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by a-priori 17y ago
Gravity is proved. Evolution is rock solid. We still don't know if coffee is good or bad for us. Gravity is not proven. Falling is easily observed, and general relativity is a pretty good theory for it, but the jury is still out on how ex
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by a-priori 17y ago
Patient-care medicine is not a science. That is, doctors do not use the scientific method when dealing with patients. It's certainly informed by science regarding best practices and techniques, but diagnoses and treatments ultimately comes
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by a-priori 17y ago
From the end of the article: "... such as compelling researchers to share both data sets and the code for statistical models." This would be a welcome change. It seems very strange to me that it is not the accepted practice to make availabl
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by a-priori 17y ago
My life is over.
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by a-priori 17y ago
I've studied a couple martial arts in various amounts: Judo, Kendo, Tae Kwon Do, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. All are interesting in their own ways, but I recommend Judo and BJJ... or Kendo if you need to vent by beating people with sticks :) I
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by a-priori 17y ago
My guess is that someone forgot to change the flight number on the transponder, so what you're looking at is the path of one plane over a couple flights.
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by a-priori 17y ago
I second this suggestion, and also recommend reading about Gestalt psychology, since that's really the basis of design principles. Anecdote: I bought Universal principles of design in university to help me learn to do web design that didn
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by a-priori 17y ago
Being able to do processing and I/O in parallel is another source of speedup from concurrency on a single processor.
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by a-priori 17y ago
Then why attack its employees and not the corporation itself?
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by a-priori 17y ago
...and how do you ensure that the unit tests are correct? Another layer of automated tests? Accept you will make mistakes, but code in a way that makes finding and fixing them easy. The first way is to make the test logic self-evident so
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by a-priori 17y ago
I think the best solution would be to say that 'alternative medicine' is still medicine and must follow existing regulations. So, treatments must be prescribed by a doctor, they must be approved for use in humans (and so must demonstrate ut
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by a-priori 17y ago
Yes, BOINC projects are cases where it is not ridiculous to move the data, because it is computation power that is the scare resource and the work units are typically only in the hundreds of kilobytes to single-digit megabytes.
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by a-priori 17y ago
At what point does it become ridiculous to move the data, which may be measured in TB or PB, when the algorithm itself would be measured in KB or MB?
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by a-priori 17y ago
I think you've been watching too much Numb3rs!
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by a-priori 17y ago
And don't forget about a poll that appeared here a while back. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=946249 As I said there, "Apparently, 76% of Hacker News is an NT type of one type or another."
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by a-priori 17y ago
" One of her friends is Hockey Night in Canada commentator Don Cherry, who joked during her 87th birthday that while 98 per cent of the city voted for her, he was looking for the remaining 2 per cent that didn't. " http://en.wikipedia.org/
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by a-priori 17y ago
It's a great quote. I think it even applies to political systems. I just remembered where I originally found that quote: I read it in Manage It! , published by The Pragmatic Programmers, citing The Secrets of Consulting by Gerald Weinber
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by a-priori 17y ago
"One choice is no choice, two choices is a dilemma, three choices is a good start." -- Dr. Richard Bandler (?) (I immediately remembered this quote and tried to track down its source; I'm not sure if he's the original source, and he's not w
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by a-priori 17y ago
I don't have a need for one of these things, but I think it might be great for my mother or grandmother.
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by a-priori 17y ago
Yes, the universal symbol is to make an X in an open area with branches or something. A smoky fire is also a good idea.
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by a-priori 17y ago
Ever had a bank account in Switzerland? Swiss Post uses two-factor authentication with challenge-response for online logins. First you enter a password, and you get a challenge code back. You insert your card into a device they send you, th
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by a-priori 17y ago
And you'd freeze in one of these in Canada. Unless you have a space heater, but in that case their claims of environmental benefits go out the window.
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by a-priori 17y ago
If you have no idea how to get back to civilization, your best strategy is to wait for search and rescue. Wandering aimlessly is the worst thing you can do.
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by a-priori 17y ago
One tip I learned for berries was that if the birds don't eat them, you shouldn't either because they're almost certainly poisonous. The reverse is not true: birds can eat things you can't.
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by a-priori 17y ago
Even if you're really just using techniques originally developed by AI researchers. It's kind of silly. ... in retrospect.
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by a-priori 17y ago
This is interesting, but I see it as an example of social competition rather than conditioning. If I may hazard a guess: the sales team are all within earshot of each other, right? People (and especially salespeople!) are competitive. When
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Inducing illusory ownership of a virtual body(frontiersin.org)
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by a-priori 17y ago
Morals that are not backed by reason are on shaky grounds I'd argue that all moral decisions are made on emotional, not rational, grounds. The ones that appear to be reasoned are in fact just rationalizations of emotional decisions. Moral
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by a-priori 17y ago
I'll be damned, there he is! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqFyY5f8Zmw
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by a-priori 17y ago
I rent, so I'm mainly concerned that if someone were to ransack the place, and it came out that I hadn't locked the door, then I'd get the blame for the damage and the landlord would try to get me to pay for repairs. As for bikes, I have a

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