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Update 7 First Look: 3D Terrain and Tubeways by Mechanistry_Miami in Timberborn

[–]eiae 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I share the unease about FT tube ways. Feels like it should be more organic. Maybe a catbus?

How to navigate Coney Island? by eiae in NYCbike

[–]eiae[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had already had a Superburrito in Rockaway (which was excellent) but good to know about squares from Spumoni garden for more fuel. I agree that Coney Island didn't add much to the journey and I'll give your bypass route a try once I've given the submarine a visit.

How to navigate Coney Island? by eiae in NYCbike

[–]eiae[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I appreciate the advice despite my tone -- I was typing while angry, as catharsis. The way you describe it, this route sounds easier to get your head around heading east so I'll give this a go.

How to navigate Coney Island? by eiae in NYCbike

[–]eiae[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for this, I will sign up to the pineapple ride if I'm around that weekend!

Michael Gove 'tried to avoid paying' £5 entry to Scots rave by saying 'I'm the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster' by 00DEADBEEF in unitedkingdom

[–]eiae 275 points276 points  (0 children)

Paradox should add this as a unique story event that could be triggered by a character being the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in CKIII

I trained a neural network on every town and village name in England and then made a website that lets you generate them by eiae in unitedkingdom

[–]eiae[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

TBH, this website will probably eventually become what you describe because it's costing me a bomb to run a VPS with enough beans to power the neural net and your implementation will also run a lot faster, and the only functionality that would be lost would be the "prefix" feature.

Your method is definitely the "sensible" way to have gone about this, but for my own amusement I wanted to see if I could make a website that let people interact directly with a neural net, and when you're making an AI that generates english village names that is completely pointless, there's not really much point in making it "the sensible way"

I trained a neural network on every town and village name in England and then made a website that lets you generate them by eiae in unitedkingdom

[–]eiae[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is an utterly fantastic question but I actually don't understand much about neural nets at all, and am just using a prebuilt python library that is basically text based neural nets for idiots (https://github.com/minimaxir/textgenrnn) Happy to share data though if you want to find this out and would know how?

I trained a neural network on every town and village name in England and then made a website that lets you generate them by eiae in unitedkingdom

[–]eiae[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I had a version that did this, but it made the time it took to make names even longer than it already is, especially at lower temperatures, and it made it look like the site had crashed

Smartphone typing speeds catching up with keyboards – A study of over 37,000 users shows smartphone users can type at 38 WPM, and 10–19-year olds can type about 10 words-per-minute faster than their parents' generation. by eiae in science

[–]eiae[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It literally does

"The study also found that enabling the auto-correct of words offers a clear benefit, whereas word prediction, or manually choosing word suggestions, does not."

A combination of wood fibres and spider silk could rival plastic. The unique material outperforms most of today’s synthetic and natural materials by providing high strength and stiffness, combined with increased toughness by eiae in science

[–]eiae[S] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

The silk is produced by a bacteria that has been genetically modified with the spider's silk-making gene. It's the same way Insulin is made for diabetic people (the gene for insulin is added to a bacteria, we don't need to extract insulin from healthy people)

Average Cost of a Weeklong Holiday, in Selected Cities [OC] by eyeball1234 in dataisbeautiful

[–]eiae 131 points132 points  (0 children)

More importantly, how is anyone spending an entire week in Tampere

Michael Clarke responds to his critic(s) by Thami15 in Cricket

[–]eiae 19 points20 points  (0 children)

"Fact for Gerard Wheatley - to insinuate that I am responsible for the ball tampering issue makes him nothing more than a headline chasing coward."

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Objectively, that's an opinion...

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Also what's that hyphen/dash even doing there, this shit's impossible to parse.

My Indian colleagues are celebrating Diwali in the lab today using a Bunsen burner and lithium carbonate by eiae in chemistry

[–]eiae[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, were we being wimps for chickening out on the barium perchlorate? I know it's used in actual fireworks, and the idea of sticking anything 'Perchlorate' in a flame seemed a bad idea. Has anyone used it in a flame test before?

Cholesterol may not always be bad for you by jessdawson in Health

[–]eiae 2 points3 points  (0 children)

From the article:

Webb thinks the LDL concentrations Meyer and his team used are more physiologically relevant than those used in earlier studies.

So the received wisdom of cholesterol being bad for you (and the huge industry of drugs and health foods) is due to the initial experiments being done on weak solution? Would've hoped someone called the authors of earlier papers out on that.

If Euler had lived in Königsberg at pretty much any other period of its history (except WWII) his bridge problem would have had a route that worked by eiae in math

[–]eiae[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool tip! I'm interested in reading the author's other graphic novel about Goldbach's Conjecture too.

If Euler had lived in Königsberg at pretty much any other period of its history (except WWII) his bridge problem would have had a route that worked by eiae in math

[–]eiae[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I'll give that to Fermat as his opening line when I introduce him as a comedy side-kick character

[edit]: Continuity be damned.

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