zelos

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by zelos 11mo ago
Yeah, but apart from all that, what have the Romans ever done for us?
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by zelos 11mo ago
> for every old person we should have more than one working young person. I never understood this thinking. Doesn't it assume infinite population is possible?
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by zelos 1y ago
This suggests ejecting a secondary mirror in front of the craft to reflect light to brake the original craft: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.01356 : "...or by ejecting a reflector that is then used as a braking system
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by zelos 1y ago
> Real-time military object telemetry with precise geolocation, identifiers, and live telemetry Oops
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by zelos 1y ago
> is where your advisor would come in and tell you what you need to work on. Yes, that would have been nice :(
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by zelos 1y ago
Interesting - I guess I'd assumed at that level the courses would be grad courses and not coursework heavy. I think for me the problem was "unknown unknowns". If I knew I needed to know something, I could pick up a textbook a
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by zelos 1y ago
Having tried and failed to finish a PhD in the UK, I wish universities over here took the approach that I see in these snapshots of requiring PhD students to still take classes.
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by zelos 1y ago
> now I can't use the basic map navigation unless I pay $120CAD per year, Ford stand to make hundreds of dollars a year from this.
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by zelos 1y ago
There's some controversy around Asperger too, which made the name problematic anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Asperger
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by zelos 1y ago
> Because they're just too big: too many game mechanics, too many locations, too much story, This was my thinking exactly while playing the two most recent God of War games. So many more mechanics, endless weapon crafting/upgra
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by zelos 1y ago
> For context, 3GB of data is the rough equivalent of streaming high-definition video for an hour on a device. Watching Sanctuary Moon ? Fair enough, washing clothes is pretty boring.
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by zelos 1y ago
That's pretty much been Lib Dem policy since 1992, but they finally gave up on it in 2023: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66910334
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by zelos 1y ago
It would be more interesting to compare the rates of serious injury (including death), I think. That would remove the effect of improvements in medical treatement over time.
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by zelos 1y ago
Maybe AGI is impossible not for any technical reasons, but because AI is a self-limiting technology? As AI improves, it destroys the educational system that creates the researchers that develop it.
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by zelos 1y ago
Mitochondria were(are?) bacteria, so technically we can't live without bacteria really.
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by zelos 1y ago
Private vs public is just one factor. The UK's rail services improved hugely post-privatisation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_the_privatisation_of...
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by zelos 1y ago
I did 100% of MF II and III, plus 80% of Linear Algebra: https://mathacademy.com/courses/linear-algebra . MF II and III were great for revision of late high school maths, yes.
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by zelos 1y ago
Worth it in the personal sense, or career-wise? I'd love to do a maths degree, but being mid-40s with family, mortgage, career etc makes it hard to see myself doing it for real.
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by zelos 1y ago
The explanations are very limited compared to actual maths lessons, though: in my experience they were very often something like "it turns out that the formula for this is...".
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by zelos 1y ago
You have to give them ~£23k for that honour.
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by zelos 1y ago
I recently stopped my MathAcademy subscription: I went from halfway through Math Foundations II through to near the end of Linear Algebra. I stopped because I realised I wasn't really learning maths, I was just learning to answer the q
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by zelos 1y ago
The penguin example seems kind of overstated, since from the sound of it the restaurant basically just donated a few dollars to WWF, but it's dressed up as how they "adopted a living animal for a guest" and no one's done
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by zelos 1y ago
I think about these things every time I cook, but it never occurred to me to just try it. I always assumed that the "reaction rate doubles for 10C change" rule of thumb meant it would take much longer, plus presumably cooking is e
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by zelos 1y ago
That's how Minitel used to work: each page you accessed would add a few pence to your bill.
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by zelos 1y ago
The Porsche Taycan has two forward gears, but it's apparently the only EV that does: https://www.wired.com/story/electric-car-two-speed-transmiss...
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by zelos 1y ago
I remember using something similar a long time ago - basically fuzz testing, I suppose you could call it property based testing where the property is "whatever edits the user does, we should be able to save and reopen the document with
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by zelos 1y ago
Scott Manley has a great video about them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG_Eh0J_4_s
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by zelos 1y ago
...TomTom just getting off the ground TomTom was founded in 1991 and released their first GPS device in 2004. By 2007 they were pretty well established.
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by zelos 1y ago
Automated Emergency Braking has made driving significantly safer, according to the statistics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_emergency_braking_sy...
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by zelos 1y ago
You'd probably use some kind of MILP or CLP based model for that kind of thing, wouldn't you? The constraints define the search space and the solver algorithm then explores it.

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