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by betawolf33 13y ago
Also, I don't get why they replaced 'This stunning use of the act' with 'Stunning use of the act'. The new line doesn't make sense, who called for that edit?
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by betawolf33 14y ago
I see it as a sort of mirror to the thinking of our time. They see a way to put a human in control of something that was computer-controlled, and think that it will be better, despite the fact that their human computation can only do a tiny
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by betawolf33 14y ago
I think he hits on what's really the issue, but then gets distracted. The college wanted a PR publication, not a truly independent newspaper. Given that they paid the printing costs (I'm not sure if this was always the case, but it was at t
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by betawolf33 14y ago
This made me smile. I mean, sure, it's undeniably petty, and if it accomplishes anything then it'll be to inflame the DPRK's temper. Maybe that's the point; maybe highlighting the empty nature of their posturing with insults rather than lis
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by betawolf33 14y ago
Exactly how conscious do you expect an animal to be following the step where a bolt is blasted into their skull to destroy their cerebrum? They are 'alive' from then only insofar as their brain stem is still intact. Practices do vary, but t
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In the Future, All Space Marines Will Be Warhammer 40K Space Marines (haikujaguar.livejournal.com)
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by betawolf33 14y ago
On the issue of the Dwarven Kingdom, the point about choice of law is further complicated by the fact that Thorin, a party to the Contract, is the de jure ruler of Erebor (or 'King Under the Mountain'), and, depending on the Folk of Durin's
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by betawolf33 14y ago
Did anyone else notice the comments on this article?
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UK MPs fail statistical literacy test(rssenews.org.uk)
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by betawolf33 14y ago
My feeling is like that of astrojams', though I wouldn't like to say what particular part of your upbringing or culture leads you to have such a (to me) weird desire to praise the mundane and unremarkable. By your own observation, Alex succ
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by betawolf33 14y ago
Interesting perspective. My thought is that CS is what we call what those researchers do to differentiate it from what the users do. Creating a new tool through the scientific method would be the science, whereas implementing a system or pr
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by betawolf33 14y ago
The contention that Computer Science is not a science because on opening a CS textbook you get confronted with a number of mathematical concepts seems a fairly ridiculous one. The same argument could be made to say that Physics is not a sci
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by betawolf33 14y ago
Conclusion The internet is negative about sentiment analysis.
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by betawolf33 14y ago
Consider how long ago these events are in his narrative. He gives a still of 'Possible Witness 1' who he met and talked with as he entered the store. Presume that that image is at the end of their conversation (as it will have been pretty l
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by betawolf33 14y ago
A very interesting read. I found that Harris' argument was more immediately graspable and intuitive (There's a higher risk of an Arabic-looking passenger being a terrorist [though that's _higher_, not _high_], so check them more than others
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by betawolf33 14y ago
While I do appreciate the point that ls is doing sorting that sort would struggle to manage, isn't this an argument for better functionality in sort? Someone pointed out that ls is really doing three things - listing files, sorting them and
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by betawolf33 14y ago
In a sense, yes. However, some of the things ls does are 'borrowed functionality'. That the displayed listing can be sorted by a flag to ls is a bit of an aberration in the Unix philosophy. We're meant to have a separate tool for sorting -
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by betawolf33 15y ago
"The first is theoretical--ordinary computers are hugely energy inefficient--some eight orders of magnitude worse than is theoretically possible. " Eh? Is this saying that ordinary computers are eight orders of magnitude more energy-ineffic
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by betawolf33 15y ago
A rather quick answer from a not-totally-grasping person: the qubit stores all the possible resultant states of an interaction with it, and then collapses to one of those values when you measure it. So you can do processing really quick bec
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by betawolf33 15y ago
Drug abuse might be down, but homocide and drug mortality rates went up. http://elsa.berkeley.edu/econ/ugrad/theses/yablon_daniel.pdf
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by betawolf33 15y ago
I did some very rough frequency analysis using this last night, but didn't get very much from it. The comma symbol is more frequent than any letter usually is in English, but given the small corpus that's not too telling. It could stand for
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by betawolf33 15y ago
Though I was advocating this as a possibility, I should point out that he might include some actual punctuation in the cipher as well as the standard 26 characters, so it's still possible that it's just a substitution cipher. Additionally,
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by betawolf33 15y ago
Well, I'm just speculating idly of course, and yes, there's no sound reason to start suspecting anything more sophisticated than a substitution cipher yet, but cryptography was reasonably topical then. People used ciphers to conceal messa
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by betawolf33 15y ago
A simple substitution cipher is of course a good guess, but I suspect a homophonic one is more likely if the author knew anything about cryptography and thought it might come under attack. It's simple enough to come up with a number of homo
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by betawolf33 15y ago
I saw the whole episode this snippet came from, and I feel it should be mentioned that the whole thing was very much an assault on online anonymity. The angle was that people can be very immature and very nasty via the Web when their identi