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I think it's surely safety-critical that the car hit _some_ objects. For instance, you don't want to be going 70mph down the highway only for the car to attempt to come to a screec…

Do you ever find yourself wondering why people find it so hard to do a particular thing that seems, to you, trivial - possibly to the point of frustration? Alternatively, do you so…

This is an easy statement to make, but I think, empirically speaking, it just doesn't line up with reality. For payday loans, where the terms have historically been in excess of 36…

You'd probably be interested in Unison ( www.unisonweb.org ). It's a Haskell-style functional language, which aims to make the sort of distributed computing you're talking about ea…

Alternatively: without this new source of revenue, auto manufacturers will be less able to compete on price and maintain the same margins. As a consumer, I don't get to decide whet…

> "Domestication" is just a word for a natural evolutionary processes in a symbiotic system. The concept that "domestication" is like, actually a thing apart from evolution is a va…

Surely they must have already established a loss function in order to train the network in the first place?

https://ksqldb.io/ is great for this, assuming you're already using Kafka.

It appears to be: def master(): try: with open(os.environ['USERPROFILE'] + os.sep + r'AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Local State', "r", encoding='utf-8') as f: local_state =…

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-use-multiple-desktops-in-...

Actually, we also have RCV for our electoral college votes in the presidential election, as of 2020.

Hm - but older from what perspective? Since light travels at c, aren't all journeys light takes instantaneous from the point of the photon? My understanding as well being that all …

Do be aware that https://docs.python.org/3.9/library/contextlib.html#contextl... also exists as of 3.7 -- you can do ctx_mgr = foo() if bar else nullcontext() with ctx_mgr: ... if …

I always thought it was a shame that `nested`[0] (the stdlib equivalent to your `multi` above) was deprecated in 2.7 and, ultimately, removed in favor of `ExitStack` -- despite its…

I've always found the bipartite graph conceptualization of matrix multiplication the most intuitive, and especially so if you're familiar with neural networks: https://www.math3ma.…

You might be surprised to learn that the well-known economist Paul Krugman wrote in the late 70s about trade in relativistic scenarios, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory…

I had a difficult time initially adjusting to my ergodox, a few years back. For the first month or so it felt like I had had a stroke. What worked for me was: 1. Only switching to …

That's a little misleading. An individual child will not be able to fluently acquire language if not exposed during the so-called "critical period"; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

Your second use case is actually already covered in Python, assuming you have some kind of sentinel value you can break on: for s in iter(network_service.read, ''): process(s)

Surely the actual problem here is that the responsibility for reliable identification somehow falls on the consumer, not the bank or what have you? I'll give an example: if I get a…

This is neatly packaged, but it's not immediately clear what advantages it has over Hypothesis' native offerings for accomplishing this? ( https://hypothesis.readthedocs.io/en/late…

I'm going to plug my own here: astpath, which is AST-based search for Python. https://github.com/hchasestevens/astpath/

Note that this doesn't actually encompass all the possible usages of the PEP-572 operator in the standard library, of which there appear to be 312 more candidates (and a further 10…

One consideration is that much of Bletchley Park's efforts were kept hidden from the public until 1974[1] - it's possible that in 1979 the computer's role in breaking German cypher…