IvyMike

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by IvyMike 10y ago
One of the coolest class projects I worked on in school back in the mid 90's was a compiler for TTL_PAPERS, which was a hardware-assisted low-latency interconnect between PCs used for barrier synchronization. It was also corresponding
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by IvyMike 11y ago
If you've got an Android phone and location history is on, take a look at your own: https://www.google.com/maps/timeline
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by IvyMike 11y ago
Also see the "One Knuckle" method, which has never failed me yet, despite using different pots and varying quantities of rice. http://www.thekitchn.com/cooking-rice-do-you-use-the-first-k...
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by IvyMike 11y ago
Also see Roger Ebert's blog post (eventually turned into a book), The Pot and How to Use It. http://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/the-pot-and-how-to-...
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by IvyMike 11y ago
There's a word for tempos of 200bpm and more: Prestissimo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempo#Basic_tempo_markings Obviously physical metronomes have to have a limited scale. If you wanted to just get into that
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by IvyMike 11y ago
He forgot to break the Back button.
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by IvyMike 11y ago
Make sure you watch the pre-game interview with the AlphaGo engineer. There were a few interesting bits: A) A pure neural approach, with zero lookahead, can achieve amateur dan status, and B) they are considering an AlphaGo trained again
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by IvyMike 11y ago
I sense a change in the announcer's attitude towards AlphaGo. Yesterday there were a few strange moves from AlphaGo that were called mistakes; today, similar moves were called "interesting".
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by IvyMike 11y ago
> the car "predicted that [the bus] would yield to us because we were ahead of it." > the bus was only going 15 miles per hour, while the SUV was moving at just 2 mph. Watching the video, it looks like Google's plan was
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by IvyMike 11y ago
> No current Googler would risk getting fired to help a Xoogler. You think out of 60K employees, there's not a one that would take that risk for $15K a day? I don't think you're cynical enough.
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by IvyMike 11y ago
An early example of 3d sugar printing, from Evil Mad Scientist Labs: http://candyfab.org/ And a higher-end example, including some really stunning pieces: http://www.3dsystems.com/culinary
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by IvyMike 11y ago
> charity work $50 for your labor, no?
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by IvyMike 11y ago
Yeah, that's insane. I think I may have some of the books in question, although in storage halfway across the country. But there's no way I'm going to destroy them, and I have to think that the kind of person who hoards thes
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by IvyMike 11y ago
I'd argue when he used the phrase "digital sharecropper", he did imply that. There's no official definition of "digital sharecropper", but Atwood's is as good as any: "Digital sharecroppers typicall
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by IvyMike 11y ago
> I do the work I find it hard to believe that you believe that scanning a work (even if rare) that they own the rights to means that you deserve a cut of future profits. You could argue that $50 may not be enough money, but a fixed rat
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by IvyMike 11y ago
Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center has 434 beds and around 1500 employees. That's pretty decent. Cedars-Sinai is indeed about twice the size, but that's mostly because Cedars-Sinai is extraordinarily large.
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by IvyMike 11y ago
This older one is pretty neat, too. I've owned it for a while and still can't really figure it out--the shadow mask is incredibly thin, and as far as I can tell it works on magic. http://www.digitalsundial.com/pr
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by IvyMike 11y ago
I didn't know anything about my loans, and only had a ballpark knowledge of the cost of college. And it was fine--I paid off my loans after graduation relatively quickly and with little fuss. Of course this was because I went to colle
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by IvyMike 11y ago
~/public_html NCSA httpd supported an option that allowed every user on a system to put html documents in a specially named directory and have them instantly served up to the world. User created content exploded--undergraduates (like
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by IvyMike 11y ago
Death March by Ed Yourdon literally changed my life--I quit my job not long after reading it, moving on to much better things. Rest in peace, Ed.
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by IvyMike 11y ago
It would be fascinating for someone to log into their Google Location History and see where the phone was right before it was at this house. It might provide a clue. https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0
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by IvyMike 11y ago
wuarchive.wustl.edu
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by IvyMike 11y ago
The police building their headquarters as a '323 metre solid gold pyramid that harks to the Tower of Babel' seems pretty on-the-nose. https://vimeo.com/151955927
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by IvyMike 11y ago
The use of silly putty as a self-shaping polishing disk is ingenious. Link from the article: "Rigid conformal polishing tool using  non-linear visco-elastic effect" https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/abstract.cf
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by IvyMike 11y ago
> Could it be age? Well, maybe for you it could, but in my case I frankly don’t see how. I am, after all, still in my prime as a “40-something” — a label I’d argue is perfectly valid, in much the same way that 3:35 could be described as
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by IvyMike 11y ago
The article raises an important point that I haven't seen addressed elsewhere in the comments: revert bots can be terrible. For example, I was once reading about a song, and at the bottom there was a link to a youtube video. The link
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by IvyMike 11y ago
As dang mentioned (search the comments), they redirected the link, and the original did in fact have that title: https://motherboard.vice.com/read/why-we-cant-stop-the-enorm...
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by IvyMike 11y ago
It sounds like you think they want strong crypto. But I think they want weak crypto that gives the NK government backdoor access.
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by IvyMike 11y ago
> Writing secure software in C is just next to impossible. This is true. And it was true when I learned C, and was told almost the same exact thing on the second day of class. In 1992. Maybe eventually we'll collectively move to s
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by IvyMike 11y ago
That's good, because we've only got the one. ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe

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