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Re:F3 on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @01:34PM (#48648416)
For columnar data storage I think. The description references Parquet and they appear to benchmark against Parquet, Vortex, and Lance.
Sounds like they're saying that since the distribution doesn't come from measuring or calculating the probability of something, it has the form of a probability distribution but isn't really one. Like saying 5 feet is a height that a person can have, but since I just made up that number it's not actually a person's height.
Re:OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission on Saturday February 14, 2026 @11:53AM (#47016037)
[Citation Needed]
Re:The super-slow conversion of the U.S. to metric (2025) on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @11:26AM (#46707867)
Only if you're made of pure water at standard pressure. Which I'm not.
Re:MIT study finds AI can replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @11:05AM (#46058788)
This title is clickbait.

From the abstract: "The Index captures technical exposure, where AI can perform occupational tasks, not displacement outcomes or adoption timelines." (emphasis mine)

The 11.7% figures is the modeled reduction in "wage value", which appears to be marketplace value of (human) work.

Re:Common yeast can survive Martian conditions on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @07:03PM (#45676260)
I think they prefer "Jovians".
Re:The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood – By Kushal Chakrabarti on Thursday September 04, 2025 @10:10AM (#45127480)
Well no actually it'd still clear to me that they mean the the multiplication of 3 different variables X, N, and D.

I don't think of it as eliding obvious operators. Rather in mathematics juxtaposition is used as an operator to represent multiplication. You would never elide an addition operator.

So X next to D still means multiplication as long as you can tell that X and D are separate entities.

I would wonder why they switched conventions in the middle of an expression though.

Re:The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood – By Kushal Chakrabarti on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @08:51PM (#45122167)
I assume they use N⋅D rather than ND to make it explicit these are 2 different variables. That's not necessary for 6N because variable names don't start with a number by convention.
Re:Today, I learned that eels are fish on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @10:36AM (#45116347)
I regret to report that there is surely no such thing as a fish.[0]

[0] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2024/12/04/no-fish/

Re:You might not need tmux on Friday August 01, 2025 @01:55PM (#44760101)
Mosh looks very cool, though I've never used it. Does Screen provide some advantage over tmux in this setup?
My calculations says that moving 1cm up or down earths gravity well (at the surface) changes the acceleration of gravity about 5x more than the acceleration you'd feel from a 100kg mass 1m away.

Assuming my math is correct, it's already affected by nearby human scale masses, for certain values of "near".

Re:CU Randomness Beacon on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @09:13AM (#44499651)
From tfa:

Often, randomness is thought of as something you want to keep hidden, such as when generating passwords or cryptographic keys. However, there are many applications where an independent and public source of randomness is useful. For example, randomizing public audits, selecting candidates for jury duty, or fairly assigning resources through a lottery.

Re:P-Hacking in Startups on Sunday June 22, 2025 @09:59AM (#44347023)
The chance that a positive result is a false positive depends on the false positive rate of your test and on total population statistics.

E.g. imagine your test has a 5% false positive rate for a disease only 1 in 1 million people has. If you test 1 million people you expect 50,000 false positive and 1 true positive. So the chance that one of those positive results is a false positive is 50,000/50,001, not 5/100.

Using a p-value threshold of 0.05 similar to saying: I'm going to use a test that will call a false result positive 5% of the time.

The author said: chance that a positive result is a false positive == the false positive rate.

Re:WebGL Water on Friday May 09, 2025 @09:11PM (#43942454)
Here I am running just fine on a 3 year old phone
Re:Java's SimpleDateFormat: YYYY vs. Yyyy on Friday January 03, 2025 @10:46AM (#42586637)
Why does YYYY exist? Is there some common need I'm not familiar with?

Also, I clicked on the title because I wanted to know what format Yyyy was... I feel mislead.

The second is (and has been) defined independent of length for a while. It's the time it takes for a certain number oscillations of a caesium atom.

The meter was redefined as the distance light travels in a specific time. So you could say that either the meter or the speed of light was redefined to make the speed of light a round constant, but not the second.

Re:Picking Glibc Versions at Runtime on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @04:22AM (#41634368)
> Doesn't that mean you need all the app's library dependencies installed into your alternate libdirs that you bind mount over top the "real" libdirs? Not just the ones you want to override?

You can also create a temp directory with symlinks as a poor mans overlay fs. You bind mount the original dir in an out of the way location so you can link to it and bind the temp dir over the standard location.

I believe thats what Nix's bubblewrap based FHSenv was doing last I checked.

Re:Scale of the Universe on Friday April 19, 2024 @02:52PM (#40090658)
We (the humans) would fit into Texas regardless of whether the land we owned would ;-)
According to your link, both of those are applied to extracted stem cells which are then reintroduced. The ability to perform clonal expansion and DNA sequencing makes it possible that screening for off-target edits could be performed. Though I have no idea if it's actually done.
Re:On Proprioception, the Sixth Sense of Storytelling (2022) on Saturday January 27, 2024 @03:34PM (#39159549)
Not really. You actually have a unique set of sensory neurons that tell you the spacial orientation of your body by measuring muscle/ligament stretch: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception

Edit: yes your general "body sense" is intergrated over multiple senses, including sight, touch, inner ear, ... but my point is that proprioception is an independent signal in that mix.

Don't be ridiculous, Vine Is Not an Emulator
Sure, then they're left with a pretty incriminating pattern of behavior when someone objects to the officers behavior during that traffic stop.
Re:Oldsmobile Hydra-Matic Drive (1947) [pdf] on Saturday September 30, 2023 @04:38PM (#37719549)
TIL what the first line of "Greased Lightning" means.
Re:The strange disappearance of Mrs Agatha Christie (2022) on Saturday September 23, 2023 @04:30PM (#37627205)
Chemistry is physics.
Re:What If OpenDocument Used SQLite? on Monday September 18, 2023 @08:33AM (#37555284)
Then you proactively prevent changes. Either "open a copy" or "open in readonly mode".

If you make saving the default you have to manually not save. It's a trade off versus default no saves with manual saves

Re:What Is Wrong with TOML? on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @09:49AM (#37496717)
How is this meaningfully different than using Javascript?
Re:Alan Turing and the Power of Negative Thinking on Thursday September 07, 2023 @01:07AM (#37414967)
Imagine you have an code which does #2. Now give it itself as an argument. What is the result? If it emits 0 then it's behaving according to #1, then because we assumed it satisfies #2 it must emit 1, a contradiction. Similarly it can't emit 1.

Thus it is impossible to have an algorithm which solves #2 for all inputs, because it must fail on at least one input (itself)

e2e means/implies that only the endpoints (i.e. the users) get to see the unencrypted signal. If Zoom truely uses e2e encryption no trainable data would exist on their servers. Of course, they control the endpoint software too so they could make it do whatever they want realistically.
Re:Qalculate – The Ultimate Desktop Calculator on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @04:55PM (#37068271)
Thanks, I'll stick with Rstudio.
Yes, but it but humans have been afraid that machines would replace them since long before Frank Herbert wrote about it. For example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

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