swhalen

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by swhalen 3y ago
There are considerations beyond just comparing the number of collisions. If a human driver causes an accident, they can be held to account through a legal process. If a self-driving car hurts or kills someone, who is held accountable?
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by swhalen 4y ago
Do they genuinely expect someone in their third year of undergraduate study to read and even partially understand Newton's Principia Mathematica? It is famously unintelligible to modern readers, even those with knowledge of physics.
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by swhalen 4y ago
I hope someone makes one of these things that has been trained without any concern for 'safety' or propriety, just for the sake of comparison.
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by swhalen 4y ago
Echoing the sibling comment from byhemechi, performance sailing vessels generally do not sail directly downwind (or directly upwind for that matter). The sails are positioned at an angle to the wind, so that they deflect the incoming air in
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by swhalen 4y ago
> It seems like the end goal of copyleft was to fight back against copyright, not to have copyleft. Whether this was the original motivation depends on whom you are asking. You may disagree, but the "Free Software" movement (RM
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by swhalen 4y ago
> A programmer can read available but not oss licensed code and learn from it. Thats fair use. If a human programmer reads some else's copyrighted code, OSS or otherwise, memorizes it and later reproduces it verbatim or nearly so, t
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by swhalen 4y ago
The suppression of government bond yields and money creation via quantitative easing were needed if states were to pay people's salaries during lockdowns. Governments would not have been able to raise that much money on the open market
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by swhalen 4y ago
My layman's understanding of the GDPR was that it was the primary website (i.e. the website you are actually and intentionally visiting) that could store your data on the basis of a legitimate business interest -- for example because t
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by swhalen 4y ago
I am not a lawyer, but I don't think anyone needs to deploy the code in order to infringe copyright: they just need to distribute the code to a third party (hence copyright -- the right to copy). And on the face of it, Microsoft would
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by swhalen 4y ago
There must be a line past which copying is no longer "fair use", otherwise no copyrights in code would be enforceable at all. I suppose it is up to a court to decide, but in the Tim Davis thread from yesterday it looked to me like
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by swhalen 4y ago
Why can't Tim Davis (or another software author whose code is emitted verbatim by Copilot) demand that Microsoft take down Copilot, or at least the part of Copilot that contains his code? Microsoft is distributing his software without
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by swhalen 4y ago
I think it's just the western coast of North America that has this problem, rather than the entire Pacific. For example in New Zealand, which is in the Pacific, there were never any sea otters. Urchins, regarded locally as a delicacy,
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by swhalen 5y ago
Good. Many "cookie management providers" deliberately act in bad faith. See for example the now standard requirement to "object" to so-called legitimate interest uses of personal data. The GDPR was intended to ban such b
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by swhalen 5y ago
So do many classical computer algorithms.
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by swhalen 5y ago
I think it's probably fair to say most cosmologists would consider her views marginal, but she is certainly not a crank. My (limited) understanding is that ΛCDM fits cosmological observations extremely well; however, neither dark matte
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by swhalen 5y ago
I don't mean this comment to be critical of the OP, who is undoubtedly acting in good faith, but how after all this time is this submission not somehow flagged as a duplicate?
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by swhalen 5y ago
Does the fair use exemption (or an equivalent) exist in all countries?
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by swhalen 6y ago
These satellites have marred the night sky. There is more to life than broadband availability.
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by swhalen 8y ago
Latour and social constructionists more generally are quite influential in, for example, social anthropology (including in the English-speaking world).
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by swhalen 9y ago
It seems to me that encapsulating analyses in bash scripts would help with reproducibility.
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by swhalen 9y ago
You might want to think about cross-currency IRS and FX products as next steps, because they're more common hedge instruments for corporates (your likely market, if you ever want to go in that direction) compared with options. To monet
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by swhalen 9y ago
The documentation suggests that this currently only supports single-currency IRS, and it's also BYO market data. To my knowledge there isn't anything like a RESTful pricing/valuation service in the market, let alone one with
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by swhalen 9y ago
I am somewhat exercised by this. I like Unity and have grown accustomed to it over the years, and in any case I think having choice in software is a positive thing. I hope that the community will continue development of Unity.