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Comment · 1 year ago
Could it be "command line flag"?
Comment · 4 years ago
My Seattle Mazda was hit by this bug. The backup camera still functions for the most part, although it does flicker and occasionally blank for a second or two (presumably while the system reboots). Annoying, but not horrible.
Comment · 8 years ago
It looks like -> on a line of its own means "everything before this implies everything after it". So, for your second example you want

  x,Hx->Mx
  ->
  Hs->Ms
which returns "The statement is necessarily true."
Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
X-ray lenses don't really exist, although you can produce focused beams (using either reflection or simply collimation). So, these methods typically involve scanning a sample and measuring some fluorescence line (which gets emitted in roughly all directions).

That site doesn't mention the spot size, but its likely much larger than the page thickness, so the iron signal from a tilted page probably wouldn't differ in a measurable way from having the page perpendicular to the beam. Keep in mind that they require ~24 hours to get even the images shown. Instead it sounds like they rely on compositional differences in the ink from the two sides and look at fluorescence from an element that is only present on one side.

It might be possible to get the other side by taking a difference between the Fe and Ca signals (after scaling appropriately).

Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
Yes. The V in HSV is a greyscale value.
Comment · 11 years ago
In the nexus presentation, they mentioned that a few symbol keys were moved up to soft keys to fit the keyboard while keeping a laptop-like distance between keys. So, it might not be super convenient, but you can likely still type your passwords.
Comment · 11 years ago
If you treat the indices as between elements and include all elements that are between the start and end elements, there is only one reasonable choice. It would be more "special" to include elements that are outside of the specified range (i.e., the element to the right of the final index).
Comment · 11 years ago
I parsed his comment as "a request that results in 20 nested RPCs completes in a few ms".
Comment · 11 years ago
>I was gonna say, who calls reversing a tree's ordering inverting?

The guy writing the tweet (not necessarily the interviewer).

Comment · 11 years ago
This is especially true if you have multimodal distributions (such as the income datasets in the article). Although its true that there are simple algebraic properties that allow you to calculate the mean and variance of the total population given the same for sub-populations, it often isn't the case that this will be a good fit to the data. That being said, this is a useful property for parallelizing gaussian fits.
Comment · 11 years ago
I don't think that will actually change anything. Two positively slowing lines (of any slope) have, by definition correlation = 1.0. The "random data" he used is just a small amount of noise on top of the line(s).

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