Wilduck

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by Wilduck 14y ago
When I was searching for apartments last year, I spent a lot of time on the internet looking for places. Then when I went out driving around to actually go see them, I noticed apartment buildings all over the place that I had never seen onl
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by Wilduck 14y ago
Historically, my biggest obstacle to understanding pieces of "real math" was the intimidation factor of the very dense material and the fear that I wouldn't ever be able to understand it. The best tip I have, one that helps me not be intimi
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by Wilduck 14y ago
Wikipedia has two listed as the number of Drudge Report's employees. I mixed this up the first time I read it as well.
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by Wilduck 14y ago
This is reminiscent of phone rentals that used to be routine when using a landline. Eventually most consumers ended up buying their own phones, but there have been instances reported where companies happily continue charging their less savv
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by Wilduck 14y ago
Well, if you want to read things by some of the top contributing users, a good place to start would be the "leaderboard" [1]. Click on one of the users names, and click "comments". These are usually pretty fun to read (especially from those
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by Wilduck 14y ago
But you can't run the same election 10 times. Without hearing the interview, I'm going to guess he's talking about multiple states, all with 60% chance of winning, which puts us in a different place entirely. I guess I'm not disagreeing wit
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by Wilduck 14y ago
> it means that 6 times out of 10 Obama would win and 4 times out of 10 Romney would win. If Obama won all 10 times, by his own account he would be wrong. That's a very frequentist perspective. I think the Bayesian interpretation is a l
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That's a pretty interesting idea. Is there any precedent for anything remotely resembling this having been done before?
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> 2. Voting is too hard being on a weekday and involving long waiting times. I would also argue that the long waiting times are symptomatic of (1). Partisan election officials have a vested interest in deterring or encouraging the vote
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Exactly. This is known as Duverger's Law. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duvergers_law
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I don't want politicians to denounce their political parties. Instead, I would rather see an adoption of elements of proportional representation into our political system. For example, Party List PR[1] in the House of Representatives would
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by Wilduck 14y ago
Honestly, I would suggest you get a Facebook account and start playing around with it. The answer to all your questions are "it depends". In part it depends on how Facebook evolves over time, in part it depends on how much they want to cura
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by Wilduck 14y ago
Ctrl-+ (control-plus) on a PC or Cmd-+ on a Mac will increase the size of the type quite nicely. Ctrl-- (control-minus) will decrease the size, and Ctrl-0 (control-zero) will set it back to its original. This doesn't work well on every webs
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by Wilduck 14y ago
If you're looking for a book that is fun to read and very approachable "The Little Schemer" would be a good choice. The book teaches some pretty important concepts. Also, it has the benefit of not assuming that the reader knows much at all
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by Wilduck 14y ago
I used Debian stable as my primary OS for a couple of years. While I was just fine without the fancy desktop, at the time Firefox was stuck on version 3.0 even though 3.6 was available. I don't know what the situation is like now, since I h
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I found the full text here: http://www.naturalthinker.net/trl/texts/Science/Jaynes,%20E.... The first couple pages are a bit funny looking, but after that, there are all 500+ pages. It was the fourth result on Google for me.
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Do not confuse those who comment on any particular article with the HN community as a whole. Say what you will about the quality of any individual comment made, but you'd be making an ironic mistake to judge anyone who is part of HN based o
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> One caveat I would mention about data analysis would be that statistics is not just number crunching Agreed. Analysis that is well presented tells a story . The story begins with where the data comes from, then describes how the data
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I conceive of leisure as either sky-blue or blank white.
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Are you looking for something similar to Steve Yegge's Grok Project[1]? He's currently trying to bring toolchain parity across all languages and clients. It's a little more ambitious goal than what you're describing, but it does benefit fro
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by Wilduck 14y ago
> Did you have a test kit to determine whether your experience was actually with pure MDMA This is pretty important when talking about recreational use of MDMA. It's often pretty hard to find reasonably pure MDMA in many parts of the US
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by Wilduck 14y ago
There was a Show HN post a few days ago about Sleepio.com which is using CBT over the web to help with insomnia. In the thread the OP talked about wanting to expand it to other types of therapy. Even if it's not the company you were thinkin
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by Wilduck 14y ago
Please don't up-vote vapid, zero-content tumblr posts. This does not "gratify one's intellectual curiosity"[1]. [1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I agree. I've always thought that many people giving to charities such as this one probably wouldn't be donating that money anywhere otherwise. So, the choice isn't between, Tesla Museum and Saving Children, it's between Telsa Museum and
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This article is actually much narrower in scope than the title would seem to suggest. If you don't let the first sentence sink in, it barely even makes sense. > Here at Factual we apply machine learning techniques to help us build high
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I majored in Economics and taught myself Python starting my Sophomore year of college. I am now gainfully employed in a job creating modeles (economic and otherwise, essentially R&D) for the rail industry. My day to day activities consi
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Could you clarify? Do you mean that it's harder to make these things smaller? Because that's not what "Economies of scale" refers to. Even if you are trying to make a point about the long run average cost of console production, I still don'
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Have you read the journals of Jordan Mechner from when he was developing Prince of Persia? They're a fascinating look at the development of early computer games. http://jordanmechner.com/old-journals/
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I probably define ad-hoc macros 10-15 times a day These are for tiny things that save me a minute or two each time I use one. More than the time savings, though, is the sanity savings. I've it's rare now that I do any sort of repetitive edi
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Click and hold the center mouse button (scroll wheel). Notice the four arrows that pop up. While still holding the center button down, move the mouse up/down, and you'll scroll smoothly. I use this whenever I'm away from my mac.

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