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by power 2y ago
Wrote my first programs for this too, at 7. Copied from the manual with no understanding but eventually writing my own. The only coder in the house! Didn't write anything decent until the C64 when I made a few small games. Great memori
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by power 2y ago
Sadly I'm in the same boat, for years now. Fatigue is such an inadequate term. Can't even sit up for long without getting exhausted. Still trying treatments but to no avail so far. The impact of Long Covid seems to be drawing a lo
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by power 3y ago
A lesson learned from hard experience and unfortunately too late: get your own illness benefit insurance. If you have it through your employer you can't sue the insurance company since you're not a party to the contract. They don&
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by power 3y ago
I love that song and found out recently it was actually written by Peter Hames.
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by power 3y ago
You may enjoy https://behind-the-screens.tv/
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by power 4y ago
You're right. Tom Clancy used it in The Sum of All Fears
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by power 5y ago
The book is well worth a read too. There are some great bits with John Von Neumann. On a similar note, Adventures of a Physicist by Luis Alvarez is also a great read. Among many other things, he and his son proposed the theory that the dino
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A visual introduction to Gaussian Belief Propagation(gaussianbp.github.io)
186 points by power 5y ago|13 comments
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The Idea That a Scientific Theory Can Be ‘Falsified’ Is a Myth(scientificamerican.com)
2 points by power 6y ago|1 comments
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by power 6y ago
There's a nice webcomic called Drawing History that gives a gentle overview of many ancient civilisations, including the Kush https://m.tapas.io/series/Drawing-History/info
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by power 6y ago
Zoom traffic is encrypted, just not end-to-end. So your ISP and flatmates can't sniff it but people with access to Zoom servers could
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by power 6y ago
I'm interested in your opinion of the citations too. They purport to show persistence beyond standard treatment in mice, dogs, macaques and humans, the latter via xenodiagnosis and PCR. PCR is pretty direct.
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by power 7y ago
I got one shipped to Ireland and it arrived in one beautiful piece. Cliff also sent on a email documenting the process and I replied with an unboxing photo. It was worth ordering just for the lovely interaction.
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by power 7y ago
30000 Lyme cases a year are reported by health services to the CDC so eventually some celebs are going to catch it, and since they make good news you'll hear about it. On "chronic Lyme", it's been rebranded as post treat
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by power 7y ago
> But the concept of a "chronic" bacterial lyme infection has little to no medical bearing. From your first link: "In 2017, scientists at the Tulane National Primate Research Centers, funded in part by an NIH research reso
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by power 8y ago
The last being one of the founders of ycombinator
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by power 9y ago
I found it well worth reading, and found his writing about thinking to be so clear that I felt like I could almost understood thought, for a while. You might like the abridged version, "Psychology: The Briefer Course" [1] to get
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by power 9y ago
Normal DB indexes are designed to be general-purpose so that they give predictable performance no matter the data you insert. The paper basically describes a more efficient way to look up data by using an index that's tailored to the s
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by power 9y ago
Postgres has a query optimizer that uses Genetic Algorithms: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/geqo.html Clarification: this is for planning how to execute a query, not for tuning the db settings
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by power 9y ago
It's worthwhile to remember that Athenian democracy was direct and not representative like nowadays. Individuals voted on bills rather than electing officials to vote in their place. Plato claimed this form of government led to bills p
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by power 10y ago
Seems life expectancy of 70 years was considered normal a couple thousand years ago: https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Psalms-90-10/ Edit: never thought I'd be quoting the bible here as evidence of something
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by power 10y ago
It's tangential, but I'm reading Dracula atm and Jonathan Harker mentions taking pictures with a Kodak. It was written in 1897.
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by power 11y ago
There are some great videos by the author on the same subject at: http://videolectures.net/course_information_theory_pattern_r... They cover a lot of the same ground but in a gentler way so they're good for building in
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by power 11y ago
For anyone wondering what distance fields are for, check out: http://iquilezles.org/www/articles/raymarchingdf/raymarching... The code to generate all those images comes to only 13k. There's a simple tut
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by power 11y ago
Kinesis is for streaming computations. It's closer to Apache Storm (which typically uses Kafka) than Kafka.
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by power 11y ago
There is less new information to learn if it can be encoded using already learned elements, so this is as expected.
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by power 13y ago
I saw a mention of something like this at BMVC this week. Check out http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~phlosoft/
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by power 14y ago
“The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.” - William Somerset Maugham ;-)
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by power 14y ago
the report "showed blood values whose likelihood 'of occurring naturally was less than one in a million'". Regardless of his doping, surely we'd expect there to be something extraordinary about such an athlete's physioology ?
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by power 14y ago
Thanks for clarifying. If you've the time, could you tell me how I should read: non_conflicting = (g) -> ![0...9].some (i) -> g in [s[x][i], s[i][y], box i]

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