y ago
When you are looking for something like 80g (as is the maximum of the graph), then the head would move something like 4 cm between two frames, which suggests to me, that you probably want to have a lot more than 100 fps, since you want to g
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by yk 6y ago
Because the tire would deform, if there is a net force on it. Therefore the force from the inside is the same as the one on the outside. (However, that argument has only any chance to hold at the contact point from the tire to the ground, s
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by yk 6y ago
We know how many neutrinos should be there, and it's not enough to provide a dark matter candidate. Additionally, neutrinos would be hot dark matter, that is they would move fast, and therefore not cluster nicely. That would lead to ga
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by yk 6y ago
> Last December, Keller Scholl and I posted a working paper suggesting that this whole narrative is bullshit, at least so far. Thing is, when you are calculating the color of the sky, then it is either a bluish looking spectra, or you ar
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by yk 6y ago
> make predictions about the kinds of effects you’d expect to find in the historical record, You want to make predictions about the past?
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by yk 6y ago
I fully agree with the premise that humanities aren't a science. In fact I am fairly certain that the current paradigm of science can not work for at least history, though I strongly suspect most of the humanities. One of the problems
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by yk 6y ago
Well, the US military budget can only be understood as an aesthetic statement, there is basically no scenario were the US defense budget is not vastly oversized. The obvious counter of getting stuck in Iraq or Afghanistan, there the problem
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by yk 6y ago
There are several different "multiverse" ideas, from the top of my head the many worlds interpretation of QM, the string landscape, the multiverse of general relativity, the multiple branes in Randall-Sudrum models. Thing is, mult

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