aristus

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by aristus 8y ago
Feel free to email me (see profile). I am the author of Lauren Ipsum , a kid's book about computer science. Happy to help with this.
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by aristus 8y ago
If you forgive the self-post: "The theme is familiar to anyone who's tried to join a country club or high-school clique. It's not supposed to make sense. You are expected to conform to the rules of The Culture before you are
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by aristus 8y ago
Heh. Rebrandings are often more valuable for the fact of rebranding (press hit for LoC!) than any aesthetic reason. It's rare to find an administrator with any graphic sense. The current librarian (confirmed in 2016) is a bit of a new
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by aristus 8y ago
All the time when I worked as an illustrator. :D Today I carry a little Muji pen [0] that writes well but has a teeny cartridge I replace every few months. I can think of maybe two times I've used up a proper Bic. They usually dry out
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by aristus 8y ago
More precisely, how do they synchronize their clocks between A and B when the maximum speed of light/information is no longer a known quantity?
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by aristus 8y ago
Let’s say you can travel at 10c. At Point A, the Arlington Photons win the Galaxy Cup 1-0. You zip to Point B and place a bet on that game, borrowing the money to place that bet from the Baltimore branch of the Arlington Legbreaker Gang. Wa
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by aristus 8y ago
If you go from A to B before the photons can, from B's reference frame you are arriving from the future with perfect knowledge of events that have not yet "happened".
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by aristus 8y ago
:) It's used in everything from elementary schools to freshman-level university courses. The sentences can be a bit complex but the plotting is very simple, which I hope struck a good balance so as to appeal to a wide range.
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by aristus 8y ago
When I wrote Lauren Ipsum , a children's book about computer science, I used the real words for everything. Words are random anyway so you might as use the ones everyone else does. There are a few puns, eg "Hugh Rustic" teac
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by aristus 9y ago
A surprisingly large number of things that we normally don't think of as computers are Turing-complete. It's a very low bar of complexity. And regulating requires modeling requires simulation. That's what Turing's result
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by aristus 9y ago
It feels like people keep rediscovering the implications of Turing-completness in different domains.
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by aristus 9y ago
http://openinsulin.org/
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Lessons from training an end-to-end steering network(medium.com)
1 points by aristus 9y ago|0 comments
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by aristus 9y ago
This is not in the least remarkable. The article does not mention it, but several maoi inhibitor drugs are effective for common varieties of epilepsy and have been used for decades.
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by aristus 9y ago
> I don't understand why [large company] can't [do simple thing]... The answer to questions like that is always money. Apple have a monopoly on selling apps on that run on Apple hardware. There is no measurable short-term benef
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by aristus 9y ago
> You can download them directly to your desktop after you sign up So, just like Scribd then.
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by aristus 9y ago
How do you download them? Is this another Scribd?
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by aristus 9y ago
Step 1: have the Soviets occupy the eastern half of the city for 50 years.
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by aristus 9y ago
It's a way to refine their models. A systematic model-based representation of data is basically also a generator of that data. Why is that? Blame Kolmogorov. There are deep connections between compression, serialization, and computatio
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by aristus 9y ago
The Mature Optimization Handbook
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by aristus 9y ago
I once gifted a book I wrote about empirical measurement and stats to someone who turned out to be a CIA analyst instructor. She gave me a copy of this book in return. It was astonishing how well the ideas mapped.
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Y Tribenator(ribbonfarm.com)
3 points by aristus 9y ago|0 comments
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by aristus 9y ago
Surely GPS as well?
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A Priest, a Guru, and a Nerd-King Walk into a Conference Room(ribbonfarm.com)
2 points by aristus 9y ago|0 comments
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by aristus 9y ago
He is keenly aware (cf the privacy bugs fiascos of mid 2010) that trust in the system is hard to build up and easy to lose. It takes enormous sincere and public effort to pull out of loss-of-trust spirals.
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by aristus 9y ago
You'd be surprised. There are several pressures that keep doctor supply low in the US, not least the medical boards staffed by doctors who ahem have obvious moral hazard to constrain supply and maintain their 400k/year income. A
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by aristus 10y ago
In the 1950s they discovered that sending high current through a (sterile) organic watery soup would generate a dozen or so kinds of amino acids. The hypothesis was that tens of millions of years of lightning strikes on the ocean could in t
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by aristus 10y ago
Seems like a great way to catch a nasty case of conspiracy to commit a felony. The reason the Nobel committee can give an award to a political prisoner in another country is that they are in another country.
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by aristus 10y ago
Just because some of the people you disagree with are muddleheaded doesn't mean that all of them are. And just because you see an imprecise description of a behavior doesn't mean that behavior does not exist. "Racism" is
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by aristus 10y ago
That was me. Or rather, I created a table with columns s0-s255 and built a primitive tree interface for a stacktrace dataset called Strobelight. Searching was literally if s0 == 'foo' || s1 == 'foo'... etc. This horrifie

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