“boomer” in this is just being used as slang for “old people”.

I feel like that might have been the point. Rather than “using a car to go from A to B” they walked.

Arithmetic coding is one of my favorite algorithms. Any token predictor can be converted into an entropy encoder!

When did we even decide the proper course of action for dealing with gangs was to deport them? Everyone is debating whether he’s a gang member but even if he was, he shouldn’t have been deported.

You’re right, we should use our biases and opinions about the nature of this situation based on sensationalist news instead of due process.

Nuh-uh! You can configure Minecraft to use all that memory to run buttery smooth. Just make sure to not play longer than 15 minutes so you don’t get the mother-of-god lagspike when the garbage collector finally runs.

The state isn’t a business. Services don’t lose money, they cost money.

Instead of paying your insurance and having them take a profit out of it before providing the service, you pay taxes and the money goes more directly into the service.

Show me the fucking feather

in a colloquial sense, from an end user’s perspective, the thing they see is “the algorithm”.

Yes, usually the default or most common method of aggregating posts is what people talk about when saying “the algorithm”

However, any method of sorting posts is by definition an algorithm. “top” is an algorithm, “new” is an algorithm, if you can compare two posts and have a method to choose which one to display first, that right there is an algorithm.

I’d actually argue that the “hot” algorithm is one of the more opaque ones. It sorts posts based on a composition of different metrics, and It’s unclear exactly what these metrics are and how they are combined.

Every turn of the wheel would still twist the strap, pulling it tighter

Psionic might have some extra sensory perception as well.

Looks like discord with a green background

I don’t think they would care about that unless there was a long line and you left no tip.

10 shannons, that is, 10 bits, each with 50% probability would be equivalent to the amount of information gained from observing an event with 1/1024 chance of occurring, not 1/10. Thats because this unit gets combined multiplicatively. The wikipedia article mentions that if there are 8 possible events with equal probability, the information content would be 3 shannons.

There are only 4.29 billion possible values of an int32, so even if you used 2 lines for each case, it’d still be under 10 billion lines of code

bool isOdd(int num) {
    if (num == 1)
        { return true; }
    if (num == 2)
        { return false; }
    if (num == 3)
        { return true; }
    …
}

Im think it was designed with a clock in mind. That’s why it starts with north at the 12:00 position and goes clockwise. I learned it as ‘Never Eat Soggy Waffles’ but I’m sure there are a bunch of these.

I’d take a term of Mitt Romney over Trump. At least he

• had respect for the office
• could articulate sentences in a clear manor
• had a plan, and could explain it
• wasn’t a convicted felon/rapist
• had decorum in discourse/debates

Can confirm. I only had a bit of trouble with the last frame but was able to translate perfectly from context.

Theoretically the electorals could go blue without winning any districts. It would require a third party to win at least one district though.

Using two or more adjectives doesn’t imply conflation.

The sentence “You can have a regular apple or a big green apple” doesn’t imply that green apples are big, or that big apples are green. It also doesn’t imply that big green apples are irregular outside of this local phrasing context.

It just implies that the set of ‘regular apples’ being referenced does not include the instance of ‘a big green apple’

I can see where the confusion is coming from, this is tricky to explain clearly.