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roaur | 5 years ago | on: Using Matrix to replace proprietary and centralized chat apps

I disagree that bridges are a usability disaster - they're Matrix's competitive advantage. I'm using mautrix-whatsapp, mautrix-hangouts and smsmatrix without any issues. Which bridges do you have problems with?

roaur | 5 years ago | on: We thought it was just a respiratory virus

The article suggests a lack of ACE2 cell receptors in young people could contribute why the disease isn't as hard on them.

roaur | 5 years ago | on: Pseudorandomness

Aren't most PRNs made deterministically? LCGs can have huge cycle times and can produce statistically sound random numbers.

I had to look it up and Wikipedia has this statement a bit differently. This one makes Neumann sound funny because his Mid-Square method is a terrible PRN generator.

roaur | 5 years ago | on: How and Why Computers Roll Loaded Dice

> Pi itself is not a random number, for example, but the digits of pi are believed to be random in this way (what mathematicians describe as “normal”): Every integer from 0 to 9 appears about the same number of times.

Does this not make the digits of Pi discreetly distributed (an equal chance for each integer?)? Is the meaning of 'normal' here not referencing a normal distribution?

roaur | 5 years ago | on: P2P Matrix

I installed my homeserver with this!

https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/INSTALL.md

roaur | 6 years ago | on: When your data doesn’t fit in memory: the basic techniques

I'm a Dask evangelist. It's a remarkable tool and is one of the first I reach for when this problem arises. Maybe it's not well known?