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by araes 9y ago
In a math sense, the signal to noise ratio on FB became much higher over the last decade. At inception, it was a focused way to directly communicate with a close college circle. Now its effectively as open as Myspace, bombards you with ad
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by araes 9y ago
Notable that yesterday one of the top stories was that Amazon's major book competitor, Barnes and Noble, just fired most of those exact "expert" staff. That they claim they cannot afford to loss lead books like Amazon does,
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Show HN: Planetary CFD on a Phone
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by araes 9y ago
Talk about a rough way to learn you have a new 'intern buddy.' Why do you resist? We only wish to raise the quality of life for all... Course, same solution for them too. Back off Borg. If your society's so great, sell it
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by araes 10y ago
An analogous way of saying this argument is, this world is a dream. It is a reflective dream that builds content based on the observations of the observers within that content. If I look over here, it tells me about here, if I look there,
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by araes 11y ago
In the beginning, unthinking man existed, on Earth below the heavens. To man's eye, the Earth was without form and void, darkness covered the well of mans potential for he held no words to name it, but was lifted when man came to the
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by araes 11y ago
Hmm, sounds familiar. Any also true? Adult acne? Itchy ears? Intermittent neck cramps? Progressive hair loss? Sleep better with a fan blowing over you? Acid reflux? If so, possibly try getting into a tub, drawing a moderate layer of wat
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by araes 11y ago
As I understand this problem, the challenge is determining the unclear phrasing of the task. It could be non-commutative, which is how the professor set it up. (Even = blue on back side. Flip 8) It could be commutative (I have to prove abo
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by araes 11y ago
I still use three.js for most of my visualization projects. That is some good tech. Ashes of Papervision risen better.
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by araes 11y ago
Make a great major news story. I can think of almost nothing more terrifying than being naked on a table with some random haxxor operating a rogue telesugery robot over me. Makes even normal surgery sound good.
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by araes 11y ago
Exactly. "When Borland changed their name, many thought they had gone out of business."
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by araes 11y ago
I don't want to be negative, but this really feels like a dangerous strategy. No, that's nice, this feels like a mistake and this person with a C-title is leading them into a trap. - This company is semi-old (they've survive
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by araes 12y ago
Such an important concept and a title that's for clever not clarity. I'm glad somebody finally published this. Short version: - words are the symbolic indicators of thought vectors - words carry with each a probabilistic stream
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by araes 12y ago
I like the parallel that the author draws in the article to the idea of mountain climbers falling. As we draw near the finish line, our elation rises. We can see it, taste it, feel it, and in our hurry to cross it, we lose it, cause we ar
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by araes 12y ago
On the topic of dupes, within HNs Parent relationships, would it be possible to create a meta-dupe tree? Basically, a meta-list above articles that adds dupes (or maybe just closely related) as quasi-children of the "best" or &qu
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by araes 12y ago
To do this in full production mode, I would think you would probably make it user tunable. As the article says, most of it is fairly simple. Just a spring for a cable and a ratchet that moves with the motion of your foot (kind of auto tune
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by araes 12y ago
It might actually be two exponential distributions superimposed over one another. One for folks who are taking sick days when they are actually sick, and a second exponential of those who are cheating, which may have a lower amplitude for
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by araes 12y ago
Colorado's always been pretty great. Scenic, with outdoorsy, mellow people. However, the conclusion of the Graff report sounds like parroting of common theory. Only in the past few years has it started to be thought of as a money and
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by araes 12y ago
Take heart, and don't lose too much cynicism. People feel like they have to include all this "hippy shit" because of the exact reason this question was asked - "if only I could find a good company who's mission I b
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by araes 12y ago
Government is a classic example of a system where most members of the system can be good and efficient, yet the system as a whole can be clogged up by even a few crappy folks. It's like traffic with limited lanes. Decisions have to go
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by araes 12y ago
Very cool. They're basically using fluidic turbulence as a noise source in a confined 3D space to probabilistically over time enforce (supply energy to) a constrained set of matching conditions with preform parts.
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by araes 12y ago
Not a neuroscientist (never thought I'd use NANS), and this may well be the boondoggle of a charismatic man who's using it to buy yachts and laugh at the EU. That said, the one benefit I could see is that it's a billion+ moti
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by araes 12y ago
This article starts to touch on something profound but then mostly skims over an in-depth discussion with reasoning. At its core, this is really about human social response and compelled social behavior. The article could be about "bi
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by araes 12y ago
Maybe, but the PBBS folks don't seem to understand the value of the "hook." They look like they've got a lot of useful bits, but there's not an easy avenue for you to dive in and explore what that means. I've
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by araes 12y ago
Funny. I appreciate the want for more exploring, but the logic he lays out is almost the exact rationale that has slowly eroded NASA from 1.6% to 0.5%. Maybe not all for "think of the children," but after we lost the fear/c
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by araes 12y ago
If expanded enough, you could easily arrive at the Wikipedia of data structures. A place where, without the cludge of libraries, you could dive into a topic on data structures, apply search refinement until you find a structure that seems
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by araes 12y ago
Interesting article. I have done something similar to the delayed gratification techniques described in it for years, but I never knew they had a name for the concept. Usually I just think about it like "tricking" myself. Like,
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by araes 12y ago
While per capita GDP is a useful number that reveals some information about the economics of a country relative to the world stage, I may be alone in finding that its often misleading - particularly when we're talking about what life i
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by araes 12y ago
Of course not, but this is the difference between prohibition era levels of black market participation and current day alcohol black market dealing. Sure, people still make moonshine, and there's a bit of traffic in things like illega
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by araes 12y ago
Well, the default position for everyone who's there should be that they are innocent. Then, Justice needs to investigate, and determine: 1) Was something legally done wrong (could be what we'd consider "morally" wrong,

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