altrego99

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by altrego99 1y ago
You misunderstand the objective this is not to make a right-wing wiki. But a neutral wiki. If Wikipedia was called "liberalopedia", not many people would use it either. And to their credit it didn't start out with any bias. I
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by altrego99 1y ago
It's not that easy. There's bureaucracy that makes this nearly impossible. Wikipedia sources include liberal news media (e.g. CNN) but blacklist others (Fox News). So it is highly biased by the rules they set up. To challenge the
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by altrego99 8y ago
Agree that this is a problem (if the programmer is not careful). But serious question, why even bother with this one fix? The only reason for the fix is so to make it more difficult to make errors. Fix arrays, then you would fix null pointe
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by altrego99 9y ago
Yes, that looked like the relationship between number of pirate ships and global warming to me.
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by altrego99 9y ago
I think you did the right thing posting this. If I were in Facebook, I'd like to learn about this.
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by altrego99 9y ago
I have always found the connection curious. In video games, for example, you do exactly this - not calculate something unless it is being observed. Who is to say the quantum effects are not actually artifacts of some optimizations in the si
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by altrego99 9y ago
In both cases you'd need to know some properties of the distribution to get a random bitstream. Which pixel would you be looking at? Below what threshold would you call it a 0 rather than 1? How long till you can confidently say next r
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by altrego99 10y ago
The only reason I use Windows is that still most tripple A games need DirectX to run.
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by altrego99 10y ago
Here is something that never took off. And never will despite the popularity of this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrtANPtnhyg The difference? Selfie stick does exactly what it says it does and isn't more awkw
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by altrego99 11y ago
The article tends to imply P-value should not be used at all, rather than misused. P-value definitely means something. For example, if the p-value is 1e-10 (which is often possible), you know for sure that the hypothesis generating has been
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by altrego99 11y ago
Take X = all continuous well behaved 1-1 mapping f from [0,1] to R^3, with f(0)=f(1). A knot is an equivalence class of such functions, equivalence defined as given two functions f and g, you can "morph" one into other continuousl
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by altrego99 11y ago
If I knew Russian, I would translate that into the English Wikipedia page.
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by altrego99 11y ago
I actually found it disappointing, compared to some other similar Disney material I've seen earlier. It is perhaps too simple. Certain things are so grossly oversimplified, they are misleading. For example, how does sorting rays follow
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by altrego99 11y ago
Shoot a ray from the camera to an object. Then 'connect' it to all light sources, by measuring the change in angle, and properties of the surface. And add up. If the surface is refractive/reflective, recursively shoot one mor
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by altrego99 11y ago
An API would do the job just fine.
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by altrego99 11y ago
WinPython did the same for me when I was a newbie. Still use it.
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by altrego99 11y ago
Yep this is hidden value theorem. I think either the author messed up the concept badly, or what is more likely, the proponent of this 'QBism' doesn't get it. He appears to think spooky action is just lack of information - so
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by altrego99 11y ago
Very nice. Does anyone have a recommendation of a good rain in video game? The genre - racing, shooter, RPG, or even a demoscene - I don't mind, I just want good rains and thunderstorms!
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by altrego99 11y ago
Because floor is a discontinuous function. But you are right, what I meant is there is no way to define 0^0 maintaining continuity of the power function. Why is this important? Because power is a continuous function otherwise.
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by altrego99 11y ago
Defining 0^0=1 has issues. Example: a(n)=1/exp(n), b(n)=1/n. Then both a and b converge to 0, but a^b is always exp(-1) (and hence does not converge to 1).
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by altrego99 11y ago
Also, the random numbers generally interact like 2-dimensional vectors when not observed, and in a different way, like probabilities between 0 to 1, the moment they are observed.
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by altrego99 11y ago
Yes - I did read. What I meant is that based on the arguments I gave, I do not believe the other logic to be sound.
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by altrego99 11y ago
In that scenario, the predictor will always "predict" that you will take both boxes. The lack of information of box B, is exactly what makes the other case different. Then you need to only rely on thinking and you do not know if b
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by altrego99 11y ago
Not sure why it is a paradox - assuming the predictor is superintelligent, you don't try to fool it. By definition its intelligence can predict what you will do in the very last moment, so the fact that it doesn't get to change an
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by altrego99 12y ago
Good comment, sets lots of context right. > Maybe an asteroid or comet that got flung by a high-gravity body (black hole? neutron star?) or supernova debris could do that? I don't think a black hole can fling any particle with speed
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by altrego99 12y ago
Am I wrong, or is this technique just a very advanced stroboscopy. Even though it may appear we are following the same pulse of light, that's not what is happening. It is not one shot of light traveling, but every frame is created with
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Chocolatey – apt-get like package manager for Windows(chocolatey.org)
2 points by altrego99 12y ago|0 comments
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by altrego99 12y ago
Impressive feat.
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by altrego99 12y ago
How do I know what are all the fields available on a file?
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by altrego99 12y ago
Admitted I didn't think he would be sensible when he said he is a minority being "serious Christian" in a community of scientists, he turned out not to be sensible.

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