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by bainsfather 12y ago
Thanks for that. Maybe I will try again some time. I'm not saying it is impossible, rather that it is hard work compared to e.g. python. I recall looking through a few promising google results and finding e.g. that the library is no
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by bainsfather 12y ago
Hi eudox, I would love to use CL for my projects - I've read (most of) Norvig's and Graham's books, written small programs etc. I really like most of the language, especially the 'break into debugger on error'. But
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by bainsfather 12y ago
I find the BBC to be very good for most topics, generally better than e.g. the Guardian or other 'broadsheet' newspapers. BUT I have been shocked/amazed by the BBC coverage of Snowden - their silence was often deafening. Fro
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by bainsfather 12y ago
A well-written geopolitical overview of China's rise - it's well worth reading the entire article if you have the time.
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by bainsfather 12y ago
Feynman's story here was that at dances/social events, when he said he was a professor, and that he had worked on the Manhatten Project, he was assumed to be lying. So he switched to avoiding saying those things, and implying he
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by bainsfather 12y ago
I tried watching the talk, but he goes very slowly - could be compressed 3x easily. The summary gives you the content of the talk much quicker.
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by bainsfather 12y ago
Maybe https://github.com/betfair/API-NG-sample-code is a good place to start? Also: https://developer.betfair.com/ http://forum.bdp.betfair.com/ I was careful about using someone els
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by bainsfather 12y ago
I use the betfair 'betting exchange' API +crude algos to place bets on the final results of soccer leagues. My main risk, I think, is betfair going bust with all my capital locked into season-long bets (I make many small bets on
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by bainsfather 12y ago
link to vodafone's data: http://www.vodafone.com/content/sustainabilityreport/2014/in...
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by bainsfather 12y ago
Good to see the price of big high resolution screens coming down, after so many stagnant years. > The one thing that may freeze you from pulling the trigger right now on the PB287Q is, oddly enough for the monitor market, the promise of
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by bainsfather 12y ago
I use iD regularly. It doesn't seem slow to me. My connection is ~1Mbps, so getting the bing aerial images can take a few seconds, but it doesn't really slow my editing down.
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by bainsfather 12y ago
Just tried it out. Doesn't let me walk along main roads (in the UK), which produces some very strange walking routes :/ It looks nice, but still needs some polish before it's usable for me.
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by bainsfather 12y ago
I recently switched from CUDA to OpenCL, so I could use AMD's cards which are (imo) much better value. So yes, Nvidia are playing a different game - premium prices. I can see why many people prefer them though, if they have the cash -
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by bainsfather 13y ago
I got Concrete Mathematics a few days ago, after someone recommended it. My background is physics, and I find the "mathematicians' style" to be very awkward to learn from. This book is excellent for me - concrete examples -
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by bainsfather 13y ago
xubuntu is now out also: http://xubuntu.org/getxubuntu/
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by bainsfather 13y ago
In January I was looking to buy AMD graphics card(s) for numerical work using OpenCL. That time (roughly) corresponded to the peak in Litecoin prices. The best card - 7990 was generally sold out, and was going for about £600 on ebay. Sinc
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by bainsfather 13y ago
That is correct. From the Microsoft statement: "As part of the investigation, we took the step of a limited review of this third party's Microsoft operated accounts. While Microsoft's terms of service make clear our permissi
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Warlight AI Challenge – build bots to play risk-like game(theaigames.com)
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by bainsfather 13y ago
Your example is of a 'gross misrepresentation'. I really do not think Assange did this. Maybe you dislike his editing, but surely you are not arguing that it was like your example?
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by bainsfather 13y ago
The full 39min unedited version was released at the same time though, wasn't it? (eg the video on youtube, shown on the 'collateral murder' webpage ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v
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by bainsfather 13y ago
The gun camera video at http://www.collateralmurder.com/ is 39mins long and is described as 'unedited' - it looks continuous to me - are you saying this is untrue? 'Carefully edited' does not appear to b