10ren

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by 10ren 16y ago
emacs picture-mode would be handy, otherwise it's difficult to maintain fixed-width. In practice, I have a lot of trouble with it. I think huge maps (those 10x10 ones) could be a problem, simply due to size; paint programs have zoom as stan
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by 10ren 16y ago
A way to implement these ideas reddit-style would be amazing. Maybe a 2D reddit, so you can add (and vote on) evidence and hypotheses; and then also vote on each intersection (a choice of 5 levels of consistency). Not sure about nesting; w
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by 10ren 16y ago
Source code: http://www.mojang.com/compo/metagun/metagun-source.zip (linked from http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-18/?action=preview... ) I compiled (yucky) with (after unzip + mkdir build ): javac -cp build src/com/mojan
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by 10ren 16y ago
But if you have developed something truly ahead of the state-of-the-art, disclosing it gives your competitors a leg-up. Another problem with patenting it is that it gets more expensive to maintain each year (there are increasing annual fees
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by 10ren 16y ago
IIRC pg has somewhere said that it would be in YC's interest for their startups to become massively profitable (and IPO or whatever), instead of getting bought out early. That is, YC's slice of $20 million is a fantastic outcome for YC... b
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by 10ren 16y ago
I think swombat was definitely rude in his first comment calling it a "fart" and "trash". Name-calling is labeling, and is neither accurate nor helpful in a cognitive sense; and is abusive and disrespectful in a social sense; and it appears
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by 10ren 16y ago
This space also enables you to time the lights, so you do less accelerating/decelerating, and increases your buffer for breaking, so driving is safer and less stressful.
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by 10ren 16y ago
BM is my favourite algorithm, but I haven't seen any others that are as elegant and powerful. What are the other examples you're thinking of? (BM is especially cute because the basic idea is so simple: do it backwards. Quicksort is very c
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by 10ren 16y ago
I think English is not the author's first language; it shows up in the article and in his posts here. We tend to be understanding of poor grammar here, but the instinctive reaction to flawed English is that the message is also flawed. While
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by 10ren 16y ago
Just on not writing it down: it tends to concretize it, while mind-stuff is more fluid. I've found that if I capture an idea before it's formed, the essence can escape.
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by 10ren 16y ago
OK, thanks, I see what you mean.
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by 10ren 16y ago
I agree that the concept of namespaces is brilliant, but very difficult to read in practice. The rules around the different ways to specify namespaces also seem unnecessarily complicated - I always need to review the XML schema spec, and sp
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by 10ren 16y ago
Could you explain the arbitrary lookahead and backtracking please? I thought UPA (unambiguous particle attribution - or "deterministic" for DTDs) avoided the need for backtracking... Or is it to do with entity references? I've found it si
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by 10ren 16y ago
You make me wonder if the hate is partly due to XML being used in integration, and integration is difficult and problematic, and vulnerable to all kinds of communication problems. And if JSON tends to be used where integration isn't very ch
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by 10ren 16y ago
I sympathise, but I note that that wasn't the first thing foursquare did, and they've made a very popular service out of it, whereas you (I assume) and I have not. When we don't have the resources to do absolutely everything perfectly, how
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by 10ren 16y ago
I've been writing up some of my research recently, and when I go back to it after a month, the examples are the most helpful part; second is psuedo-code. That's so far, anyway. I'd actually gone to a lot of trouble to define input and outpu
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by 10ren 16y ago
Wow, isn't a "70-year gagging order" the most explicit cover-up possible? I doubt that secretly classifying post-mortem examination reports is standard.
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by 10ren 16y ago
I prefer the sketches of cartoons to the finished, painted product. Perhaps I appreciate the texture of shapes, or seeing how things are made, or their underlying structure; but successful cartoonists tend to go on to paint them. It may be
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by 10ren 16y ago
I think there's an argument that DNA is more likely to lead to life (not intelligence) than an arbitrary coding scheme; that is, that with DNA it's easier to create life than you'd expect for a vanilla encoding scheme. This assumes that dur
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by 10ren 16y ago
I'm writing this to try to clarify my understanding. I think this is the essence of Kurzeil's argument on estimating complexity: Let's take the genome (DNA) as a program + data, and the phenome (the organism) as an output (and assume the mo
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by 10ren 16y ago
The US had lax copyright early on. It makes sense for a net importer of IP. It's a great way to catch up . But what about the originators of the industrial revolution? Would they have done even better without copyright? I don't know, but t
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by 10ren 16y ago
It's built-in; it's Javascript. In the spreadsheet, the script stuff is in the "tools" menu, and it opens a new window which has a menu for "triggers". The help is pretty excellent (reference and tutorials), but it doesn't cover Javascript'
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by 10ren 16y ago
When American Express was indirectly involved in fraud (salad oil IIRC), the stock tanked, because analysts sensibly realized that this public litigation would shake consumer confidence in them - arguably, trust is the very thing that a cre
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by 10ren 16y ago
"Finite" would probably have been a better choice. I have a micro SD card, smaller than my little-finger nail that holds 4GB - x8 more than the human genome (using the article's figure of 4 billion bits). And that's pretty much the lowest c
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by 10ren 16y ago
Got the basics working. Made a spreadsheet. Made a google form ("how has your day been?" + a text area) - they automatically add their fields to the spreadsheet. Wrote a short script that selects a random row at random, and emails it to me
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by 10ren 16y ago
Assuming you've gmailed personal messages (and therefore trust google enough), you could set up google calendar to email you daily. Of course without the random previous entry. Maybe with google documents there's a way to do that too. EDIT
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by 10ren 16y ago
The "simulate at reduced speed" theory appeals to me, but I think the actual numbers make it implausible. Assuming Moore's Law, 30 years is a 1,000,000 speed up, plus let's say 4.5 years for 3 more doublings, giving us 8,000,000. To simulat
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by 10ren 16y ago
So it's a bit like a program, with sequences also selecting a different Turing machine? (which determines how that subsequence is interpreted.) Because the Turing machine is selected entirely by the sequence (the protein folding caused by t
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by 10ren 16y ago
Actually, we're not in agreement. > vastly underestimating the amount of state that is associated with the exact details of a developing organism. Sir, kindly indicate where Myers makes that point. I read him as going straight into prot
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by 10ren 16y ago
I think the hard thing about the multi-billion dollar exit isn't the extra work needed, but the probability of it working out. Maybe one estimate of the odds is how many projects are started, verses how many cash out (this should include pr

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