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It's very interesting, especially if you grew up playing id games, and it's also an easy read. Go for it!

Regardless of road quality, weather conditions are unpredictable. When the rain or snow or haboob kicks in, I guess your car will pull over to the side of the road and you'll need …

Yeah, unless Leibnitz was busy making some tacos.

In an alternate reality, Newton did five pull-ups instead of inventing calculus.

Coyote sightings were a regular occurrence on my NextDoor feed long before the quarantine.

"if its 1 dimensional then its signal processing" This is clearly not the case, since image signal processing, 2D Fourier transforms, etc. are alive and well.

It's asking for my email to check if my census data has been leaked? Email isn't even shown as a field in the leaked records. Is this site just harvesting emails?

It's a recommendation by the FDA in the US, not an enforced regulation.

Ah, I see what you mean. Yes, if you're not dealing with approximately bandlimited and sampled signals, then this wouldn't apply. The article is about embedded devices processing s…

> That is, signal processing had Nyquist's rates. And typically knows there is an underlying signal. Does ml have either? What does this question mean? Every band-limited signal ha…

What is a "typical person"? As the article states, most of these people are 70+ years old. It would be interesting to know the prevalence of these illnesses among the cohort of 70+…

See Table 1 in the original study: https://www.epicentro.iss.it/coronavirus/bollettino/Report-C... Ipertensione arteriosa (high blood pressure) 76.1% Diabete mellito (diabetes) 35.…

If you're working for a company where it's seen as "heroic" or "passionate" to come to work sick, you're in a toxic environment. I've had a couple co-workers who perhaps see themse…

Real geniuses walk and drink their coffee at the same time.

> "a problem that could not be solved" The solution is counter-intuitive, but the problem can be solved with some elementary probability theory.

I interviewed at some AI companies a year or two back. They all had teams of people dedicated to support each client: to clean their data, train their models, integrate the domain-…

> releasing practically their entire catalogue of movies on Netflix Except in the US, Canada, and Japan.

Citations tend to be a better indicator of impact. There are some interesting analysis here [1]. MIT has the most citations, and they've also published the most papers by far. If c…

I’d heard that this is, to some extent, impossible, because everybody subvocalizes when they read. Wikipedia supports this, but I guess the goal is to minimize subvocalization rath…

I remember asking my French teacher if she ever “thought” in French, and she had no idea what I meant. She apparently had no internal monologue. I assumed there was something with …

I wouldn't want to eat ice cream three times a day, but that doesn't mean it tastes bad. What do you think will sell better this Valentine's day: bouquets of magenta colored flower…

> "Perhaps inarguably" Two words you rarely see together.

> Dark brown is not the ugliest color, the ugliest color is magenta. That's just, like, your opinion. Beauty is subjective and the only way to declare something the ugliest, in som…

We have over 800 military bases in ~70 countries around the world.