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by aufreak3 14y ago
> Instead, if you could eliminate a variable from the system by preselecting for people for whom the variable doesn't apply, it would reduce the time to experiment ... if the goal is to reduce the time to prove that your drugs work. T
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by aufreak3 14y ago
> Companies spend millions of dollars and often decades testing drugs; every drug must outperform placebos if it is to be marketed. “If we can identify people who have a low predisposition for placebo response, drug companies can presel
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by aufreak3 14y ago
> I don't understand why drones, as a weapon of war, are getting so much attention at the moment compared to other weapons of war. Dead civilians are dead whether they're killed by drones or landmines or cluster bomblets or whatever. Gu
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by aufreak3 14y ago
It'll be interesting to compare this situation with what people thought colour film did to movies compared to monochrome. I can imagine people moaning eloquently about the loss of poetry in film, about how its not about the realism offered
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by aufreak3 14y ago
Here is a hypothesis to examine - given the first computing revolution involved people determining how to use their computers by purchasing and installing software with the needed functionality, is a second such revolution where completely
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by aufreak3 14y ago
Thanks for shedding some light on this. I've been wondering about what happened to those devs who complained when Google bumped up their appengine prices. The complaints lasted for a while but then they seemed to stop. Perhaps that supports
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by aufreak3 14y ago
The liveness of something like this can be rather useful actually. I wrote a not-as-fancy "canvas explorer" with a live updating image that you can save snapshots of. [1] Wrote this just yesterday to let me programmatically make images for
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by aufreak3 14y ago
It is a tough moral problem, but one that societies of old have recognized and formalized. For example, most all religions have some formal structure where a person with a "higher calling" can take up a monkhood of some sort. Formal inducti
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by aufreak3 14y ago
Stepping back a bit, I find this incredibly ironic. When the iPhone was a year or less into its release and there was no App Store and when Steve Jobs stood on the stage of (iirc) a developer conference and told devs that the API for progra
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by aufreak3 14y ago
It is more complicated I think even in the case of Einstein. The period of strained relationship mentioned coincides with the period during which he was building up General Relativity (which he published in 1916). Given the intensity of wor
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by aufreak3 14y ago
You can say the same thing about strong public key cryptography as well - "if you can read it, you can copy it" - but that doesn't say anything about the encryption technology itself. In the case of DRM, we are not in general interested in
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by aufreak3 14y ago
If selling the hardware is profitable for Google, I'd guess they'd go all out to make it happen .... which makes me think that Google is subsidizing the Nexus line and hence the inventory problems. Edit: A corollary would be that T-mobile
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by aufreak3 14y ago
At least in this case, a former Supreme Court judge thinks the arrests not only violate constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech, but are "criminal" to boot ... and he's not arrested for posting his criticism on his blog. http://justi
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by aufreak3 14y ago
Yes it is misleading indeed. From the description, the program extrapolated the emotional responses collected from 100 people for 500 paintings (??) to other paintings. No explanation is involved here to justify the use of "why" in the titl
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by aufreak3 14y ago
"..coming up with startup ideas is a question of seeing the obvious." I got a wake-up call from my 5yr old that felt like this. He pointed up and said "look". I asked him "what is it?" ... "tree!". I bit my tongue humbled. I wish to be able
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by aufreak3 14y ago
While on analogies, I like to think of a general purpose programming language as paper and myself - the programmer - as an origami artist. Papers come in different sizes, materials, thickness, elasticity, etc. with each better suited for a
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by aufreak3 14y ago
This should be upvoted more, as the "Chairman" is "Justice Markandey Katju" whose legal opinion in this matter is credible. Not only does he say that the arrests are against freedom of speech which is "a guaranteed fundamental right", he sa
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by aufreak3 14y ago
Thanks for the replies here. Of course, I've been reading Jeff's posts for some time and know his creds. My question was not really very specific to him and this post of his, but just this time I caught myself mid-thought wanting to check w
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by aufreak3 14y ago
OOP vs FP is better seen, I think, as a duality rather than as a dichotomy. Sort of like wave-particle duality. Sometimes you find it convenient to think "wave", and at other times "particle", but the reality of the system is neither. These
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by aufreak3 14y ago
I've had the other kind of trouble with this. While I've almost never had trouble with code declaring variables near the site where they are first needed, I've on quite a few occasions missed top-level declarations, perhaps because I carrie
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by aufreak3 14y ago
Is it just me or are any of you checking whether linked products are affiliate links before clicking on them? My mental estimate of the unbiased-ness of a review reduces irrespective of article author when I observe affiliate links to produ
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by aufreak3 14y ago
When casting programmers in such roles, it is necessary to gain a balance of perspectives. I recommend the book "logic of failure" by Dietrich Dorner for such a perspective. In that book, he presents simulation based studies on the psycholo
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by aufreak3 14y ago
I think the "callbacks lead to spaghetti code" view is just an inadequate expression of the problem. I believe that people who are averse to callbacks feel so because callback-ridden code doesn't compose well. Compose-ability is an importan
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by aufreak3 14y ago
I used to refer to this in some conversations as the "permission to be less than perfect", but "permission to suck" is crisper :) The "permission to suck" pill needs to be taken along with the "desire to improve" pill. In other words, pay l
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by aufreak3 14y ago
The hole in the wall project and this are certainly interesting. I can't help wonder what would happen if such tablets happened to be dropped in kids' hands in an urban literate area. Would they end up stuck playing angry birds and loiterin
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Udacity EP245 - How to build a startup(udacity.com)
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by aufreak3 14y ago
Searching using cross correlation is effectively the same as searching using the euclidean distance metric I think, for which also they have a fast implementation. DTW, however, can answer more interesting questions. For example, if you hav
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by aufreak3 14y ago
Racket's goals appear more pedagogical and the effort they put in (which is bloody awesome for a relatively small team, btw) on the pragmatic aspects is to the extent necessary for teaching. If we, again, ask whether Racket (or any of the f
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by aufreak3 14y ago
"Research" is about producing new knowledge about something, which in this case is programming computers. The slide on the problems that the Go system solves points out things the solving of which is unlikely to yield significant new know
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by aufreak3 14y ago
The "lesson to educators" was certainly a quick conclusion to draw from the number guessing game example. A fair comparison would be a game with sound and animation that kids have created using Scratch that you get kids to do using a "real"

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