Tossrock

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by Tossrock 11y ago
Reminds me of this similar article on the global decline in violence: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2...
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by Tossrock 11y ago
I'm kind of astonished to hear someone paid money for the e-cat. I'd always thought of Rossi as a crank. Hopefully I was wrong and we get a revolutionary new energy source, but I'm still not convinced. General Fusion is still
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by Tossrock 11y ago
Interesting thought, but then again, maybe they would just use external acceleration on such planets (ie catapult launch assist).
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by Tossrock 11y ago
It's funny how many people are saying "oh just get everyone organized and have a lottery/auction". Yes, if we could perfectly organize large groups of people we could solve the tragedy of the commons. Unfortunately, orga
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by Tossrock 11y ago
I'm certainly not an expert (although I too have been diagnosed twice), and I'm not here to denigrate your experience. Like I said, I'm glad you made it through it, by whatever means. I'm just saying, your advice is usua
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by Tossrock 11y ago
What a bunch of hooey. Just 'deciding to be happy' is nonsense for someone with major depressive disorder (the medically accepted name of the disorder, as opposed to the term 'clinical depression', which people without e
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by Tossrock 11y ago
Why does it matter how much $1000 is to you if you can guarantee that you won't lose - which you did just a few comments up the tree? And remember, he said "up to", so perhaps you'd feel more comfortable at $100? Or $10?
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by Tossrock 11y ago
I don't think there will be any more AI winters. Previous AI winters were largely the result of a crash in federal grant writing (DARPA/the Strategic Computing Initiative) to labs at research universities, which depend on them for
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by Tossrock 11y ago
Flight simulators for pilots.
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by Tossrock 11y ago
I assume your parent commenter is referring to the general concept of 'qi', and its manipulation in practices such as Qigong. If there really does exist a direct linkage between the brain and the immune system, the idea that throu
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by Tossrock 11y ago
I just finished the game I'd started 2+ years ago, getting Pacifist, Foxiest of the Hounds, and Legend at the same time. Brutally unforgiving, but it really felt like an accomplishment once I was done.
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by Tossrock 11y ago
Does it? >>> from datetime import datetime >>> datetime.now() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<console>", line 1, in <module> File "/lib/pypyjs/lib_pypy&#x
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by Tossrock 11y ago
Looks like there are some issues to iron out... >>> from datetime import datetime >>> datetime.now() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<console>", line 1, in <module> File &quot
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by Tossrock 11y ago
It seems like an impossibly basic mistake, but confusing micro- and milli- newtons would make the math a lot more reasonable.
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by Tossrock 11y ago
Why isn't it worth getting excited about? I get excited about lunch. It costs me nothing to follow the progress on low-probability, high impact technological advancements (see: space elevators, commercial fusion power, etc)
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by Tossrock 12y ago
I find the idea that Kronos is 'cutting-edge' pretty amusing. Last time I had to interact with it, it was still an in-browser java applet with a user experience about on par with sticking your hand in a blender.
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by Tossrock 12y ago
Reminds me of the CASIE social enhancer augmentation from the Deus Ex video game: http://deusex.wikia.com/wiki/Social_Enhancer The augmentation shows you the personality type of the person you're talking to and su
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by Tossrock 12y ago
That seems to be ~70 lines of code, not the 2k+ claimed by the article. Is he including statically linked libraries as well? edit: Ah, I see he meant bytes, but mislabeled the graph.
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by Tossrock 12y ago
About the same.
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by Tossrock 12y ago
Factually incorrect. Creating new strings by concatenation requires reallocation because Strings are immutable in java. Using a Builder is over 700x faster: Concat code: http://pastebin.com/CcezmJbf Builder code: http:&#x2
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by Tossrock 12y ago
Interesting that "only a few light-days" is considered "very close" for this application. For reference, even a single light-day is 6x greater than the orbit of Pluto.
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by Tossrock 12y ago
It recently occurred to me, free open source project + paid enterprise service companies are the software world equivalent of freemium games.
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by Tossrock 12y ago
Narrative is a noun? "A spoken or written account of connected events; a story: 'the hero of his modest narrative'"
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by Tossrock 12y ago
For a DDoS, you can spoof your IP to anything, because you don't care about actually receiving response packets. This is standard in a SYN flood.
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I have a feeling this is a leakage of Eliezer Yudkowsky's opinions into tech entrepreneur circles via his friendship with Peter Thiel.
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Someone who's already been delayed twice. Clearly they are willing to accept some margin of delay. The question I was posing is, how could delaying one more day be worth more (ie cost to SpaceX) than the value of the recovered rocket t
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by Tossrock 12y ago
I don't understand the reasoning here; how could launching today with a guaranteed failure to recover possibly be more valuable than delaying another day or two with a shot at recovery? The only way it makes sense to me is if sea heigh
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by Tossrock 12y ago
I assume they meant that if you were to double the diameter of the balloon, it would be a superlinear increase in lifting capacity (since volume is cubic in radius). However, it wouldn't actually be exponential, and two balloons added
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I am downvoting you because you are factually incorrect on several points, while maintaining an aggressive, self-important tone. Neural networks are incredibly successful. The state of the art in computer vision performs /as well or be
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Not sure why you're being downvoted, that was my first thought as well. Sure, I understand the concept of defensive acquisitions, valuation as what people are willing to pay, per-user value, developing world markets, etc. But rockets a

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