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by plank 6mo ago
I made an app ---- I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve officially launched a new app! This journey has been an incredible masterclass in problem-solving and perseverance. I’m so excited to finally share this vision with the world and contin
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by plank 6mo ago
My favourite colour is blue. Oh, no, it is...
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by plank 11mo ago
Yep, I did as well. And visited the site to see how cops used fake accounts... So... Clickbait title? ;-)
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by plank 1y ago
It just got into an "we is you" type of interaction. Never got a question myself.
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by plank 1y ago
The point the story tries to make is that the Hawk learned traffic signals. That is not necessarily the case. It could be that the hawk just sees that the cars are blocking the sight of the prey. Still an intelligent action, only does not m
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by plank 1y ago
There are big disadvantages from choosing e g. 5th normal form: any changing in business requirements leads to a big rewrite and data conversion. Never seen successful projects choosing beyond 3rd/BCNF.
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by plank 1y ago
What I missed in the piece is a description on how they did against the Dutch. Both Spanish and French were more ‘land type’ armies, as a Dutchmen I remember in the history wé were taught that the Dutch punched above their weight on sea war
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by plank 1y ago
A variation of the theory that there are only 7 different stories told in (fiction) books.
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by plank 1y ago
Have a complete different experience. As a physical major, did a famous Millikan's oil drop experiment. Am a terrible experimentalist (went on to do my PhD in theoretical physics), so we got a charge of about 1/3 of the charge of
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by plank 2y ago
CommunicateD ?
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by plank 2y ago
Replying to your other questions: Its been a while since I played chess regularly (in a chess club), but: Two bishops (of different colour) is actually not that difficult. There are some simple heuristics to help you there (an LLM might act
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by plank 2y ago
But there is a reasoning (see my reply above): winning is not possible (only the queen is strong enough against two bishops), so draw should be the goal. And underpromoting to knight is only way to keep the piece for another move while stil
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by plank 2y ago
Winning is not possible: only the queen is strong enough to win against two bishops, and that fails to the check and loss of queen from black tiled bishop. So draw is most one can get. Underpromoting to knight (with check, thus avoiding the
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by plank 2y ago
And: I think it is very difficult to gain weight by eating to many cucumbers ;-)
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by plank 2y ago
Well, winning with checkmate in just a few moves is also possible (d4 d5 - c4 dxc4 - e4 d8xd4 and after d1xd4, d4c4, c4xc7 and c7xc8 won by checkmate). I guess playing 'good' chess is not the point, the point is that you can play
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by plank 2y ago
Yes. But the question remains: is there a geometrical analogue?
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by plank 2y ago
Yes, the /p is the problem (as the person above you stated).
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by plank 2y ago
Played the game (from 1M to 2.3M, a batting (?) average of 63.64%). Played big three times: one a big loss, twice a big win. Takeaway from the game: feels a bit like lottery (although I was relatively confident thrice, I was wrong one of th
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by plank 2y ago
Sure. Had to do some searching;-) Info on thesis: https://dare.uva.nl/search?identifier=0ae63403-264b-4bf0-91c... The document itself (self hosted) https://gofile.me/7uDSJ/sGJCFD3W7 Probably most impor
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by plank 2y ago
Answers to your questions: 1): all the way to the left, a mirror with a reflectivity|r| of 1 (or a 100%). In the middle an |r| of slightly below 1. Yes, optical, system with photons (a and a^dagger with [a,a^dagger]=1). 2) distance between
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by plank 2y ago
Interesting to read this, 27 years after my PhD* (theoretical physics), in which I did compare the view WITH and the view WITHOUT ‘unknowns’ causing entropy as a driver. * My PhD was about how to treat a (quantum mechanical) system inside a
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by plank 2y ago
Not a (former) mathematicien (but as a former PhD student in theoretical physics still some affinity with math): I remember being shocked when, having derived a result using pen and lots of sheets of paper, my co-promotor told me to just wr
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by plank 2y ago
I guess this is a matter of ‘bubbles’. Most people I know that have a Linux box at home - including my parents - are not and have never been sysadmins. But this is probably because there are not that many sysadmins in my bubble? Kind regard
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by plank 2y ago
Dutch person here (have been told we are some of the most direct people): my experience is that it is not the words but the intention. E.g. the 'give more training' example: 'I do not understand why we do not give more traini
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by plank 2y ago
Can I plugin my app here? If on Android, use navigateanymap.eu, snap a picture of that map from 1565, match some features using OpenStreetMap (although things like rivers, roads and buildings may be different from that year, making matching
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by plank 2y ago
Not sure I understand the article. The author specifically chose art from humans and AI that he found difficult to categorize into human or AI art. The fact that people had a 60% success rate suggest that they are a little better in seeing
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by plank 2y ago
Only explanation: No physicists were involved in painting these cows. (Everybody knows that physicists only know spherical cows) Kind regards, Roel (yes, physicist by origin)
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by plank 2y ago
Well, I guess those options are all for the 'lesser' designers out there (yes, I read the article, that states a solution in which the phone is held by something else then an arm). The main problem I see with the approach of the d
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by plank 2y ago
There seems to be a problem with the article: the example shown is with colouring the map. But showing two adjacent regions to have different colours proves nothing: they will always be different (if colouring is possible). Perhaps if one s
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by plank 2y ago
No, I will not. I prefer to use proper language. Now, am I human or a LLM?

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