angel_j

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by angel_j 8y ago
Needs auto-rotate so images are always upright.
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by angel_j 8y ago
I'm not an astrophysicist, but how do we know we're not measuring overlapping folds of relative spacetime, and erroneously counting the same observable matter more than once?
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by angel_j 8y ago
How do you square the following notions? a) dark matter does not interact with measurable matter b) proof of dark matter's existence derived by the measurable, relative, interaction of mass and energy
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by angel_j 8y ago
I witnessed a solar eclipse recently. That night (post eclipse), all the cicada were chirping in perfect unison.
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by angel_j 8y ago
I read this to mean that Silicon Valley SWE's are suppressing the ceiling on all SWE salaries; this corresponds to my feel that SWE could be making quite a bit more.
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by angel_j 8y ago
One thing I wonder about ratings is, are you measuring a user's individual interests, or whether they think the content is good / bad / shareable? And what do the users think they are ranking? Personally, I'd rather be r
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by angel_j 8y ago
This is arguably more doable than cables. I've been told that it's completely possible to build steel structures several miles tall (and the main reason we don't is b/c elevators become a problem).
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by angel_j 8y ago
Simple answer: license OSS non-free for commercial use.
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by angel_j 8y ago
Drink your fish beer!
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by angel_j 8y ago
In 40 years since Apple II, technology has doubled roughly 26 Moore's, or moresies. The same shift now-a-days should take only a year and half (40 / 26), which is about how long it would take if you bought 64 Looking Glasses and b
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by angel_j 8y ago
McMansions are nothing but large track houses. The small house examples here are the track house. There are way bigger problems than articulated, like ecology, economics, egonomics, and more, but calling these houses architectural is pret
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by angel_j 8y ago
DARPA as the cause of the fallout universe.
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by angel_j 8y ago
File under wisdom lost. I don't know if this asinine study and obvious result should give me hope or dismay. Did people really need a study to tell them that interacting with children is better for them? Countdown 7 years until the p
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by angel_j 8y ago
Practically all woke criticism of capitalism says that it would be impossible without wealth and income disparity and untold "externalized" ecological costs (including human ecologies, such as those that result i.e. people who can
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by angel_j 8y ago
It's worse than THAT. If you're not creating poverty and strife, you're doing venture capitalism wrong.
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by angel_j 8y ago
I am a person in poverty.
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by angel_j 8y ago
Too bad there isn't money to be made "disrupting" poverty.
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by angel_j 8y ago
Is anybody attempting to build Quantum Computers that use light as the medium?
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by angel_j 8y ago
You are not protecting anybody, Holden Caulfield, and nobody asked for your protection in the first place.
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by angel_j 8y ago
I wonder if their error function is to sense the user's frustration when the model performs badly. I have a feeling that actual human neural activity does not generalize well, but that ML models needs to be good at adapting to individu
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by angel_j 8y ago
AI will have the biggest impact on who makes money and controls wealth. Before any nation-state tries to take over the world with some kind of ultra-dominant weapon, most large states will have to deal with their own populations, as the ri
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by angel_j 8y ago
Because it wouldn't be "news" otherwise?
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by angel_j 8y ago
Imagine the title didn't have "startup" in it. Reads like a cheap advertisement for a scam.
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by angel_j 8y ago
I wonder how equity holding employees made out. It appears MS paid 7.5B USD.
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by angel_j 8y ago
double irony rainbow!
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by angel_j 8y ago
You will need > 2x that amount of money to begin with to profit, in order to have enough coin to double spend, and cover for the cost of the privilege.
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by angel_j 8y ago
When it comes to public utilities, commonwealth, and natural resources, the more you use, the more you should pay per unit.
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by angel_j 8y ago
the hadoop solution may have taken more computer time, but that is far less valuable than a person's the command-line solution probably took that person a couple or more hours to perfect
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by angel_j 8y ago
Why don't they use removable batteries?
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by angel_j 8y ago
If you throw out the last cell of every row, the pattern is symmetrical.

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