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by Old_Thrashbarg 11y ago
Those are great, I could start reading those immediately for piano. I think it would be more enticing for newcomers to learn this "Guitar Hero sheet music" than traditional sheet music. Just imagine if Guitar Hero had been done w
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Yeah, the only thing holding me back from trying out Sublime Text is that I don't want to invest time learning proprietary software when there's good open-source alternatives.
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Thermodynamics doesn't say that "everything is bound to break down, and that we won't be able to predict all of the ways it can happen". I guess you're referring to the second law of thermodynamics. It says that th
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by Old_Thrashbarg 11y ago
A win for the hotel industry lobby groups and a loss for the general public.
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by Old_Thrashbarg 12y ago
If anyone at the NSA is reading this, I urge you to consider following Snowden's example and help to further weaken the NSA and protect our constitution. (case in point: I was slightly nervous writing this, but hopefully my VPN will ke
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by Old_Thrashbarg 12y ago
This makes me very happy to hear that people are steering clear of the NSA. It often surprises me how easy it is to find people to do whatever you want them to do, regardless of the ethics of it. How come there's so many people willin
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by Old_Thrashbarg 12y ago
Definitely, this is a huge opportunity for innovation if they would open it up. I would like to see there be no rules on the cars except that they must weigh in under a certain number.
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by Old_Thrashbarg 12y ago
The Talking Machines is my favorite machine learning podcast. So far they've had interviews with many of the big names in ML: Yann LeCun, Goeff Hinton, Yoshua Bengio.
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by Old_Thrashbarg 12y ago
Content on Stack Exchange is licensed under CC-BY-SA. Therefore Stack Exchange (as well as any other site on the internet) has the right to repost your material if they attribute it and share it properly.
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by Old_Thrashbarg 12y ago
Even Microsoft uses their evil proprietary format as a selling point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAUJa7Ng2xg&hd=1
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by Old_Thrashbarg 12y ago
Noob question: Is it reasonable to think that the spyware on these hard drives is targeted for specific OS's? I have a Seagate HDD and I run Linux (Ubuntu), so I'm wondering if I'd be immune to the spyware.
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by Old_Thrashbarg 12y ago
EFF is an amazing organization! I wish you guys had a Data Scientist position open!