DrFalkyn

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by DrFalkyn 1y ago
Most other primate species, indeed most other mammalian species, polygyny is the norm
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by DrFalkyn 1y ago
It’s one word, like watchmaker or bookkeeper are in English.
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by DrFalkyn 1y ago
reshape
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by DrFalkyn 1y ago
Yeah one of other beauties of numpy is you can pass data to/from native shared libraries compiled from C code with little overhead. This was more klidgy in Matlab last I checked
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by DrFalkyn 1y ago
Back when our lab transitioned from Matlab to Python I used numpy/scipy quite a bit. I remember heavily leaning on numpy.reshape to get things to work correctly. In some cases I did resort to looping.
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by DrFalkyn 1y ago
In academia you are forced to go where the jobs are, or else you leave the field. Yes I have known people married with kids who move overseas
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by DrFalkyn 1y ago
I thought it was the exact opposite. European universities were a lot harder to get a faculty appointment. And they tended to favor local candidates , Which is why you see a lot of US universities have foreign professors, but not as many
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by DrFalkyn 1y ago
In the medieval era in Europe few were generally professional, in the sense that it was their full time job even in peacetime. Like you said the Kings retinue would be one of the few exceptions. Since the collapse of the (Western) Roman E
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by DrFalkyn 1y ago
Then how did BART get built ?
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by DrFalkyn 1y ago
What happens if the Kafka node fails ?
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by DrFalkyn 1y ago
You can sell the barrel after you are done
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by DrFalkyn 1y ago
It’s AGI when it can improve itself with no more than a little human interaction
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by DrFalkyn 1y ago
Maybe for translating a natural language query into a regular expression that can be ingested by grep.
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by DrFalkyn 1y ago
Unless there’s enough oxygen, it shouldn’t be a problem
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by DrFalkyn 1y ago
But how many of those stars would have been suitable for life ? A huge star that’s going to burn out quickly isn’t conducive to complex organisms Also in a huge star there’s less material to form planets in the first place
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by DrFalkyn 1y ago
Is there some law that you can only use a single messaging app ?
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by DrFalkyn 1y ago
How about Google Wave ? https://support.google.com/answer/1083134?hl=en
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by DrFalkyn 1y ago
This is becoming more common. Students are entering high snchool already having taken geometry in the 8th grade. When I graduated in the late 90s, we had calc 3 (we called it multivariable calc) and linear algebra, partially because a bit
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by DrFalkyn 1y ago
If we could ever figure out what wet brains actually do (continuous feedback, ? enzyme release ? ) this might be possible
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by DrFalkyn 1y ago
The Plaza Accord was 1985. And it wasn’t just between the US and Japan. iIf included France, Germany and the UK. The Japanese economy continued to grow until the mid 1990s. I think the real culprit was low birth rate in the prior 20 year
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by DrFalkyn 1y ago
This isn’t quite true. The last language from the Supreme Court, in Brandeburg vs. Ohio ( 1969) was “imminent lawless action”. There’s also standards for the public airwaves, which are regulated by the FCC. maybe not as important as t
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by DrFalkyn 1y ago
The Washington Post being owned by Amazon for one
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by DrFalkyn 1y ago
Replication in SQLLite cp data.db <backuo location> On modern cloud systems you shouldn’t have data loss anyway
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by DrFalkyn 1y ago
There’s DICOM but last I worked with it it was a disaster. , because everyone implemted it differently. Seemed like a solution looking for a problem. Also didn’t help the standard is like 200 pages and it was a design by committee, none of
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by DrFalkyn 1y ago
“Amplification” has to be one the most misunderstood concepts In electronics No signal is really “boosted” by some weird process. What happens is a very powerful DC signal (i.e constant) is selectively allowed through, being mediated by th
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by DrFalkyn 1y ago
That must have been why PacMan was such a dismal failure. How realistic is to play a giant yellow mouth chomping on dots in a maze while being chased by ghosts
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by DrFalkyn 1y ago
It’s not for free. It’s in return for being under the US security umbrella, which costs the US about $800 billion a year Of course that umbrella could soon be gone, so it would be a moot point
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by DrFalkyn 1y ago
More stark is the difference between 700 and 800 OPS …
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by DrFalkyn 1y ago
When there was a left handed pull hitter at at the plate, the third baseman would move to where the shortstop was, the shortstop would move to second base, and the second baseman would be on shallow right field. Third base was left complete
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by DrFalkyn 1y ago
Why can’t teams just defend the three better?

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