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by Phemist 11y ago
I can see where the writer of that article is coming from, having been born in 1950, Canada would've started its "metrification" in his/her 20s. Arguably a very late time to switch your mode of thought from imperial to m
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by Phemist 11y ago
Footnote one should be put more generally, biases in the performance metrics (either appearance for women vs ability for men, or how many words of the US national anthem someone knows for US citizens vs rest of the world) will cause this me
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by Phemist 11y ago
Song of the South seems to be available on youtube? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BtjW7PW2z0
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by Phemist 11y ago
Apparently a vital part of - http://www.google.com/patents/US8181265
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by Phemist 11y ago
Or even achieving privilege escalation would be good enough for most.
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by Phemist 11y ago
As far as http+integrity goes: Integrity checks are also based on a shared secret, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash-based_message_authenticat... . So for http+integrity, without the secrecy aspect of TLS, ie the
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by Phemist 11y ago
This was sloppy on my part. I meant "interact" in a statistical sense - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaction_(statistics) . I'm not a medical expert, so I'm a bit inconsistent in terminology, bu
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by Phemist 11y ago
It's a problem of testing the efficacy of going through treatment (with any substance, inert or active) vs testing the efficacy of a certain active drug. In double-blind experiments, where placebo effects are attempted to be disentangl
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by Phemist 11y ago
First off, the reason double-blind testing is so effective is that it reduces subconscious biases in behaviour. If the person administering drugs knows its a placebo, he/she will consciously, or subconsciously, behave differently. All
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This is, ofcourse, all based on whether a proper inert replacement for the drug-to-be-tested has been found.
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There are several problems with double-blind testing that have become apparent in the last few years, and that call for a new standard testing procedure. Double-blind rests, among others, on the assumption that a) placebo effects are indepe
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by Phemist 11y ago
This seems very similar to Valve's boss-free "flat" structure - http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.p...
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by Phemist 11y ago
It's impossible to test "absolute" effects of drugs, so they are always tested in relation to each-other, this makes analysis easy because the only variable that's different is between whether participants are taking the
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by Phemist 11y ago
Further reading: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind - Julian Jaynes A beautifully written book about an excentric theory of the history of consciousness.
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by Phemist 11y ago
How does SQLAlchemy compare to the Django ORM (if it would be a stand-alone package, which it sadly isn't)?
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by Phemist 11y ago
Except that you are not picked from the whole population at large, but from a subset of it. Namely the subset that (weakly) believes they have dementia. This changes the incidence rate (or likelihood function) probably by at least an order
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by Phemist 11y ago
Thanks for the link! My thesis was basically a data analysis project, improving on work my supervisor did prior to me starting my thesis. Figshare is good to keep in mind, but I don't think I'd have had much use for it, as the who
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by Phemist 11y ago
I wrote my master's thesis in overleaf about a year ago, because my laptop was starting to break down and I needed a solution that allowed me to easily switch between university computers without having to constantly set-up my workspac
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The simplest Braitenberg machine to date?
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Similarly, it seems to fail on "The old man the boat", marking "man" as a noun. The meaning of the sentence however, in this case, is fairly unambiguous, but parsing it can be tricky. See other: https://en.wik
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by Phemist 11y ago
I like the name. A platform to leave our 'kwakjes'. And in real-time.
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by Phemist 11y ago
Unless interrupts and the Input portion of I/O are generated by an oracle (A machine of a computational class more powerful than UTMs) of some sort, a Turing Machine with I/O and interrupts is equivalent to a UTM. I remember the p
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by Phemist 11y ago
Dave has to sort out the conflict, but wasn't that the exact same person who couldn't be reached to sort out the initial conflict?
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by Phemist 11y ago
Especially the guy with commit access to PyCrypto should reconsider his position in the project..