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by bendykstra 10y ago
My high school physics teacher worked at Kodak's research labs on CCDs, including some that were for use in "specialized applications," which I assume to mean spy satellites†. He said that he had quit when Kodak decided to st
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by bendykstra 10y ago
Oh, you are right. That is actually a particle filter. I'm sorry, I studied both on the same day and misremembered which one I had implemented.
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by bendykstra 10y ago
Edit: This is wrong. This is a particle filter, another type of Bayesian filter. I can't delete now, so please downvote to hide. I made a Kalman Filter visualization[1] last year to learn more about them. It's amazing to see how g
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by bendykstra 10y ago
Maybe you could ask participants to rank their proficiencies in a collection of skills. Then they could be tested on some or all of those skills to see if their ranking is correct.
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by bendykstra 10y ago
Replacing 'done' with a different adjective in the second sentence makes it clear that that sentence is also not passive. E.g. "Our work is difficult."
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by bendykstra 10y ago
I did that too, though in BASIC on a TI-83+. When I showed it to my math teacher, she said that I could use the program on any future homework and tests as long as I turned in a paragraph explaining step-by-step how the program worked.
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by bendykstra 10y ago
The purpose of the right against self-incrimination is to prevent forced confessions and torture. With that in mind, it makes sense to draw a line between compelling someone to provide their fingerprint or DNA and forcing someone to divulge
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by bendykstra 10y ago
I recently wanted to read a five page paper on graph theory from 1977. The company entrusted with it 40 years ago is charging $38 for it. It is just absurd. I can't imagine that the author, now long dead, would have wanted his work to
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by bendykstra 10y ago
Air conditioning in most jet fighters is a necessity in order to keep the avionics cool.
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by bendykstra 10y ago
You can think of the ads as being like the exposed ducts and conduits of brutalist buildings. They power the site.
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by bendykstra 10y ago
It's funny that you mention vesselmancy. As an early adopter of e-ink, I had to endure years of talk about how e-ink will never smell or feel like a real book. I'm the opposite of the person who ordered the leatherbound Encycloped
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by bendykstra 11y ago
The problem demands a technocratic answer, but it's an emotional issue. Candidates could endorse incentives for companies to pay more tax (Clinton has, quietly[1]), but that would not satisfy voters who want to see companies shamed and
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by bendykstra 11y ago
I witnessed a scam similar to "Horse Trading" while playing Team Fortress 2. In the game, players can wear cosmetic items. It's just for fun, but the items can still be worth tens or even hundreds of dollars. A player joined
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by bendykstra 11y ago
When correcting students on the use of 'impacted,' my high school English teacher would say, "Feces are impacted; you are affected." For the rest of my life, seeing the word 'impacted' will always recall that v
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by bendykstra 11y ago
It seems consistent with statements by Clinton and other government officials, "Maybe the back door isn't the right door, and I understand what Apple and others are saying about that. I just think there's got to be a way, and
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by bendykstra 11y ago
Your personal experience doesn't comport with the findings of sleep researchers. Later work or school start times correlate with increased sleep. This is due to biological influences on behavior (people feel tired at night and go to be
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Manual arbitrary code injection in Super Mario World [video](youtube.com)
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by bendykstra 11y ago
The Touch ID module hashes fingerprints as part of its scanning process, so the representation of a fingerprint would be of limited use if stolen. In addition, the hashes are stored within hardware that is not accessible by the iPhone'
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by bendykstra 11y ago
> Economics is such a complicated system that the expert opinions have long been biased toward the 'opinion' side > A physical model of network effects that presents phase transitions gives us a view into the underlying real
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by bendykstra 11y ago
It would be more accurate to call r/DataIsBeautiful a collection of people passionate about data visualization + 5.2 million people who were automatically subscribed when they joined Reddit. It was made a default subreddit and now most
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by bendykstra 11y ago
The Wikipedia article on garden path sentences has a good description of that phenomenon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence
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by bendykstra 11y ago
TLS connections that implement forward secrecy are not vulnerable to this type of attack. According to SSL Labs, about half of all sites now support forward secrecy. https://www.trustworthyinternet.org/ssl-pulse/
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by bendykstra 11y ago
I don't think it is either, but if we began downvoting for mere disagreement as the person that I responded to advocated, then I think it would.
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by bendykstra 11y ago
That idea works in theory, but in practice it makes comments a popularity contest. Eventually, people with minority opinions figure out that their ideas are unpopular and leave or stop commenting. The end result is monoculture. A great illu
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by bendykstra 11y ago
I'm sure that you're right. One of the first actions by Britain at the start of WWI was to cut Germany's undersea telegraph cables. (Except for one which was under Britain's control. Germany ill-advisedly continued to se
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by bendykstra 11y ago
There is another passwordless system called SQRL which is automated and more secure. From the user's perspective, they scan a QR code or click a browser extension and are signed into the site. Behind the scenes, a cryptographic challen
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by bendykstra 11y ago
The bottom being an exceptionally safe and rapid form of transportation. As someone who is willing to endure mild discomfort in return for $20-$100, I welcome this new option.
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by bendykstra 11y ago
I expect to own my operating system in the same way that a tenant owns the interior of building. The landlord cannot walk into the home uninvited. The landlord cannot install cameras or listening devices in the home. As Justice Roberts said
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by bendykstra 11y ago
I was shocked and very worried when ads for Microsoft Office started popping up in the Action Center (10's centralized notification area) last year. When I wrote about my concerns on a Windows forum, most pf the responses were along th
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by bendykstra 11y ago
This is newsworthy because the island exists within an area of overlapping territorial claims. The installation of the missiles is an escalation in an ongoing dispute.

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