davidmanescu

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by davidmanescu 10mo ago
I have no special knowledge about IBM Vs Apple historically, but: a quarter billion in CAPEX when you've earned a billion in revenue in a single year is extremely different to what we're seeing now. These companies are spending al
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by davidmanescu 2y ago
Archived: https://archive.md/fqc2u
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Gramm and Summers: A Letter on Tariffs from Economists to Trump(wsj.com)
14 points by davidmanescu 2y ago|1 comments
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by davidmanescu 7y ago
Silver's forecasts do predictably change, more precisely in that they swing deterministically in favour of one candidate whenever the most recent poll to come in favours that candidate heavily. Each time the probability drops below 40%
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by davidmanescu 8y ago
Adaptive Brightness: "solving a problem that's been solved numerous times, but this time using machine learning"
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Plants release up to 30 per cent more CO2 than previously thought, study says(abc.net.au)
3 points by davidmanescu 9y ago|0 comments
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by davidmanescu 9y ago
In the article they've trained the AI to predict what frames the game would provide given a certain input, but to demonstrate its effectiveness they show the original game given a certain input, side-by-side with the AI's predicti
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by davidmanescu 9y ago
Equalities that involve units aren't straightforward. Not a physicist of any sort but don't all the 1's still fundamentally change the equality since they change the units? I would guess they therefore implicitly change the i
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by davidmanescu 9y ago
Very true - neither the person who wants BTC (but has no opinions on BCH) nor the BCH buyer wants to take the risk that the other coin will drop before he/she can sell it. In other words the risk premium isn't zero. However a rati
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by davidmanescu 9y ago
The interested parties on either side would have been better off buying pre-fork and selling the one they didn't want, rather than buying after the fork, even though the end result is the same. That is irrational.
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by davidmanescu 9y ago
PE ratios correlate highly to dividends for shareholders. Does holding bitcoin have a way of compensating you when the transaction count increases?
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by davidmanescu 9y ago
Indeed. I guess volatility like this isn't a dealbreaker for other asset types so it shouldn't be here. Just seems odd that we call it a "currency" when these things happen routinely.
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by davidmanescu 9y ago
To me an asset that moves 15% in a day, and which no-one knows what it's truly worth, isn't great as a store of value. I'm not going to speculate about where bitcoin will be trading when it becomes a stable, useful asset, but
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by davidmanescu 9y ago
That manifold is a torus - you can walk in circles by walking West-East or North-South, each of which repeats every 1 distance unit. If you walk along the diagonal you get a repeating path every 1.4 distance units. All "great circle&qu
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by davidmanescu 9y ago
I would expect these are broken down by enzymes in the mouth/gut long before they have a shot at entering the bloodstream to bind with any antibodies.
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by davidmanescu 9y ago
Payment systems like visa are relatively cheap to operate when being used honestly. There may be overhead when people commit fraud, but to me that seems more prudent than giving honest actors an intentionally inefficient system just to make
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by davidmanescu 9y ago
My suggestion would be to place the car by distance travelled since last leaving the home straight. Use steering + throttle inputs to determine when you are on the home straight, make a best guess at where the start/finish line is, the
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by davidmanescu 9y ago
Did a back of the envelope trigonometry calculation as an approximation, seems to check out :)
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by davidmanescu 9y ago
Follow-up question - after extending the rope by 0.12mm and pulling it up to allow the cat to pass under it, how far away are each of the two points where the rope lifts off the ground?
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by davidmanescu 9y ago
I'm assuming the GIF showing a phone taking a Motion Still was itself made using Motion Stills. Fun.
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The big picture: 65M years of temperature swings (2010)(joannenova.com.au)
2 points by davidmanescu 9y ago|0 comments
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by davidmanescu 10y ago
Ballpark numbers here; by similar reasoning, since the industrial revolution humans have put out no more than 26,000 years worth of all volcanoes' emissions (say 200 years worth of 130x emissions). Therefore (obviously hypothetically)
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by davidmanescu 10y ago
I hope I don't come across as too obtuse, but it might still make economical sense for the PSF to backpedal on their decision: even if Python3 is a good solution for the future, it's caused years of arguments and still hasn't
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by davidmanescu 10y ago
https://xkcd.com/927/ comes to mind when I read this.
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Indirect Tracking of Drop Bears Using GNSS Technology(tandfonline.com)
1 points by davidmanescu 12y ago|0 comments
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by davidmanescu 13y ago
My favourite part of this (aside from the message) is that it links back to this exact discussion page.
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by davidmanescu 13y ago
Interestingly, it appears as though the total salary of those same computer programmers follows a similar trend, up until around 2005, and then reverses. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28computer+programmers...