sonofgod

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by sonofgod 5y ago
https://research.umn.edu/units/irb/how-submit/new-study , find the document that points to "determining that it's not human research", leads you to https://drive.google.com/file
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by sonofgod 6y ago
Hmmmm. Let's assume that the baby has a perfect ordered ranking of blocks, 3 > 2 > 1, but that the experimenter doesn't know what it is. There's three scenarios for what the new, third block is: 1, 2 or 3. If it's
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by sonofgod 6y ago
The probability of developing a probe, it travelling to Venus and analysing the data from it within that timescale is worse than 50/50.
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by sonofgod 6y ago
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1910/1910.05224.pdf talks at length about it -- the result is known to be wildly invalid for gas giants, as they have the temperatures and pressures to have viable chem
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by sonofgod 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won't mistake for the genuine
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by sonofgod 6y ago
datapoint, to update to 2020: we can now map a third of a fly brain. https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/22/21076806/google-janelia-f...
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by sonofgod 6y ago
I agree. In two dimensions, a vehicle moving North-South and a vehicle moving East-West have to cross into each other's path at some point, and 2.5D solutions (bridges and flyovers) help but require significant investment in resources
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by sonofgod 6y ago
* What are the usecases where this [the Internet Computer and/or Motoko] shines? * Can you expand on Orthogonal Persistence -- is this a "per actor" persistence, or from the references to blockchain is it some sort of shared
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by sonofgod 6y ago
Once the decision has been made that Node 6 is no longer supported, it is then possible to refactor the code so that it uses appropriate modern idioms, such that the external behaviour is unchanged for Node 6+ but will no longer be parsable
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by sonofgod 6y ago
That's passing fourteen times further away from the moon. It won't have any effect on satellite operations. For a sense of scale on satellites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Earth_orbit#/media/Fi
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by sonofgod 6y ago
How do I finish drawing an obstacle?
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by sonofgod 6y ago
Part of the recitation of names mentioned in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-7ktaSAjGA&t=1950 Less musical than I expected...
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by sonofgod 6y ago
There was a part of me hoping that this would be "forbidden" in the sense of "forbidden knowledge". I was, surprisingly, not disappointed.
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by sonofgod 6y ago
So let's say fraud has a standard tarriff of ten years. And we agree that committing two frauds is twice as bad, so we add them together. Still makes sense. And someone defrauded a LOT of people. Say sixteen THOUSAND. That's how y
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by sonofgod 6y ago
POP I believe is "point of presence"; I believe its meaning is "the point at which our network connects to the internet".
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by sonofgod 6y ago
$ is the shell prompt; he's not typing it. "3 millilightseconds" is the distance light travels in 3 milliseconds, the time a "zero" timeout would take to actually timeout. (This comes directly from the definition of
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by sonofgod 6y ago
And this costs over $300 an hour. https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/...
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by sonofgod 6y ago
Strongly recommended watching, in my opinion: very clearly describes some quite complicated manipulations, the circumstances in which they work and how to move between those circumstances, to achieve what should be impossible. If you'r
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by sonofgod 6y ago
Thank you for the clarification.
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by sonofgod 6y ago
An example where this matters -- a new Mario 64 trick on the Virtual Console version because summing round-towards-zero numbers over a sine wave cycle produces a small delta which builds up over a couple of days to make a jump possible htt
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by sonofgod 6y ago
Temple OS seems impossible, and yet exists.
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by sonofgod 6y ago
I think it's more interesting what's missing: * any mention of funding * any mention of legal issues with controlled sharing And I think that's deliberate. I'm going to read this as "It's OK. We've got thi
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by sonofgod 6y ago
If you need a more stateful version of requests: import requests session = requests.session() # now use session like you would requests session.get("http://httpbin.org/cookies/set/name/va
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by sonofgod 6y ago
#nailedit
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by sonofgod 6y ago
The quote from the original HTML page is incorrect and dangerous misinformation. From the linked PDF: > KINETIC IMPACT WEAPONS > 8.5.4 Skip-firing off the ground causes an unacceptable risk of serious injury.
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by sonofgod 6y ago
There's some projects. Like arctic archival of github repos: https://archiveprogram.github.com/ Granted, this is only a snapshot, and preservation is a big problem. And you can't easily preserve gigabytes of data
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by sonofgod 6y ago
https://sci-hub.tw/10.3386/w26675
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by sonofgod 6y ago
Because they've been asked to. And I expect that if there's hesitation, the survey runners ask them to give their best guess. And if they don't guess, and move onto the next question, then they're eliminated from the agg
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by sonofgod 6y ago
Interesting to hear a few variants from this used in the recent Dragon launch. "good readback" to confirm that the other side has correctly readback the information just sent "go for ..." you have approval to... but more
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by sonofgod 6y ago
That's a great garden path sentence. (or at least beautifuly ambiguous) I initally parsed it as "[The] James Webb Telescope ([which is a tele]scope) [team] claim [they can] compress [pictures somehow] using a bitmap".

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