alextp

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by alextp 17y ago
Not really, you can't nest <a> tags in html (you can in SVG, though)
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by alextp 17y ago
But it makes it harder to have an image link to something else
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by alextp 17y ago
Until Linus goes commando and rewrites the scheduler, like he did with git, yeah.
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by alextp 17y ago
Linus is openly opposed to the idea of scheduler modules, his argument being that schedules are core parts of a kernel, and modularizing schedulers woud encourage many different schedulers each good at a simple thing instead of a single sch
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by alextp 17y ago
Well, the lower bound is actually zero, if you know where to go (and some art houses do charge). Also, the price depends on the theater+day+time, not on which specific movie it is showing, so, while price certainly correlates with movie bud
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by alextp 17y ago
True, but hotmail could try to "go google" and offer more help against phising.
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by alextp 17y ago
And there is a lab for saved searches
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by alextp 17y ago
This is hilariously interesting. Data mining can always bring good insights if you have good data. I wonder, though, (a) if most people search for similar people or for different people, (b) how well does the matching percentage really refl
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by alextp 17y ago
First, mathematics is the language used to describe physics; it does not at all constrain what physical patterns are possible to express. With a bit of mental work mathematics can represent anything. It is not at all clear that the phenotyp
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by alextp 17y ago
I agree with you in principle but not in practice. Yes, feel-good bulshit is bad, yes, people should study more, etc. I just don't think you would really like to breed a country full of tied-down people trained to death to repeat and worshi
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by alextp 17y ago
Well, one could measure Newsweek (5.95) versus New Yorker (4.99), and I think that if you ignore tabloids and very glossy magazines most news have the same price.
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by alextp 17y ago
But since it is a pretty stable and simple structure it is written in a lower level language for either stability or performance or opacity.
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by alextp 17y ago
It bothers me that these data sets are very low dimensional, without noise and pretty-picture-like. This pretty much excludes any interesting data to try to learn (after all one could easily manually code a classifier for most os these "con
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by alextp 17y ago
It does not really go like that. The higher the dimension (actually VC dimension, but polynomial dimension is a similar concept) the more points you would theoretically need to guarantee that the classifier is not overfitting (ie, represent
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by alextp 17y ago
Technically we would all be accomplices to murder (after all it is quite hard to find a not-Orient-Express scenario in which more than a couple of people kill another one), which does not usually get the death penalty, so paradox is avoided
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by alextp 17y ago
> Actually food is used to define social hierarchy in many groups and societies - mainly the order in which it is eaten. The head of the family eats first and gets the largest piece of the chicken. So you're saying that the hierarchy wo
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by alextp 17y ago
Well, a couple of years ago I was forced to use IE6 on a 500mhz machine running windows2000 in a project in the local government. It was not pretty, although I managed to install XEmacs and survive.
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by alextp 17y ago
> Anyhow, I seriously object to calling "buffer overflow mitigation" a "domain specific feature" since there's hardly a domain that hasn't been hammered by it being missing. Numeric computing, for one.
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by alextp 17y ago
Technically it can be a major I chord even without the tonic (listen to some schoenberg, he likes to do this), it is just difficult to get right.
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by alextp 17y ago
Github folks: the repos numbered 59337 95472 80221 73599 24616 have no descriptions in the repos.txt files but have had their languages computed. Is it because they are private? Anyway, you maybe should remove that.
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by alextp 17y ago
I wonder if one can brute-force the results.txt file. To the github folks: do like netflix and publish the comparison with one data set (validation set) and, after the contest is over, publish the comparisons with a test set that is only us
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by alextp 17y ago
It says "amazing physics going on..." and then claims to have successfully flipped one bit.
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by alextp 17y ago
I think (but this is just a guess) that a production multi-platform c compiler is as hard as a kernel to get right (or at least in the same order of magnited) and fast enough to be useful, so I think it's more of a "there is no need for NIH
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by alextp 17y ago
Actually, clang has nothing to do with gcc. LLVM's gcc frontend is called llvm-gcc ( http://llvm.org/cmds/llvmgcc.html ) which was dropped for being too high maintenance or something of the sort. Clang is still in the beggining, IIRC.
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by alextp 17y ago
Well, I grew into "Mark as spam" before I got any spam,back when I my email was from a small local ISP and I didn't send many public emails. I taught mozilla's spam filter to recognize the forwarded emails my father sent me (and keep the em
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by alextp 17y ago
Yes, I think a big company like amazon should be notified that its emails are being received as spam. I don't recall asking to hear about "new" books that do not interest me (for example), and rather like the fact that gmail's filter has le
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by alextp 17y ago
I usually use "mark as spam" as a "never show me anything like this again, please" button, so I do not really care if the message is really a spam. What bugs me is that some legit mailing lists are prone to receiving spam once in a while.
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by alextp 17y ago
Yes, true, although I don't feel any free linux backup tool is really up to the usual standards. Also, automatic backup is a bit annoying for many home users, who do not have the required place to store their data.
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by alextp 17y ago
That's an interesting way of looking at file systems. I think among the pipe dreams of reiser4 there was a plan to make the fs itself more relational-like (but I also think this was relegated to a plugin and then promptly forgotten).
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by alextp 17y ago
I have to disagree. I do a lot of pseudo-philosophical and non-philosophical arguing (my s.o. is a philosophy student), and I've realized that, as years have gone by and I've gotten better at this type of discussion, the best first step is

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