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by foobar2020 8y ago
Chapter 2 has a plot of our understanding of the impact of all natural and human causes on the change in temperature: https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/img/figure/figure2_1.png It's pretty clear (according to
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by foobar2020 8y ago
Simple median is a very good (in many applications) nonlinear filter.
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by foobar2020 8y ago
I don't know what it took but they did it recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17919297
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by foobar2020 8y ago
Interesting. Do you have any sources where I could read about it? Flynn effect is fascinating me - if it holds in the future we'll have, in developed nations, an average IQ of 130 (by today's standards) in 100 years. That's a
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by foobar2020 8y ago
Right right, I'm not sure anyone really knows why this happens. My point is that 15 points per half-decade is just baseline. Doesn't mean we've picked up any useful correlation.
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by foobar2020 8y ago
> Poles and Italian immigrants in the US raised their average IQ scores over the 1st half of the 20th century -- by over 15 points! So did everyone else: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect 3 points per decad
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by foobar2020 9y ago
It's 19% of the capital gains, not of the invested money. The parent comment makes it seem like the tax is absurd. Here's a list of countries that implement this tax, including Poland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by foobar2020 9y ago
Well there are more people that are willing to pay than just Coinbase. A more comprehensive answer would be that arbitrage is not that up to speed in the Bitcoin world, especially in KRW and JPY markets: https://coinmarketcap.com
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by foobar2020 9y ago
Unicode to the rescue! Here's how to make 𝗯𝗼𝗹𝗱 text: http://qaz.wtf/u/convert.cgi Looks a bit ugly, but works.
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by foobar2020 10y ago
SSD is probably not as fast as RAM, but it's much much cheaper, in the order of 10x per gigabyte. With SSD-GPU bridge you can have fast access to a multiple TiB training set, on a single machine. Data pre-processing is indeed an issue,
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by foobar2020 10y ago
This would be incredibly useful for distributed machine learning - imagine a Tensorflow implementation that almost entirely bypasses CPU.
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by foobar2020 10y ago
They do, if though nothing else then through multi-billion acquisitions. Another thing is that we all know crises come every now and then. Being tight on cash when it hits the market means you'll have to let talent go to your competito
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by foobar2020 10y ago
Without disagreeing that some portion of global profit comes from "taking things from the planet", do you think that all the value we've created since emerging from Africa somewhen between 50.000 and 100.000 years ago can be
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by foobar2020 10y ago
I believe somewhere at the core of the issue lies inadequate recognition of the critical importance and difficulty of parenthood. It's crazy expensive, eats up half of your life, and sometimes gets very unrewarding. But it's so ob
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by foobar2020 10y ago
While we are on this topic I would like to recommend to all who have not seen it yet "The Seventh Seal", Ingmar Bergman's masterpiece on dealing with death and God's silence when we face it. Action is set in medieval Swe
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by foobar2020 11y ago
I admit, it looks like it's quite hard to find many sources for this information. To the point I started to doubt it. I was basing on this article (in Polish), translation: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pl&a
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by foobar2020 11y ago
Fun fact: during the six-day war the Israeli military command decided to use exclusively Polish in communications, as a cheap and quick method of "encryption". Most commanders could speak Yiddish just as good as Polish. It worked,
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by foobar2020 11y ago
Phage therapy is also present in Poland. There is a research centre in Wroclaw, they produce and send experimental samples upon request. The numbers look very nice, although it's still experimental - formal clinical trials have not bee
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by foobar2020 11y ago
I bought some of these absurd notes to give tips in bars, or to light cigars. Sounds cheap, but always makes everyone laugh. Definitely recommend :)
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by foobar2020 11y ago
I wonder why so few people in Europe realise that. Despite how bad the consequences are (eg. Greece). Luckily my country (Poland) still prints its own currency and manages its own monetary policy.
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by foobar2020 11y ago
It is a reasonably good advice. After all there is plenty of programming work that does not require ever learning how does quicksort work or what is a mutex. Accessible to nearly anyone with increased intelligence.
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by foobar2020 11y ago
Hmm, looks like you're right. It's interesting that the effect is so intensive. https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=probability
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Correlations Between Racism, Feminism, Marxism, Activism and Critical Theory(google.com)
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by foobar2020 11y ago
I doubt that NOx can be captured by such a filter. And according to the article particles level is already well below the limit.
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by foobar2020 11y ago
All those probabilistic programming languages will become exponentially faster once we have feasible quantum computers, since BPP \in BQP. We currently use a weaker inclusion, BPP \in PSPACE, as the core execution model.
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by foobar2020 11y ago
SQL took off as a way to wrap-up first-order logic over finite models into a form useful for programmers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_model
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by foobar2020 11y ago
This is insane. I work as a software engineer in Zurich, and I'm able to set half of my net salary aside as soon as it arrives. Without any significant saving efforts.
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by foobar2020 11y ago
That's really how I see that, as a joke. After all - who feels pressured by an anonymous internet comment?
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by foobar2020 11y ago
Relax captain, it is just a joke. Go drink a beer with your friends, or not.
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by foobar2020 11y ago
How do you know that?

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