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Lost me when they got the definitions of semigroups and monoids wrong. Semigroups are not required to have any identity, and the monoidal identity needs to be both a left and right…

The answer is no: every time you apply Human(), you reduce by one the number of legal moves at every given game state. After some finite number of iterations, there are no longer a…

Or by packing the Supreme Court...

FWIW, I found the EPA [1] and CDC [2] sites on these chemicals to be extremely informative. Definitely gives me an appreciation for the "good" parts of government. 1. https://www.e…

Exactly. So suppose at some generation, the fraction of mosquitoes with the modified trait is p (and the unmodified fraction is 1 - p), and suppose that all mosquitoes are equally …

I don't think the data requirements are that realistic. While the actual interference patterns on a hologram would be ridiculously large to send as a bitmap, it's easy to compute t…

Actually, the full title is "Things I love in Haskell that don't exist elsewhere at all"

> Completely ignore the credit collection agencies. They are utterly impotent, especially when it comes to medical debt which has no effect on your credit score. Source? Googling f…

It seems that Hacker News is inaccessible via Tor. Is this because of manual blocking of exit nodes, and if so can this blocking be lifted (at least for read access)?

^ or me

Yes, it could be bad, but at the same time the "@case" isn't the only indicator that this class is special. A case class definition can be very visually distinct compared to a norm…

Yes, probably if you're starting from scratch. But I think in general it's good to have a flexible language which lets you write code in any reasonable style. Hopefully this librar…

Other author here: Like lihaoyi said, it's true that the way we defined things doesn't match standard Python namespacing, but it saves some typing and I think it's easy to get used…

It looks like the API doesn't give access to the whole shape of a ship - only its centroid position and the direction of the sharpest vertex. Do the other vertices not matter? In a…

One thing the article mentioned was that people are choosing not to have kids. In this case, it seems that there should be an extremely high selection pressure for people to be gen…

Sure, I may have actually done better on the Putnam than he has. I've gotten top 100 and top 200 before... but that really wasn't the point I was trying to make. I was just making …

Nit-picky corrections: 1. Top Putnam score in Colorado . There's a pretty big difference between that, and say, top Putnam score in Massachusetts (which is more likely the same as …

On the other hand, it could also end up like hotel phone calls or wine uncorking fees - ridiculously expensive just for a convenience.

Do you have any sources to support dietary fiber as the real causal factor, as opposed to other diet / lifestyle variables?

Down in Tokyo as well..

Energy is certainly not being generated. The energy of the light output will be equal to the heat absorbed plus the electric energy input. If you want to think of it in terms of te…

The linked article and the title are pretty misleading. But if you go and look at the abstract for the paper, they mention that the extra energy comes from pumping heat out of the …

The problem is with the hypothesis that Apple would stay impartial and fight attempts by government to abuse revocation. This is highly unrealistic, and we've already seen Apple us…