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by Schwolop 14y ago
Well I for one would love to work on a big problem. The reason I'm not is because the smaller problems pay, and the bigger ones (generally) don't. I tried running my own business aimed at a big problem (admittedly not very well or for very
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by Schwolop 14y ago
I've been re-reading Tim Flannery's 'The Weather Makers' again so perhaps I'm in a more pessimistic mood than usual. And yes, some places will become more habitable, but it seems fairly clear that these will be fewer in number than the area
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by Schwolop 14y ago
There's another link between climate change and jobs, but it's a lot less pleasant. If we fail to do anything about climate change, chances are large chunks of the planet will become uninhabitable for humans. The rich and useful will move w
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by Schwolop 14y ago
Without any other information, how can you possibly implement max() without going through the whole array?
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by Schwolop 14y ago
They can be. It depends on what you're after. I definitely think anytime planning is underused in games. It's like a modified A* planner with a weighted heuristic, but which reduces this weighting factor after every successful iteration.
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by Schwolop 14y ago
You've essentially just derived my Parallel Hierarchical Replanner (PHR)... :-) However, your step 6 isn't always useful because not only do you sometimes discover new obstacles (higher costs), occasionally you discover new shortcuts (lower
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by Schwolop 14y ago
http://db.acfr.usyd.edu.au/download.php/Allen2011_Thesis.pdf...
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by Schwolop 14y ago
Yes, juggling patterns can be expressed neatly by the use of fairly simple mathematics. Look up "siteswap" or "siteswap notation". (It's also closely related to the mathematics of bell-ringing or "chiming".)
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by Schwolop 14y ago
This was pretty much my PhD thesis topic. The summary no one wants to hear is that all the incremental algorithms for changing graphs suffer the same problem, and no one talks about it. They are all optimised for changes near the start of t
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by Schwolop 14y ago
You're by no means required to login with facebook, and whether you do or not, broadcasting your activity to them is an opt-in.
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by Schwolop 14y ago
I just skimmed through all the videos and then moved on to https://class.coursera.org/dataanalysis-001 instead. It's from the same university, but it's much more "here are the statistical concepts, and I'll show you an implementation in R
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by Schwolop 14y ago
To be honest, I found the entire coursera course on programming for data analytics to be in the same vein. So much time was spent explaining what each optional parameter to a function did that I skipped at least 50% of each lecture.
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by Schwolop 14y ago
Uh, every single one has such an explanation. It's the "discussion" link beside each one.
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by Schwolop 14y ago
More so he's pro-theoretical grounding in a subject, because with the right background it's easy to get up to speed in the practicalities. It's a bit unpleasant reading these articles (Barrie's and the original by Harper) now, as I currentl
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by Schwolop 14y ago
For those unaware, this polemic is by Matt Barrie, CEO of Freelancer. He's been very outspoken in the Australian media about over-regulation of industry and outdated think tanks stifling innovation by recommending tactics that reinforce the
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by Schwolop 14y ago
You're 18 years older than me, but our paths are certainly similar. I also did a PhD because I liked the university lifestyle, didn't want a job, and wanted to keep messing around with my honours project for a few more years. I think did a
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by Schwolop 14y ago
A closely related thing is happening in the Western Australian desert: http://www.quora.com/Australia/What-is-going-on-in-the-Weste... Mining companies operate 24hrs a day with huge lighting rigs illuminating the pits. One of the motivati
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by Schwolop 14y ago
Righteo, I think I misread your comment then. I agree.
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by Schwolop 14y ago
I dispute this. I just sold my house, and will buy another one soon. I don't know the timeframe however, so there's no way I'd put the cash into the highest return vehicle because it will likely have a high volatility and I might need the c
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by Schwolop 14y ago
I'm similarly old fashioned, only now I'm moving house again, and regretting the half a tonne of books I'll have to lug around.
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by Schwolop 14y ago
Your point about key bindings is very prescient. At my work, our book club is (re)reading The Pragmatic Programmer. There's a section which advocates picking one text editor, mastering its arcane secrets, customizing it until it's perfect
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by Schwolop 14y ago
Fuck man! Not the fucking rug. That rug really tied the room together.
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by Schwolop 14y ago
All this really needs is for the standard search engine to automatically generate the prior art for every patent search. No matter what you search for - pop! - there's your prior art instantly posted to the public domain with an open licens
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by Schwolop 14y ago
My preference for this style of thing is the series of controllers, sensors, and actuators made by TinkerForge. They use the same style of USB daemon to talk to the microcontroller(s), but there are then bindings in Python, C#, C++, Java, P
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by Schwolop 14y ago
This is worth knowing about, and the video is fine, but it took me less time to just read the manual. I guess I'm a textual animal.
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Asphyx - flash game played by holding your breath(dl.dropbox.com)
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by Schwolop 14y ago
What a remarkably easy to read article.
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by Schwolop 14y ago
Bollocks. No university professor or researcher I know reads patents - we read journal papers and conference proceedings that describe the work in our language. Patents are written in legal language such that I can't even decipher patents
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by Schwolop 14y ago
What's the benefit to the students?
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by Schwolop 14y ago
Yeah, it is 'value' pricing, but I think key to its success is both parties having some understanding of the concept. If the vendor prices by value, and the payee doesn't grok the concept, they'll likely think it too high. In my experience,

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