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I'm struggling to tie your comment to what the author is getting at. The advice to write thoughts down so you can stop thinking about them isn't offered as a way to achieve more ef…

I have no real opinion on the project in question but devotion is not a fungible, generically applicable resource you decide to apply to one issue or another. Run a test for whatev…

They're similar, but at least with traditional pagination you have a very clear page transition boundary. You can manually loop through Next → Ctrl-F repeatedly much faster in my e…

(Edit: I emailed them and the article has been corrected.) > a Library that contains 251,312,000 volumes of random sequences of letters (1,312,000 being the number of characters in…

I agree that it's a somewhat unfair generalization that paints a harsh picture. The core point of the argument still holds though, I think. A cynical response might be to say that …

The article mentions it. > There exist several closed-form solutions to Fibonacci sequence which gives us the > false hope that there might be an O(1) solution. Unfortunately they …

That's an interesting US fact, but the story is about the UK. Is it likewise restricted there?

Isn't the purpose of the example to make it hard to just trivially deduce y? If you know y = 1/(1 - t) then yeah it's undefined at t = 1. The example given doesn't seem to lend its…

I believe it's been shown in video feeds that Lee Sedol had left the room before move 37. He came back from a smoke break and noticed AlphaGo's shoulder hit play. It's of course st…

I have an Apps account and just installed it from the Play Store.

You don't need --standalone to get only certificate files, by the way. You can also use certonly with --webroot and it'll work just fine. The certonly is the key part. One thing I …

I think you're confusing this list of attributes with a separate list used for rollouts and tree search. The ones above are definitely used for the neutral networks in the policy a…

Is there a source of the rules for colour choice? I had thought it would be another nigiri as in 1st game. Choosing it based on the 4th game's result would imply Lee Sedol would ha…

> the AI took its time when it thought it was ahead, and played exactly as aggressively as needed to win Don't human professional players do exactly this? They care about playing t…

It's worth remembering that AlphaGo was partially, initially trained on the previous game records of professional players, to form the basis of its policy network and so on. AlphaG…

I'd be interested in hearing about the process of returning to the District Court (or really any previous court) to defend on a fair use argument. Was that case not closed? Was it …

How did you convince them you were him and that you hadn't stolen your own identity?

This reads to me like a more verbose version of "Incorrect username or password." I'd favour the shorter version that gets the same point across.

I don't know enough about client implementations to say whether it is unsaveable, but let's say it is: why would 308 exist? That suggests the HTTP spec folks believe it's fundament…

302 is already bad, and 301 is already wrongly implement as RFC 2616 itself notes. Ultimately I doubt either is going to see a "fixed" implementation from a buggy one that's lasted…

While browsers can probably "do anything" with a 301 or 302, I think in practice it's simpler. I think the issue here is that 301 and 302 were originally intended to preserve the H…

I think any setup which requires the website to respond to requests intended to verify its own authenticity will probably not work. Any verification requests could be passed upstre…