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   by bloaf 10y ago

   This site has a propensity for crashing my web browser (firefox 51.0.1)
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   by bloaf 10y ago

   I don't think this is a good idea because it would increase the politicking in scientific publication. Specifically, no one is going to want to do the reproduction work, so reproduction work will be seen as a favor from one scientis
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   by bloaf 10y ago

   Strictly speaking, the only way my post can be untrue is if "fear of controversy" was not a reason people avoided blogging, or they feared controversy for an entirely different reason than the one I provided.
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   by bloaf 10y ago

   I'm surprised he didn't encounter the 4th reason for not blogging: 4. The topics I want to blog about are controversial. That is, strong but controversial opinions on certain technologies are just as likely to help you get notice
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   by bloaf 10y ago

   But if people ever DID look at Netflix and think that, there are services (Amazon) that let you pay to immediately stream a particular movie/show. Netflix is for the people who think "I intend to consume enough content that buyin
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   by bloaf 10y ago

   Isn't Japan a case study in treating homes as disposable? They frequently rebuild homes rather than renovate for a variety of reasons [1]. Some people believe that this attitude has contributed to Japan's slow economic growth: r
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   by bloaf 10y ago

   I have a lot of similar ideas. The one constant problem I keep running into is the amount of work it would be to get power to all those devices. I'd absolutely love if it were possible to power + network all the devices via PoE, but
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   by bloaf 10y ago

   Wolfram would probably argue that they've already brought AI to the Raspberry Pi. https://www.wolfram.com/raspberry-pi/ http://www.wolfram.com/language/11/neural-networks/
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   by bloaf 10y ago

   Lets do remember the evidence suggests that home-schooled children tend to outperform public school children academically.
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    by bloaf 10y ago

    As someone not well versed in OS history / design: Why are terminals NOT just REPLs for regular programming languages with OS_Convenience_Functions #include'd automatically?
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    by bloaf 10y ago

    I have had several opportunities to write Mathematica code in a style similar to this. Specifically, building up functions to map over entire lists rather than iterating over them. Each step feels very intuitive and satisfying. But when y
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    by bloaf 10y ago

    Its also possible that whatever constraint they were working around no longer exists. Either way, it's a case of not tearing down a fence before you know why it was put up. G.K. Chesterton, 1929: >In the matter of reforming things,
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    by bloaf 10y ago

    Do you know of any unambiguous breakthroughs in understanding that have come out of academic theology in the past, say, 200 years? By "unambiguous" I mean "accepted by the majority of other academic theologians." I have
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    by bloaf 10y ago

    Yes and no. I think of alchemy as early contact between mysticism and objectivity. People thought mysticism was a valid way to get info about the world. The failure of alchemy proved them wrong and may have partly led to a more skeptical
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    by bloaf 10y ago

    I believe the trolls should win, because it is better than the alternative. Specifically, the alternative where all public discourse on the internet is governed by well-intentioned but iron-fisted and unaccountable entities. That's no
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    by bloaf 10y ago

    Just be careful appealing to the imprecise, several century long corpus of work on the subject. By appealing to the works of the devout, people are apt to raise the equally hasty generalization described by Upton Sinclair: “It is difficult
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    by bloaf 10y ago

    I'd say to just treat any of the common passwords as a single character when validating. If "password" was treated as a single character, then password123 would only count for 4 characters. It might be tough to explain to u
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    by bloaf 10y ago

    http://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-biased-is-your-media/ I think the PBS Newshour has them beat. NPR's Morning Edition is slightly more liberal.
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    by bloaf 10y ago

    http://history1800s.about.com/od/leaders/a/electionof1828.ht... >The supporters of Andrew Jackson began spreading a rumor that Adams, while serving as American ambassador to Russia, had procured an America
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    by bloaf 10y ago

    I'm not sure it's possible to invent a method of letting users select their information sources that doesn't immediately let them create their own misinformation silos.
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    by bloaf 10y ago

    But it seems to me that the fact that they have a theorem prover at all means they do know ahead of time what semantic preserving transformations are available.
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    by bloaf 10y ago

    As someone not well versed in compilers, this approach seems bizarre. 1. Given some chunk of a program, we should know ahead of time which I/O preserving transformations are available to us, because math. 2. Random search isn't go
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    by bloaf 10y ago

    But you'd be looking at two different things. When looking at a math textbook on differential equations, you're looking at why a class of expressions constitutes a solution to a differential equation. Looking at code, all you&
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    by bloaf 10y ago

    If I were going to write a programming language for myself, I would lay out the following challenge to myself: > You are only allowed to store the AST and variable names found by parser. The input to the lexer is not allowed to be persi
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    by bloaf 10y ago

    There is literally no such thing as a drink that is ok for everyone: http://www.medicaldaily.com/alexandra-allen-utah-teen-rare-w...
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    by bloaf 10y ago

    Sure, there are all sorts of ways to lessen the pain of syntactically significant indentation. Indeed, I'd say that the annoyance can be made sufficiently small that by the time someone is an experienced enough coder to recognize that
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    by bloaf 10y ago

    Here, I think you are wrong. I strongly suspect that while the high-level features of programming languages are chosen for human consumption, the implementation details and tooling are often chosen arbitrarily, or for machine-convenience.
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    by bloaf 10y ago

    The subsequent dig was weird too: >If the public didn’t care about science, then there would not only be “the danger of supplies being cut off,” but also the danger of the public endorsing inquiries “of doubtful value” (ironic, given Wel
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    by bloaf 10y ago

    I think this comment should be higher. Industries have done exactly what Marco wants[1] and it was not a good look for America. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist
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    by bloaf 10y ago

    Get insurance companies interested. Force IoT vendors to buy insurance against potential damages caused by vulnerabilities in their devices.