a-priori

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811.
by a-priori 16y ago
No, the same thing happens in a mirror.
812.
by a-priori 16y ago
Having "scaling issues" would be a nice problem to have. That would be a hell of a lot better than the perpetual organ shortages we have now.
813.
by a-priori 17y ago
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2779/Schjoedt%20et%20al%2C%202010.pd...
814.
by a-priori 17y ago
That has to be the least informative 'infographic' I've ever seen.
815.
by a-priori 17y ago
I believe that's a feature of Fish. http://fishshell.org/index.php
816.
by a-priori 17y ago
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_energy : "dark energy is a hypothetical form of energy that permeates all of space and tends to increase the rate of expansion of the universe"
817.
by a-priori 17y ago
Remedy: disregard all "no" votes. We have a winner!
818.
by a-priori 17y ago
That rule, to reproduce until you reach a limiting factor (food, money, whatever) applied until the introduction of birth control. Today, we see that in places with good access to birth control people end up being quite conservative about r
819.
by a-priori 17y ago
And yet, one place I worked on a Co-op term in Ontario gave me the title "Software Engineer".
820.
by a-priori 17y ago
This article is fluff, yes, but the subject matter is not. 1) Understanding brain function is, of course, not strictly a hardware problem, but right now hardware is the bottleneck to progress. 2) Of course the brain is complex, but it is no
821.
by a-priori 17y ago
The illusion is created because the figure is rendered side-on with no perspective. Because there's no indication as to which direction is correct, your brain just picks a direction and that's how you perceive her moving. Once your brain be
822.
by a-priori 17y ago
Or perhaps Apple marks up the online store similarly to the markup that retail stores do?
823.
by a-priori 17y ago
I'd be interested in seeing more of the analysis that went into designing this.
824.
by a-priori 17y ago
No, you need a server that speaks HTTP, at least minimally. This is by design so an XSS attack can't connect to arbitrary servers. However, you could very easily create a simple adapter that accepts Websocket connections and relays the data
825.
Open Data Ottawa Hackfest (Saturday April 24th)(opendataottawa.ca)
2 points by a-priori 17y ago|0 comments
826.
by a-priori 17y ago
Especially, if you post pictures of the deed to your blog and it shows up on Hacker News! :)
827.
by a-priori 17y ago
http://www.plosone.org/article/metrics/info:doi/10.1371/jour...
828.
by a-priori 17y ago
I see your quote, and raise you one more: "We should be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brain falls out." Richard Dawkins
829.
by a-priori 17y ago
You're right, and it's a pity when good research is spun to make it sound further along than it really is. It's even worse when the scientists do it themselves. Thankfully, that doesn't seem to be the case here; their definitions are specif
830.
by a-priori 17y ago
The modular theory of brain function has given way to a more nuanced understanding. Some functions are very localized, while others are quite variable between individuals. Functional localization depends on many factors, such as the wiring
831.
by a-priori 17y ago
I have a copy of the paper if anyone is interested. My email is in my profile if you want to read it. The short story is that there's no good answer to the question of likeliness to make a moral decision based on theory of mind, because the
832.
by a-priori 17y ago
But the key is that the brain is impaired in very specific ways. If you asked the person to do any task that was not a moral judgement and did not use theory of mind, they would be unaffected. This is how the brain works: manipulating certa
833.
by a-priori 17y ago
This isn't about changing how likely someone is behave morally, this is about changing the criteria they use for making moral decisions. Specifically, they're knocking out the ability to use theory of mind to guess a person's intentions.
834.
by a-priori 17y ago
Whoa there, this isn't the kind of magnet you find on your fridge door. TMS uses pulses (not static fields) from a 2 tesla magnet. For comparison, the Earth's magnetic field is 31 µT and a fridge magnet is 5 mT. But, the fact that it's a pu
835.
by a-priori 17y ago
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836.
by a-priori 17y ago
I used to see a chiropractor for back pain, and honestly it did help a bit. The real question is not whether it helped, but rather whether it helped more than the equivalent time to heal and possibly a massage would have. And that's ignor
837.
by a-priori 17y ago
No, but AFAIK tweets are owned by whoever writes them, not Twitter. You only give Twitter the right to store them, republish them, and so on.
838.
by a-priori 17y ago
I'm no lawyer (especially of international law!), but as far as I know that does not extend to non-American publishers... As a Canadian, what right do they have to archive my tweets?
839.
by a-priori 17y ago
Possibly, since I'm posting this from Opera Mini. That said, everyone who says its buggy and slow are bang on.
840.
by a-priori 17y ago
How it's presented is a huge part of why people reacted so negatively. They present the articles as prose, so people expect it to flow like prose. This makes them very sensitive to disorganization. I think they're deserving of the criticism

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