Allocator2008

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by Allocator2008 18y ago
I am primarily a test automation engineer, but I have done some HTML/CSS work in the past. (For example, http://www.calliopetalent.com I did some updates for, adding some javascript, tables redesign, etc. to an old site originally built i
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
The fact remains if IQ is tapering off in the late 20's, the a child born to the parents in their 30's may not have as high an IQ as the parents. Personally my parents were in their mid-20's when I crawled out of the evolutionary slime, and
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
Short of a DNA scan, it is hard to see how one could select the best individuals. If one could show that one's parents were big business people, that lends confidence, but there is always a chance someone is on the short end of the gene poo
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Invertebrate nervous systems(faculty.washington.edu)
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
Excellent point on the increasing inconspicuousness of industrial-era "motors". "But at my back from time to time I hear, the sound of horns and motors which shall bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring..."
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
If true, and I don't know enough about this area to comment, but if so, it seems for optimum gene selection, people should procreate (or at least freeze their genetic material in a lab for future use) prior to this age. I have often thought
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
Valuable in no particular order: Coffee and/or coca cola. Boyfriend. Any book by Richard Dawkins, Dan Dennett, Sue Blackmore, Peter Atkins, Stephen Hawking. Any psychological horror film like 'Session 9' or 'In the Mouth of Madness'. Former
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
I think that is definitely a winner. It shows pro-activity which companies want. If I had a company in the bay area and was looking for a marketing manager, I'd sure as heck give this guy a call! :-)
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
Could you not send out an array of spiders to crawl around and cache pages, then send the cached pages back to some kind of processing mill, to purge out the data from the pages and output the basic designs of the pages, whereupon these "pu
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
A neural network, whether software-based, hardware-based, or wet-ware based (rat in this case, or human for that matter), can only spot patterns in a given set of data which are there. No patterns in the data means no predictability. You ca
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Let's all get into the markets just to stick it to Comedy Central(blogkinnetic.blogspot.com)
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
To break the law, he would have to intentionally "talk down" a company, right around an important event for that company, like an IPO or an acquisition or a major product release. It is hard to prove intent. I could say "ACME sucks" because
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Bill Lumbergh soundboard(phydiux.com)
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
This is an excellent point. I suppose I was just thinking about the natural world (on planet Earth). Indeed, replicating information, RNA or not, would be a form of "life", provided it was persisted. I think persistence here is the key. A g
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
Nice to see someone who knows their Latin! :-) Servus!
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
Great article. For my money viruses are indeed "living" since what we call life is just that which carries and replicates RNA, or, the "selfish gene".
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
This article was pretty vague on what it meant by integrated intelligence as the criterion for consciousness. For example it was not even clear to me as to whether or not linear separability was a requirement of their "integrated intelligen
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Pope vows to make better use of internet search in the future(cnn.com)
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Human religious belief systems co-evolved with other belief systems(dailymail.co.uk)
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
Let's remember this is written by the same fellow who is convinced that Euclidean quantum gravity is a dead end because he feels there is some fundamental (rather than emergent) property about time that makes it unique. The vast majority of
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
I would absolutely see a therapist. You could try out a psychologist just to "talk things out with" and he/she can recommend a psychiatrist if medication is needed. It can help. I have ADD and occasionally have anxiety symptoms as well, and
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My take on the economic stimulus bill(blogkinnetic.blogspot.com)
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
Fixed-income investments are not good with respect to inflation. A thousand / month withdrawal when someone is 65 might not have the same buying power if they live to 85. Another case of if it sounds too good to be true, it generally is.
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
Yes. Because science is concerned epistomologically with that which is objectively true. Given certain axioms, certain statements can be shown to be objectively true, or "true" given those axioms. Math is "out there", meaning it can be disc
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
Shakespeare is perhaps the most over-rated play write ever. Sure he wrote a few good plays - 'Hamlet', 'Othello', a few other tragedies of note. But most of his stuff was pretty mediocre - 'Measure for Measure' for instance - or outright su
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
Really this result is consistent with the Everett - Wheeler 1958 thesis that the wave function never collapses. This I have held to be the case personally for a long while, and in light of that, this new result is not surprising. When you g
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
This is such baloney I don't know what to say. Let me just say this: the neuron is a black box. So confidant I am of this, I would be happy to volunteer for the experiment where each neuron in my brain was one by one replaced with an artifi
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
Respectfully speaking, I might have a different take on waterfall. It reminds me of what Churchill said about democracy, that "it is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time". Sure
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
cat index.html|xargs sed 's/slam/impune/g' >index.html
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by Allocator2008 18y ago
So a future is if I have a variable x in thread t, I can assign x to a future f, which is essentially a null pointer, and then in thread t when I need to use x, thread t will go off and calculate the value of f that x is pointing to, going

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