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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
The stuff that I've mixed up (not real Soylent, but from the HackerSchool recipe) has a significant amount of flour, which makes it very thick. The way I mix it it's more like a milkshake, and it feels very hearty. Whether or not
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
Am I missing something? It seems obvious that the same mass of ice will cause the some amount of dilution and have the same heat capacity. All the stuff about surface area versus volume is just worrying about how long it takes the ice to di
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
Wow. That doesn't make any sense. I couldn't have been corrupted by a power I don't have. If anything, this is a case of everyone being evil, and only some people acquiring the power to act on it.
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
Why isn't there: - a very strict requirements collection phase: You're only green-lighting one app a month, surely you could spend some time frontloading the decision making so the people proposing the idea can be very specific. -
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
I think you misread "meritocracy" as a good thing. Meritocracy is pretty much Ayn Rand's ideal society: the truly talented, superior people rise to the top and dominate the lesser. This is an uber-capitalist notion: the uberm
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
If the "pushing" issue is that negative results can be put below the fold, or further down the screen, size is totally relevant. As somebody pointed out, this folds in the top organic search result. It's more like a natural e
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
This is the least funny, most obvious, most completely thoughtless and content-free post imaginable. I wish I had the ability to hellban you.
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
> who then hurt themselves rushing to get out of the area > at least some wrist slapping The potential sentence is 6 years. Nobody was actually hurt.
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
That's exceptionally large, and intentionally designed to look cool on Youtube. The biggest risk is that you could be struck by one of the bottles as it flies - a PET bottle weighs about 60 grams, so you're looking at, 'Owww,
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
If I were his attorney (this dry ice guy), I would push for everyone to stop using the word "bomb". The guy basically made a loud noise in an airport. If my ringtone were the sound of a gun firing, or a bomb going off, would I be
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
For the most part, you need to ask people out. You can't depend on them doing it for you, nor can you just wait for something spontaneous to happen. However, I reject the idea that you have to shower women with money to get them to go
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
You get three months of rent. The trick is to have nothing of value in the locker, I suppose.
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
In my experience, people will throw money at "data scientists", if they can find them. It really is hard to find someone who is experienced in Physics (or Math, but they always seem to be physicists), has computational experience,
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
Does you provider offer an email to MMS connection? I know with my cell carrier you can email to (my phone number)@telusblah.com and it'll forward it as an MMS.
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
I think OP meant the opposite. This is cool, but the incumbents in Canada have already done it, and it's more trustworthy (it happens on your bank's website) and 'good enough'. Even if the tech-savvy switch to Square, th
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
Just a note, the symbol for CAnadian Dollars is CAD, not CAN.
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
The thing is, this isn't really interesting as a card to slap in your desktop PC. I think the market is people who do embedded projects and want something more open than an Adreno or Tegra chip. Those guys will either put this on an
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
I might be wrong, but it looks like this card (at the 300,000 level) has already been designed and used in production. On the one hand, that's a lot more confidence in the fact that they can deliver. On the other hand, what's the
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
Comparing this to Google Reader is ridiculous. Google Reader was free, and it had a small potential market. Even if Google Reader had 100% of the market (which I'm sure people will say it did), the number of potential users was not hug
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
> Should be doable and hence done. OK, that's it everybody. Trying to do something? Is it done yet? Nope? Pack it in. All the things have been done.
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
There shouldn't be any CSS-related drawing. Full-stop. Your analogy is accidentally very accurate, because it's like looking at a car, then a pile of bicycles, and saying "how can I get from A to B". The sane person woul
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
This is entirely sensationalist. There is no safe way to just blast audio data to any old DVI monitor. Something bad might happen, and AMD didn't want to take that risk. So they (wisely) including configuration to disable a non-standar
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
I don't get why there has to be a 'positive' or 'negative' angle on the story. You're trying to compare two different cultures in terms of which is 'better', which is a completely pointless goal. Nobo
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
Correction: to run the algorithm you're required to have at least as many stones as the end result. That's like saying because MAX_INT is set, math on computers is pointless. Any physical process will have a finite upper bound o
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
It seems like in SVM the best way to find out 'how to pass' is to find the shortest path from your point in the feature space to the separating hyperplane. The length of that vector in each axis explains how much you need to chang
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
This seems to miss the whole point of ML: you want to consider all the features holistically. As your GP said, you could tweak one parameter until it passes. But which parameter? If you have 300 features about an application, but they have
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
A slap in the face? I know bug bounty programs are a very good idea, no arguments. If a company doesn't have a formally posted bug bounty, though, I wouldn't be looking for vulnerabilities for money. Approaching a company with no
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
> I see no suggestion of equivalency Well, there were zero mentions of Nazis before we started. Then you brought Nazis into the picture. I can imagine, based on how you've brought up a completely unrelated topic, you must be drawing
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
I was really curious, so I looked up Oil Pulling [1]. 15-20 minutes of swishing oil around in my mouth? I don't see how that's ideal for anyone, it sounds disgusting and terribly time consuming. The literature linked from Wikipedi
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
Someone above pointed out that parallax effects contribute a significant amount to perception of depth. I can imagine that someone with monocular vision would be able to use parallax effects, and consequently the wiggle stereograms. Wigglin

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