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Lovely effect! Particularly enjoyed how it seems to 'fake' refraction by sampling higher or lower from the background based on the drop shape. The trails squishing back into raindr…

It's due to the day/night buttons being anchor tags as opposed to any Safari-specific issue. If you wanted to keep the the ability to link to specific states, but avoid the history…

Well, all of supervised learning is basically approximating an unknown function from a finite list of samples. But it's still an approximation, with things like e.g. backpropagatio…

Yes, you are missing something, which is a bit of a quirk of C++. Normally, having two functions with the same signature in a parent and child class results in overloading. struct …

Could you be a bit more specific as to what you find confusing? Is it: - That you can use the name of a variable, h, as if it was a function? That's because Javascript has first cl…

In what terms do you think you "understand" it? What do you make of this problem with distant entangled particles? The double slit experiment and interference in general? The Heise…

It's always amusing to see the kind of excuses that pop up when you try to explain entanglement or interference in the mindset of wavefunction collapse. I'm still not entirely sure…

But when you "collapse the wavefunction" and "create" the internal state of the particle, do you also create the internal state of the other one that is entangled to it? Do you cre…

The way I've usually seen this one presented involves precisely the observation, in that you gain knowledge of the other particle. Of course, saying "because it was always a ~k par…

Yes, I can quite easily think of Graham's number - I call it G. You might think that I'm saying that in jest, but it is actually the way of things. There are quite literally an inf…

Yes, in fact F# has that built in as |> , which I've taken to using in Haskell as well. Though it's a bit more intuitive to me when it has the lowest precedence like so: (|>) :: a …

Well, surprisingly, that would only be as strong as doing OCR to get the words. Why is that? Well, if you deliberately remove words that are easy to put back into the sentence, it'…

I'd say this reads more like an ad than an explanation. The first paragraph is totally a sales pitch, then they invite you to use the product and constantly nag on about how awesom…

Actually, what you have written is not foldl, it's foldr. Why is it going right to left? Let's expand your example: (foldl * 1 '(1 2 3)) (* 1 (foldl * 1 '(2 3)) (* 1 (* 2 (foldl * …

Correlation does not imply causation? Statisticians like to use that one at every opportunity. Bear in mid, though, that "you shouldn't investigate correlations anyway" is absolute…

Was there really a need to put "legitimate" in quotes every single time? More seriously, though, it shows that the legal system has put itself, perhaps unwittingly, in unexplored a…

If you ask me, TA should be the more glorious position. There's just no point in speaking the same thing in front of 200 students every (half) year in front of 200 people with litt…

Well, yes, and the scathing tone of it is pretty thick, at least when I read it in my head. I was commenting on the idea, not the exact wording of it. It's just the first appropria…

No access code means a lower grade, all in the best interests of science. I ... no. I can't even... I'm sorry, but I find it very hard to summon an inkling of sympathy for the publ…

Good security is safe in spite of knowing exactly how it works. While revealing the exact details does not make an algorithm less vulnerable, it should not make it more so. And if …

But that doesn't matter at all if the attacker is targeting your algorithm in particular. Say my algorithm is to pick the password "1" * 1000 (that's the character 1 repeated 1000 …

I do agree on that point, but I'm not sure if pragmatic is the right word. Need of a specialized work environment, perhaps. Programming needs one, too, I suppose, but it just happe…

I've received one of these emails as well. Almost makes you wonder how much would offline university degrees be worth in a few years. Objectively, this is not a new idea. We have b…