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by bjterry 14y ago
I find it comical that The Globe and Mail, an apparently reputable newspaper, linked to a Livestrong content-farmed post in one of their articles. Also, an alternative to StickK is Beeminder, which is, in my opinion, a superior service.
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by bjterry 14y ago
It's trivial to memorize an entire sonnet. Actors and actresses memorize many times that amount. It's also trivial to write a sonnet. How many bits of entropy do you think a sonnet has?
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by bjterry 14y ago
Name-blinded reviews doesn't seem like a good solution for a conference, where a significant part of the appeal of a potential speaker can be their existing fame. They are a business, and name-blinded reviews could cost ticket sales.
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by bjterry 14y ago
I used to maintain the investor database at an investment bank and I can say, without any doubt, that the Crunchbase data is really, truly terrible. There is simply no one in place with the right incentives to make sure that the data is upd
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I understand that in the context of professional applications of statistics, such as when writing research papers, professional statisticians often use uninformative priors. I'm not talking about professional statistics, and I'm not talking
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From a Bayesian perspective, you should have had a high prior that lifting weights will cause an in increase your longevity because of several plausible mechanisms, and this study should slightly increase your posterior probability for that
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by bjterry 14y ago
I used to have patella tendinopathy in one of my knees from heavy squats. I was able to eliminate all pain in about a week or two using these "Voodoo Floss Band" things.[1] They don't seem like they would work that effectively, but calling
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by bjterry 14y ago
If I looked this up after finding someone's keys, I have to admit that I would be somewhat annoyed at them trying to acquire me as a customer and pretend like they are giving me a gift. I think it would be much better to offer a flat $25 re
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Having a credit card on file is neither a necessary, nor a sufficient condition to have a better app ecosystem. But if you had two app ecosystems that were identical aside from the fact that one stored credit cards and the other did not, yo
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by bjterry 14y ago
Hugs is now defunct (last release in September 2006, doesn't even support the 2010 language standard), so there is no reason that being GHC-only should be a consideration in selecting a Haskell framework. It's the only real option.
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Are you referring to the programming language for calculators? Wikipedia doesn't make it seem that expressive, and I can't find much else associated with the acronym RPL.
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I have found it is convenient to use RequireJS's shim features to load libraries that use AMD rather than looking for AMD versions. For example, we use MathJax off their CDN and they do not provide an AMD version.
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Hipster is an older word that has been co-opted more recently to describe a contemporary subculture, so it's not surprising that dictionaries have it wrong. Also, the subculture itself is a little bit difficult to pin down because many of i
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by bjterry 14y ago
I recommend, highly and unreservedly, Beeminder[1]. You create commitment contracts where you have to report to them the amount of an activity you did during the day, and if you fall short of the goal, you have to pay them, initially, $5. A
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by bjterry 14y ago
The English word for loable is "laudable." Also, I agree that that is a great article. Cheers :)
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Hilariously, there actually is an Agda web framework in development[1], although it seems like more of a research project than a serious effort. If there were a web framework in Coq, that would really be something. Idris is intended to be m
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by bjterry 14y ago
Are you referring to this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5425... I found this article as a link from the first result of: telegraph MP expense scandal "public relations" training (I added the quotes because lots
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Presumably you could use a mouseover/click/touch handler to swap out the dropdown options before the person sees the options. The handler could even consolidate the options if someone had already selected it.
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There is probably a Pareto improvement that could be made by agreeing to hand Kim and the other leaders almost any amount of material wealth in exchange for them stepping down and allowing South Korea to govern North Korea. It would have to
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I just happen to have this open in another tab, but only helpful if you are a Mac user: https://gist.github.com/dergachev/4627207
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My company's website code is probably about half Haskell (using Yesod, for all the backend code) and half Javascript (for the single-page app frontend). Despite the nuances described by the author, I really think there is a definite substit