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lrschaeffer

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    Comment #47309559

    Same. Although finding the setting for the top-left corner is annoying, it gets easier every time.

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    Comment #41237265

    As other commenters have said, you're just going to learn the decoder ring from context, but I'm also curious. If I take off the keycaps to clean the keyboard and then put them bac…

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    Comment #41237140

    Yeah, lots of different uses for a keyboard with wildly different frequency distributions. Writing an English letter != text chat in Spanish != data entry != league of legends. It'…

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    Comment #40777076

    >> Hashmaps don't have guaranteed performance characteristics >Of course they do No, they do not, at least not worst case O(1). If you write a very poor (but functional!) hash func…

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    Comment #40681511

    I'm no expert, but there are approaches to reinforcement learning where you build a table of the expected payoff for each scenario, and these can recursively reference other entrie…

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    Comment #38954184

    Assuming what I wrote above is correct (I don't actually know anything about closed time-like curves), it's actually weirder than just going back in time and mailing a letter early…

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    Comment #38942988

    Maybe in general, but this is in the context of "time loop logic". Ordinarily, you can have entangled states where measuring both parts will produce the same (random) outcome. Unfo…