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> Waymo showed that under tightly controlled conditions humans can successfully operate cars remotely. My understanding was that Waymo’s are autonomous and don’t have a remote driv…

A harrowing story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Blunden

Is it a personal choice though? If in the morning I decide between wearing a blue shirt or a red shirt, that's arguably a matter of personal choice, but deciding to believe in God …

To be fair, the Olympic weightlifting movements in their current form are pretty leg-dominant. In the past when there was a third event, the clean-and-press [1,2], athletes needed …

> After decades of riding (sometimes wildly irresponsibly) I can only count on one hand motorists who were actively trying to run me over. I don't see how this is a good thing? I'v…

> (BMI takes height into account) Does it do that correctly though? I've always wondered why the formula is not w / h^3, since I imagine your weight should scale cubicly with your …

IMO the key takeaway from GTD is that you need to write things down in some sort of anything-goes inbox, so that they don't bounce around in your head. What kind of sorting/trackin…

I understand the sentiment but there is a difference between ghosting the during recruiting process and ghosting after committing to the job.

Another example is that in Dutch, the bigram 'ij' is considered a single letter, and so at the beginning of a word, both have to be uppercased. See for example the Dutch Wikipedia …

> Our top tax rate (45%) kicks in at extremely low levels of income compared to globally ($180,000 AUD which is around $135,000 USD). Huh? That's not that low. In the Netherlands t…

Surely you can do some basic filtering by checking if the ratio vowels :: consonants is not too large? Or if there are five consonants in a row or something.

I see -- thank you for clarifying. So for a formally uniform distribution, is rejection sampling your only option ?

I'm a bit confused about this method. So the standard argument against such a procedure is that if you generate N random bits, each of {0,1}^N bitstrings is equiprobable and theref…

OPTIe VERkoop :-)

People's political views are generally interwoven with their notion of morality and in the case of the religious, that morality is informed by their religion. The idea that you can…

In the linked article they resolve collisions via chaining: > A typical hash function distributes keys randomly across the slots in a hash table, causing some slots to be empty, wh…

I'm curious if this genetic diversity is just something that shows up as a number on a computer, or does it translate into something phenotypically* visible? Also, how much of, say…

Multiplicative weights, like mirror descent, is a special case of a more general algorithm called mirror descent. You can indeed view it as optimizing an \ell_\infty norm, though I…

Not exactly -- multiplicative weights is a special case of mirror descent (as is gradient descent). It arises doing prox-steps on the simplex using the negative entropy as a regula…

I don't see how this is much different from kids in earlier generations wanting to become footballers, actors and djs.

As an extra step you could also redirect the relevant domain to `0.0.0.0` in your `/etc/hosts`.

You can click in Northern Montana for longer routes, e.g. Browning, Montana gives about 5587km.

Highly recommend the book, also his other book "The Gene" about the history of genetics.

> speel check This has to be intentional.