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by araes 12y ago
Maybe I'm crazy, but in my judgement, the risk of occurrence for the ultra-bad (somebody dies) is low enough that its outweighed by the good (the world gets to see dramatic and illustrative views of how big a protest this is). Even th
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by araes 12y ago
In general, liked the post, and generally agree that drugs have completely permeated our society, and we mostly need to accept, and deal with, the fact that they're here. Oddly though, I disagree with the summary points, although they&
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by araes 12y ago
While I can't say I'm concerned about the University of Chicago (not a direct impact on my life), I am concerned about the overall trend that it represents. The fact that students are willing to pay for it doesn't mean too m
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by araes 12y ago
Well, that's the really scary version of the scenario. Where a lot of the sketchy shops start vaporizing. They were the ones that were horribly managed, or had a product that only looked good when money was plentiful, but their catas
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by araes 12y ago
The real concern isn't that belts will tighten. Its that something serious or startling will happen inducing panic. Its the worry that we're getting near a tipping point, where the balance is bad enough that a strong shock could
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by araes 12y ago
Grace Hopper as god? Probably worse picks if you're deifying. Otherwise, its likely the FORTRAN team at IBM, and nobody wants that. (Beside IBM, John Backus, FORTRAN fans, ect...) --- In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was w
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by araes 12y ago
The whole benefit of this method is that its simple. Its first order of magnitude estimation by taking the fact that headcount is usually close to linear with revenue and then applying maybe the next biggest twiddle. So you get maybe 80% a
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by araes 12y ago
IMO, immigration has very little to do with the problem, and is more of a political whip. We as a country are simply eroding our own need for (or at least focus on) unskilled labor. In fact, we're eroding "almost" all of our
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by araes 12y ago
NASA has been developing the Space Launch System (SLS) [1] since the 2010 Authorization Act killed the Constellation program. If it means anything, they're through their Preliminary Design Review and heading towards their Critical Des
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by araes 12y ago
So many great data analysis exercises that could be run with such a set. Effectively, you could create scalar variables representing lots of different population statistics on a country, state, city, ect level. Density: http://i
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by araes 12y ago
My sister used to be part of the autism treatment programs funded by BC up in Canada, and I was honestly amazed how much the right kind of attention and order made in autistic kids lives. Strong cause and effect relationships for reward &#
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by araes 12y ago
Working in the design of large scale engineering systems, and watching safety / risk reviews, its a little disturbing to read this, and note that almost all hazard and safety analysis performed goes almost completely counter to these c
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by araes 12y ago
Its fairly apparent in the way they write and structure the article too. It starts from an assumption, "marijuana = bad". Although they honestly may not be aware of it. They make sentences like: "Marijuana use is often ass
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by araes 12y ago
Very interesting read, and thanks for the link. Had no idea that the King had fallen on such hard times (or maybe that Tim was comparatively doing so well) Almost double the owned assets ($1.5 B vs $0.8 B) and nearly triple the total reve
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by araes 12y ago
The problem for most patients is that filing a complaint, making sure it gets into the system, staying on top of it to make sure it isn't buried, responding to criticisms and building justification for the claim, and then maybe losing
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by araes 12y ago
I used to live in Idaho, and its interesting to me to be able to track back trends that we anecdotally could see happening, but had no hard numbers on. For example, one of the major trends has been the population volatility, and particular
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by araes 12y ago
Cool, came here to report the exact same bug. Twitching, and doing the down smash eventually caused me to warp through the floor and initiate an endless fall into white nothingness. [Edit] After exploring some more, the extents of compl
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by araes 12y ago
I generally think Bill Gates is a clever man. I also think his heart is normally in the right place these days. That said, I think he, and most of education reform seems to often focus on the externalities of education, rather than the co
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by araes 12y ago
A lot of opinion, but as a normal consumer, I think this looks fine, or at least "good enough". I agree, the Mobius video does look better. But, I think that most of the decision doesn't come down to video quality for a norm
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by araes 12y ago
Personal opinion, but I think this is probably good for professors / post-docs, but a horrible idea for the software community as a whole. Algorithm patenting and closed gardens are probably the worst hinderances to software developme
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by araes 12y ago
Unfortunately, large companies can also much more easily engage in rent-seeking behaviour ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking ) which small competitors can't engage in effectively unless they organize as a g
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by araes 12y ago
Thank you, I was going to say that one of the main reasons I play Civilization is for the often strange stories that can develop from the procedural content and simple sets of rules. "The rebel sons of nearby Valetta who embark on a h
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by araes 12y ago
Very cool. I had never heard of Rprop, but that's a neat way to trigger your learning that it needs to rapidly damp. Kind of like a limiter in CFD.
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by araes 12y ago
This (multi-dimensional filter/search) is what I've been hoping IMDB would do for the last 5 years (and amazed they hadn't). Thank you, this is awesome, and an easy bookmark for a completionist. Although it weirds me out ho
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by araes 12y ago
It seems like the implicit target in the document is to achieve a critically damped system with no ringdown on learning. However, if they're trying to go for speed, then it seems like they should accept possible overshoot, and use non
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by araes 12y ago
Location: Alabama Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Competent Tech: Perl (Regex), Fortran, Javascript, HTML, C++, C, Linux Admin {HPC/Supercomputing, PBS, Map/Reduce, Ubuntu / Redhat, Awk, (c|tc|ba)sh}, Python, Android (SD
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by araes 12y ago
Interesting, I often wonder in these kinds of cases whether that implies that Kitty, the best crow, has the equivalent of an internal language or symbolic logic that they're using to frame these ideas? Also, if provided with an easy w
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by araes 12y ago
Congratulations! You've discovered Gravitonics. "What goes up, better damn well stay up!" Would you like to research? - Anti-gravity - Space Manipulation
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by araes 12y ago
I would extend that to say that Diplomacy is still probably one of the weakest features of Civ. It has been a joke since the original that dealing with the computer is like trying to barter with a schizophrenic, and sadly newer versions hav
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by araes 12y ago
Thank you for the clarification, and yes, most of what I gave as an example could be characterized as forward probabilistic methods. - Start with a value + divergence and then propagate that state through your transforms to get a mean + div

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