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by araneae 17y ago
If you like classical, try Miles Davis's "Sketches of Spain" as a stepping point. There's very little improv in it and to me it sounds more classical than jazz. If you enjoy it, (which I almost guarantee you will) you'll probably be able
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by araneae 17y ago
For most people, music is entertainment, just like literature, art, television, etc. It seems like you (and the author of this article) take it much more seriously than that. That's fine for you, but I think what many of us are expressing
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by araneae 17y ago
http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/ can be a fun thing to play around with. (You can write agent-based simulations in logo)
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by araneae 17y ago
What do you edit lisp in?
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by araneae 17y ago
I'm pretty I learned this from reading an article on HN... anyone got a citation for me?
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Employers: Look to gaming to motivate staff(itnews.com.au)
2 points by araneae 17y ago|0 comments
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by araneae 17y ago
Kids are a major vector of flu. In fact, vaccinating school age children actually prevents more deaths in the elderly than vaccinating the elderly directly.
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by araneae 17y ago
I say that vegetarians are deficient in creatine because this study showed that supplements increased their mental abilities. When they did the same study with meat-eaters, there was no such improvement, indicating that omnivores are not d
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by araneae 17y ago
Google was obviously marketing to other people who are like Googlers. We all knew about the Nexus One (because we keep up on new tech), prefer T-Mobile (because they were the only carrier to refuse to cooperate with warrant-less wiretappin
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by araneae 17y ago
Just because your body CAN produce creatine doesn't mean that all it needs to produce enough is its building blocks. People here seem to be acting like our bodies have perfect feedback loops for every nutrient, but if in our recent evolutio
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by araneae 17y ago
Actually, I think that would be a terrible study. It's too hard to control for other factors that may differ between the groups. For instance, vegetarians and vegans in the U.S. are on average more educated. You can add that into a model
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by araneae 17y ago
Because the title wouldn't have that incredulous tone if the "them" referred to men.
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by araneae 17y ago
I'll let you draw your own conclusions based on that. Ah, the wonders of in vitro fertilization.
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by araneae 17y ago
I think that "math is what it is" is a false statement, at least in the way you intended it. The way math is represented is not at all inherent to mathematical structure (i.e. left to right, the characters you use, etc.) and I'm sure many
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by araneae 17y ago
Why would you want a subsidy? Doesn't AT&T offer discounted plans sans contract?
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by araneae 17y ago
This is one of my favorite quotes from him: "The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with the female mind. If it is done in the right
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by araneae 17y ago
That's so weird. I love buying things online... physical stores are such time sucks.
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by araneae 17y ago
Perhaps because we're paranoid techies that appreciate the fact that T-Mobile did not cooperate with the warrantless wiretapping of the NSA, unlike AT&T, Sprint, AND Verizon.
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by araneae 17y ago
It's more of a longing to figure out what the heck I'm remembering. This happens to me all the time with people, too... someone will look really familiar but I can't place them at all, and it drives me crazy.
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by araneae 17y ago
Yeah, I just got the Nexus One full price (it's coming today) and I'm planning to do just that. Over two years I will save money.
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by araneae 17y ago
pi doesn't have my phone number (in the first 200000000 digits) I'm so sad.
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Inverse graphing calculator(xamuel.com)
1 points by araneae 17y ago|0 comments
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Belief in the Brain: Sacred and secular ideas engage identical areas(scientificamerican.com)
16 points by araneae 17y ago|7 comments
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by araneae 17y ago
Not testing the model on a validation set doesn't mean it doesn't have predictive power... but if you don't test it, there's no way you can say it does have predictive power. And saying it predicts the data 87% of the time when you're us
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by araneae 17y ago
You're going to have to get a new account and a fake name if you want to apply again.
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by araneae 17y ago
What are your chances if you went to an Ivy but were a biologist there? ^-^
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by araneae 17y ago
It depends on what your goal is. If you just want to make money, there are a lot of boring (IMO) ways to do that. On the other hand, I (and I'm sure many other HNers as well) like to make cool stuff. It would be nice if it turned into c
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by araneae 17y ago
They say that so when you tell them it's dumb, they can claim it's because they didn't spend any time on it. It's like how kids always brag how little they studied for a test, even before they take it. It's an excuse for failure.
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Honey, Don’t Bother Mommy. I’m Too Busy Building My Brand.(nytimes.com)
3 points by araneae 17y ago|0 comments
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by araneae 17y ago
"Work for someone who produces actual content and then happen to be married to them so you can claim all that money is yours."

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