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I'm curious, what sorts of speeds do you mean for "slow"?

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> The woke disease. Which has also taken our world close to WW3 recently. Reference?

I don't think there's much direct evidence to support natural spillover event other than that much of the initial spread could be localized to a wet market, which may have had vend…

Just restart your kernel if you think something spooky related to state is occurring. This is the number one criticism I see of notebooks, but it is so easy to deal with if you are…

Why do you believe the next will be worse? Covid is already a global pandemic and will likely reach a majority of the global population before going away.

How does Windows hurt science?

It's because we usually dont multiply percentages, but instead work with normal decimal figures.

Sure, but if we can match that number of fatalities with self driving cars it will inarguably be a success from a utilitarian standpoint.

Given your learnings, how are you going to redesign your engine to have less tightly coupled components?

I got that reference.

I know nothing about cars, but I've been wondering how anything remotely resembling what was shown could pass a crash test. It's going to have to be radically transformed, so why b…

Moving with a pickup truck sounds miserable. Why not just rent a uhaul?

That's exactly what I thought of when I first saw the car.

I agree calling it a success is too rosy, but I think people are really thinking od this as progress, not a regression like the event itself would naively suggest, because the comp…

I havent researched the orbital dynamics much here, but wouldnt it be possible for the satellite fragments resulting from a collision at orbital speeds to have much greater speeds,…

This is hilarious, because this is the exact album I'm listening to right now (I've probably listened to it over 100 times...). Youtube's algorithm, for all the evils it does radic…

It seems like the tool was mainly invented to deal with the issue of hidden state in notebooks, but I don't honestly see what the big deal is. Jupyter notebook is a tool with hidde…

Was there anyone there with you that also saw?

Perhaps you got lucky. Belltown isnt as bad as some other areas, but in my one year of daily walking commutes through Belltown I saw 1. A person OD'd (presumably dead) at a bus sto…

Huh? People communicate about work all the time in my office and having the ability to initiate conversations fluidly means more efficient collaboration. Fewer meetings, and easier…

Is it, though? If every car that drove that route was a Tesla on autopilot, you'd probably have more traffic fatalities than the national total, and that doesn't even factor in eve…

You're right, I was trying to dumb down p-values to make a point about perverse incentives in academic publishing. What's worse is that other factors that increase the Type I error…

What's good for the field (we've decided) is when we only allow a 5% Type I error rate (95% of published positive results are correct). What's good for the individual is to drive t…

I get that Musk is a controversial figure and that this event was a debacle, but I dont know how you can ignore SpaceX and Tesla, both arguably the most successful companies in the…