JabavuAdams

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Debugging Networked Multiplayer Games(gafferongames.com)
1 points by JabavuAdams 17y ago|0 comments
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by JabavuAdams 17y ago
You're doing it wrong. Look at what's hard to simulate, not at what's easy to simulate. Metal shading is easy to simulate, so look elsewhere. Look for the engineering details that a non-rocket-engineer animator would get wrong or not know a
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by JabavuAdams 17y ago
http://www.xprize.org/blogs/wpomerantz/ng-llc-rules-explaine...
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John Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace "wins" Lunar Lander Challenge [video](thelaunchpad.xprize.org)
74 points by JabavuAdams 17y ago|28 comments
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by JabavuAdams 17y ago
Most parents aren't very good at thinking critically, just like the population at large.
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In Praise of the Sci-Fi Corridor(denofgeek.com)
3 points by JabavuAdams 17y ago|0 comments
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by JabavuAdams 17y ago
Did you read the part about foreign non-resident aliens being subject to US inheritance tax law, simply because they own shares of US companies? It's nice to have different countries with different laws and customs. I don't want to be subje
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by JabavuAdams 17y ago
Have you seen bubble meshing? It handles non-manifold geometry.
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by JabavuAdams 17y ago
"Who are you to say what he needs? Obviously by your values, the cigarettes aren't "correct", but it's really not your life to live." I'm not moralizing. Godin was talking specifically of getting further ahead financially, rather than falli
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by JabavuAdams 17y ago
"When two people trade, both win. No one buys a bar a soap unless the money they’re spending for the soap is worth less to them than the soap itself." Huge fail. People simply aren't rational actors. What about the case where an actor buys
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Good machine vision books / resources?
1 points by JabavuAdams 17y ago|0 comments
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by JabavuAdams 17y ago
Subscribe to the a-rocket mailing list. There's a renaissance happening in private space travel right now that should bear fruit over the next decade or two.
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by JabavuAdams 17y ago
Actually, if you look at the German car industry, you'll find more of a stake-holder driven culture rather than a share-holder driven culture as in the US. I was just reading an economist piece on how the German people actually rate stake-h
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by JabavuAdams 17y ago
Actually, I think your observations show the opposite: i.e. the strength of socialization. Suppose I didn't know your child's gender. The behaviour you described would not sound particularly male or female to me, given my biases. On the oth
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by JabavuAdams 17y ago
I feel the same way about computer games, and I make games. I spent too much time playing games in my youth, and my co-workers spend too much time playing games now.
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by JabavuAdams 17y ago
Maybe the next Einstein will be a "silicon physicist". In 50 years I expect to have computer systems that can program at least as well as I can. Of course, you should expect any prediction I make about AI to be wildly enthusiastic.
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by JabavuAdams 17y ago
Not a great title, but a good article, nonetheless. If you're interested in machine intelligence, you need to spend some time with infants. I have a nine month old, and it's been really interesting to watch her develop. You can see where pe
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by JabavuAdams 17y ago
Eigenvectors are "important" directions with respect to some linear transform (operator). The eigenvalues are constant scaling factors that relate input vectors (inputs to the operator) to output vectors. Knowing that an operator merely sca
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by JabavuAdams 17y ago
Why do you think you're good at math, when confronted with evidence to the contrary? :) Is there something specific about the parent post that you don't understand that I can try to explain?
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by JabavuAdams 17y ago
Do you mean, what are eigenvalues used for? I found this to be an incredibly clear and simple description of what eigenvalues are. I completely missed the point in University. I agree that it was missing a discussion of what they're used fo
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by JabavuAdams 17y ago
You can write the equation of a plane in R^3 as A x1 + B x2 + C x3 + D = 0. So, in this case, we have (A,B,C) equal to (1,1,1), and D=0. (A,B,C) is the normal to the plane, and D is the perpendicular distance between the plane, and the orig
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How to tell whether your code is running at C static-initialization time (MSVC)(cbloomrants.blogspot.com)
1 points by JabavuAdams 17y ago|0 comments
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Piccolo2D: Java and .NET Framework for Zoomable User Interfaces(piccolo2d.org)
1 points by JabavuAdams 17y ago|0 comments
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by JabavuAdams 17y ago
> The accuracy of this comparison is limited mainly because atomic clocks change frequencies by small, semi-random amounts (of order 1 ns/day) at unpredictable times for reasons that are not fully understood What?
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Nearly half of US mortgages predicted to be "underwater" by 2011(marketwatch.com)
2 points by JabavuAdams 17y ago|0 comments
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Canada Media Fund Virtual Town-Hall: 1pm EDT(interactiveontario.com)
1 points by JabavuAdams 17y ago|0 comments
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by JabavuAdams 17y ago
How is this being sold to the UK public, or are they just oblivious? I keep reading these articles, and they don't seem to match my foreigner's (Canadian) conception of the UK. It seems very strange and not-British to me. What are your thou
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by JabavuAdams 17y ago
A canary is a kind of bird. The parent poster is alluding to the phrase "canary in a coal mine". Coal miners supposedly carried caged birds down the shafts as fore-warning of suffocating conditions or gases, as the small bird would be affec
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by JabavuAdams 17y ago
It's not anti-scientific, it's an old engineering adage. It's the unknown unknowns that will get you.
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by JabavuAdams 17y ago
I can identify with this. I had to stop playing piano for about 20 years before I could really start playing piano. I always did enjoy the flow experience, though. Mastery is its own reward. (not that I'm there yet...)

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