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I think they mean that the model should have sleep period where they update themselves with what they learnt that day.

I remember being amazed when I learnt about summing arithmetric series.

They took a multiplier of 5x (4 indirect deaths for every direct death) and stated that this was conservative given studies of previous conflicts.

"Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories" by Qntm has some good (harrowing) stories about human uploads too.

We actually use the twitter detections to launch analyses of the seismic data in order to get confirmed results for events that aren’t reported yet [1] but there are some statistic…

There is also the Earthquake Network (EQN) app that works on very similar principals to Google’s system - phones monitor their MEMs accelerometers, when they are left charging with…

The USGS created a system to do exactly this about 15 years ago. I’m not sure whether they’re still running it but at the EMSC, we've been running a similar system for many years t…

I have used Thunderbird for years and my work account has to handle large numbers of emails. In general it is fast for me on both Windows and Linux. I have had some issues over the…

Can anyone explain the maths that he did because my calculation give different results. Isn't there only a 1 in 2588 chance of a student 'guessing' 19 'answers' out of 45 where the…

Actually, I can't seem to get the maths to work. Isn't it just the Binomial distribution? Each question has 5 options so the probability of 'success' is 1/5 and so to get 19 questi…

This feels harsh because if the tests were similar but with small differences then getting the right wrong answers seems likely to happen anyway. Also, he went the extra step and o…

It was an online course and the exam was online too.

For all of my major exams in the UK, we were encouraged to study by practising on old papers and my score would have been abysmal if I hadn't. So not being allowed to look at past …

There is a strong connection between the incandescent lightbulbs and the sun because the sun is almost a blackbody emitter too. Studying incandescent lightbulbs allowed researchers…

The paper is written in scathing tones, by page 11 I was laughing at each new report of QED's 'perfect' agreement with whatever was the latest experimental result for the electron'…

I agree with this sentiment but in this particular case, with the personality that Putin projects to the world, it seems like appeasement would just encouragement him to try to tak…

I like nim but I've never really gotten used to the slicing syntax. I guess that I'm just too used to python, plus you have to be a bit careful to leave a whitespace when doing bac…

You can easily get bash to do that by adding these lines to your .inputrc file. "\e[A": history-search-backward "\e[B": history-search-forward "\e[C": forward-char "\e[D": backward…

Yes this is why many high frequency traders have installed laser or microwave links to their nearest stock exchanges, simply to gain a few microseconds advantage in their trades. F…

Actually, Einstein's 1935 paper along with Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen basically highlighted the existence of entanglement in Quantum Mechanics. Of course Einstein was trying t…

There's been some hypotheses of photosynthesis relying on quantum effects to improve its efficiency but it's still contentious the last that I checked [1]. [1] https://physicsworld…

Taco Town!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evUWersr7pc

Jim Carrey did a pretty good Matthew McConaughey SNL skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3eN9u5N2Q4

There is an offhand remark in the article that MRAM failed but why didn't it work out?

Ricardo Montalbán excellently sent himself up in Freakazoid. "Because he tasks me! He tasks me! 'round the moons of Snivia, I chuckle at thee. Beyond the Corpian clouds I chuckle m…