Spivakov

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by Spivakov 4y ago
I think your comment would be better if you simply suggest using dongle.
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by Spivakov 4y ago
Impressive. Not exactly the same thing but I have been thinking about the idea of 3D construction of cloth/jeans you want to purchase onto your own body, so that you have better idea before placing order, which could be really useful f
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by Spivakov 4y ago
"The point of most cryptography and security features is to use math to represent and symbolically transfer liability and risk between transaction counterparties" What is the liability here? For example, the company holds differen
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by Spivakov 4y ago
An informal perspective on some implication of Monte Carlo on integral: One of the most intuitive (and used in applications) definition of being integrable is Riemann integral based on the geometric idea that you can compute the area/v
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by Spivakov 4y ago
Your comment reminds me of this interesting article: https://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2010/06/game-economies.html?... In many rpgs as you progress through the game the need for expenditure diminishes to zero. Diff
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by Spivakov 4y ago
The death probability has a turning point from decreasing to increasing around age 10 for both male and female. Wonder why this specific age.
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by Spivakov 4y ago
Your reasoning is interesting. A non-shocking (in the sense of statistics and its likelihood on base population) event being posted and shared in digital media can result in reciprocally huge media effects.
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by Spivakov 4y ago
Here is my kettle logic for you to not even try getting around that paywall: Old papers that are not publicly accessible on the web are very likely just a pile of craps and not worth reading; even if it was worth reading, its information sh
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by Spivakov 4y ago
Second on John Williams quotes as his novels were my favorite. I just want to mention that in Williams original narratives he is far from being sarcastic/playing wits or suggesting life meaninglessness. Instead, it is in the sense of i
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by Spivakov 4y ago
"When it comes to open-world games, I’ve never liked the “fakeness” of the open-world and why games like Skyrim, Horizon, the Assassin’s Creeds, and so on, didn’t interest me." Skyrim and AC are milestones in open-world design aro
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by Spivakov 4y ago
No, not to my knowledge. It seems that they obtained/built my pre-college profile many years ago, but they attempted scam until later and failed to match it up-to-date
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by Spivakov 4y ago
Here is an interesting story in which a scammer almost got me but failed because he knew me "too well": One morning in college I was awakened by a call after staying up all night working on some project. The caller claimed to be f
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by Spivakov 4y ago
My cousin and I crafted our own fictional adventure on some scratch paper when we were kids. We usually started by drawing a fantasy/sci-fi map, chose a starting point, and then improvised the story as we "travel" in this wor
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by Spivakov 5y ago
Statistical regression is algorithm. I think I fail to get the sentiment of this comment though (as someone not in data-oriented profession)
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by Spivakov 5y ago
I am not an expert but it seems that the form of iron absorbed by human body is ferrous sulfate, iron in +2 oxidation state. Iron rust of iron pan is in +3 state, which is chemically a different thing.
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by Spivakov 5y ago
There is also "Hindsight bias, also known as the knew-it-all-along phenomenon, is the common tendency for people to perceive past events as having been more predictable than they actually were." https://en.m.wikipedia.o
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by Spivakov 5y ago
“most bloated apps are within the 100-200MB range, not 400MB.” WeChat enters the chat...
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by Spivakov 5y ago
How can a user confirm by himself that the company does not monetize the user data, without whistleblower news Privacy in social media is a feature that is bound to self-discipline of the service provider
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by Spivakov 5y ago
"but they are filtered by an extensive blocklist ... That account had 16000 and no such filters." Does he mean his account has 1800 followers and 16000 users/comments on blocklist? I do not use Twitter but this absurd ratio m
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by Spivakov 5y ago
Would you describe more details about your work in graphics? What are the skills would you think that are important
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by Spivakov 5y ago
That is surprising to me. I think 343 is pushing the game to esports.
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by Spivakov 5y ago
Op's logic in one sentence - "writing notes without going back to them is useless => writing notes is useless"
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by Spivakov 5y ago
About deterministic propagation model: "It relies on the assumption that processing the actions of a player is deterministic." I am curious in what scenario of online gaming does this assumption fail. I remember that about a decad