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by a-priori 15y ago
Optically, they're kind of like cameras. I wouldn't be surprised if early camera designers looked to mammalian eyes for inspiration. But once you get to the retina all bets are off. That's the point of this article.
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by a-priori 15y ago
Another interesting fact: every time your eyes move, you're blind for a couple milliseconds. But you never notice this because your brain fills in these gaps in time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccadic_masking
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by a-priori 15y ago
I don't get why any of this can't be layered on top of an existing DVCS.
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by a-priori 15y ago
I find it interesting that there are two distinct bands in the response time plots. Any ideas what the two represent?
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by a-priori 15y ago
Sure, if you have big enough Balls.
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by a-priori 15y ago
Only? Isn't that enough of a reason?
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by a-priori 15y ago
At 1500 suspension letters per day, 365 days per year (optimistic...), 1000 false positives per year is a 0.1% false positive rate. I think that's a fairly good rate if a false positive only meant that a human had to verify a person's ide
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by a-priori 15y ago
Hypothesis: Brand loyalty is the new Nationalism.
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by a-priori 15y ago
I can't believe I just got called a "mom and pop beige-box surfer"...
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by a-priori 15y ago
Bug report: I can't generate a PDF for my username. I think it's barfing on the hyphen.
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by a-priori 15y ago
I expected the council to demand that he make at least part of the campus open to the public. You know, if they weren't being fangirls over Jobs.
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by a-priori 15y ago
I'm no legal scholar, but I think I see the distinction. By ex post facto , the US Constitution refers to a law that allows prosecution of offenses that occurred before the law was passed. That allows for all sorts of horrible abuses of po
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by a-priori 15y ago
You can't do medicine without seeing that there is a problem, correcting the problem, and then verifying that the problem is solved. No one is debating that. What we're debating is whether chiropractic is medicine .
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by a-priori 15y ago
The first time I saw it, I thought they forgot to type a message.
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by a-priori 15y ago
Will this project "emulate" a human brain down to the subatomic level? Down to even the atomic level? The short answer is that each part of the simulation, from ion channels and synapses to cell bodies to network topologies and cell distr
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by a-priori 15y ago
According to this site, Intel retained the license as part of the sale. http://www.reghardware.com/2006/06/27/intel_sells_xscale/
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by a-priori 15y ago
Redis scripting requires that the code be transmitted in each request. For now, yes, but antirez has said that he's considering adding an EVALSHA command or something that will execute an existing script by the hash of the source code.
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by a-priori 15y ago
What about infant mortality? If a million babies are born in the year 234BC, and die before 233BC rolls around, they won't be counted in the population for either year.
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by a-priori 16y ago
My theory is that it's more about the judge's blood sugar than about the break. Here's a Science Daily post about one documented case of blood sugar affecting decision-making: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100125173444.ht...
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by a-priori 16y ago
Cute idea... but really this isn't measuring MIT's mood, but it's sociability. When people are alone, they tend to have a neutral expression regardless of their mood. This is also true in public but non-social situations like sitting on a b
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by a-priori 16y ago
Yes, presumably there is a difference, but it's not that much. The axons that conduct motor signals to the skeletal muscles have a conductance speed of 80-120m/s [1]. In 70ms (100ms - 30ms), at 80m/s, such a signal would travel 5.6m. [1] h
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by a-priori 16y ago
We're mostly looking for experienced developers, but we do hire students and junior developers here and there. You should definitely apply though. It can't hurt to try, can it?
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by a-priori 16y ago
Ottawa (Gatineau), Canada - software developers, software architects, QA, project & development managers, sales. Burlington, Canada - QA. San Jose, California - software architects. Yerevan, Armenia - software developers. Cluj, Romania
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by a-priori 16y ago
You're right, my mistake. I had it in my head that Zoroastrianism was first, then looked up its origins to get a date, but didn't double-check it. It looks like Judaism pre-dates Zoroastrianism by a couple centuries, and Atenism (emerging i
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by a-priori 16y ago
You're right that religion seems to be a human universal. I believe that every human population ever studied practices it in some form or another. But, what may be declining is not religion per se, but rather monotheism. Zoroastrianism, one
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by a-priori 16y ago
Placebo effect. Sleep doesn't work in neat 90 minute cycles. They're really longer in the early part of the night, and get faster and more biased towards REM in the later part of the night. The details are very individual and also vary nigh
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by a-priori 16y ago
Yes, iOS uses a filesystem under the hood. The applications just never expose it to the user. As an application developer you should be aware of it, but as a user? it doesn't matter one bit.
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by a-priori 16y ago
Or, if your parents or grandparents are Irish diaspora, like mine, you can claim Irish citizenship fairly easily. They already consider you a citizen, technically, so there's no immigration proceedings; you just need to "register a foreign
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by a-priori 16y ago
I get this too using Chrome on OS X 10.5. In Incognito mode it shows Google Accounts login pages in each pane.
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by a-priori 16y ago
My theory is that this isn't a pun, but rather a term that's no longer in use. I seem to remember that some early elevator systems had two connected shafts and two cars, instead of one car and a counterweight like modern elevators. In this

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