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by aamar 12y ago
Good point. I see, by the way, that the parent post was talking about the dial of the watch face, but I mistakenly interpreted that as a reference to the crown/button on the side.
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by aamar 12y ago
"Ergonomic button placement": http://imgur.com/Ed57fhj Makes sense. Since it's just a button, not a dial, the higher placement is more convenient for the index finger.
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by aamar 12y ago
As others have indicated, AI planning is a significant field, critical to self-driving cars, space probes, etc. Markov Decision Processes is a great sub-field. > A good "cuccoo field" for that would be video games, where such p
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by aamar 12y ago
The superintelligence would likely be smart enough to talk its way around the airgap, see e.g. http://www.yudkowsky.net/singularity/aibox/ . Or, if it had sufficient "motivation"—not necessarily intrinsi
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by aamar 12y ago
I'd add the vivid and memorable CGI characters of Gollum and the T-1000. Also, many Pixar and post-merger Disney creations, though maybe a different standard applies there.
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by aamar 12y ago
> In logic, science, or debate, the identity of the person making or disputing a claim is irrelevant. Are you describing logic/science/debate as you believe it to be or as you believe it should be? If the latter, are you sug
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by aamar 12y ago
Check out the post the OP was referring to[1]. The author was reacting to a teaser trailer with footage of the most expressionistic part, without really any context at all. He is clearly very excited by the movie. I think his description is
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by aamar 12y ago
I think the reaction would have been muted by the fact that the project was long gone by the time the details were widely known. And the danger of radiation was also not widely appreciated until the 50s. I used to work a few years ago in&#x
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by aamar 12y ago
It's unlikely that it's significantly Pavlovian because reflex is typically taught with blunt reward or punishment schemes, which isn't much like the kind of training most get. Also, you'd expect reflex to respond more t
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by aamar 12y ago
> So what if we don't care about those issues and we don't feel the tension? A valid question that I can't answer well briefly. It takes some training or practice to recognize many forms of beauty, such as that in painting
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by aamar 12y ago
The example was the first image I found that set several lines of text in mixed-case Comic Sans. Unfortunately all the examples I saw were either deliberately mocking or had tonal disjunctions, including the one I picked (which I agree make
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by aamar 12y ago
Nearly all of the answers give the same answer: that Comic Sans is a fine typeface that is only inappropriate (sometimes) because it sets an inappropriate tone. I don't believe that's the main problem at all. The problem is aesthe
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by aamar 12y ago
UNICEF statistics classify 25% of children as stunted. http://data.unicef.org/resources/2013/webapps/nutrition# Not sure where that 2 to 3 percent is coming from.
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by aamar 12y ago
The mustard that we typically eat as a condiment or greens are Sinapis alba , Brassica juncea , and Brassica nigra , which are in the same family as Brassica oleracea , but they aren't the same species.
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by aamar 12y ago
The Experimenting book is really nicely put together. I bought it a few months ago and have enjoyed it. Thanks!
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by aamar 12y ago
Also, in Mexico, Zocalo means "town square" or "public plaza".
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by aamar 12y ago
Relatively few modernist techniques are intrinsically expensive or exclusive. Many local yogurt shops now sell "fruit bubble" toppings. New gadgets make sous-vide cheap as well, and I'd expect to see that used by food trucks
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by aamar 12y ago
(I've only started the book.) Its claim is: under reasonable assumptions, inequality increases over time under capitalism. Yes, Marx argued this; Piketty has an elegant new analysis supported by a lot of newly collected data. The book
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by aamar 13y ago
Derisking makes economic sense, but incentive stock options are mostly nontransferable. You're describing a market for shares of a privately held company, which the SEC doesn't want (except through some very specific protocols lik
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by aamar 13y ago
That seems right. It's conceivable that microsaccades could be affected by diffraction effects in unusual situations. But it seems like shading (even specular highlights) couldn't be perceptibly affected.
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by aamar 13y ago
This article's definitions of "motion parallax" and "shape from shading" are quite different from my understanding. Can anyone shed any light on this? Specifically: "Motion parallax has to do with the apparent
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by aamar 13y ago
No, I don't think I'm arguing that. It's not a question of any one methodology always being better than others, or correlation studies always being wrong. The question is what we should reasonably believe in light of seve
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by aamar 13y ago
You are right, the 2009 Wilpers paper does bucket out current and former smokers, as well as look at BMI and other factors. The authors should be credited for that. But when those factors are considered, the null hypothesis is only barely r
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by aamar 13y ago
In the ideal world, we'd analyze all of the ACA's costs and benefits and decide whether or not to repeal. But realistically, the most visible "promised" benefits (not necessarily those promised by the authors of the bill
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by aamar 13y ago
I hope my clarifications help explain what I meant in my parent comment. I believe the following are potentially bad consequences of Grayson's/Mikey's claim spreading: - People work on insuring others, at the expense of other
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by aamar 13y ago
> Is HN supposed to be a place where we try to find a flaw on every statement and make sure it doesn't go unnoticed? A recurring and important (to me, anyway) question here is how technical skill may be leveraged to provide real val
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by aamar 13y ago
I agree that correlation studies can be valuable, but I see many correlation studies as (intentionally or not) exploiting a propensity (arguably a bug) in human reasoning that conflates it with causation. In this situation, we have thorough
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by aamar 13y ago
> "1 in 1000 uninsured people die each year. It's not an exaggeration to say that due to the work we're doing here, 5,000-10,000 people will live to see the end of 2014." This probably a significant exaggeration. It i
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by aamar 13y ago
Yes, but not sure of your point. HN is diverse compared to 17th c. London coffeehouses. The idea of a social coffee-house was developed in the Arab world: http://www.amazon.com/Coffee-Coffeehouses-Beverage-Universit...
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by aamar 13y ago
Practically every time you cast a vote, you're voting on multiple races, propositions, etc. The chance of casting a tie-breaking vote in a local election (say for City Council) is probably better than 1 in 10k. If you have several such

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