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by bfrs 15y ago
50 years or so? Kurzweil would have another heart attack if he read this ;)
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by bfrs 15y ago
another tl; dr: Edison: Innovation is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
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by bfrs 15y ago
I couldn't get past the backwards bending royal ass kissing.
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Humor: SICP and Conspicous consumption(smbc-comics.com)
4 points by bfrs 15y ago|0 comments
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by bfrs 15y ago
So, your advice to kids is: 1. Sit down and shut up! 2. Be a conformist. 3. Keep your head down. 4. Listen to strangers, not parents. 5. Every one is out to get you. Wow, how original!!!
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by bfrs 15y ago
I remember reading a couple of years back on wikipedia that it would be hard to find a snack more dangerous than a twinkie. But today its almost completely in favor, with the "Health Aspects" section reduced to a single line. Nice work by t
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Wikipedia on Twinkie: PR win(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by bfrs 15y ago|1 comments
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McDonalds joke(philip.greenspun.com)
1 points by bfrs 15y ago|0 comments
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Modern Art - A Skeptical View(www3.sympatico.ca)
2 points by bfrs 15y ago|0 comments
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If it needs a long sermon to proclaim it's art it's probably BS(www3.sympatico.ca)
2 points by bfrs 15y ago|0 comments
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by bfrs 15y ago
How far has that project come?
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The levels of Emacs proficiency(blog.vivekhaldar.com)
2 points by bfrs 15y ago|0 comments
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by bfrs 15y ago
"...How many times can you build a cookie-cutter CRUD app with a web frontend that fetches and displays data from a SQL backend before you feel like all you are doing is cranking a lever?... ...Think of those who have implemented language c
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by bfrs 15y ago
Your comment made me laugh a lot! Thanks.
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by bfrs 15y ago
I don't know why, but this had me laughing uncontrollably: 1983 - Bjarne Stroustrup bolts everything he's ever heard of onto C to create C++.
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by bfrs 15y ago
Ability to fold comment threads.
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by bfrs 15y ago
Relevant stuff from SICP [1]: "The contrast between [a mathematical] function and [a computing] procedure is a reﬂection of the general distinction between describing properties of things and describing how to do things, or, as it is someti
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by bfrs 15y ago
http://www.freetochoose.tv/
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by bfrs 15y ago
That is some refreshingly clear thinking. If I remember right, Jaron Lanier's "You are not a Gadget" [1] makes similar points. [1] http://www.jaronlanier.com/gadgetwebresources.html
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by bfrs 15y ago
This rant is very similar to Harlan Ellison's "Pay the Writer" rant ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj5IV23g-fE ).
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by bfrs 15y ago
Ok I misspoke, it should be "libertarian (barely) acceptable way".
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by bfrs 15y ago
I wonder if the Chinese approach to affordable housing, government building huge apartment complexes, will fare any better than the U.S. approach of underwriting housing loans, instead of building houses directly, i.e., a kind of housing vo
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Affordable Housing: Chinese Version(online.wsj.com)
2 points by bfrs 15y ago|3 comments
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by bfrs 15y ago
Does anyone know how k-means ranks as an image segmentation technique? How does it compare to say watershed, meanshift, globalPb, etc.?
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by bfrs 15y ago
As Tyler Cowen points out in "The Great Stagnation", maybe these first 20 doublings or so were the low hanging fruit. Kurzweil keeps saying that people underestimate exponential processes (its also the topic of "The most important video on
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A Googleplex for $1000 by 2040?
5 points by bfrs 15y ago|6 comments
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Bureaucrat makes $360,000 working for 15 days in 2011(articles.boston.com)
5 points by bfrs 15y ago|1 comments
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by bfrs 15y ago
Interesting thought! Something along similar lines: http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/257096/crap-is-everyth...
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Associative Search: The Brain's REPL(prelectur.stanford.edu)
39 points by bfrs 15y ago|5 comments
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by bfrs 15y ago
Happy B'Day!

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