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by squaredot 2y ago
I was about to post that... nice website indeed!
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by squaredot 3y ago
I completely agree with you. I point you to this interesting article from which I usually get my arguments https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2021/11/hyd...
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by squaredot 3y ago
When the subject arise I usually point at the following interesting article https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2021/11/hyd...
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by squaredot 4y ago
> All programs require user documentation, otherwise they are not understandable. Maybe not all types of programs. When I download an App on my smartphone, I never look for the documentation.
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by squaredot 4y ago
I guess this all problem is almost as complex as people.
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by squaredot 4y ago
> Eventually this number will be infinite I would say that by adding finite numbers you never reach infinity. You are not even approaching it, since your are always infinitely far away. Infinite sums need a special treatment, they can be
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by squaredot 4y ago
I quite agree with the author, I can see how the code can contain some logic that is more explanatory than simply expanding the data. I have the impression that often when people design a system, the data you save in the database is never m
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by squaredot 4y ago
> Spain will scrap the value-added tax on basic food items for six months Clickbait title.
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by squaredot 4y ago
I didn't expect to be surprised by this! After thinking about it, it reminds me that game about reading some color names as fast as possible, where the names are painted with another color.
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by squaredot 4y ago
> Even more effective than manual options, though also more expensive, is the electric toothbrush. After years of studies showing no significant difference between the two, a number of meta-analyses have found moderate levels of evidence
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by squaredot 4y ago
Where I live we have a very capillary public transport. The time to get to it and to get from it to the specific place where you have to go, is often the biggest time consuming part of the travel, and that is far from ideal
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by squaredot 4y ago
I don't understand very much the appeal of lifetime licenses from the point of view of the seller. If you believe that your product will be good over time, you should only sell time-limited licenses. Am I missing something?
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by squaredot 4y ago
I hope that in the future, with autonomous public transportation service more like cabs, we can lessen the impact of cars in cities. Currently I can imagine that it is not always easy to solve the problem with one solution, as people tend t
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by squaredot 4y ago
I know a lot of people who are passionate about board games, I hang out with a group of board game players from time to time, and I am quite an enthusiast myself. The complaint about prices is relatively recurring, but I don't think it
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by squaredot 4y ago
The truest and most horrible claim made for modern transport is that it “annihilates space.” It does. It annihilates one of the most glorious gifts we have been given. It is a vile inflation which lowers the value of distance, so that
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by squaredot 4y ago
Marrying may make you poorer, but you leave longer (see any life expectancy table).
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by squaredot 4y ago
The problem is maybe more when QA doesn't mess with developers, than when it does.
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by squaredot 4y ago
Luckily nobody applied this logic when thinking about introducing seatbelts and airbags.
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by squaredot 4y ago
I agree, but I still see it as a win: it shows that the government feels like some concessions are needed, even if those are mere signaling (and a morality police 2.0 will replace the current one).
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by squaredot 4y ago
Half of me agrees with this, the other half doesn't... I liked too much that game.
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by squaredot 4y ago
Yes, you're right.
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by squaredot 4y ago
I came to the comment section to look for this comment! Thanks. Maybe the reposting is part of a frequentist study. I'll call it article laundering.
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by squaredot 4y ago
As the author mentions, convolutions for signal processing and convolutions for probability are essentially equivalent things in two different contexts. It is interesting that the same concept is behind the multiplication of polynomials. In
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by squaredot 4y ago
It's about marketing, the A/B testing they do, not science.
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by squaredot 4y ago
Looking at the speed with which this post goes up the HN page, I would say that Twitter is still very relevant.
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by squaredot 4y ago
This result is really beautiful! At the same time, it's like GoL has been conquered, and in that it leaves me a little sad. But just a little bit. Congratulations!
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by squaredot 4y ago
I don't see the difference so much in the methodology as in the kind of reality one wants to observe. The sciences have the experimental part, which is a method made possible by the kind of phenomena you observe. As far as religion is
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by squaredot 4y ago
> I have never found it possible to dismiss the content of religious thinking He doesn't really speak about personal feelings, but more about the frontiers of a personal investigation.
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by squaredot 4y ago
Nice! The same idea is the essence of the Hilbert's paradox of the grand Hotel ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_paradox_of_the_Gra... ), especially for the case Infinitely many new guests .
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by squaredot 4y ago
Very nice! I wish there were more explanation in the comment of the video. Thank you for sharing.

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