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by aprescott 5y ago
I'm struggling to tie your comment to what the author is getting at. The advice to write thoughts down so you can stop thinking about them isn't offered as a way to achieve more efficient performance, it's to let yourself sto
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by aprescott 6y ago
I have no real opinion on the project in question but devotion is not a fungible, generically applicable resource you decide to apply to one issue or another. Run a test for whatever "IQ/g-factor/ability" handwave you&#x
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by aprescott 7y ago
They're similar, but at least with traditional pagination you have a very clear page transition boundary. You can manually loop through Next → Ctrl-F repeatedly much faster in my experience. With infinite scroll I'm left to work o
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by aprescott 7y ago
(Edit: I emailed them and the article has been corrected.) > a Library that contains 251,312,000 volumes of random sequences of letters (1,312,000 being the number of characters in any given book, each of which admits of twenty-five vari
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by aprescott 7y ago
I agree that it's a somewhat unfair generalization that paints a harsh picture. The core point of the argument still holds though, I think. A cynical response might be to say that the difference is the employer is accounting for longer
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by aprescott 8y ago
The article mentions it. > There exist several closed-form solutions to Fibonacci sequence which gives us the > false hope that there might be an O(1) solution. Unfortunately they all turn out to > be non-optimal if you want an exa
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by aprescott 9y ago
That's an interesting US fact, but the story is about the UK. Is it likewise restricted there?
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by aprescott 9y ago
Isn't the purpose of the example to make it hard to just trivially deduce y? If you know y = 1/(1 - t) then yeah it's undefined at t = 1. The example given doesn't seem to lend itself to that though, and a lesson is to k
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by aprescott 9y ago
I believe it's been shown in video feeds that Lee Sedol had left the room before move 37. He came back from a smoke break and noticed AlphaGo's shoulder hit play. It's of course still dramatic when he comes back and sees it.
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by aprescott 10y ago
I have an Apps account and just installed it from the Play Store.
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by aprescott 10y ago
You don't need --standalone to get only certificate files, by the way. You can also use certonly with --webroot and it'll work just fine. The certonly is the key part. One thing I hope they make a little clearer is how to delegate
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by aprescott 11y ago
I think you're confusing this list of attributes with a separate list used for rollouts and tree search. The ones above are definitely used for the neutral networks in the policy and value networks. See: "Extended Data Table 2: In
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by aprescott 11y ago
Is there a source of the rules for colour choice? I had thought it would be another nigiri as in 1st game. Choosing it based on the 4th game's result would imply Lee Sedol would have been given white. Since he won with white, isn'
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by aprescott 11y ago
> the AI took its time when it thought it was ahead, and played exactly as aggressively as needed to win Don't human professional players do exactly this? They care about playing the best move and winning. The difference is that Alp
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by aprescott 11y ago
It's worth remembering that AlphaGo was partially, initially trained on the previous game records of professional players, to form the basis of its policy network and so on. AlphaGo's victory over Lee Sedol is impressive, but it d
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by aprescott 11y ago
I'd be interested in hearing about the process of returning to the District Court (or really any previous court) to defend on a fair use argument. Was that case not closed? Was it left pending until the question of copyright itself was
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Automated vulnerability checking with bundler-audit and Travis(aprescott.com)
2 points by aprescott 11y ago|0 comments
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by aprescott 12y ago
How did you convince them you were him and that you hadn't stolen your own identity?
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by aprescott 12y ago
This reads to me like a more verbose version of "Incorrect username or password." I'd favour the shorter version that gets the same point across.
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by aprescott 13y ago
I don't know enough about client implementations to say whether it is unsaveable, but let's say it is: why would 308 exist? That suggests the HTTP spec folks believe it's fundamentally changed meaning. With new-301, new-302&#
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by aprescott 13y ago
302 is already bad, and 301 is already wrongly implement as RFC 2616 itself notes. Ultimately I doubt either is going to see a "fixed" implementation from a buggy one that's lasted as long as it has.
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by aprescott 13y ago
While browsers can probably "do anything" with a 301 or 302, I think in practice it's simpler. I think the issue here is that 301 and 302 were originally intended to preserve the HTTP method but they became permanent and temp
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by aprescott 13y ago
I think any setup which requires the website to respond to requests intended to verify its own authenticity will probably not work. Any verification requests could be passed upstream to a separate running application in order to calculate a
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A summary of HTTP redirects(aprescott.com)
1 points by aprescott 13y ago|0 comments
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by aprescott 13y ago
I've found autotype to be more than enough personally: http://keepass.info/help/base/autotype.html In fact, I usually just copy the password with Ctrl-C and the username with Ctrl-B. You can configure a secur
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AT&T’s lost octal revenue(aprescott.com)
2 points by aprescott 13y ago|0 comments
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by aprescott 13y ago
Part of the reason this is interesting is the possibly intentional inflation of Romney's odds (from the paper) for non-monetary gain. Indeed, losing 4 million dollars: It does appear, however, that price manipulation by a single trade
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Trading Strategies and Market Microstructure: Evidence from a Prediction Market(papers.ssrn.com)
3 points by aprescott 13y ago|1 comments
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by aprescott 13y ago
I actually think "push" and "pull" make sense on a door since it can go both ways (although you can solve that one by using a handle on the pull side, and a flat rectangle on the push side). The real thing you shouldn&#x
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by aprescott 13y ago
He also made Merry Quine-mas 2010: http://mamememo.blogspot.com/2010/12/merry-quine-mas-2010.ht...

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