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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Are you asking about the proposed merger between ARM and Nvidia? I believe that deal has been shut down by regulators.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That type of concept feels like it needs to be its own thing and not a module on a larger station. The added rotational inertia and potential for vibration seem like pretty high risk factors for anything connected that wasn't designed for it.

I hope starship can make a rotating station viable though.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Its amazing that Tom's hardware manages to avoid mentioning AMD at all when talking about both discrete and integrated graphics. Intel is behind AMD in all graphics categories.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The generic version at aldi is good. And they don't mess around with ai price fixing yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Afaik, if you get 10 of anything (dentists, mechanics, lawyers, etc.), they'll mostly agree.

Unfortunately, dentists seem to also be a notable exception to your statement. https://www.rd.com/article/how-honest-are-dentists/

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago

That's the Night's Watch.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Walking along the catwalk at the top must be pretty wild.

Is that there mostly for maintaining the lights, or is there another function?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It's interesting that this has similar nomenclature to jesus clips despite the use of "jesus" as an adjective having notably different connotations.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I'm not saying normalization is a bad strategy, just that it, like any other processing technique comes with limitations and requires extra attention to avoid incorrect conclusions when interpreting the results.

Because relative to the population density, there were 100 times as many sightings. Or what am I missing.

If you were to attempt to trap and tag bigfoots in both areas, would you end up with 100 times as many angry people in a gorilla suit in the small town? No. You would end up with 1 in both areas. So while the tiny town does technically have 100x the density per capita, each region has only one observable suit wearer.

Assuming the distribution of gorilla suit wearers is uniform, you would expect approximately 99 tiny towns with no big foot sightings for every 1 town with a sighting. So if you were to sample random small towns, because the map says big foots live near small towns, you would actually see fewer hairy beasts than your peer who decided to sample areas with higher population density.

If we could have fractional observations, then all this would be a lot more straightforward, but the discrete nature of the subject matter makes the data imherently noisy. Interpreting data involving discrete events is a whole art and usually involves a lot of filtering.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Simple normalization does amplify signals in low density areas. If a person in a tiny town of 100 reports a bigfoot sighting and another person in an area with 10,000 population also reports a sighting, then with simple normalization the map would show the area with 100 people having 100 times as many big foot sightings per capita as the area with the population of 10k. Someone casually reading the map would erroneously conclude that the tiny town is a bigfoot hotspot and would in general conclude bigfoot clearly prefers rural areas where they can hide in seclusion. When the reality is that the intense signals are artifacts of the sampling/processing methods and both areas have the same number of fursuit wearers.

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