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9,801karma·1,821submissions·April 12, 2011
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Okay, thanks for the clarification. I hadn't previously heard what the ultimate reason was.
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Part of the TMT agreement (from 2015) involved removing some of the telescopes[0]. At least one telescope has been removed (the Caltech Submillimter Observatory, CSO) but aside from the CSO I'm n…
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> How much obesity and depression could be prevented or alleviated just by making sure people could get a decent night's sleep? There's some body chemistry where being sleep deprived can …
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https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local-news/i-team-investi... And HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20438289 …
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It's been around longer than RFC-1149, dating back to station wagons carrying data tapes in the 1970s: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/20jlv3&#x…
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> Just hearing this stuff, I would never imagine this production is profitable. It sounds like NBC doesn't even make money off their re-broadcast of it: https://www.velonews.com&#x…
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> The heater required an active internet connection and available bandwidth? My guess is that the heater was being run by the machine that required the update and the update download process meant…
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Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20439425
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See Milton Friedman's Thermostat: https://themonkeycage.org/2012/07/milton-friedmans-thermosta... …
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> Fly fishing for trout is the standard, but I strongly recommended getting some poppers and trying for bass/pan fish. Same fly fishing engagement but more strikes. Thanks, I'll see if I…
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> I must be weird. I find fishing, sunning on the beach, sitting in a lawn chair, etc., extremely dull, and last about 5 minutes at it. I'm the same way, but for fishing it depends on the typ…
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> Well it wouldn't be cyberpunk without breaking a few rules. The title says _cypher_punk not _cyber_punk. But I'd misread it myself on the first glance.
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Thanks for posting that. I find it odd that the URLs returned by the (test?) API[0] are bit.ly shortened. I'm generally not a fan of URL shorteners because I can't easily see where I'm …
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A similar evolutionary argument was put forward in "Why We Sleep"[0] by Matthew Walker. Its mention in the book was less specific, so I'm not sure if it's referring to the same stu…
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> But in a binary classification setting, that's not how the data would be presented to the model. Instead you would have one row per customer with a churn/no churn label for that custome…
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> Those numbers are as you might find them in a dataset from summing with this particular problem. The problem we're looking at here is a binary churn/no churn problem, as opposed to one …
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I think this is minor, but I noticed the example doesn't use error bars for the customer numbers. The customer counts in the product/churn categories are counting statistics, so have an asso…
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> This sounds closer to genetic programming -- they evolved a program that describes an antenna. Based on my understanding of the paper, the members of the population were individuals which each e…
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One of the neater implementations/uses of genetic algorithms that I have seen was the design of a spacecraft antenna. This is what the GA came with up for the design given the constraints: https…
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> Zero people wake up in the morning thinking "I'll just browse for new papers from people I've never heard of." Minor comment, but that's fairly dependent on the field. Ev…