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There are lots of countries where you need to bribe government officials in order to achieve the simple things. The US is fortunately still far from that level.

joelthelion OP ,
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CNN, really?

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I don't, but I do have bypass paywalls clean. Sorry, I didn't realize CNN had subscriber-only content.

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I completely agree with you. I think what the US needs is more readily available AND relatively healthy food options. As a European, walking through the isles of an American grocery shop is utterly depressing.

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This is all to please trump, bit my guess is that these won't materialize. They will get canceled the second trump is looking elsewhere or leaves the white house

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Utility bots that are summoned on demand, probably, as long as we have a good process to kick them out if they are not helpful.

Regular commenter bots? Certainly not. The point of lemmy is to talk with other humans.

joelthelion ,
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Does anyone actually like their software? Anything by them I have ever seen has always been a slow and outdated piece of shit.

joelthelion ,
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This is both true and a bit dumb. We are all responsible for these emissions by buying and burning these fuels (most of the time indirectly).

joelthelion ,
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I wouldn't be surprised if Trump threatened military action in return, should Canada go forward with it.
I mean, it sounds crazy to write it, but is it really too crazy for Trump?

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Le titre est un peu putaclic, mais je trouve qu'il y a pas mal d'idées intéressantes dans cette interview.

joelthelion OP ,
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En même temps c'est son métier, je vois pas bien pourquoi on le lui reprocherait.

joelthelion OP ,
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Merci, je comprends beaucoup mieux ton point de vue. Pour moi qui ne suis ces sujets que de très loin, Manon Garcia c'était nouveau 😊

joelthelion ,
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Dans de très nombreux pays, les films ne sont jamais doublés. Les gens n'ont pas l'air plus malheureux, et le niveau d'anglais est meilleur qu'en France.

Je n'ai rien contre le doublage mais ça n'a rien d'indispensable.

joelthelion ,
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I think the main question is how exercise alone compares to exercise +supplements. If I have time later I'll try to dig into the paper.

joelthelion ,
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Reading the paper, exercise alone had no effect on these "biological clocks". So, the results are promising, but given the lackluster results of the trial on other outcomes (blood pressure, mortality, falls, etc.), I'd be cautious before jumping to conclusions.

[solved] A tale of two rabbits

I have ten meters of mesh fence. I want to make two enclosures for my rabbits who can't stand each other (they can share a wall). What is the shape and the area of the largest enclosure (in terms of area) I can build? Each rabbit needs to have access to the same area. The shape can be arbitrary (although it would be nice if it ...

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The best I was personally able to obtain is the circle divided by a wall.

I initially asked this question on the mathematics stack exchange: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/5035579/area-maximization. Of course, it got closed for no reason, but before it did, someone offered the following solution: join two circular arc (subtended at angle 240∘ with respect to their center) at their end points, add a line segment between the end points, you can achieve an area ∼4.9457788. Recomputing the area of their solution, I get ~4.49 instead, but I'm not sure I got it right...

joelthelion OP , (edited )
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It looks good, however when I compute the area, I get 4.4872..., which is less than what I get for the single circle. I could be wrong though, as others seem to be getting 4.94.

Edit: I found my mistake! I was using the wrong formula for the altitude of the equilateral triangle. Now I get 4.9458..., which is by far the best result so far. Thank you!

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/01d4a005-54d6-4372-9d08-7c70586481f1.png

joelthelion OP ,
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Hi, I'm familiar with the concept of Euler-Lagrange equations, however I wouldn't know how to use them in practice to solve a problem like this one. ChatGPT isn't very helpful and suggest a single circle cut in half is the optimal solution, even when I tell it to use Euler-Lagrange.

joelthelion OP ,
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In my case, yes, because I don't have much to attach the mesh wire to.

joelthelion OP ,
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You have the best solution so far, but I wouldn't call it solved yet, since we don't have any proof or indication that it is the best solution that exists.

joelthelion OP ,
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Here's another solution, that is suboptimal but might be preferable to the soap bubble solution in practice: an ellipse with long axis 1.592 and short axis 0.972. This should be close to the optimal ellipse (I used Kepler's approximate P=pi * (a+b) formula for the perimeter). It gives an area of 4.861 which is close enough to the current optimum, and looks like this:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d840b6b9-9509-47ec-b7b6-04326896789a.png

joelthelion OP ,
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I've implemented a gradient descent algorithm in python to optimize the shape, and I get essentially the same thing:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f59c8439-fb57-47fd-8008-c4c78a7debf0.png

I'm changing the title to solved :)

Here's the code: https://pastebin.com/wKvhVvQg

GM Joel Benjamin to play match against Leela with knight odds, starting Saturday Jan 25 ( talkchess.com )

8 games, 60 minutes + 30 second increment for Benjamin, i.e. classical TC though a bit quicker than some. Benjamin gets N odds in all games. Leela will play at bullet speed. The hardware is not specified in the thread I linked. Leela will apparently be running a network specially trained to play with knight odds. Match will ...

joelthelion ,
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This is really cool! BTW, if you haven't tried playing Leela with queen odds, I highly recommend it. It's insanely hard and eye opening.

There is a bot in Lichess that allows you to play it. No setup required.

joelthelion OP , (edited )
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C'est plus pour le contenu de l'interview que pour le titre putaclic que j'ai partagé l'article.

Pour te répondre, la division de la gauche et l'absence de volonté de faire des compromis pour faire avancer le pays sont de vrais problèmes à mon avis.

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Tout le monde sait qu'un premier ministre de gauche essayant d'appliquer le programme du NFP serait immédiatement censuré par RN+LREM. Donc la question pour la gauche, c'est est-ce qu'on reste dans l'opposition, ou est-ce qu'on essaie de négocier quelques avancées avec LREM? Pour moi c'est clair qu'il est plus avantageux d'essayer au moins de négocier. Après, tout est dans le contenu du compromis.

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Imaginons un instant que Macron nomme une personnalité relativement consensuelle de gauche, genre Lucie Castets ou Marine Tondellier.

Combien de temps faudrait-il pour que le NFP explose pendant la nécessaire recherche de compromis avec les Macronistes et la droite modérée ? À mon avis, pas bien longtemps.

J'espère me tromper bien sûr, et qui sait, on aura peut-être bientôt la réponse ?

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dupe

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Gruyères, Switzerland. 2000 inhabitants. Famous for the famous Swiss cheese of the same name.

joelthelion , (edited )
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C'est un bon argument, je le reconnais.

Franchement, ce qui me gêne avec le hijab, c'est le côté politique et religieux. Il me semble que tu n'as pas le droit de jouer avec un T-shirt MAGA? Le hijab, c'est un peu la même chose pour moi.

De manière générale, je trouve que l'occident a tort de considérer que la religion fait partie de l'identité. Même si la religion s'hérite largement, c'est avant tout un ensemble de croyances qu'on devrait être libre d'adopter ou non. Et donc, c'est différent d'autres éléments de l'identité tels que la couleur de peau ou le genre.

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Ça n'a pas grand chose avoir avec le sujet, et le contenu religieux d'un marché de Noël est quasi nul.

Mais sinon oui, je suis pour qu'on supprime tout ce qui donne une place spéciale au christianisme par rapport aux autres croyances.