SeanLuke

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Dave Smith founded Sequential (Sequential Circuits) in 1974, produced the groundbreaking Prophet-5 synthesizer, and invented MIDI, which had a profound impact on the electronic music industry. In 1987 Sequential went belly up due to some b
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Unlike copyright, trademark has no free use provisions, no time limit, and a requirement that the trademark owner aggressively pursue action against infringers. Trademark law strongly favors corporations over individuals. Guess how Disn
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You really don't understand the purpose of the Affero GPL?
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> The fashion industry is effectively copyright-free. Anyone can come up with a new design for a dress. If the design is successful, it will be copied and it is unpractical to try to enforce copyright. Thus, fashion designers must consta
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In this context, how is trial[l]ing not testing?
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A classic style maxim: never use a word if a shorter, more common word exists which means the same thing. The canonical example is "utilize", rather than "use". Like most violations of this maxim, utilize came about tha
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Smalltalk was proudly a descendent of Lisp.
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Let's put aside the god-awful 1-based tables, in 1993, which alone should have killed the language. My big problem with Lua is that it tries very hard to make possible all styles of language to all people, and as a result it is a lang
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AFAIK the rise in Alzheimer's was well correlated with the rise in life expectancy.
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Epstein-Barr has long been thought to be a culprit in everything from MS to dementia to especially CFS. But that's a real problem: there are no antivirals developed that are particularly effective against it. EBV research has been a
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Oh, it is astroturfing to be sure. But I was just having fun with the propaganda inherent in the sentence too.
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I go by my real name on HN after all, and Jim's my advisor. So what was this about disambiguating homonyms again?
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Thanks, I was rather involved in the research community. It has little to do with parsing text NLP-style. It has everything to do with annotating documents with formally structured KR data, or embedding the same into them. In fact, my own
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That's not what the semantic web is about at all. It has nothing to do with text.
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> You can create infringing works in your home to your heart's content because you are unlikely to get caught. But that doesn't mean that the infringement hasn't happened. I don't think so. Title 7 Chapter 1 Section 1
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Back around 2004 when we built the FlockBots, a small army of differential-drive robots, we needed a microswitch with an extra-long, 4-5", actuator arm that we could bend to form a bump sensor. There's exactly one place to get su
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Nope. It just means that Erdogan knows that the outcome will be in his favor.
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Just the firmware.
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Of course it didn't create the desire to cheat. What it did was make it much easier to cheat and get away with it. That is, it removed disincentives.
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You nailed all three. But to be honest I think the time spent would be viewed as the worst.
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This paper hardly touches on far and away the #1 pain point, and indeed only refers to it a single time. And that pain point is cheating. In my institution -- and this is hardly unusual -- CS alone accounts for about half of all universi
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"Sony" has an interesting history as well. The official line is that it was a mixture of "sonus" and "sonny" boys (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony ). But I have it on good authorit
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Jazz. Jazz is all about transposition.
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I can tell chord qualities fine. But I'd never be as good as someone with good relative pitch. For example, music majors have classes in sight singing: this is where the professor plays a note, say, a C, and tells everyone it's
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I have perfect pitch and find it to be quite a burden in certain ways: it's very, very hard to transpose in real time.
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100% correct. Cantonese speakers write in Chinese just as Mandarin speakers do (though they pronounce the characters differently). Written Cantonese, as it were, is cobbled together from certain Chinese characters and, of all things, a fe
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Strange he mentions Chinese but not Chinese Chess (Elephant Chess). In Chinese Chess, more or less all the original names have been retained, whereas they have changed radically in Western chess as discussed. Chinese chess pieces (and their
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Irish? Proposal to cure social ills? I seriously thought this was going to be a play on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
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No, it's a pretty nice area. But it's not in DC.
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In the late 1990s a friend of mine gave me a birthday gift: two tickets to Spy Drive. Now THAT was something that could only happen in DC. Oleg Kalugin ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Kalugin ) was a former head of

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