letlambda

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by letlambda 8y ago
I've never heard of a company paying non-salary employees during a plant shutdown. (In the US, things may be different in Europe for all I know)
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by letlambda 8y ago
Isn't the assumption always that accessing a web page programmatically is allowed unless specifically asked not to in robots.txt?
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by letlambda 8y ago
They aren't, we can easily extend the concept by using it as metaphor.
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by letlambda 8y ago
It's a metaphor, metaphors aren't literally physical work implements.
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by letlambda 8y ago
>I suspect that metaphors are the tools of cargo cults while analogies are the tools used by those that actually understand a system in order to convey it to those that do not. Are the metaphors actual tools, or more like metaphorical to
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by letlambda 8y ago
They're also the world leaders in automobile safety-defects.
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by letlambda 8y ago
If you have a probability vector, you would typically take the max, not model the action on the probability distribution. e.g. If an image (from the forward camera) returns the probability vector: {"stop_sign": .9, "green_li
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by letlambda 8y ago
Just guidelines at this point. https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/us-dot-releases-new-aut...
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by letlambda 8y ago
Yeah, but he feels sort of bad about it... http://hieroglyph.asu.edu/book/hieroglyph All the way to the bank.
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by letlambda 9y ago
Check your orbital velocity at the surface. It's not 0. The direction you head does matter.
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by letlambda 9y ago
I haven't read the paper, but I think: >undermine the ability of democracies to sustain truthful public debates. Is coded language for exactly what you're talking about, in the same way that dictators is coded language for geop
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by letlambda 9y ago
How is your concern different than what they are calling political security (~1/3 of the paper)? >Political security. The use of AI to automate tasks involved in surveillance (e.g. analysing mass-collected data), persuasion (e.g.
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by letlambda 9y ago
I think the major difference is this notation has the count of loose wires corresponding to dimension, and Penrose notation has the count of loose wires corresponding to tensor valence. Here, a diagram with 1L and 2R wires corresponds to a
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by letlambda 9y ago
There's not much point in trying to hide what your doing, if what your doing is holding a public vote.
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by letlambda 9y ago
>For functions of a single parameter, /partial operator/ is equivalent to /full derivative operator/ (for sufficiently smooth functions). Are you pulling my leg here, or do I need to scrap my understanding of calculus
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by letlambda 9y ago
I concede the point, nuclear strikes on the US and Japan are reasonable responses.
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by letlambda 9y ago
Conditional on a non-military action which had already taken place.
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by letlambda 9y ago
> If I write a theory and take over an existing word in everyday use, it seems a bit much to accuse every one else of colloquialism when they use an existing but less strict definition? It does, but engineering is a technical profession
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by letlambda 9y ago
I don't know the semi-conductor specifics... but it's a broad engineering concept. Validation: Does the thing you designed actually do what it's supposed to do? And the related concept, Verification: Is the thing you build (a
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by letlambda 9y ago
Friends don't let friends use ambiguous date formats. https://xkcd.com/1179/
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by letlambda 9y ago
That specificity implies one of these cancers apriori occurs in 5% of the tested population. Is that about right taking into account pre-screening? We can identify a population that has a 5% chance of having one of these cancers?
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by letlambda 9y ago
∇programming
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by letlambda 9y ago
Which leads to my favorite way to think about it. One foot per clock tick of a 1Ghz processor.
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by letlambda 9y ago
My lawyer can drive himself, but it only works with BMWs.
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by letlambda 9y ago
Full featured command line tool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J691aLfkWP0
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by letlambda 9y ago
If they're planning on Mars orbit, and not a Mars flyby there's a propulsion system. edit: Unless by Mars orbit, he means, a solar orbit similar to the orbit of Mars. Which actually probably is what he means. It's just the ri
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by letlambda 9y ago
The Raptor engine(under development) is comparable to the BE-4.
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by letlambda 9y ago
>* What happens when a wheel seal goes? Do I have to remove all that ridiculous plastic on #2,3 axels?? Seeing as you still need to do a pre-trip inspection, I assume they swing out of the way pretty easily.
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by letlambda 9y ago
In 40F water for 4-6 hours and you're looking at a severe case of death.
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by letlambda 9y ago
If you want to delve into PKD's... different thinking. A Scanner Darkly, and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich. If you want another sci-fi detective noir, Altered Carbon fits the bill.

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