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by papln 7y ago
In my college in Antarctica we were taught x ^ y = y x^T - x y exp(ε x ^ y) v ~ v + ε x ^ y * v = ε y (x,v) - v + ε x (y,v) because we use the left-hand rule down under.
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by papln 7y ago
But 3D is the D that matters for 3D games. video games are concrete mathematics, not abstract mathematics.
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by papln 7y ago
I miswrote. Rotation calculations are represented (in quaternions and in geometric algebra calculations) as a 3D subspace of R^4, with the "extra" dimension accounted for by constraining quaternions to the unit hypersphere. Rotati
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by papln 7y ago
> getting discouraged and quitting is bad for both player and business
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by papln 7y ago
> reliably throws out improbable events. which is another way of wording "reliably generates and serves improbable events"
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by papln 7y ago
> There is just as much money to be made in tearing down a civilization as in building one up. Do you think Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and Larry Page, Jeff Bezos, and Bill Gates agree with this statement?
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by papln 7y ago
I have allergies and my nose runs a lot. Somehow I manage to not throw my tissues on the ground. Is it so hard to carry an ash box with a cigarette box?
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by papln 7y ago
ToS aren't signed. They are terms of service, not license agreements. ToS merely need to be disclosed, and the site cna decline service if you violate the terms. A license agreement may subject you to penalties for violating the agreem
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by papln 7y ago
Like hiQ, you can file a lawsuit and try to win. You might want to wait to see if hiQ wins their case.
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by papln 7y ago
Per hiQ's arugment, but not per any existing ocourt decision.
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by papln 7y ago
No, because what one side of a case argues is not the law. What judges decide is the law.
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by papln 7y ago
When is it "damage", and when is it "declining to contribute" ?
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by papln 7y ago
Does that mean that ia grocery store offers free samples, I can go in every day and take all the samples, and the grocery is not allowed to selectively prevent me access?
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by papln 7y ago
There's no reason to believe that.
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by papln 7y ago
Please read the linked decision before putting words in judges' mouths: https://parsers.me/appeal-from-the-united-states-district-co...
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by papln 7y ago
> hiQ argued That does not mean that hte court agreed. The judges said that CFAA doesn't apply. In other words, the judges said that LinkedIn couldn't use the US legal system to force HiQ to stop. Judges didn't say th
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by papln 7y ago
Here's what Google says. Ask your lawyer if you want to know what it means . https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/54068?p=web_app_... When Web & App Activity is on, you can include additional acti
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by papln 7y ago
I'm not anyone's lawyer. These are questions, not answers: GDPR is about collecting data from you, right? If Site X is sending data about you to Facebook, perhaps that's an issue with Site X's GDPR compliance, not Face
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by papln 7y ago
> inciting drama and outrage between people just for kicks. or "popping their filter bubbles", or "are generally interested in boundary-pushing ideas", or "are susceptible to the rage-inducing trolls who run frin
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by papln 7y ago
The metric (Jaccard distance) is symmetric. The assymmetry comes from ranking: JordanPeterson is more special-interest/intense-interest with a narrower more homogenous audience than the_donald, so it probably has more very-similar subr
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by papln 7y ago
HN is not the place to file bug reports on Reddit, and people here can't help you find workarounds since you aren't enabling tools that allow you to configure your experience.
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by papln 7y ago
Small request: Can you turn off the initial jumble of nodes before the graph is built and laid out? It's distracting clutter that adds no information. Animations are fun, but only if they convey artistic or intellectual meaning. Also,
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by papln 7y ago
You might (justifiably) not like it, and it might inspire you to boycott the business or plead for regulatory relief, but it's not an "incident" from their perspective to be intentionally doing what they do to run their bus
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by papln 7y ago
> Obviously the sites are not getting the benefit How is that obvious? Surely sites would eventually stop going through the extra effort to maintain trackers if they didn't get a benefit?
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by papln 7y ago
That last part makes sense. If you want a different identity, you need to choose a different ID. Better to make you be more explicit about what you are trying to do (multiple accounts), then accidentally split accounts of people who aren&#x
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by papln 7y ago
Some hedge funds are good at it, and some are bad it. The existence of a winnable game doesn't mean that everyone who attempts it will succeed. Especially since the game is competitive, so if I have better insider information than you,
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by papln 7y ago
with drawdown on simple bets, the average compounding step per play, for a given edge and bet size, is ((1+bet)^(0.5+edge))*((1-bet)^(0.5-edge))) = ((1-bet^2)^0.5 * ((1+bet)/(1-bet))^edge For a given bet size, there's
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by papln 7y ago
> Let's say you net +1% on your deployed capital ever day. That's the "..." step in "1 steal underpants, 2 ..., 3 Profit!"
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by papln 7y ago
Enron only collapsed because they intentionally destabilized major public-facing national security infrastructure (retail energy markets), and they were incredibly brazen and sloppy about it. If they didn't make as large bets on coll
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by papln 7y ago
Was Medallion fund Rentec's only business, or was there other business they could skim from?

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