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by Verdex_3 8y ago
Agree. Who do you get to do the pilot program for this sort of thing? The person who really has a passion for chess and believes that everyone can learn and even excel at it OR the person who's just trying to avoid going home where t
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
Where I'm at, well meaning authority figures, who tend to be greater than 10 years older than me, like to talk about the benefits of withdrawing from technology for a period of time. A technology "cleanse" if you will. I&#x2
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
> I fail to be convinced that flipping through a hundred slides impresses either part of anyone's brain. I think I agree, however. A hundred slides might not impress anyone, but it means that anyone who wants to attack the presenter
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
With perl's use cases, I would be a bit surprised to see a job specifically for programming in perl. It's a tool that you use to support your other infrastructure. It's not a tool that you generally use to build up that inf
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
The first half of this title sounds terrible ... until you see the second half. "Court Case Alleges" Well, this is the COURT we're talking about, so maybe this is legitimate information. Until you realize that this actuall
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
Strongly agree. I feel very strongly that the state needs to be investing into how to use drones to defend against drones. At the end of the day there is no real way to prevent a malicious actor from building an autonomous kill bot, so we
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
I mean this theoretically works until the gangs decide to start putting small bombs in the drones that detonate on impact. I bet they can build drones faster than people can breed and train the birds.
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
I mean I guess that could work ... although I wonder how fast it takes to train a falcon to do that sort of work. I'm just thinking that if the criminal gangs start losing too many drones all it takes is arming them with small explosi
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
Technical: Drones are a neat way to use your technical acumen to affect the real world. Making a python script look for prime numbers is kind of neat, but making a python script cause a robot to fly around and pickup trash in your backgro
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
Not to mention eventually someone is going to figure out how to get a drone to understand sign language. The only way I can think to jam a drone's camera from reading sign language is going to be shining a bunch of lasers at anything
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
They've been trying the "let end users code in an impoverished pseudo programming language" for a long time and at best it only ever takes over small niche. And they still need real programming languages and software enginee
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by Verdex_3 9y ago
It's okay to spoil something when the information might keep people from dying.
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by Verdex_3 9y ago
Like, I want to believe you that such a thing is easy. But I'm not really convinced by the assertion that it is followed by a non-descriptive blurb. I mean I get what you're saying, "Find what they care about and try to app
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by Verdex_3 9y ago
Not really. You have to find a way to make the math real to your students or else it becomes just another exercise of "what set of words do I need to say in order to make the teacher happy". At least in my experience, most learn
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by Verdex_3 9y ago
What's the alternative though? Write your code such that people subjectively find it easy to read? Then you have to know the set of all people who are going to read your code AND how their internal (and possibly inconsistent) "e
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by Verdex_3 9y ago
Yeah, I would have thought that results like: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2725 show that set theory isn't the end all be all of mathematics.
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by Verdex_3 9y ago
If ThomPete is talking about the analysis that I had a look at, then yeah the dividends from new technology developed was taken into account and it still doesn't work out economically. The problem is money spent on a moon base isn&#x2
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by Verdex_3 9y ago
I expected a scare piece on privacy but I got an in depth technical break down of an alexa security bug.
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by Verdex_3 9y ago
I think it's two things. The first one is that most people are not comfortable changing up the programming paradigm that they are most familiar with. They're familiar with adding some if-statements to verify at run time. They&#
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by Verdex_3 9y ago
This is a side note: It's really interesting to me that whenever anyone talks about homeschooling children the point that is always raised by someone is that if children never leave the home then how will they learn to socialize with c
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by Verdex_3 9y ago
Eyes are sensors too. They've just been historically better than man made sensors. At some point we'll be able to collect enough data using man made sensors and then turn it into a clear enough picture using computers that the b
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by Verdex_3 9y ago
I'm not discounting or discrediting your experience. If it worked for you, then great. Unfortunately, my personal experience involves a few decades of "just try it my way and you'll see" ending in disappointment at bes
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by Verdex_3 9y ago
I don't think judges should necessarily be punished for bad decisions. The judiciary is a mechanism for allowing society to get along peacefully with one another (ie you can take your grievance to a judge instead of to the mob). I do
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by Verdex_3 9y ago
And that works fine ... as long as you know all of the cases that will cause the minimal amount of broken code to fail in a test case. What happens if you're implementing something like a unification algorithm, but you don't know
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by Verdex_3 9y ago
Although on the other hand, writing your test first with no code and having it fail isn't really telling you much about the test. It just shows that the test handles the least interesting case (the case where there exists no code). Y
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by Verdex_3 9y ago
I don't know, it looks like it's holding true so far. If it was 13 years from the Wright brothers to the first commercial flight and now we're seeing 10 years from the "Wright brothers" of self driving cars to so f
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by Verdex_3 9y ago
Ideally, the best way to approach a problem is going to be to find the right type to express it. However, sometimes problems in the real world can only be typed with types that are so complicated that you end up with no confidence that you
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by Verdex_3 9y ago
The thing about static typing is that there's a lot of research behind it and it's getting better every day. Eventually it will get to the point where it's nearly almost the same as dynamically typed systems, but with type
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by Verdex_3 9y ago
I appreciate your point, but I thought that I might add that many historians conclude that there is no reasonable evidence that prima noctis has actually occurred. It turns out that no matter how much power you have, there are still some li
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by Verdex_3 9y ago
I'm trying to be descriptive not prescriptive. It's not really about whether or not I'm happy with any given result. Let's say that suddenly there's a law that makes it illegal for the police to take anything out o

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