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by axiom 18y ago
I'm probably biased here, but I honestly can't imagine coming to grips with the way python handles variables without thinking of them as pointers and references (i.e. mutable vs. immutable, deep copy vs. shallow copy etc.) It would just see
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by axiom 18y ago
This is fantastic, thank you! Edit: http://oyc.yale.edu/classics/introduction-to-ancient-greek-h... wow!
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by axiom 18y ago
I'm going to get beaten for even suggesting this, but I would say start with C. It's hard, it's time consuming, it takes a ton of (error prone) code to do anything useful. But after a few months you will have a solid grasp of how a computer
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by axiom 18y ago
OpenCourseWare is such a cool idea and has a ton of potential. It's really unfortunate that 95% of the courses that have been put up don't have nearly enough content posted online to be of any use. Just take a look at the lecture notes and
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by axiom 18y ago
Just as you can run across a busy highway once, twice, or ten times and come out fine, doesn't mean that's it's a good idea, so allowing one story like this won't cause much damage, but as an editorial policy is a disaster.
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by axiom 18y ago
Look, my point is not one way of the other (although I do have strong opinions on the matter.) My point is that when you mix politics and controversy in an anonymous public forum, you get a lot more heat than light. I'm amazed that this sto
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by axiom 18y ago
It's all so simple and one sided isn't it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hamas_suicide_attacks Seriously let's have a debate on this. This being a hacker forum is the perfect place to do it isn't it?
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by axiom 18y ago
Fantastic. I'll start posting stories about Hamas storing weapons in mosques, schools and hospitals. And firing rockets at civilian centres in Israel. Then we'll have ourselves an old fashioned reddit party! first one to invoke godwin's law
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by axiom 18y ago
Suppose there's an economy where everyone is spending 80% of their energy building refrigerators. All day that's what people are doing. Nobody actually needs these refrigerators, so they just keep building them and stacking them up in the c
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by axiom 18y ago
It was a wealth transfer, no net creation. Not so much. He allocated resources correctly. That's what putting money in the stock market is fundamentally about. If you allocate resources correctly, you win. Allocate them incorrectly
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by axiom 18y ago
Thank you. I couldn't agree more. I have no idea why it's so common for people to consider it a virtue to coddle insane and irrational behavior. Look, if someone tells you they feel very strongly that running across a busy highway is a safe
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by axiom 18y ago
That's a cool idea! do you think a news site with two types of upvotes would work? A user could sort their view of the front page based on either props (agree votes) or recommendations (interest votes) or some weighted combination. Maybe to
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by axiom 18y ago
Every multi-dimensional measure can be projected onto one dimension. The question is whether it still retains useful discriminating power at that point. The whole argument in favor of a g factor in intelligence is that when you measure diff
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by axiom 18y ago
Check out http://www.datahand.com
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by axiom 18y ago
Renormalized with equal weights. The only major change looks like philosophy jumped from 9th to 3rd. 1 1.19 2 1 9 0.92 4 0.89 3 0.87 5 0.7 6 0.67 7 0.43 8 0.39 11 0.36 10 0.32 15 0.27 18 0.16 14 0.14 16 0.12
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by axiom 18y ago
You make a good point, and there is definitely some value to including that step (although it would be only another 2 lines of code actually.) I considered putting it in, but didn't because of the following: 1. The only leap of logic requir
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by axiom 18y ago
Is that the case? I've never profiled it actually. I always just assumed that basic operations (float and int) were all single cycle since there is such a huge incentive to optimize those on the CPU. Random tangent: a while ago I was workin
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by axiom 18y ago
Wow, that's a lot of code. def main(iter=100000): stay_win = 0.0 switch_win = 0.0 for i in xrange(iter): win_door = int(numpy.random.uniform()*3) pick_door = int(numpy.random.uniform()*3) if pick_door == win_door: stay_win
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by axiom 18y ago
Jesus christ! they finally did it! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2%80%93Tarski_paradox
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by axiom 18y ago
Rumor has it that John Carmack is an Objectivist, which puts this statement into context.
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by axiom 18y ago
A crucial point in The Black Swam is that randomness is relative. Something that's random to you is not necessarily random to someone else (i.e. the dots in the sky were randomly distributed and unpredictable to many people a few thousand y
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by axiom 18y ago
Quite a few did not miss the crisis. Peter Schiff comes to mind. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I0QN-FYkpw This isn't a question of economists focusing on things that were too abstract or that somehow these crises are just inherently unp
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by axiom 18y ago
I only noticed it on the second glance, but that's Hacker News on the Dell laptop screen.
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by axiom 18y ago
I smugly thought to myself "there's no way it would be able to figure out Hercule Poirot, it's not even worth trying." I'll be damned, it got it.
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Key duplication from photographs(physorg.com)
14 points by axiom 18y ago|1 comments
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Satellites approach the Shannon limit(physorg.com)
17 points by axiom 18y ago|3 comments
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by axiom 18y ago
How about 8 years ago? http://www.city-journal.org/html/10_1_the_trillion_dollar.ht...
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How The U.S. Government Engineered The Current Economic Crisis(techcrunch.com)
9 points by axiom 18y ago|5 comments
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by axiom 18y ago
Xerox PARC
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by axiom 18y ago
Can you recommend a good introductory book on the subject?

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