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by bloaf 10y ago
What if what you love is terrible? http://i.imgur.com/GripW3M.jpg
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by bloaf 10y ago
Here's what I want in my ideal personal code environment. 1. Literate programming I want to be able to write methods/functions in something like a Jupyter notebook, with text and section headings. This is a great way to both comm
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by bloaf 10y ago
This is certainly true, but there is another way to think about it. If you suspect that some kid (including your own) will be likely to make some moderate-scale positive contribution to the world (e.g. invention of the telephone) do you ha
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by bloaf 10y ago
You gotta remember to chew those pork chops https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBnnon_iZOM&t=2m50s
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by bloaf 10y ago
There is a distinction between "science: the game as she is played" and "science: the epistemic method." The former certainly has two-way interactions with politics, but the latter does not.
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by bloaf 10y ago
The "peers" in "peer review" are not employees of the publishers.
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by bloaf 10y ago
It is true that they do currently provide that service, and that science should employ peer review, but to really defend the publishers you need to say that publishers are the only way that peer review can be arranged. I do not believe t
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by bloaf 10y ago
The other difference is that you can make a much better argument that free and open access to the scientific literature is a public good. Music piracy could be argued to be obtaining a luxury item for free, and that people have no right
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by bloaf 10y ago
I feel like selling the games directly on a twitch stream page would be a little too boorish. It would make every streamer immediately look like a paid advertiser. I think a smarter strategy would be to let the streamers advertise peripher
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by bloaf 10y ago
I tend to agree. I think the CDF player they made was an attempt to address this, but their commitment to that format has always seemed weak. Performance is the other issue. Mathematica is no slouch, but it can be tough to figure out how
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by bloaf 10y ago
Lets say you want to build some fancy DIY project, like a food dehydrator. You want to make some mathematical models of the thing, so you pull up Mathematica. To start with, maybe you want to solve some simple mass and energy balances on t
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by bloaf 10y ago
In his defense, he is probably closer to correct than other organizations that push such messages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiverfull
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by bloaf 10y ago
Interesting that this fails, since removing one element was an example they considered. Maybe they should include the length of the lists as "magic numbers" which they then use to generate functions. For example, here they might
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by bloaf 10y ago
I'd recommend the book "Leisure the Basis of Culture" which covers this sentiment in great detail. https://www.amazon.com/Leisure-Basis-Culture-Josef-Pieper/dp...
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by bloaf 10y ago
I think this is a somewhat more recent (i.e. within the past 4 years) development on reddit. For a long time it seemed to me that the various sub-communities grew out of some shared sense of what it was to be a redditor (memes like the dum
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by bloaf 10y ago
Imagine that he never came into contact or communication with a person that he was racist against. E.g. a racist hermit.
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by bloaf 10y ago
When people talk about AI, the topic invariably turns to things like "truck drivers and other low-skill jobs should be scared!" I think the reality is the opposite. I think that anyone whose job is to do mid-to-high skill work w
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by bloaf 10y ago
I agree about the negative possibility of businesses jacking up prices when paying with fake-bux. But I think you're looking too big picture in this case, and to a certain extent, politics is local. This program is essentially an ackn
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by bloaf 10y ago
Because of the post the other day about Bongard problems [1] I can't help but wonder if it is possible to use that author's algorithms to automatically detect the kinds of conditional patterns that this software wants to automate.
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by bloaf 10y ago
Speaking of Italy, I was a little surprised the article mentioned olive oil, but not basalmic vinegar http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/09/balsamic-vinegar-fr...
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by bloaf 10y ago
>In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law
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by bloaf 10y ago
I, for one, am waiting for GitS style chat rooms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poKi7YyuamI
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by bloaf 10y ago
Meanwhile, I'm just waiting for anyone to put all the episodes of Long Ago and Far Away [1] online. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Ago_and_Far_Away_(TV_seri...
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by bloaf 10y ago
I suppose this is an eloquent defense of APL.
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by bloaf 10y ago
I feel like "rot" is the wrong term, and the right term might come from that old parable about the man who built his house on the sand rather than the rock.
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by bloaf 10y ago
I may be fundamentally misunderstanding what infrastructure software is, but it sounds an awful lot like a bandaid that's only necessary because our operating systems are all designed for the computing problems of 25 years ago.
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by bloaf 10y ago
Imagine if everything ran a Plan9-like OS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system) That gets you: 1. Communications between devices are encrypted by the OS. 2. Access to the devices are handled with si
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by bloaf 10y ago
This strikes me as one of those great and terrible ideas. It has a tremendous potential for good, but it is one opt-out checkbox (Share the data you collect with the police to help catch criminals!) away from convincing the surveilled to c
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by bloaf 10y ago
Say you were on a baseball team for a couple of years. After every game, your team always goes out to Bob's Pretty Good Pizza for beers. What do you think would happen if you one day suggested that instead of Bob's, the team sho
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by bloaf 10y ago
It is, of course, possible that multiple parties hacked the servers independently of each other.

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