bhattid

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by bhattid 5mo ago
Not the original commenter, but the math is (making some implicit, but arguably reasonable assumptions): Probability that someone in the population has schizophrenia = (1870/500000) = 0.00374 Probability that someone does NOT have schi
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by bhattid 2y ago
I didn't know the team was so small! Just wanted to say that I love both apps, makes commuting much easier. :)
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by bhattid 2y ago
There's a formalism in math/information theory describing this idea called the Kelly criterion. Not a common/colloquial phrase, but it describes a similar idea of portioning bet size according to percentage of available cash
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by bhattid 3y ago
Well said. In addition to that, I think a speaker's intended meaning is also important to consider. imo, people often take what people say literally or default to a first-instinct interpretation, rather than trying to understand what
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by bhattid 3y ago
I used to keep a diary (that I stopped keeping due to lack of time) and it echoes your experience to a large extent. I mostly wrote about how I was feeling or what I did that day or what I was planning to do in the near future. I also vast
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by bhattid 3y ago
I had a similar experience when I was doing physics in undergraduate as well. I read online and was often told that a physics degree opened a lot of doors - academia, government/industry research, engineering, high school teacher, sof
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by bhattid 3y ago
Playing around a bit, I think the margin of error is probably the average of the sum of widths (so the width of a finger, if they're equal).
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by bhattid 3y ago
I like this one! I was curious what the margin of error for this was (I'm conjecturing the sum of widths of the fingers touching the stick), so I tried this out, but with a pencil instead of a stick. I was consistently getting just off
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by bhattid 3y ago
Out of curiosity, was the bot based on the bMotion repository? https://github.com/jamesoff/bmotion I remember a friend of mine settings up an IRC bot (named Zeta) like that for his sheet music forum many years ago. Sh
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by bhattid 3y ago
Damn, this is news to me. Seems I have some reading to do, thanks for pointing that out.
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by bhattid 3y ago
When a superconductor interacts with a magnetic field, currents generate at the surface of the superconductor that will produce their own magnetic field, which cancels the external one. The superconductor doesn't fall out to the sides
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by bhattid 3y ago
There's a noticeable distortion of the magnetic field near the superconductor. It's this distortion that keeps the superconductor stable - it's caused currents that appear on the surface which match and cancel* the surroundi
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by bhattid 3y ago
If you're interested in the term, what you noticed with your eyesight is an example of hyperacuity. Coincidentally, I learned about it making the same observation with my own eyes. :)
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by bhattid 3y ago
I think what you suggested is an unpopular opinion, but I also wholeheartedly agree with it. :) I'm certainly no expert on copyright law, but my understanding is that its purpose is to protect the financial interests of certain creator
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by bhattid 3y ago
The primary reason (as far as I'm aware) is because buses are (relatively) more massive and structurally different from cars, so they exhibit different collision physics in the event of a crash. In the event of a crash, the greater ma
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by bhattid 3y ago
Hopefully I'm not interpreting, but I think latency's point is more epistemological than a comment on "how science is being done". For example, scientists will still use Newtonian mechanics (as opposed to relativistic m
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by bhattid 4y ago
This has been my experience as well (especially with Anki), though I've always felt like my ability to memorize information to be poor in general. In my experience, I find it easier to memorize things rather through brute force/f
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by bhattid 4y ago
What you're describing is called the "observer effect", which is different from the "measurement effect" that's used to describe the quantum mechanics problem. The misunderstanding is understandable though, be
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by bhattid 4y ago
Also Touhou: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GsZuS-vyM4&list=PL0A503B6DA...
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by bhattid 4y ago
Thank you so much for this, this is hilarious.