Buy your teacher a drink! I went into university with the baggage of ten years of programming experience, mentored by my industry-experienced father. One of our profs had the exact reverse point of view (i.e. "foo == true" was according to him "good practice"), and I wisely chose to disregard his opinions on coding practices from that point on.
As someone who has always despised the usage of "foo == true" and "foo == false" in predicates instead of just "foo" or "not foo" (or "!foo"), this pleases me.
That practice misses the point of what it means for a value to be a boolean. (Even in C, if it's actually an int.)
Fahrenheit has finer granularity without fractions.
IOW each Celsius degree is bigger than each Fahrenheit degree.
Even though the F numbers are so much higher and it seems unbearably hot :)
So for a thermostat that only can be set in 1 degree increments (without a decimal point), you have finer control when using F than using C.
Anybody can memorize the conversion more easily by throwing out the math, using table lookup -- made easier by throwing out most of the table too.
Just remember every 5 C equals a non-fractional F.
And every 5 C equals 9 F.
If all you are interested in is comfort level it's like this:
C F
0 32
5 41
10 50
15 59
20 68
25 77
30 86
35 95
40 104
Least significant digit of F drops by 1 every time without fail.
Looks like it increases by 1 each time in the tens column, but it's only 9 so 50 & 59 are the outliers, which most people have memorized already.
If you are a Celsius native and you think in terms of 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 -- you only need to remember 5 different F numbers, 50, 59, 68, 77 & 86 and that will get you far.
Ahhh, I mean that's all very well .. but I'm over 60 and I've literally never used or needed to use Fahrenheit - and I had a long career in geophysical and physical data aquisition, ran several kinds of furnaces and annealing ovens 24/7 for a decade, do a lot of cooking, etc.
So, I appreciate your rendition of things I have tables for already but any actual need is sadly non existant.
The point is Fahrenheit works fine, and is arguably better than Celcius for measuring the temperatures that humans are typically exposed to, so there is no need to replace it with Celsius.
You'd be surprised how quickly improvement of autoregressive language models levels off with epoch count (though, admittedly, one epoch is a LOT). Diffusion language models otoh indeed keep profiting for much longer, fwiw.
An agent is an autonomous entity that makes goal-driven decisions in an environment it can (partially) observe, and influence through it's actions. It is a very general term.
Yeah, I think it might be a driver thing (or driver interaction with XFCE code).
After ~10 years of using XFCE, I recently for the first time encountered flickering, after an NVidia driver update. I disabled compositing and it went away. Still happy, but clearly something broke there. Pretty sure someone's trying to fix it, somewhere.
Oh, I thought the added u and the bar were just two different ways to indicated that the o is stretched (the u looking like a workaround to avoid special characters).
You can still find ones that don't need to be registered online and will work without WLAN or app. They will not remember the room layouts and you won't be able to lay virtual fences, but apart from that they work fine.
