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    Comment #47681111

    I think the idea is that some short peptides might survive the digestion and make it to the blood stream, but I'm doubtful there's any specific benefit to collagen.

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    Comment #46235916

    Lidars use pulsed lasers with peak powers up to the kW range.

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    Comment #43218151

    Silicon carbide fiber reinforced silicon carbide is also being increasingly used.

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    Comment #41849565

    But 'i' is not a car, it is the index of a car.

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    Comment #40184897

    I like einsum, it's concise and self-explanatory. Way better than multiple lines of nested for loops would be.

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    Comment #40082702

    I got to level 8 by asking in rot13. I think I beat the bonus level too but I can't remember how.

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    Comment #40070854

    Also, the problem is to find a global min-cut, which requires all-pairs max flow.

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    Comment #40038856

    Different models have different inductive biases. There is no way you could build GPT4 with decision trees.

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    Comment #39924015

    Is it not possible to compensate for inaccuracy, if you have a sufficiently precise measurement at the hand?

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    Comment #39792704

    Your edit is confusing me. Which variant fails and which variant passes?

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    Comment #39745561

    Here's a variant which gives 64-bit output: uint64_t x = 0, w = 1; uint64_t msws64(void) { x = x * x + (w *= 0xe9acc0f334e93bd5ULL); return (x = (x >> 32) | (x

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    Comment #39740417

    What if you don't truncate? I fell like it might still be OK.

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    Comment #39597529

    One important component is adding significant damping, corresponding to a small probability of jumping to a random page. This makes sure that the graph is well connected and the po…

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    Comment #39539684

    I though finite difference differentiation was notoriously unstable.

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    Comment #39539615

    I just did this exact thing today, writing a cloth simulator! I wanted to try updating each node position in turn using a Newton step, holding the other nodes fixed.

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    Comment #39402891

    John Conway showed that if you generalise the coefficients of the Collatz conjecture then some instances are undecidable. So maybe there is no proof.

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    Comment #39374199

    I would say the second law is more relevant; if you want to reduce entropy in one part of a system, you have to expend an equivalent or greater amount of free energy elsewhere.

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    Comment #39346733

    Well, the derivations are different, and your comment seemed to imply that the maximum likelihood perspective was easier to understand.

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    Comment #39346259

    Both the Bayesian perspective and the optimization perspectice are legitimate ways of understanding the Kalman filter. I like the Bayesian perspective better.

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    Comment #39140146

    I think you need to recalibrate your perceptions; the world (including the US) is about as safe as it's ever been. And I don't think hypocritical is the right choice of word anyway…

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    Comment #38911301

    But demand is lower in the summer, so this shouldn't effect renewable energy requirements.

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    Comment #38508627

    I think even a bigram model would provide enough information.

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    Comment #38280995

    Also, the parts of science that affect our everyday lives come together to form a coherent picture which explains many different observations. Religions don't have anything like th…