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by MarkBook 16y ago
Computers are born color blind. They have to be taught to discriminate
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by MarkBook 16y ago
Oh yeah? Well what about this then : Picasso Painting Sells for $106 Million-Painted in One Day http://www.imaginelifestyles.com/luxuryliving/2010/05/picass... :)
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by MarkBook 16y ago
You may face ageism issues when you look for jobs especially if you are not good at self promotion. OTOH you may have some great domain knowledge which will give you an edge over the kids if you are thinking about programming in your area o
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by MarkBook 16y ago
Margaret Thatcher had voice training to make her sound more authoritive. Here are 2 clips the first from 1975 and the second from 1987. They don't sound a whole lot different to me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK3eP9rh4So http://www.yo
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by MarkBook 16y ago
I swear I thought of this yesterday driving to work as a way for one eyed people to get depth perception. I'm a genius! (I have a long commute)
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by MarkBook 16y ago
Millions I have a problem in believing, certainly once the iron curtain proper was put in place.
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by MarkBook 16y ago
I don't buy this. What's lacking is the political will to secure the borders of the UK. If the UK is so porous then how come Germany wasn't able to stroll over in 1940. People have been told that's it's impossible to keep out illegals and t
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by MarkBook 16y ago
This is something that always puzzles me. How come it's accepted as a given that countries cannot seal their borders. The Soviet Bloc were pretty good at it EDIT also the border between north and south korea is pretty tight
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by MarkBook 16y ago
The 66 world cup was in black and white the 1970 was in color!
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by MarkBook 16y ago
I remember as a kid loving the look of the tango ball and trying to draw it using a compass and an eraser. I was really pleased with myself when I managed it finally
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by MarkBook 16y ago
Having the benefit of hindsight in looking at outside interventions elsewhere (Africa, Iraq, Afghanistan etc ) I think that maybe the best thing would be for all other countries (including China) to stop interfering in North korea. It's not
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by MarkBook 16y ago
Thanks, I think I get it on a superficial level. The British seemed to have some pretty useful statisticians during WWII. See this also : http://www.dur.ac.uk/stat.web/bomb.htm EDIT : So there's about a fifty fifty chance that the second
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by MarkBook 16y ago
continuing my foolish musings I would have thought originally that getting the mean of the sample and multiplying by 2 would have been a good estimate. But one problem with that is that there is no possibility of the maximum being lower tha
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by MarkBook 16y ago
I think I get part of it n/n+1 means that as n gets bigger it becomes ever more likely that s is close to the real maximum. But I have no idea why 1 is added to s
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by MarkBook 16y ago
biohacker looks very interesting (also same Joyce quote on the website as in the TECS book!)
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by MarkBook 16y ago
"I wish there were more like it!" Me too. having read TECS and gotten through it despite setbacks it's given me the confidence to feel like I can develop a more comprehensive understanding of specific areas of CS as long as I have a good c
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by MarkBook 16y ago
here is what you are looking for. http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/ With this I built not only a compiler but a virtual machine, an assembler AND the machine it all runs on! It's the most awesome book I ever came across. You will come away fro
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by MarkBook 16y ago
My tuppenceworth Some high level language VB, C# or Java then the first half of Code by Charles Petzold then The elements of computing systems by Schocken and Nisan followed by the rest of Petzold's book