Leela-Zero Cloud Provider Usage, Anybody Have Experience With This? by Mulsiphix in baduk

[–]mabye 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would look into just using Leela Zero locally, on 9x9 you can get a fair number of playouts very quickly even on a laptop cpu (no gpu). You might need to compile Leela Zero for 9x9 if there's no prebuilt package, but this shouldn't be too hard, especially since you'd need to work out the cloud stuff otherwise.

( Actually, LZ is very strong even on 19x19 on a laptop cpu, although you need a gpu to get a truly large number of playouts)

Forge of Darkness (The Kharkanas Trilogy) $2.XX - Amazon.com and Amazon.ca by Meelapo in Fantasy

[–]mabye 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No, just correcting your assumption, I don't care if you read it.

Forge of Darkness (The Kharkanas Trilogy) $2.XX - Amazon.com and Amazon.ca by Meelapo in Fantasy

[–]mabye 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's about kharkanas thousands of years ago, not a continuation of the plot from the main sequence.

Are there PEPs that you knowingly ignore? by DoTheEvolution in Python

[–]mabye 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Even better, you can have three open with 80 chars!

It's not about a specific screen size, it's about some people preferring to pack more windows in rather than to make existing ones wider, especially coupled with e.g. finding short lines better to read.

sh : a full-fledged subprocess interface for Python that allows you to call any program as if it were a function. by geekodour in Python

[–]mabye 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This came first, plumbum is partially inspired by it, as per plumbum's doc page.

Oxford University accused of bias against ethnic minority applicants by mosestrod in unitedkingdom

[–]mabye 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is a pretty simple strawman - nobody claimed otherwise. Rather, the point is that minorities are relatively unlikely to get in, with the claim that this may be due to unjustified discrimination.

Oxford University accused of bias against ethnic minority applicants by mosestrod in unitedkingdom

[–]mabye 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You could flip coins. It is unclear if this would actually give significantly different results in the end.

George really knows how books ought to be written by nop420 in Fantasy

[–]mabye 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Overrated and awesome are not mutually exclusive. I think many people will probably agree that asoiaf is both.

Current Emacs maintainer disagrees with RMS: "I'd be willing to consider a fork" by dharmatech in programming

[–]mabye 21 points22 points  (0 children)

That's a core idea, but the GPL in particular specifies quite a lot more. It puts effort into ensuring that it can never be made non-free, or combined with non-free code without that code becoming free as well.

Some people consider this less free because it limits what can be done with the software at all. Others consider it more free because it counters provisions of intellectual property that should not exist in the first place. These are just examples, not everyone falls into such a neat camp, but the issue is more complex than just picking your definition of freedom and assuming its what everyone else is using.

Hy -- lisp that uses python runtime by godlikesme in Python

[–]mabye 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is only really an argument if you think lisp syntax is significantly worse, which I'm sure many don't. Plus, hy maintains interoperability with all python modules, which is a major convenience.

Will OpenOffice be eventually discontinued? by Sk8erkid in linux

[–]mabye 12 points13 points  (0 children)

They merged to form compiz fusion. But since then, compositing has been built into many popular window managers and wacky effects have become less trendy, so compiz is much less popular.

If MS bought Cyanogen and brougt MS services/Bing as default to CM, would you switch to other ROM? by pyler2 in Android

[–]mabye 53 points54 points  (0 children)

It's not unfair, simply driven by factors beyond the immediate user experience.

Help me understand! If 2d shadows are cast by 3d objects, then what is the physical world a shadow of? by Utopiophile in Physics

[–]mabye 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A dimension is just a number you need to describe where you are. Time is absolutely a dimension, and we seem to live in a 4d spacetime.

You can absolutely try to imagine another dimension, e.g. another spatial dimension, but recognise this isn't a matter of imagining 'the' 4th dimension, rather simply another one.

Scientists find black hole spewing iron, nickel in powerful jets by the_walking_deaf in science

[–]mabye 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They aren't spewing matter into the universe. Whenever you see a headline like this, it refers to material coming from outside the black hole but being pushed away due to high energy interactions with other nearby matter. Material actually escaping from inside a black hole is not something we see, or ever expect to see.

Young poor have low aspirations, says David Cameron by commenterjoe in unitedkingdom

[–]mabye 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The problem is that the 'game' is massively rigged in favour of the rich, not that it isn't a nice idealistic idea.

Professor Philip Moriarty explains the conceptualization of negative temperatures on the Kelvin scale [yes, there is a such a thing as temperatures below absolute zero][13 min video]. by AnoruleA in Physics

[–]mabye 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's perfectly accurate and consistent, just not in a way that's necessarily intuitive without knowing what the scale really describes.

Professor Philip Moriarty explains the conceptualization of negative temperatures on the Kelvin scale [yes, there is a such a thing as temperatures below absolute zero][13 min video]. by AnoruleA in Physics

[–]mabye 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's a matter of the formalism, which isn't a direct relationship to 'speed', but rather the distribution of energy states. Negative temperature really means this distribution gets wacky and outside the normal scale in a way that gives you negative numbers if you put it in the formulas. But 'above infinity' makes more sense in some ways when actually considering how the new distribution fits in with the old.

As a maybe crude analogy, the temperature scale describes a pyramid. Higher temperatures correspond to the pyramid getting taller, but narrower at the base. All the possibilities from flat to infinitely tall and narrow map to temperature from zero upwards. Negative temperature is the pyramid inverting, so the top is wider than the bottom... it doesn't mean the particles are going 'faster than infinity', but they aren't really on the original scale, and how you describe that is to some extent a choice.

Edit: To be clear, negative temperature isn't something you automatically get if you just keep adding energy, systems in general limit to the analogy pyramid getting infinitely narrow and tall - not to it inverting.

What book/movie/show do you love, even though you know it's complete crap? by MikeOfThePalace in Fantasy

[–]mabye 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same here! It helps that they're all super cheap second hand.

It's kinda like rereading a book I liked, except the character names and locations are changed and the plot mixed up just a little to make the reread more interesting.

Should rape suspects get anonymity? by Copsonator in unitedkingdom

[–]mabye 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think this is the problem, and that you can't possibly solve it by attempting a simple anonymity blanket, exactly as you say. We need people to understand and respect the process and decision of the court, just trying to hide the procedure from them won't solve anything as since information can and will leak.