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by Phemist 11y ago
As for programming languages, I've always wondered how languages would've looked if computers, and as a result programming languages, had been invented in non-english speaking countries. An immediate example that comes to mind is
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From the article: Experimenters were blind to the stimulus in 82% of trials and analyses showed no difference in subject responses according to this factor (see the electronic supplementary material tables SII and SII
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Clicks are a bit of a weird metric in my opinion. It encourages optimisation for single instances of ad views, whereas what makes ads effective is the cumulative effect of multiple viewings. This may not even lead to a click, but to someone
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I suppose I should've added more :P's and ;)'s
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Probably because of German censorship of violence in video games? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_gaming_in_Germany
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This is the main reason why I use an Ad blocker (and tracker blocker, etc.) http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2015/10/why-its-ok-to-b... These arguments are not even acknowledged by Wired (or any other service
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NL offers R&D tax credit - http://english.rvo.nl/subsidies-programmes/wbso-rd-tax-credi... Don't know about the other part.
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I think this is why integrity hashes should be included anytime a CDN is used to load a third-party library. Bootstrap does this, for example: http://getbootstrap.com/getting-started/ I'd like to see more lib prov
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As another non-native speaker, I think both are correct. It's the different between "American" english and "British" english. The title being american (NYTimes), and "zeroes in" being British.
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The New England Journal of Medicine on Data Sharing(nejm.org)
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Apparently I can reply now, repost just so it shows up in your comment thread I remember seeing a video of a robot that would attend to different parts of a scene based on the "saliency", in the sense of novelty, of its features.
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My prof used to joke that, whenever he'd discuss fovea and periphery, that if we had a fovea the size of our full field of view, we'd need a brain the size of an elephant to process all that information. It's interesting how
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+1 for evil
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Yes, this is always named in the same breath as my GP post, the gorilla video is a classic. The video I posted much the same thing. It makes you realise how much of what we perceive is really what we think we perceive
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@otakucode The thread has gone too deep, so I can't reply to your comment directly. I remember seeing a video of a robot that would attend to different parts of a scene based on the "saliency", in the sense of novelty, of its
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As an analog to lossy compression - lossy rendering?
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Interesting! Thanks for sharing! There are algorithms that mimic fixation paths the eyes follow when presented with a novel image, very much related to modeling dopaminergic systems. It seemed to find task-relevant information dense areas f
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I was paraphrasing this from memory. The dependency is quite complex, it depends on the amount of degrees the text occupies in your field of vision, but also on the mode of reading you're in (very focused reading seems to narrow the fi
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Found the article I was referencing - McConkie & Rayner (1975) - http://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/BF03203972
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Basically the inverse being applied? Sentence fully displayed, with the word that's focused on masked...
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That's really cool! I'm not 100% sure, but what I remember from reading a few psych papers about this is that as long as the "mask" is similar to the original in a few easy to calculate sampling statistics (colour distri
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>> A fun (but impractical and frustrating) variant of this feature is to have the image change as soon as the viewer looks away. So you’re looking at a painting, glance away to another room, and look back to find a new painting hangin
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To see what an x-metre sea drop looks like - https://what-if.xkcd.com/53/
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Perhaps splitting the content into universal and US-only advice would allow other (more knowledgeable) individuals to build on the universal advice and give more location-dependent advice separately?
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Although I'm from the Netherlands, I read these articles with great interest. Some wisdoms are transferable (e.g., equity being worth only as much as the company is valuated at right now, rather than what it might be in the future), bu
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Apparently this is part of his image: http://www.fastcompany.com/3046877/who-the-is-this-guy-john-... Be offensive, get millions of customers.
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This view is quite common in computational neuroscience. Rather than calling it Real World emulators, they call it predictive coding[1][2]. Models that are able to predict statistical properties of "percepts", are able to store th
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For me, as a Python user, I've found that gzip is currently the only compression format that allows streaming compression/decompression. I don't want to have to store hundreds of gigabytes of data and THEN compress it, rather
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Original (not-so-poorly written) source: https://www.jitbit.com/alexblog/249-now-thats-what-i-call-a-... Also linked to on the github page.
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The point is not really about the difficulty of conversion, but about having to do it at all. Whether hearing about a 1.42m high man brings up a vivid image immediately, or only after conversion to imperial measures. Not unlike how becoming

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