twanvl

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by twanvl 3y ago
This tile forces a pattern that does not repeat. If you use the simpler shape you can tile a wall such that it never repeats, but you can also make a repeating pattern.
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by twanvl 4y ago
Money is fungible, personal data is not.
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by twanvl 4y ago
Other advantages of zero based indexing, beyond being 'closer to the machine': It works better with the modulo operator: `array[i%length]` vs `array[(i+length-1)%length+1]`. Or you would have to define a modulo-like operator that
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by twanvl 4y ago
The ergonomics of this are really bad without some kind of implicit parameters and trait resolution. Without trait methods, ad-hoc overloading becomes impossible. You would have to explicitly specify what + operator and what == operator you
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by twanvl 5y ago
It matters if people figure out how to make your model output inappropriate things and start sharing screenshots on twitter. What if you use a GPT model as part of a chat bot? Then you definitely don't want to risk any sexual or discri
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by twanvl 5y ago
Depending on the type of puzzle, it might be possible to work backwards. For example here, if you can compute reverse-transitions you could run one or two steps of that, and put all states from which the goal can be reached in two moves int
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by twanvl 5y ago
An important input to this (and similar) algorithms is multiple sequence alignment, which tells the algorithm which parts of proteins are preserved between species and variants, and which amino-acids mutate together. So already it is relyin
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by twanvl 5y ago
I don't expect building a fusion power plant to become cheaper than a gas power plant. Both need steam turbines, cooling pipes, a big building, etc.. So that would be a lower bound on the construction cost. If solar+batteries can outc
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by twanvl 6y ago
A legitimate interest is a use of personal information that is needed to fulfill a service. This would be something like a session cookie for storing the contents of a shopping cart, a site's preferences, or login information. Using a
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by twanvl 6y ago
> I'd be interested to see what a sufficiently strong QuickCheck specification of this problem would look like. I would write something like this in haskell: spec :: [Integer] -> Property spec xs = length xs <
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by twanvl 6y ago
But laws about minimum wage and employee rights are not optional. A company can't decide to offer a job below minimum wage and argue that the arrangement is clear upfront, and therefore ok.
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by twanvl 6y ago
This is not just replacing the discriminator. In this DSM-ALS method you learn a score function instead of a generator, and to generate a sample you need to evaluate the score function multiple times (it essentially gives you a direction to
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by twanvl 6y ago
Excel does this for function names. If you open a file in your localized copy all the names are translated.
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by twanvl 6y ago
> The evidence for the harms of canola oil is still in its early days, but continues to grow. Research has linked it to: Memory impairment [1], Alzheimer’s risk [1], Cardiovascular disease [2], [5], [6], [8], Diabetes [2], Increased all-
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by twanvl 6y ago
> Fun fact: it requires more delta-V to hit the Sun than it does to leave the Solar System. Isn't that the delta-v needed to reach a stable orbit? That is, to slow down and counteract all the kinetic energy you gained from the sun&#
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by twanvl 6y ago
> Steel wire rope is substantially stronger for its weight and for it size but generally harder to work with than plastic things of similar capacity. That is not true. The tensile strength of kevlar and dynema is higher than that of stee
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by twanvl 6y ago
They are certainly better than Type I and Type II, but it is still a potentially ambiguous (at least as a non-native speaker). What makes a "false positive" false? Is it called a false positive because it is actually a negative, o
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by twanvl 6y ago
Imagine mathematicians calling commutative groups abelian? How do you remember if xy=yx there?
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by twanvl 7y ago
I assume `mkdir $@ && cd $@`
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by twanvl 7y ago
> Not sure why they removed z. Perhaps because of 2? My guess would be because of C, since Z can be pronounced as "zee"
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by twanvl 7y ago
There was a whole series on the office 2007 ribbon UI. (see https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jensenh/2008/03/13/table-of... )
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by twanvl 7y ago
This is not entirely correct, GDPR does not necessarily require consent, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula... However, you are right in saying that this violates the GDPR, because the dat
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by twanvl 7y ago
> You should be more concerned with what a given charity's administrative overhead is. If charity1 has a 20% overhead and then spends the rest on saving the life of a child for every 1000$, while charity2 has a 40% overhead but save
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by twanvl 7y ago
These ratings would change over time, so an A+ rating in 2017 would not be the same as an A+ rating in 2019. I think that is very confusing. Is a second hand A rated model better than a new D rated one? Who knows.
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by twanvl 7y ago
> except if the difference is reasonably related to value provided by the consumer’s data I think it means that if you opt out of data collection, then things like personalized recommendations will no longer work, which makes the service
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by twanvl 7y ago
> For example, the fact that resolution order follows a "stack" is specified nowhere on cards. There are actually several things that reference the stack. For example the reminder text for Split second ("As long as this s
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by twanvl 7y ago
From the article and video I got the impression that the goal was to give animators control over the robot's motion, while maintaining stability. The animators will not have a good model of the physical robot in their head, and that is
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by twanvl 7y ago
Raising wages are not the only way to make the poor relatively richer. There is also all kinds of taxation and welfare programs.
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by twanvl 7y ago
> The problem is that they fail differently than humans do That is a great argument for giving such a model as an aid to a human doctor. Together they will be better then either one alone.
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by twanvl 7y ago
In something like a TCP/IP stack correctness is strongly related to safety. For example, it could be perfectly memory safe, but deliver packets to the wrong address, allow other programs to read all traffic, or allow easy denial-of-ser

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