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by bdkoepke 12y ago
Yeah your probably right, the halo effect probably plays a roll as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect .
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by bdkoepke 12y ago
I was commenting more on the way that the journalist portrayed the research than the research itself. Another example: "But, however powerful the economic and social forces behind the disappearing neighbour—and however positive many of
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by bdkoepke 12y ago
Ugh, seems like another article that derives causation from correlation. Specifically: "We have evolved for it, to the extent that those surrounded by a tight-knit group of friends who regularly gather to eat—and, crucially, gossip—liv
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by bdkoepke 13y ago
Here is an example using the ycombinator to transparently add memoization to a function. This enables you to get the performance boost of dynamic programming in java without having to rewrite recursion as iteration. (The code uses jdk8 but
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by bdkoepke 13y ago
Roger, may I ask what you pursued in University? You said that you learned chemistry, physics, electrical engineering and mathematics, but what degree did you get specifically? I ask because I currently have a CS and Finance degree, but wou
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by bdkoepke 13y ago
I hope this isn't another case of 'the suit is back': http://ajpm-online.net/article/S0749-3797(10)00412-5/abstrac...
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by bdkoepke 14y ago
iPredator is using pptp which is very insecure. (The original authors of the protocol recommend that you shouldn't use it). It is also considered to be cryptographically broken as of last month. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-to-Point