ArbitraryLimits

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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
Aren't more than a fifth of PhD holders in the U.S. foreign born? The story of immigrants returning home is a lot different from a story of native-born Americans abandoning their country.
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
Bill Walsh might have said it also, but this football coach was probably first: "Bull Cyclone once said to Tommy Atkins, a player who became a career Marine, 'Tommy, there are two kinds of young men—those you have to kick in the p
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
You don't measure the wave function, you measure the state of the underlying system (qubits or whatever). When a measurement is made, the wave function, which gives the probability of finding the system in any particular state, "c
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
So how exactly does the government design that? I saw the same thing in Italy when I lived there in the 90s - any kind of real estate was much more expensive than it seemed like anyone would be able to afford. Never did figure it out - in t
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
Papayas from Hawaii are irradiated before they get to the US mainland. It doesn't mean they become radioactive.
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
I've always been a fan of die_you_gravy_sucking_pig_dog() from the FreeBSD source. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/sbin/sh...
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
Richard P. Feynman “Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.”
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
You're right, I meant to write PowerPC.
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
ARM chips outsell x86 chips by at least a factor of two, and I'm pretty sure more than that. For each Intel desktop/laptop there are twenty ARM chips in microwaves, cars and airplanes. In the beginning it had a lot to do with too
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
> In my eight years of surgical training, I had seen only one patient with an ulcer so severe that the stomach’s acid had eroded a hole in the intestine. vs > patients arrived almost nightly with the condition It sounds to me like the
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
It seems like C++'s lack of an ABI would bite you way before any issues with libc++. (Or is there one now? I'm getting old.)
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by ArbitraryLimits 14y ago
There probably won't be any more scientific breakthroughs that mess with people's conception of their place in the world the way relativity and quantum mechanics did. That's not the same thing as no more breakthroughs.
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by ArbitraryLimits 14y ago
My university's physics department did the same thing with SETI@home. The SETI@home guys were smart enough to make their program run as a screen-saver that displayed Fourier Transforms so people thought it made the lab look more sciency an
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by ArbitraryLimits 14y ago
Hacker News and the Harvard Business Review aren't really the same "we."
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by ArbitraryLimits 14y ago
All bureaucracies seek to perpetuate their own existence; most also accomplish something worthwhile along the way. The TSA only does the perpetuation.
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by ArbitraryLimits 14y ago
GE has essentially been a mix of holding company and leveraged buyout firm for a long time now. I think of GE as a stock trader who takes really, really long positions in an industry as a whole by acquiring a subsidiary in the industry rat
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by ArbitraryLimits 14y ago
I'm a little confused as to who exactly "us" refers to in your post, could you clarify please? "We" as generic consumers, "we" as developers, other?
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by ArbitraryLimits 14y ago
It's either New York-ese or investment banker-ese (hard to distinguish between the two sometimes). They also nounify "spend" for some reason.
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by ArbitraryLimits 14y ago
The first and only time I used Solaris, I tried to run our application and got the error "System out of colors" or some such. Swore then and there never to use it again if I could help it.
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by ArbitraryLimits 14y ago
I guess I'm in the minority here, but I fail to see how online courses are anything innovative - they seem to me like the logical extension of those 1000 student intro classes from 1000 to 1,000,000. I've done an entire master's degree pro
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by ArbitraryLimits 14y ago
I'm sure you're right. In my defense, I didn't write "sigh" the first hundred times I pointed out that error on the Internet.
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by ArbitraryLimits 14y ago
It's not a subtle error, and it's not peripheral to the argument either. The entire middle third of the comment is the standard engineer's fallacy that because the laws of physics are absolute and not relative, people's values should be als
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by ArbitraryLimits 14y ago
> Have you ever tried to port a package that is using autotools to a platform that is not based on GNU/Linux? I think you mean Unix, not GNU/Linux. Porting from one flavor of Unix to another is the raison d'etre of autoconf. It's real
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by ArbitraryLimits 14y ago
> It is not valid if your premises (e.g. all species on Earth were created by a divine intelligent designer) have been proven false. Sigh... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability
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by ArbitraryLimits 14y ago
Compare the addresses at http://www.realsimple.com/home-organizing/decorating/eye-cat... and http://mandydouglass.blogspot.com/2010/10/addressing-envelop... . Those are two representative images I picked from the first google hits for
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by ArbitraryLimits 14y ago
Virtually all house numbers are either painted from a stencil or composed of mass-produced shapes on a background of uniform color, whereas addresses on envelopes are handwritten by doctors, six-year-olds and people with Parkinson's disease
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by ArbitraryLimits 14y ago
Please tell me whether the term "deep learning" has any meaning at all, and if so, what is it? It sounds like a buzzword to me, like "data scientist."
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by ArbitraryLimits 14y ago
> "We are seeing better than human-level performance in some visual tasks," in particular, for the problem of extracting house numbers in photos taken by Google's Street View cars Can someone explain to me how this is news, given that t
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by ArbitraryLimits 14y ago
These people seem to have been chosen because of(and their advice ordered by) their physical attractiveness rather than their actual entrepreneurial success. Edit: OK, I kind of take it back. I started paying attention at #4 and stopped at
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by ArbitraryLimits 14y ago
It seems to me that the whole point of having elected leaders instead of making every choice a referendum is to modulate the will of the people, instead of following it blindly.

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