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if you removed all clocks from computers, replacing it would be quite the time
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Comment · 7 years ago
Perhaps tangential, but is there a frequency of a gravity wave high enough to "cusp" due to one of the quantization limits?
Comment · 7 years ago
Not sure if I understand, but it seems the dendrites are "grouped" in a way, and their influence on the output is a function of the group?

Is this functionally equivalent to having a two layer mini-network (that represents one brain neuron), with one neuron on top, and "child" neurons on bottom that mimic the grouping behavior? If this is true, then I would suspect our networks are already doing something like this automatically.

Comment · 7 years ago
> Early methods conceived of vision as searching for edges, or generalized cylinders, or in terms of SIFT features. But today all this is discarded.

These aren't discarded, they are part of ML vision networks today. Edges are one of the 3x3 convolutions that a network can learn, SIFT/etc are the dense / clustering nets, I'll admit I just googled Generalized Cylinders (very interesting). There are others like SLAM as well.

Comment · 7 years ago
I think I understand this. In "he only drinks soda", The token "only" opens the opportunity for "fcontrol" (like yield in a generator) to be resolved at a yet-to-be-determined position in the sentence. So if you "run" the function of `only { f(drink) soda }` or `only { drink f(soda) }`, `drink soda` is an independent construction by itself, but this pitch accent allows an additional information channel to be threaded through it.

I imagine generalizing this, not just "fcontrol" but other information-awaiters, it would be like functions wrapped in decorators of the various yield-channels they can emit to. Probably someone already does this.

Comment · 7 years ago
But when you pay a dividend, you lose a small % in tax, or the delay between receiving the dividend and reinvesting it. That % loss adds over time and makes dividend structures less efficient than direct reinvestment. You are correct when the business cannot grow using the money, but BRK is an capital investment company, so I don't think that's an issue for them.
Comment · 7 years ago
To be fair, critical parts of modern day "version control", like pull requests and code review, are part of GitHub but not git.
Comment · 7 years ago
It could also break pages that rely on full control over the hash, having targetText= injected unexpectedly would break a lot of crude params parsers.

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