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by bagrow 10y ago
Tunable glasses are great for developing countries as well, where eye doctors are scarce, even when the focus is not automatic [1]. These glasses still require perfectly circular lenses, right? That's a bigger hindrance than slimming d
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by bagrow 10y ago
How many smartphone users even know how much RAM they have? Smartphones are eating everything because they just work . Even more than PCs, which are also heavily commoditized these days. It seems like almost everyone thinks of upgrading co
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by bagrow 10y ago
This guy's stuff is phenomenal. I regularly consulted his hexagonal grid guide when doing certain simulations. Hope he doesn't give up completely.
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by bagrow 10y ago
I disagree about the emphasis on prediction. Science involves predictions, but it does not involve only predictions. Chaos theory, for example, shows that physical, deterministic systems can be rigorously understood while prediction is (app
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by bagrow 10y ago
My first (incorrect) thought when reading the headline was that they were building a library of anti-patterns. Not sure how to do that, seems like a challenge to data mine, but it would be very cool to have. Anyone know of such a thing?
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by bagrow 10y ago
Pessimistically (I know, I know), it seems to me that recent events put many of these advances under threat. Science funding cuts and rollbacks of environmental protections can take out half the list or more. How great can these accomplishm
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by bagrow 10y ago
Anybody using a neovim MacOS app [1]? I'm a huge vim user, but mostly via MacVim [2]. [1] https://github.com/rogual/neovim-dot-app [2] https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim
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by bagrow 10y ago
Interesting discussion. Not sure about the breakdown between ridge regression and LASSO though. The difference is not in the error term but in the regularization term.
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by bagrow 10y ago
What's the weird bump around rank = 30? Edit: It's probably related to the cutoff of 30 comments, but it's still not obvious to me...
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by bagrow 10y ago
Restarting a down grid is nontrivial. Small power stations are used to kickstart the larger stations. Think of the starter motor in a car. Now do all of this while precisely maintaining 60 Hz (in the US) everywhere.
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by bagrow 10y ago
Life... uh... finds a way.
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by bagrow 11y ago
This is discussed in the readme. One point: > The big advantage of using Python and prompt_toolkit is that the implementation of new features becomes very easy.
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by bagrow 12y ago
Bummed that these icons don't show emacs being corrupted from within by the seductive allure of vim.
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by bagrow 12y ago
"I am a girl..." vs. "I am a programmer...". Wow, sexist much?
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by bagrow 12y ago
The section on "work habits" is especially amazing. I know people who are very smart but also very lazy. They end up falling behind in the long run; may be a corollary to the Curse of the Gifted.
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by bagrow 12y ago
Clippers! Clippers! Clippers!
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by bagrow 12y ago
That Orwell quote is taken far out of context. He actually said, "The Penguin Books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them."
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by bagrow 12y ago
Welp, I'm outta business... https://github.com/bagrow/datatools
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by bagrow 12y ago
Good grief, maybe I'm getting old, but is up with that font size?
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by bagrow 12y ago
That 'now' picture has to be pushing 20 years old...