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by sandpaper26 7mo ago
This reads like an LLM generated response that simply restates the comment it's replying to
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by sandpaper26 8mo ago
"map of NYC" does not include Staten Island. That's how we like it
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by sandpaper26 8mo ago
This is cool, but more as a demonstration of interesting CSS techniques than optical illusions in my opinion. Also, interestingly, I seem to be able to force myself to "see through" all of these illusions except for induced gradie
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by sandpaper26 3y ago
Can someone give an example use case of this? I'm not sure I understand why a very public long string of random characters on a block chain is useful, except as a way to prove an event didn't happen prior to a certain time
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by sandpaper26 3y ago
Why would the author even make a point about the different seasons between hemispheres and then immediately get it wrong? He tells the reader to "reverse the seasons and add six months to the dates," but doing both of these operat
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by sandpaper26 3y ago
Beginning to think you're actually incapable of understanding what I'm saying so I'll be as clear as possible. You said, "the point of a command economy is to reduce individuals freedom." I have provided numerous ar
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by sandpaper26 3y ago
Claiming that you've made an unsupported generalization, and then making one, is not a contradiction; it's hypocrisy. In any case, your statement still fails to hold water. Consider the ISS: there is central planning and command o
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by sandpaper26 3y ago
Any memoryless continuous function between two Euclidean spaces, I think you mean. The experts-and-manager model would need to be able to do more than that (as do most neural networks). And part of the reason why single-hidden-layer network
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by sandpaper26 3y ago
After some reflection, it's maybe more accurate to visualize this in reverse: all expert models see the problem and attempt a solution, and then some "manager" model decides which expert model has the best solution and output
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by sandpaper26 3y ago
It's not a likely solution given how loss functions work, but in theory a single model could learn to perform exactly the function you describe. When you say "just do X" where X is any function (in this case, a piecewise func
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by sandpaper26 3y ago
If you pointed out any contradiction, you did an unfortunately poor job of elucidating exactly where that contradiction occurred. Furthermore, you failed to support your claims even a little bit. But I hope you sleep well! It's crucial
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by sandpaper26 3y ago
It looks like we're working off fundamentally different definitions of central planning, so of course we disagree. Central planning, in my vernacular, does not at all imply government control. It simply means that most decisions are ma
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by sandpaper26 3y ago
Regardless of whether this is a "problem" that gets "resolved," surely you understand you have failed to support your conjecture that my command of the economy is purpose-built to limit freedom. What if there is no profi
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by sandpaper26 3y ago
> I own all factories that can produce X, and am by some benefit of scale now the only one reasonably able to make an X-factory. If I didn't do it, probably nobody could. > I have command of the X-economy and can mandate the prod
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by sandpaper26 3y ago
Right, so let's say Duke Energy is a private profit-seeking company in the eastern US. In many areas it is the only energy company in town. Are you trying to say that, just because it's a private company, it's not centrally p
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by sandpaper26 3y ago
On the section about partitioned joins, how is that different from SELECT sale_dt, name, Sum(quantity) FROM sales LEFT JOIN product ON sales.product_id = product.id GROUP BY sale_dt, name;
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by sandpaper26 3y ago
Over time, all systems collapse eventually. That sentiment is worthless. Furthermore, nobody said anything about working hard. Surely you're not about to claim that all pre-colonial civilizations with functional governments either some
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by sandpaper26 3y ago
Interesting note about using "to" for ranges. I see things like "between 15-20" or "from 15-20" all the time at work, and it's never clear whether 20 is included in that range. Is "from 15 to 20"
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by sandpaper26 3y ago
The US military's many labs, test sites, software foundries, federally funded research and development companies, and research institutes are laughing at this sentiment. Innovation is routinely commanded -- look at Skunkworks, JPL, hec
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by sandpaper26 3y ago
> the point of a command economy is to deny individuals freedom. This is an unsupported generalization. Command systems exist to mandate production and distribution of goods, e.g. to ensure sufficient food production and equitable food d
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by sandpaper26 3y ago
I fear you are confusing the concepts of central planning (which commercial monopolies can and often do have) and government control or ownership.
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by sandpaper26 4y ago
I used it in grad school a lot, especially when I was running/editing someone else's Matlab code. But if I were to build something on my own, Python would be the way to go.
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by sandpaper26 4y ago
Currents, on the large scale, are not caused by tides. Surface currents (down to 300m or so) are driven by prevailing winds, and deep currents driven by differences in temperature and salinity (which affect water density), both also affecte
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by sandpaper26 4y ago
Currents are relatively unrelated to tides, and are fairly consistent over time (with some seasonal variation due to differences in hemispheric temperatures). From [1], "the large scale prevailing winds drive major persistent ocean cur
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by sandpaper26 4y ago
Yes, but I think that's why you're confused. The distance between the individual speakers would be d, not N*d. Because your original comment was about this spacing, that's what I addressed in my answer. Obviously a larger eff
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by sandpaper26 4y ago
While there is certainly a difference between near- and far-field approximations, the short answer is that no, the speakers can be closer than one wavelength together in order to have a steerable far field. In fact, the link you provided ha
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by sandpaper26 4y ago
There's a wonderful textbook, I think by Griffiths, that starts from the premise that if you learn the math of quantum mechanics first (i.e. how to actually set up and solve relevant systems of equations) then it's much easier to
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by sandpaper26 4y ago
I know this wasn't your point, but because of how orbits and the Earth's rotation works, you can't "hover" above any country that isn't on the equator. At best you can do a highly elliptical orbit that gives yo
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by sandpaper26 4y ago
But I guess my question is this: we're going to spend $XB to send a probe to a distant moon. Once it lands, we get to ask exactly two questions. Question one is confirm/deny organic life (the microscope). Why is question two'
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by sandpaper26 4y ago
Disclaimer: I am neither a planetary scientist nor a biologist. Can someone help me understand the desire to put a DNA sequencer on the Enceladus mission? I haven't previously read anything that suggests DNA as being so fundamental to

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