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by a3_nm 13y ago
Extremely interesting. I'm puzzled by this paper, though, and by the number it reports: > 1600 wpm for spritzing (that's > 25 words per second), but even this 790 wpm median rate for standard reading (called PAGE, page 5,
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by a3_nm 13y ago
There is a "The Science" section, referring to the Blog referring back to the same section, but I see nothing scientific about it. Science does not work by giving loads of examples of why the approach "should" work bette
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by a3_nm 13y ago
To summarize the concerns I have with this study: 1. To prove that open access is worse than close access, you need to do experiments comparing both, not just do experiments on open access and say the results are bad. Try imagining a study
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by a3_nm 13y ago
The main count on which Bluetouff was found guilty is that of "maintien frauduleux dans un système de traitement automatisé de données (STAD)", namely, remaining "in" a computing system (STAD) without being allowed. The
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by a3_nm 13y ago
There's http://www.ethereum.org/ethereum.html but I'm sure there are others.
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by a3_nm 13y ago
This would be cooler with one of those other cryptocurrencies that feature a Turing-complete scripting language: the code of the scheme could be public and run in the blockchain so that everyone would know the system is fair.
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by a3_nm 13y ago
Time and money are not seamlessly convertible at all, so, if this was the intended meaning of the comment, I think "cheaper" is misleading in comparison with e.g. "faster", "easier", "more efficient",
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by a3_nm 13y ago
> running Windows on VirtualBox was cheaper in the end "cheaper"? Wine is free software, whereas to run Windows you need a Windows license.
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by a3_nm 13y ago
It could also be referring to the classic https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/thenight...
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by a3_nm 13y ago
Yes, this seems like a very clean way to phrase what I intended to say.
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by a3_nm 13y ago
(Yes, of course, I'm not claiming that this is a flaw of IRC, or anybody's fault but mine.)
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by a3_nm 13y ago
Agreed. We have them in Paris at a minority of stations. Hopefully this will eventually be ubiquitous and not having them, like elevators with no internal doors, will seem extremely outdated. (Yes, this must be costly, but it's not jus
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by a3_nm 13y ago
I had a similar moment of realization about gender equality once. I used to believe that IRC was a very nice medium because the gender of the participants was not revealed (unless they wanted to), so (I thought) it was entirely free from ge
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by a3_nm 13y ago
Second this recommendation. fasd works extremely well, and better than z and autojump for my usage. I use it all the time.
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by a3_nm 13y ago
This is the initial setup, but as there is some cost involved when converting bitcoins to USD and back that is degressive with volume, if many people are buying through bitcoins, it would start making sense for Overstock to hold the bitcoin
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by a3_nm 13y ago
"One billion" sounds impressive but it should be compared to over two thousand billion searches made on Google Search over the same period: http://www.statisticbrain.com/google-searches/
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IBM to invest $1 billion to create new business unit for Watson(reuters.com)
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by a3_nm 13y ago
Interestingly, finding a minimal-size regexp satisfying a set of positive and negative examples (words that should match, and should not match) is NP-hard. Here is a nice discussion: http://cstheory.blogoverflow.com/2011&#x2
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by a3_nm 13y ago
I remember writing a naive recursive bruteforce Sudoku solver in TI-BASIC on a TI-82-stats in high school. The "recursive" part was non-trivial, because, though a sub could call itself, there were no local variables, only global v
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by a3_nm 13y ago
I quite dislike any format that does not provide me immediately with a 2 or 3 sentence general description of what the thing is about, of the sort like you would find at the beginning of a Wikipedia article or in the parent comment (but wit
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by a3_nm 13y ago
By the way, matches are currently ongoing to determine if Stockfish should be ranked #1 or not. http://tcec.chessdom.com/live.php
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by a3_nm 13y ago
You can use sed's external command mechanism to do that. This replaces lines of the form "include foo.txt" with the contents of foo.txt. sed 's/^include $.*$/cat "\1"/e'
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by a3_nm 13y ago
There are other approaches for laundering which do not rely on insurance contracts, such as http://zerocoin.org/
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by a3_nm 13y ago
Did anyone else read this at first as a very well executed parody website explaining all the benefits of using traditional paper and pencil? I sniggered when I read "Our adaptive palm rejection instantly knows whether it’s your hand or
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by a3_nm 13y ago
Yes, I wasn't expecting this wrong syntax to work, just pointing out that the stack trace looks messy (e.g., leaks the absolute path to the involved Python file).
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by a3_nm 13y ago
"(defun f x (x))" gives a Python stack trace.
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by a3_nm 13y ago
At least the TOS are honest and transparent. Even if Google did not warn specifically that they can kick people out or start asking for money, they would of course be free to do so. So, is it worse if Google reminds you that you have no gua
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by a3_nm 13y ago
OpenPGP end-to-end encryption has to be done client-side, and the keys have to be stored client-side. This is hard to do given the current trend of using webmails. Besides, using OpenPGP means that you have to store a copy of your key on al
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by a3_nm 13y ago
Related: http://www.inutile.ens.fr/estatis/password-security-checker/
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by a3_nm 13y ago
That's a known effect, the keyword is "rubber duck debugging" < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging> .

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