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by apl 13y ago
Maybe they're applying some clever algorithm like this one here: http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/vidmag/
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by apl 13y ago
While interesting (especially from a funding perspective!), most of these approaches aren't quite as ground-breaking as one might think. Neuroscientists in academia are doing most of these things. For optogenetics, see Deisseroth's work;
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by apl 14y ago
You may be referring to Scalala (now Breeze): https://github.com/scalanlp/breeze
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by apl 14y ago
I'm assuming that, in this case, he was using it for comedic effect.
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by apl 14y ago
> functions have to be either one line or in a separate file Hasn't been true for a while now. You can have sub-routines and scope-local functions within functions now; embedding a procedure within a script is, of course, still
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by apl 14y ago
> Precisely. Can we even see a complete simulation of > E. Coli? Kind of: http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674(12)00776-3
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by apl 14y ago
> Sadly, policy is made around these incidents. You're offering equally fallacious reasoning: that Erdos managed to handle his amphetamine consumption tells us nothing at all. Policy should be made around solid data, not careful
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by apl 14y ago
> And, furthermore, it's very common for journalists to > receive anonymous posts. Publishing implies validation, at least to a certain extent. Otherwise media become nothing more than a fully transparent channel; there's
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by apl 14y ago
Got mentored by a fortune cookie? Empty platitudes are detrimental to clear thinking; yours is a prime example.
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by apl 14y ago
Remarkable, isn't it? That doesn't even qualify as convoluted legalese; that's simply atrocious style.
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by apl 14y ago
> They were incorrect on a side detail (...) Doesn't cover it at all. OP gives a mechanistic account of how the construct of "porn addiction" works and how it affects people; there isn't much to his post other than that. His mec
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by apl 14y ago
> (...) and now it's worth about half of the New York Times. It's one of those cases where I can't help but think, you know, maybe our metrics are way off.
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by apl 14y ago
Syntactic transformation isn't really what it's about, is it? Parsing S-expressions into some internal representation is easily the most boring component of a working Lisp.
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by apl 14y ago
> She guess doing a minus number would move a sprite in > the opposite direction! I'm curious how that is possible. Did she just move a slider towards the negative range? Randomly guess it? Does she have a notion of cont
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by apl 14y ago
Everybody can see why you wouldn't want to do that, but there's no point in lying or, if you prefer, selectively informing. Complex numbers and quaternions will be equally mysterious to the true novice; there's nothing intrinsically scary
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by apl 14y ago
> well-formedness is ultimately determined on a gradient > scale So you're willing to admit there's a scale. That's great. Use stylistic rules as a guide for where you are on that scale; they're a brilliant heuristic. Afte
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by apl 14y ago
Not necessarily. VR is, of course, free of visual misalignment, but there are other sensors whose readout may conflict with the rendered scene. Proprioception, balance, Helmholtz's efferent copies: unfortunately we're pretty good at integra
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by apl 14y ago
> I have ported 1K+ lines of C++ to 10 or 20 > lines of Scala I'm not doubting your claim, but as a general rule that sounds awfully steep. Maybe you got lucky (because whatever you wanted to do was a brilliant match for s
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by apl 14y ago
At the moment, VPS prices are still prohibitive for many types of development. I, for instance, simply couldn't work on a machine with less than 4GB of RAM; preferably, there's 16GB or even 32GB in there. A 4GB Linode instance sets me back
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by apl 14y ago
> We do not sell automatic weapons without a whoooole lot > of paperwork and money Availability of money has zero bearing on mental health and fitness to carry a weapon, so that criterion goes right out the window. What ki
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by apl 14y ago
You're comparing wildly different situations. I'm honestly not worried at all about the US equivalent of machete-wielding robbers. Plus, even if I was, I'd prefer a thousand criminals with machetes to a thousand criminals with rifles (all o
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by apl 14y ago
> Is this sort of thing (algorithmic detection of > middlebrow dismissals) possible? I'll give you a middlebrow dismissal: No. Definitely not at the current state of the art. In fact, not many people agree on whether a g
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by apl 14y ago
> Does anyone have pointers on how make your slides look > beautiful without being a trained designer? By keeping it simple. Pick one good font. As little text as possible. No templates[1]. Solid image material (sufficie
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by apl 14y ago
Site generators of this type form a happy medium between the inefficiency of writing HTML from scratch (after all, most boils down to templates filled with content) and the inefficiency of regenerating static content upon every request (as
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by apl 14y ago
I assume that he was going for something different, though; namely, that it's nuts that verifying proofs is simpler for humans than it is for machines.
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by apl 14y ago
While this comes up every single time somebody talks about functional programming making inroads, I still consider it a fairly unhelpful indicator. First, nobody's arguing that big companies are suddenly doing the bulk of their developmen
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by apl 14y ago
You're confusing a couple of things here. DR is substantially increased with digital recording; so is SNR. Behaviour at the upper end of the DR differs between digital and analog media. Whereas tape, for instance, saturates (which may ind
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by apl 14y ago
> What's possible next fall, is possible this fall. If that were the case, I'd be writing this on a hover board. Alas, I'm not. Market conditions change.
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by apl 14y ago
> There is no evidence of a further blockbuster launch There wasn't any evidence preceding previous blockbuster launches either. That's precisely what made them "revolutionary": nobody was anticipating their respective successes
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by apl 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoring_rule

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