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by GIFtheory 10y ago
I'm pretty sure Iran is full of crap. If they really had this technology, we'd either have drones raining from the sky, or they'd keep their mouths shut and save it for a special occasion. Also, this: http://www.
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by GIFtheory 10y ago
This. My apartment in the south bay is a perfect microcosm of this phenomenon: it is obviously a former single-family home, which has been subdivided and built upon, so that it now houses about 4 two-bedroom apartments. Although I live alo
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by GIFtheory 10y ago
Intentional or not, I'm really annoyed by a similar thing in the NYT iPad app: the ads are exactly where you naturally put your fingers to scroll. Coincidence?
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by GIFtheory 11y ago
Funny--I came here for the same reason. My best guess is that they were trying to solve a deconvolution problem the naive way (by solving a huge linear system). I think the reference to polynomial factorization might have something to do w
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by GIFtheory 12y ago
Inflation is another important factor. If the rate of inflation exceeds your debt's interest rate, for example, your debt is effectively shrinking over time just due to inflation. http://www.investopedia.com/terms&#x2F
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by GIFtheory 12y ago
Unfortunately, last I checked, most OSes don't properly handle subpixel antialiasing on monitors in non-standard orientations. They use the assumption that the red subpixel is to the left of the right one, which is violated when you r
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by GIFtheory 12y ago
I'd like to point out that the linked article links to its own blog about 20 times, but not once to the actual study, which is here: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna... . Epic.
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by GIFtheory 12y ago
Sounds a bit like Mirage OS to me ( http://www.openmirage.org ).
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by GIFtheory 12y ago
Sadly, all I can find in reference to his purported mathematical genius is a crackpot post by him on physorg: http://lofi.forum.physorg.com/End-Of-Pi-Found_20813.html . I highly doubt that there have been, or ever will be,
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by GIFtheory 13y ago
Reminds me of this great quotation, which Oksendal places before the preface to his stochastic differential equations book: We have not succeeded in answering all our problems. The answers we have found only serve to raise a whole set of ne
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by GIFtheory 13y ago
Cool, but not as cool as this, which was done in the early 90's: http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/leglab/robots/3D_biped/3D_bip...
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by GIFtheory 13y ago
I wonder if they've heard of these guys: http://ahumanright.org . They had an interesting, albeit somewhat quixotic-sounding, campaign to buy a satellite (TerreStar-1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerreStar-1 ) for the same purpose. Unf
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by GIFtheory 13y ago
The author makes a good point in that what is perfectly safe for one person may be deadly to another. Off the top of my head, one example of this is how some people are congenital 'super-absorbers' of iron. These people can develop iron ov
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by GIFtheory 13y ago
Been there, done that: http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/
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by GIFtheory 14y ago
The real problem here is column width--magnifying doesn't help if the column width is screwed, but it seems nobody gets this on the web for some reason. Why, in 2013, don't people understand that really long lines of text are difficult to r
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by GIFtheory 14y ago
This is not too uncommon for government employees, including (e.g.) professors, coaches, doctors at state schools. For example, I had no idea top surgeons raked in that kind of dough. Damn. http://www.sacbee.com/statepay/
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by GIFtheory 14y ago
I've worked on autonomous cars, and no, I am not a crank. I could go into technical reasons why this is nowhere near ready, but there is no need. The onus is on Google to prove that they have the technology (or that it will arrive soon), a
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by GIFtheory 14y ago
The solution is much farther off than Google would like you to believe. As in, we'll be lucky if driverless cars become feasible before fusion becomes commercially viable.
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by GIFtheory 14y ago
This is analogous to saying that customary units aren't better in an absolute sense than metric units, which is obviously true--driving through Jersey, I'm not going to insist that the gas station attendant give me 10 liters of gasoline, be
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by GIFtheory 14y ago
I guessed that, given that Arial was probably a Helvetica clone, its designers probably added superfluous flourishes to differentiate it. That led me to notice the weirdly angled edges in Arial, which gave away most of them. So, yeah, pro
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by GIFtheory 14y ago
Actually, most of the cost reduction is probably due to LCD manufacturers getting busted for price fixing: http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2012/november/lcd-price-fixi... .
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by GIFtheory 14y ago
Too complicated. IANAP, but it sounds like they just created a gas in which particles are more likely to be found at higher (absolute) temperatures than lower temperatures, which is the opposite of what usually happens ( http://en.wikipedia
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by GIFtheory 14y ago
It's also worth noting that Turkey's government routinely blocks Google services (especially youtube) for hosting "offensive" content (e.g.: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/08/turkey-blocks-googl... ). So, a sinister explanation is e
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by GIFtheory 14y ago
That links also mentions that his amazing 45 deg. FOV side-view mirror is banned in the US, because curved mirrors are illegal in the US. What the hell? Doesn't congress have anything better to do than shoot us all in the foot, repeatedly?
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by GIFtheory 14y ago
Agreed. I'm also struggling to see what kind of massively parallel operations need to be done in kernel space in the first place.