while haiti is in the news so much this week maybe we should all take a moment to discuss the fact that their economic destitution is entirely due to being forced to spend ~80% of their federal budget every year for 150 years on reparations to france for freeing the slaves
@but_cyclists I’m always surprised no one brings up the 4th power law when motorists say cyclists should pay their fair share with these taxes. A ~100kg cyclist causes 1/10,000th the wear of even a small car (a Honda fit is like 1 ton). The “fair share” would be like pennies a year
@arithmoquine Best one I’ve heard is that it’s a reduction in how well rewards back propagate to previous actions, esp. for negative rewards. So actions that produce small positive rewards quickly are favored over actions that produce large negative rewards over the long term.
@RiverTamYDN Think about what the value would be for slight +/- in the numerator and denominator. First would get you to +/- inf. Second would be ~0. Therefore it’s an unstable value, doesn’t really provide any useful information
@graffioh Abstractly, think: I can get to n steps w/ all the combos to get to n-1 plus a 1-step, or I can use combos from n-2 plus a 2-step. Each combo in the prev 2 were unique, and none of the new combos overlap b/c I appended diff numbers. Therefore, it’s just {n-1} plus {n-2}
@graffioh Ig it’s just the Fibonacci but if you haven’t reviewed this stuff in a while it’s a pain. If you don’t immediately recognize it, you can always just start writing out the combos by hand, you’ll recognize the pattern by like n=5
@shurensha@qtnx_ I have a T490, battery seems fine. Just have to tweak some of the power, fan, cpu throttle settings. However, I don’t have the dedicated GPU, and I’ve heard that can be a pain to fix
@yoimnotkesku Fwiw if you can get the enterprise version of windows 10 and disable all the spyware and adware it’s not a terrible os. Just annoying that it’s not available off the shelf.
@generativist I wonder if this takes into account crossing the dateline? Like if you left from Sydney to Hawaii at 11pm, you’d pass midnight before the dateline, but then you’d go back a day and arrive in LA before their birthday