Isamu

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by Isamu 8y ago
I believe the new Pencil requires the hardware upgrade on the pad to make it work. It seems like with this refresh they were more concerned with keeping the cost in a range that makes sense for these models. And reducing the price for the i
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by Isamu 8y ago
Anecdote: the biggest thing I am learning now is just how much professional painters allow themselves to completely change their minds in the middle of doing a piece. I never thought this before, I thought everybody just knocked things out
903.
by Isamu 8y ago
That sounded like he was accused of misconduct or something. But apparently it was in response to an interview he did, that some people felt that some of his comments were sexist. And this was in 2014. He replied here: http://www
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by Isamu 8y ago
I was just making an observation about the -chan variants. I didn't mean to make the assertion that 2channel = 2chan.
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by Isamu 8y ago
I can't believe it has taken me until today to realize that shortening it 2chan is a kind of pun, the way you refer to somebody cute and familiar.
906.
by Isamu 8y ago
Funny enough I found the HighLife replicator just by browsing through some randomly initialized runs. I think it is small enough to arise from random junk fairy often. But I was deliberately browsing variants of Conway’s rule that supported
907.
by Isamu 8y ago
The spacefiller is what you are looking for I think. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacefiller
908.
by Isamu 8y ago
We occasionally had a barn owl hanging out in our barn when I was a lad. I remember it being very ghostly at night when it was active, because its underside was very white and it would glide soundlessly from one end to the other. Sort of th
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by Isamu 8y ago
Very nice that it links to no less than 7 references, in particular this which may be the primary one: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsfs.2016.007... The "idea incubator" area on the art
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by Isamu 8y ago
>Computers, quite literally, process information – numbers, letters, words, formulas, images. The information first has to be encoded into a format computers can use, which means patterns of ones and zeroes (‘bits’) organised into small
911.
by Isamu 8y ago
I have only good experiences with it but I think it could be unmanageable if there is no automated integration testing (with reverts.) That is, everyone's submits are subject to a build (if the build fails, your submit is automaticall
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by Isamu 8y ago
Hey, to celebrate this, everybody share your favorite "Periodic Table of X" where X is something that is absolutely not periodic at all!
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by Isamu 8y ago
I was going to say emacs too. GNU emacs goes back to 1985, although I used TECO emacs before that. But ed is older, although what is in use today is probably GNU ed, which was written after GNU emacs.
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by Isamu 8y ago
Yeah, but it is an opinion column after all, and labeled as such. Some (many?) "news" outlets have opinion makers speaking off the cuff all the time and don't bother to label it as such.
915.
by Isamu 8y ago
I wish people would be more skeptical about their recall of memories. In particular I wish people would stop thinking their memories are especially accurate if they were especially "vivid". https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by Isamu 8y ago
I agree, and further I think of books like Gladwell's as a kind of summary with pointers to deeper reading by following up with the references. I don't really expect one book to be the final answer on a topic. In particular, if yo
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by Isamu 8y ago
Somebody was just telling me that oxyacetylene torches cut steel by burning it - not melting. That's why they won't cut stainless steel, they can't burn it (oxidize it). Plasma, cutters, on the other hand, cut by melting.
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by Isamu 8y ago
When I wrote a Sudoku solver I was disappointed to find that backtracking worked maybe too well; that is, I coded in the minimum constraints to follow the rules of the game and then added backtracking and voila, it found solutions quickly e
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by Isamu 8y ago
Good thing, it only took about 35 years or so. This was one of legacies of the glorious War On Drugs.
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by Isamu 8y ago
>She told me, “I was curious, but I don't know how a single person in America who doesn't have family money could buy anything, I really don’t, if they're not working in finance or they're not a doctor. ” Easy, there
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by Isamu 8y ago
This is very interesting. >Julia Galef is a writer and co-founder of the Center for Applied Rationality, a nonprofit organization devoted to helping people improve their reasoning and decision-making, particularly with the aim of address
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by Isamu 8y ago
The course on edx is here: https://www.edx.org/course/underactuated-robotics-mitx-6-832...
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by Isamu 8y ago
What’s this “we stuff?
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by Isamu 8y ago
Framed a bit too much in terms of men v. women, but by the end I liked the article (or rant). In particular: > This is my attempt to break the spell, I guess. Repeat after me: calling something logic doesn’t make it so. Calling someone r
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by Isamu 8y ago
The main reason I started using Altavista was because it was faster. I don't know why this wasn't mentioned in the article, it was one of main points of the Altavista architecture. We probably can't appreciate it because Goog
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by Isamu 8y ago
Huh, it took me a while to switch to Google because every time I tried it it took longer. I only switched when it became reliably faster.
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by Isamu 8y ago
Right, it is not a bijection. Expert -> (implies) 10,000 hours spent 10,000 hours spent does not imply Expert
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by Isamu 8y ago
I read more books on paper now than I ever did pre-internet. Because of the far greater ease of requesting a library book now. Now anytime I hear of a good book, I look it up on the online catalog and, because all the libraries in the count
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by Isamu 8y ago
Or raft.
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Paper on Computational Humor Accepted Despite Making Serious Advances(arxiv.org)
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