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by casual_slacker 7y ago
Perhaps tangential, but is there a frequency of a gravity wave high enough to "cusp" due to one of the quantization limits?
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by casual_slacker 7y ago
Not sure if I understand, but it seems the dendrites are "grouped" in a way, and their influence on the output is a function of the group? Is this functionally equivalent to having a two layer mini-network (that represents one bra
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by casual_slacker 8y ago
> Early methods conceived of vision as searching for edges, or generalized cylinders, or in terms of SIFT features. But today all this is discarded. These aren't discarded, they are part of ML vision networks today. Edges are one of
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by casual_slacker 8y ago
I think I understand this. In "he only drinks soda", The token "only" opens the opportunity for "fcontrol" (like yield in a generator) to be resolved at a yet-to-be-determined position in the sentence. So if yo
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by casual_slacker 8y ago
But when you pay a dividend, you lose a small % in tax, or the delay between receiving the dividend and reinvesting it. That % loss adds over time and makes dividend structures less efficient than direct reinvestment. You are correct when t
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by casual_slacker 8y ago
To be fair, critical parts of modern day "version control", like pull requests and code review, are part of GitHub but not git.
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by casual_slacker 8y ago
It could also break pages that rely on full control over the hash, having targetText= injected unexpectedly would break a lot of crude params parsers.
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by casual_slacker 8y ago
Seems like game theory? If everyone else is playing, then it's better to play than abstain. Also I'm not sure about "higher prices", in my town there's two convenience stores across from each other, one with CC fee
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by casual_slacker 8y ago
The python library Backtrader is popular and has good intro docs. https://www.backtrader.com/docu/quickstart/quickstart.html
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by casual_slacker 8y ago
We used a similar trick, not for testing, but the ability to download the prod database and debug things locally. We hit scaling issues before PII, so coworker built a system to generate real-ish DBs with only one customer's data. And
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by casual_slacker 8y ago
It concerns me how 5G has a huge PR push behind it, while academic papers seem to be in a state of confusion and uncertainty, particularly around the 50GHz line (most 5G standards, including the current EU standard, is only up to 27GHz, but
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by casual_slacker 8y ago
There might be license issues between AGPLv3 of GenodeOS and the Apache 2.0 or GPLv2 that Android components use.
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by casual_slacker 8y ago
It's an interesting point seldom discussed: governments use money in boring safe ways, eccentric rich people "waste" money in unique and unpredictable ways. Both seem essential to the equation of production, just maybe not in
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by casual_slacker 8y ago
Taxing real estate at large causes a supply-side pressure, driving up market prices. If you only "tax" very specific land around a train station, you limit the effect on the greater market. In theory a government could pass such l
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by casual_slacker 8y ago
At first glance, it looks like an assembly language. Does anything compile to it?
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by casual_slacker 8y ago
Amzn (adjusted for splits/etc) had a peak value of $107 in 2000 and a low of $7 in 2001.
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by casual_slacker 8y ago
The learned scheduling result is particularly impressive, 19% speedup of average over the "Fair" (state of the art?) algorithm.
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by casual_slacker 8y ago
I know this is a battle as old as time, but the other extreme does exist: a system so complex that it directly attributes to attrition and decay, but too business-critical to get rid of. Yes, it's a "serious issue", and yes,
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by casual_slacker 8y ago
It exists, but I see those as edge cases. Compared to when someone is asking "am I smart enough", they are really asking if they can move from where they are now, to just a bit higher, the answer is usually "yes". At tha
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by casual_slacker 8y ago
Here is the paper the article attempted to cite [1] (article link is 404ing right now) [1] https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=108... I believe the article mentions this, but the paper only studies
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by casual_slacker 8y ago
Another example is WA state DoL, which does not automatically reissue (nor require) a new license when you update your address.
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by casual_slacker 8y ago
I'm not sure this is the case. Since medical insurance companies are heavily regulated on margins, their primary way of making money is investing the "pool" that's used to pay out claims. The size of this pool is determi
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by casual_slacker 8y ago
Maybe this is a form of NIMBYism? If the issue is primarily housing prices, then it seems the new homeowners start benefiting from the policies they previously suffered from as renters, so it's not hypocrisy, but rather a change of cir
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by casual_slacker 8y ago
California SB901 makes suing PGE a bit more complicated.
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by casual_slacker 8y ago
Not only the industry or workers, but CO2 taxes, when implemented as petrol or electricity taxes, end up increasing the cost to users who don't control their own usage: petrol is required to commute to work, electricity is required for
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by casual_slacker 8y ago
Another angle is where the initial push for these new programs is coming from.
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by casual_slacker 8y ago
I agree, max damage was the wrong term. I was envisioning the temperatures to melt steel structures that exist closer to the detonation.
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by casual_slacker 8y ago
Population correlates directly with some economies: food, housing, etc. I think most of our measures of an economy (GDP? VTI?) aim to get as many people in as many human-only productive jobs as possible. (I apologize for leaving "produ
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by casual_slacker 8y ago
They were air-detonated, I believe 200 meters above ground level, so the damage was less than the maximum potential of the bombs. Nagasaki is more solemn, the ground zero area has rubble visible in a glass display area, and ruins of a brick
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by casual_slacker 8y ago
There are cases in history where records offices were held in rebellion for political purposes. A blockchain would change means of control of records from violence to compute power. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex

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