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by araes 12y ago
I can attempt to provide a more concrete example of real-world use. At the end of the day, it mostly comes down to preserving the idea that there is a probability associated with the occurrence of a result. One of the easiest versions of
992.
by araes 12y ago
I'm sometimes surprised that this model of userbase generated code and content hasn't caught on more with modern MMORPGs. An MMO where the players could graduate to creating their own areas with player voting for the best creatio
993.
by araes 12y ago
From looking through the article, and what's available online (Apple page and Wikipedia), it looks like they took most of what folks like about interpreted languages and just moved them into a compiled form, married to a decent debug &
994.
by araes 12y ago
Thanks for the correction on the compression that's possible (and others who offered comprehensible work in the 1 kbps to 30 kbps range). I didn't know the SOTA so I went for what I as a consumer thought of for audio compression.
995.
by araes 12y ago
Well, what would it take to record the whole US? One version says that we make ~5 calls a day on our phones [1] and ownership hovers at 80-90% of the 18+ population (and probably a bunch younger). The US is 311 million, lets say 80% of 30
996.
by araes 12y ago
Interesting that two years before the main crash was triggered, this article went down and identified almost all of points that led to it from a housing perspective by looking at one of the more extreme housing markets in the US. - Prices d
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by araes 12y ago
Not necessarily. Everybody has a burn rate for money, as a natural feature of living in a market economy where we do work for pay. At its minima, its the cost to meet Maslow's needs. In the worst version, if our pay goes below the a
998.
by araes 12y ago
I'd guess because Stross tends to be a very pragmatic / utilitarian sci-fi writer. We suspect its going to be a thing, but nobody really knows what the death of human employment will mean, or if it will really happen. If it does,
999.
by araes 12y ago
My suspicion is that it may be due to the inflation adjusted real wage effects, which hit the bottom 25th percentile the hardest, as that is generally their only source of income, and their resulting margin for wealth storage is so much clo
1000.
by araes 12y ago
Project it back a few years, and I'd bet we're poorer on average as a country than we were when I was born. Man, 43% decline for the median? Ouch. I also like that the mean wealth in America is 6x the median wealth. Actually, I
1001.
by araes 12y ago
Ha, no issue with the red herring of accountant pay rates, just with the number of them there are. The ones I have real issues with pay for are the mucky mucks near the top [1], the increasing numbers of them there are [2], and the effect
1002.
by araes 12y ago
Both thank you for the reasoned comments, and you're welcome. Also, I cede the "theoretical" point, as that was mostly me being snarky. I agree that publishing the 'exact' same results is a no go, and that will usu
1003.
by araes 12y ago
TL;DR: You were subjected to a $2000 ordeal over a $20 charge because the audit and compliance system is broken and has no concept of measured response. Because layer after layer of bee watchers have been hired at six, seven, or eight figu
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by araes 12y ago
Do you have thick black hair and an impregnable constitution? Notably though, he was pretty focused on the toxic qualities of tannins, but most recent investigations seem to go the other way (mild antioxidant, mild anticancer effects). Ma
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by araes 12y ago
It is and it isn't (why I included if possible). As counterpoints I would say that: - A lot of papers end up in a lot of different official journals in some form. Publishing slightly varied versions of the same work across 3-4 differ
1006.
by araes 12y ago
I'd be interested to see what arXiv's Impact Factor was if it was calculated like a standard publisher (if possible). I would guess it might be a top ten, based on my anecdotal encounter rate with arXiv (I may self select) and it
1007.
by araes 12y ago
Having suffered this, I will comment based on what I've done that I feel works. - Join social groups. I went on Meetup, local college sites, did Google searches for things I was interested in by area, went to logical hangouts for that
1008.
by araes 12y ago
Imagine you had 11 candidates like he described, and you interviewed them in random orders. For ease, we will describe them by number, which will also equate to their "goodness" by arbitrary criteria (known to the interviewer onl
1009.
by araes 12y ago
Honestly, this article just feels like an overreaction / rant the other direction. That there is No way that fist combat could have affected skull morphology. Like alot of evolution, it mostly comes down to a) does a trait make you m
1010.
by araes 12y ago
This has been one of my most reviled features of the modern web that autocomplete is almost universally turned off for passwords. This often even extends to integrated password managers. Could not be happier this has been changed, althoug
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by araes 12y ago
Luckily they caught it relatively early on because a family member had it, so its been semi-easy to manage.
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by araes 12y ago
I believe the first digit trick still works with off-numbers, but the second digit trick definitely fails, as it depends on tricks of cubics. 1=>[1], 2=>[8], 3=>2[7], 4=>6[4], 5=>12[5], 6=>21[6], 7=>34[3], 8=>51[2],
1013.
by araes 12y ago
You joke, but I have a condition where my iron content builds up relatively quickly, and the best thing they've still figured out as a cure is blood letting.
1014.
by araes 12y ago
I can honestly say that this post has revolutionized my thoughts on AI. Primarily this is because of what I perceive as the thesis statement, which is: "<AI> is the construction of weighted tables (choices, data, meta relations,
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by araes 12y ago
Anyone have the technical info on how this was done and put together? Looking at other pages, it appears this was created by Villanova University in Pennsylvania ( http://www1.villanova.edu/main.html ) for the Vatican, and t
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by araes 12y ago
I like the ping pong balls over the surface of a pool, that's a neat analogy. However, I am also not a physicist, but my impression is that this is something closer to how a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian
1017.
by araes 12y ago
I admit, I don't agree with him, and I think that farm-to-table will always be a niche market unless we effectively isolate ourselves from world food demand / markets. The United States is the per-eminent food exporter in the wor
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by araes 12y ago
> this feature makes it sound as an evil trick Its not an evil trick, but it is playing on human emotion, and our inherent decision weighting when presented with uncertainty and risk. You look at what its like being a college grad, reali
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by araes 12y ago
"Most people let mystery stop them" I actually find this true in other fields, or domains as well. Its not so much mystery in the more general case, but uncertainty. For example, some people find talking to boards, or VC folks, o
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by araes 13y ago
I did a little business startup competition over the weekend (aside: won too), and one of the main discussions in the marketing panels provided was on the use of Kickstarter not purely for the money influx, but more as a way of price and fe

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