Lambdanaut

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by Lambdanaut 14y ago
I take the word "atheist" at literal face value. I call myself an atheist because I am "a" == "not" a "theist" == "religious adherent". Agnostics are also in that category. The squabbling about non-theistic definitions is stupidly pointless
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by Lambdanaut 14y ago
My social group hates the guy. I can't bring up Mojang without them ranting about how he has an undeserved ego and takes all the credit for Minecraft when really Jeb did all the work. I will say that I think it's incredibly self-absorbed th
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by Lambdanaut 14y ago
You absolutely can. Martian soil is surprisingly very rich, even by Earth's standards.
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This is pretty much a given. Livestock takes exponentially more energy to raise than it takes to harvest a comparable amount of plant produce. Goats eat a lot, and they chew on everything. Mushrooms are a good choice as a staple food for a
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by Lambdanaut 14y ago
It doesn't matter that the right brain/left brain thing is a complete myth. This book really works! Don't focus on the book's title so much, it's really all about looking at the world in a different way, and the "right brain" part is just t
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by Lambdanaut 14y ago
With Linux on Steam coming out, whoever is the first to start building gaming Linux boxes is going to cash in big time. (PS, It's not quite Dell with this under-powered laptop, but they're close! )
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Not to mention the extra gravity. We'll need all of the gravity we can get if we want to stave off muscle and bone degeneration. It's possible that Mars' light gravity (40% of Earth's) isn't even enough to keep us healthy without excessive
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I don't see why somebody can't build an AR app using Google Glass.
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I like a confirmation email to let me know that my signup to their service really did go swimmingly, but I don't care whether it's by a robot or a human, because I don't read them. The email title "You successfully signed up for Facebook!"
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I like them. The only annoyance is that you're forced to wrap your return value in a monad even if the function succeeds. That's type safety for you!
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The author ACTUALLY said "There are two basic kinds of people in this world.", which would imply that there are variations to these basic forms. If he had really said what you mis-quoted, you might have some point.
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by Lambdanaut 14y ago
In the TED talk he actually explains that wiring, plumbing and painting can be automated with his planned machine(among other processes). I think you're selling the idea short.
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If you keep zooming in eventually the perspective flips. As you keep zooming in more the perspective gets warped and it creates a bizarre fish-eye effect. I had about as much fun playing around with perspective warping as I did the finding
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by Lambdanaut 14y ago
I agree. Also, the code examples were very poor in making any point. Coming from somebody with a functional background but with no Erlang experience, the Erlang was trivially clear to me in its purpose. The Haskell would be much clearer if
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by Lambdanaut 14y ago
I tend to see the evolutionary process as a sort of pseudo intelligence, constantly striving to make the best organism for the environment it's in.
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by Lambdanaut 14y ago
Really? Almost everyone I grew up with didn't believe in evolution. It was far more difficult to find somebody that accepted it than to find somebody that denied it. I grew up near Jacksonville, FL. A pretty big city, but I've recently move
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by Lambdanaut 14y ago
Three pots of coffee is ridiculous. It's a nice anecdote, but who's to say that much coffee doesn't have the adverse effect of smaller amounts?
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We do it with livestock, so why not us? That's my Human Shearing Prison Camp's slogan! We're also big in the soylent green business.
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Anecdotally as somebody sitting on the east coast in a start-up's office right now, everyone in this room is wearing a t-shirt with jeans/shorts. I see some flip flops peeking out here and there too. I think it's more of a Start-up vs. Corp
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by Lambdanaut 15y ago
Planetary Resources will have a virtual monopoly on the platinum, so they can charge just about whatever they want for it, perhaps only slightly lower than the current selling rate.
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by Lambdanaut 15y ago
I apologize for the cheese factor of the "goal" beforehand, but here's a Python program I wrote recently that does the same thing: https://gist.github.com/1649116 I sat down with my fiance on Valentines Day and asked her if she could figu
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by Lambdanaut 15y ago
Cube roots and nth roots worked just fine for me.
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But High School isn't the same kind of commitment as your average project, because High School is compulsory. He might have just been waiting until he was old enough so he could commit to his actual ambition.
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by Lambdanaut 15y ago
You'd be surprised. I got started in programming by making Warcraft 3 maps. The trigger editor is a visual programming language in itself. I've made everything from simple RPGs to genetic algorithms that evolve micro strategy in AIs using t
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by Lambdanaut 15y ago
There actually are a bunch of 3D printers that print most of their own parts!
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by Lambdanaut 15y ago
The bell curve for educated guesses on things that can't be known for sure usually settles on something close to correct. Maybe they're onto something! (This at least usually works with guessing the amount of candy in a jar)
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by Lambdanaut 15y ago
I don't think this is really all that much of a bad thing. It's not like they're providing a dis-service to society. Shouldn't the creators of the first successful decentralized currency get at least some compensation?
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It would probably come off of C++ and Perl. It did a pretty efficient job at replacing perl on the web.
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by Lambdanaut 15y ago
Why can't the sender of a message just turn his system on and off to represent 0s and 1s?