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by 3rd3 12y ago
I understand that changing all links is more work than updating clients, but why did developers of TCP/IP decide to do it this way?
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by 3rd3 12y ago
Why is it actually the case that the sender has to care about congestion and not the link itself?
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by 3rd3 12y ago
How about "slow" or "old" which would show submissions in which discussion still happens after x time units after submission date.
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by 3rd3 12y ago
Maybe one could use SR ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superresolution )?
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by 3rd3 12y ago
Could it maybe be worthwhile to augment the data with simple image features? E.g. the human visual system is believed to rely on high-level/top down as well as on local/bottom up features (although that might also be simply becaus
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by 3rd3 12y ago
Are there actually any image feature detectors and descriptors involved (like blob, edge and texture detectors) or is this solely based on artificial neural networks?
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by 3rd3 12y ago
Wouldn't it be even easier to draw one triangle that extends beyond the screen so that it covers it entirely and let the pipeline clip it to the screen size?
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by 3rd3 12y ago
When we are able to trace multiple rays with multiple bounces per pixel in real-time, would the first bounce really carry that much weight compared to the subsequent bounces that it would justify a separate rendering technique? Besides that
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by 3rd3 12y ago
> The allure of LW is that we're perfectly rational … Isn’t this allure extremely irrational then? (Since it’s a known fact that we are controlled by large parts by relicts of our primate ancestry.)
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by 3rd3 12y ago
I’m learning about rasterization based computer graphics at the moment and it somehow bothers me that all of it might be obsolete in a couple of years when we can do path tracing in real-time. It’s such a fast moving field.
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Oregon geologist says Curiosity's images show Earth-like soils on Mars(uonews.uoregon.edu)
61 points by 3rd3 12y ago|4 comments
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by 3rd3 12y ago
Could someone explain the first couple of principal components of this conflict to a historically illiterate like me?
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NSA employees routinely pass around intercepted nude photos(arstechnica.com)
10 points by 3rd3 12y ago|2 comments
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by 3rd3 12y ago
How would one go about destroying someone’s political career?
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by 3rd3 12y ago
Is Disconnect.me better in that regard?
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by 3rd3 12y ago
What is the theoretical limit (for comparison)?
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by 3rd3 12y ago
man hier is pretty cool. It explains the root directory structure of the system.
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by 3rd3 12y ago
I always have about:blank as default page in new tabs because anything else is a distraction from my actual intention why I chose to open a new tab. Too often I find myself forgetting what I was actually doing (or parts of it) when a new ta
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by 3rd3 12y ago
I heard reddit tried that once but it didn't work well for some reasons. I can't find a link to the story at the moment.
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by 3rd3 12y ago
As I said, I don't know whether they exist. HN might be the best source for the people, but the supreme curt might have access to more efficient sources.
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by 3rd3 12y ago
Isn't your reference to other media organization an appeal to popularity? Why shouldn't we strive for media that are more concerned about privacy and dignity? Furthermore the interactivity and private data make social networks a w
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by 3rd3 12y ago
Maybe people are just too romantic and nostalgic to realize their wildest dreams with holo decks, telepresence, brain implants and let AIs decide on their well being. Maybe instead of spawning self-replicating robots for space exploration t
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by 3rd3 12y ago
There is no difference between tinkering with an algorithm with the intention to negatively influence people's emotions and tinkering with an algorithm to make it work better?
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by 3rd3 12y ago
I wonder whether HN comes close enough to the effeciency of curated sources, conferences or some private circles to mention it as a proxy for staying on top of current developments, because the gems on HN are usually burried under a lot of
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by 3rd3 12y ago
> peruse HN for background on issues. Is HN really such an important source for background on cutting edge tech issues?
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by 3rd3 12y ago
And the dissection: http://fabiensanglard.net/rayTracing_back_of_business_card/
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by 3rd3 12y ago
And for Firefox (Greasemonkey): http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/105251
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by 3rd3 12y ago
I tried to overlay this map with a map showing population density from Google Images and then normalize it with a division filter. I couldn’t find an map with a matching projection however. :(
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by 3rd3 12y ago
It would be interesting to see this map adjusted to population density.
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by 3rd3 12y ago
In summary: The universe is very young and we might be one of the first type >= 0 civilizations.

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