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   by bd 18y ago

   There is some comedy gold there: "I can't believe this. this is so incredibly ridiculous!!!!!! i'm leader of the debate team, the robotics team, the medical team, the card team, the literary magazine team, the church team, the basketball t
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   by bd 18y ago

   Also some interesting comments here: "The card industry has been very quick to internalize the insights of behavioral finance and apply them to maximize profit by exploiting consumers' cognitive biases. There's probably no other industry t
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   The Fiendish Genius of Credit-Card Minimum Payments(freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)

   14 points by bd 18y ago|8 comments
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   by bd 18y ago

   That would break their business model.
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   by bd 18y ago

   A long time I ago I used to make multi-agent artificial life simulations in a system called Swarm, which was in Objective C: http://www.swarm.org/wiki/Main_Page I don't remember much, just that it was a nice language, well fitting for the
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   by bd 18y ago

   Here is a list of the Nobel Laureates per university straight from the source (based on affiliation at the time of the Nobel Prize announcement): http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/universities.html Wikipedia has another list based
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   by bd 18y ago

   This was more of a missing puzzle piece than a gossip. For somebody familiar with Czech names and aware of the timeframe (80s), the name does indeed stand out strongly.
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   by bd 18y ago

   Awesome. I merged your code into the latest version of the page and pushed it online.
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   The Promise of Digital Doubles (The Emily Project)(studiodaily.com)

   1 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
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    Gaming Effects Versus Hollywood(tomshardware.com)

    2 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
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    Phasing in World of Warcraft(somebits.com)

    5 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
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    by bd 18y ago

    Oh yeah. They both also fail miserably on few large files (hundreds of megabytes). I did tests with 100-200 MB ascii text files and good old Subversion beat both Git and Mercurial easily. Git was better, just several times slower than SVN.
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    by bd 18y ago

    Here is the original article: http://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/fulltext/S1934-5909%2808%...
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    Japanese researchers created a human cerebral cortex tissue from stem cells(myfuturedesign.blogspot.com)

    1 points by bd 18y ago|1 comments
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    Chef: a programming language in which programs look like recipes(dangermouse.net)

    2 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
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    Structure Synth, an application for creating 3D structures(dataisnature.com)

    1 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
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    Escher's Droste Effect(subblue.com)

    1 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
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    by bd 18y ago

    I'm afraid it's a fundamental problem, not related just to press per se. Titles fight for attention, the most spectacular/salient ones win. Even here on HN, with much more sophisticated readers than general press/web have. This is Red Queen
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    by bd 18y ago

    Here somebody who claims to be the CEO of Swoopo tells: "We are currently shipping items totaling about $1.5 million to our winners every month." http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/09/24/swoopo-entertainment-sh... (Sorry for no permalink to
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    Magicians And Mathematicians(wilmott.com)

    2 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
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    by bd 18y ago

    On the related note: how do you keep track of which comments are new since your last visit of the thread? HN/reddit system with comments jumping around based on votes makes it hard just to quickly skim for differences. Could there be a way
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    by bd 18y ago

    Mine is nothing, try the original program from Robert Alsing. He already released the source code and binaries: http://rogeralsing.com/2008/12/11/genetic-programming-mona-l... From what I have seen, he is doing extra type of mutations tha
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    by bd 18y ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Days_%28film%29
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    by bd 18y ago

    "Smart people have a statistically higher incidence of winding up dead in ditches due to alcohol poisoning! Go us!" Who actually said that? I'm sorry if the anecdote I mentioned was misinterpreted. It was just one data point. Just like th
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    by bd 18y ago

    Jim Morrison of The Doors fame was supposed to be quite bright [1]. There is an alleged quote of his [2]: I drink so I can talk to assholes. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Morrison#Biography [2] http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_D
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    by bd 18y ago

    I have another similar anecdote. We had one TA for Mathematical Analysis class that was smart. Smarter than professors. Freakishly smart. Like, he could just look at the equation that others needed a full blackboard to solve and tell the so
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    Smart people are drunks(drinksafterdark.com)

    53 points by bd 18y ago|63 comments
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    by bd 18y ago

    I share the sentiment. Some time ago I was investigating some nasties that were spreading via web (Firefox plugins exploits) and I had to switch off the antivirus just to be able to view the content of the text file.
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    by bd 18y ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Artificial_Intelligenc... Shame on me.
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    by bd 18y ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_and_the_Real_Girl