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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
This device works by aiding memory retention and learning. It doesn't magically universally boost your intelligence, it is more of a catalyst to learning, storage and recall. In fact, if you wanted to boost your IQ and general problem solvi
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
The biology/synthetic biology part of his post are most interesting. While some of them are more 2022 - 2032 type items and some of them don't really make sense their cadence is that anyone sleeping on biotech is going to miss everything. T
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
The quote is not hogwash, in fact it looks to me like you do not oppose the thesis of the quote. Godel's incompleteness theorems are only applicable to a very specific type of mathematical system: formal axiomatic systems of a specific powe
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
This is exactly why personalized medicine, bioinformatics, computational pharmacokinetics, etc is key for the future of medicine. I am not a biologist but I imagine someday soon a scenario like this will be possible: You have a model of the
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I have to say, if how this SOPA,PIPA,ACTA,megavideo stuff is working out was planned ahead, expected, executed and coordinated; I can't help but be incredibly impressed. If they anticipated and had plans for all these paths then I have to a
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
I think the rats are intelligent or desensitized enough to have learned that the humans are no threat. But it could be something similarly simple. Like an advantage to helping those as a function of distance measured by genetic similarity,
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That sounds like a great start up. Are you allowed to clarify what you mean by efficient infrastructure? That is, do you mean the topology of the network, the routing on the links or the type of nodes? What type of algorithms do you use for
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
His example is to do with the first theorem. There are two incompleteness theorems. The one most people think of when they hear Godel is the second even though the first is key. The first one has to do with decidability - for any given stat
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
This is a great explanation. There are a few things that more emphasis should have been placed on. In going over what an axiom is he should have noted that Godel's work only applies to theories which have a formal axiomatic basis and that t
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
> This idea that the root cause of all bad legislation is political donations: it's wrong, and not supported by the data. The vast majority of political donations are made by people who are not lobbyists. You make a very bold statement
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I really enjoy reading and will be nostalgic about physical books. I also really like my kindle. For fiction reading I have not found it's match. But for non-fiction there is a UX feature where physical books currently dominate any book rea
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
I strongly disagree with you but was planning on staying out of this conversation. But now I feel compelled to interject. Your example fails in supporting your point. Your example person could not be more different from Arfa. Your character
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
Interesting. But maybe a better title would be: A Spellchecker Used To Require A Major Feat of Software Engineering . Some may say something is lost and resources wasted - taken for granted as we now brute force our way through such proble
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
Someone a long time ago, possible H.G. Wells, said "Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write" . He was right. This would suggest that most citizenship is effected ineffici
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
You guys are doing excellent work. I also find what you are doing with predicate dispatch very interesting. I think that class of methods are/will be really powerful - especially for big complicated programs. Have you been able to get it to
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Up top http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3444688 I gave working code that comes close. To be fair the reason why it gets closer (works with both F# and C# lists,arrays, sequences,dictionaries,maps,strings etc) is clerical. From this thr
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
Yes, I picked this up, and was not making any statement against that. In fact I do not subscribe to the validity of his approach. But I gave a shot at seeing if I could give code that was succinct and matched. The requirement was to add a m
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
In F# this is approximated with: type 'a IEnumerable with member this.filterMap f = [for x in this do if f x <> None then yield (f x).Value] let j = Map([("a",1) ; ("b",2) ]).filterMap(fun kv -> if kv.Value =
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
In the thread one point that was being argued for was that the restrictions did nothing to piracy, people could still buy or acquire the goods somehow. This is just a specific instance of the fact that banning something will just force it u
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Lua is probably the most useful one to know that has that. See also: Actors, async and reactive programming
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
A quick google and I found this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/katine/katine-chronicles-blog/2010... . This comment is probably the most insightful thing on the page: http://www.guardian.co.uk/discussion/comment-permalink/71754...
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
There is a lot of variance in the distribution of phone capability. There is nothing scientific in my survey, just stuff I picked up. Most people have very basic phones about on par with: http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_1202-2573.php There
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Not really. The rot is such that the basic human rights and needs such a platform implies are non existant. Anyways, Facebook already has very high penetration and organizing for change is met with blackberries. A tool akin to twitter but s
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
Those are all too specialized. Although not exactly science, I would recommend number sense. This is how to estimate. Approximate, ratios, percents, add, subtract, divide, multiply and apply them to daily life. Many people can divide but a
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
This is a very good hypothesis. The underlying mechanisms may be older. The main culprits I have read are due to a reduction of insulin levels and an upregulation of stress/heat shock proteins.
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
Thanks yeah, I've heard of VPRI and read a few of thier papers and seen some of their videos. Alan Kay is one of my heroes and I really do think that the idea of breaking down problems to domains and working within that is very important go
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Yes I know of Rust and think it's very interesting. For most system level programming it should be an excellent choice. It's great that the dearth of systems capable languages is something that is becoming less of an issue. But when i was m
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
I keep a (small) list of active awesome and interesting alternatives to C. Cyclone has been mentioned already, adding Deca now. the other two I know are: * ATS http://www.ats-lang.org/#what_is_ats_good_for * Clay http://claylabs.com/clay
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
When I asked - from the reasons I could pick up - the best I can figure is it's essentially due to network effects: * they said blackberry was smart - they had the most active presence and support locally out of the smartphone groups * the
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I have been to Africa. Its quite big. Most people have the regular nokia phones. But there are still a large number of people (tens of millions) with smartphones. And the most popular smartphone appears to be the blackberry. It completely d

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