Thrymr

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by Thrymr 14y ago
A direct hit doesn't seem to be all that probable, but Mars is still likely to pass within the comet's coma and be pelted by debris [1]. [1] http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/02/28/mars_imp...
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by Thrymr 14y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5298902
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by Thrymr 14y ago
> Given two equally capable candidates, the one with the degree is better. This doesn't have to be "true" to be useful. A positive correlation is a valuable tool as well.
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New CDC App Turns You Into A Disease Outbreak Detective(forbes.com)
1 points by Thrymr 14y ago|0 comments
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by Thrymr 14y ago
> one glaring flaw: you have to hold it. That could also be said to be a flaw in books, but that's an interface that had some staying power. And most people probably use a tablet, like a book, setting on a surface or propped up on somet
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by Thrymr 14y ago
Absolutely not true. I don't know what the Tesla's speedometer display is like, but my experience with digital displays in cars is the exact opposite. I am much more likely to misread a digital display - in my old car this happened all th
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by Thrymr 14y ago
I agree, I would be surprised if the reporter did make it up completely. His description is quite detailed, and it would be a bizarre thing to do, especially for someone writing for the NY Times. But such bizarre things have happened. I wil
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by Thrymr 14y ago
To be fair, the reporter did leave a margin of error. He may not have understood the uncertainty in the mileage estimates, but he wasn't planning things to the mile. It doesn't seem unreasonable for him to have believed that a range greater
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by Thrymr 14y ago
>> Why would a reporter lie about the test? > To get a story that's more interesting than "I tried this car and it was good". And because it fit the reporter's expectation of what would have happened, without having to bother wi
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United States High Speed Rail System Map(sites.google.com)
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As Startups Produce More Data, the Search for Data Scientists Grows Frantic(pehub.com)
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by Thrymr 14y ago
Love the map of SV private commuter bus lines linked there: http://content.stamen.com/zero1
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by Thrymr 14y ago
> C... is in absolutely no sense of the term a high level language. Of course it is. You're not worrying about how many registers your CPU has, or when you swap a register out to memory. All that has been abstracted away for you. The
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by Thrymr 14y ago
> No English speaking country is in the Euro Except Ireland.
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Machine Learning literature surveys, reviews, and tutorials(mlsurveys.com)
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by Thrymr 14y ago
Though mostly we just go out to Starbucks.
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by Thrymr 14y ago
Or try liftbit as noted above: https://github.com/openyou/libfitbit
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by Thrymr 14y ago
It's too bad that X11 is still the only GUI that really works remotely (for an individual application, not a full desktop).
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by Thrymr 14y ago
If you spend any time at all without net connectivity, you need to be able to work with native tools on a cloned code repo. The machine is more than powerful enough for plenty of local dev tasks, it's really a shame you can't work locally.
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by Thrymr 14y ago
It's more accurate to say Fahrenheit is brine based. 0°F was based on the freezing point of a brine solution used by Ole Rømer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B8mer_scale
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by Thrymr 14y ago
The friction of unit conversion is much lower, though, because they are constant and don't have transaction fees. The number of centimeters per inch or pounds per kilogram is the same today as it will be next month or next year.
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by Thrymr 14y ago
I read bwooce's comment to mean one pixel per person literally (not in map projection). If you're not trying to represent geography at the same time you don't have that problem. You could still sort the data representing individuals by two
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by Thrymr 14y ago
The dots are not placed to exact addresses, but roughly evenly distributed within census blocks. The number inside the block should be correct, not the exact placement.
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by Thrymr 14y ago
I agree that it is a neat implementation. I just meant that the idea of a non-reversing mirror is not new.
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by Thrymr 14y ago
Not exactly new: http://www.truemirror.com
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by Thrymr 14y ago
Today's outage: http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=13... So far it only says "We're investigating reports of an issue with Google Mail. We will provide more information shortly."
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by Thrymr 14y ago
All the links on this page look they were copied from Google search results. Ironic.
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by Thrymr 14y ago
The "batteries included" philosophy and commitment to making CPython work on multiple platforms has gone a long way. I don't think it has much to do with GNU tools specifically. An interview with Guido himself that discusses some of the mul
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by Thrymr 14y ago
Why do I care how seriously people take my review of a mobile app? I'm just posting it to help others make a decision about whether to buy/download the app. There's not much in it for me either way. If there is any potential downside at all
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by Thrymr 14y ago
Why in the world would you want your review of a random mobile app publicly associated with you? I would rather just not bother posting a review.

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