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I am no specialist on audio processing, but I believe the general task of converting raw audio to discrete symbols is called transcription. However, this does not distinguish whether these symbols...
Is economics considered on topic for "everyday science"? There are many everyday situations which seem counterintuitive from an economics perspective, but a closer look reveals interesting forces ...
[Does] information content scale linearly with length, regardless of topic? Information content pretty clearly doesn't scale linearly with length. I used to joke that The Scarlet Letter author...
As I understand it, this sort of thing fits well with what I had in mind, yes. I had already intended that the site would include practical economics questions related to household finance; underst...
On sandboxes For sandboxed development and test environments, I have found mkcert to be pretty helpful. It creates a root CA and happily creates certificates for whatever DNS you want. mkcert war...
Consider Shamir's secret sharing. The idea is you need $k$ out of $n$ parts of a key to recover some secret $S$. Then, if you "summarize" a key and encrypted text without providing at least $k$ par...
Is there a specification meta-language for logics? A formal language which can express, “a logic with variable symbols, unary predicates, and connectives”?
What is hyperparameter tuning? What makes the parameters "hyper"? Is tuning the same as learning or training?
I have slowly been influenced by this question as a new perspective has crept into my mind. It could be interesting if Codidact had higher standards for “answerability” than Philosophy SE. It would...
The Steam Deck comes with an OS which is basically a customized Arch, plus Steam, Plasma and some extra programs. The Steam Deck mounts most system dirs as read only, so for example it's not possi...
Is incremental training the same as transfer learning? What exactly is the difference?
Unsupervised learning covers a variety of different tasks. Depending on the task at hand, different techniques can be used. However, there are a few common paradigms that are used to extract info...
I used to use AbeBooks, which I understand to be owned by Amazon. My experience has been good. Most of the books I've purchased appear to be purged from various libraries (for shelf space?) in pret...
You don't provide the specific contract you have, but let's look at the Comcast Business Services Terms of Service for purchases on or after 4/1/2013 as an example. Article 6.1: NEITHER PARTY W...
I want to buy an electrical device for cold smoking food. From what I read, the temperature of the food must stay below 80F for cold smoking. When I search for electrical smokers, most products qu...
What are some developed ethical theories and frameworks regarding killing? For example, is it ever ethically justified to kill? When, under what circumstances, and why?
In order to understand Gödel’s theorems, one must first explain the key concepts essential to it, such as “formal system”, “consistency”, and “completeness”. Roughly, a formal system is a system ...
"Home Improvement" isn't the most descriptive name, but it is something many people will be familiar with. This site should be about the structure and systems of a residential building. That incl...
OSB boards often have a stamp that says "strength axis" with an arrow, usually parallel with the longer dimension of the board. What is this strength axis? Should it be parallel or perpendicular t...
In North America, it is common to build wood-frame houses with pieces of lumber making up the frame and OSB boards acting as wall sheathing. The OSB sheathing reinforces the frame against various ...
Let's first consider the side of those who have a question. If you have a question, you want an answer. Now there are two ways to get an answer: You find that someone already asked what you want t...
The situation sounds like a "David vs Goliath", "Kevin home alone" or "Die hard" kind of scenario. Therefore my idea would be that the Char resorts to cunning, dexterity/agility (if shi is faster ...
Backstory I had an idea of a large project to breed specialized soldiers who will be used to fight and kill members of a story-specific group known for being super powered. Theses soldiers are bre...
How I do prevent kelp from continuing to grow past a certain height? For aesthetic purposes, I'd like to keep it to a specific height.
I'm recommending sticking with Webmasters as the name with webmasters.codidact.com as the URL. It is the shortest and most succinct way to encompass the entire scope of the site. The problem with...
