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by bloaf 13y ago
Most people are pretty bad at deciding which programs are trustworthy.
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by bloaf 13y ago
I think the dream would be to couple a literature-analyzer like this with a specialized search engine like Wolfram Alpha.
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by bloaf 13y ago
When people talk about the future, they always seem to think that it will be the scientific jobs that get roboticized last. I think it will be the opposite, it won't be long before systems like this one will be able to analyze the sci
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by bloaf 13y ago
My own assertions about 2043, for what they're worth. Space is going to continue to be a novelty as far as Joe Public is concerned. If space-hotels exist, they will only be available to the very rich. There will be no "Elysium&qu
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by bloaf 13y ago
> send surprise candy stuffed into envelopes twice a month to subscribers Haha! Did you know that your business model is a significant problem for philosophers? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexpected_hanging_parado
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by bloaf 13y ago
He didn't get a paid-off house for free though, he paid it off himself. http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/05/11/the-elephant-in-th...
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by bloaf 13y ago
He strikes me as an old testament prophet telling us "repent in sackcloth and ashes!" He thinks we've been wandering in a desert for 30-some years, and he is here to point out that PARC was holding the map when we got lost.
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by bloaf 13y ago
I honestly couldn't tell if this was a real product or some sort of parody at first. I half expected it to be produced by Aperture Science. I don't blame you. I don't think the issue is the data collection. I think most
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by bloaf 13y ago
If you got a list of the most common supermarket codes/abbreviations and used them as a dictionary to train your OCR program I think you could do OK. I think there is a reason grocery stores generally don't let you see your purch
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by bloaf 13y ago
>Yeah, sure, you can talk about individuals having exit strategies, rather than just companies, and you could conceivably be an entrepreneur trying to build a company to the point where you can sell all your interest in the company, but
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by bloaf 13y ago
If I got that question, I'd probably spend most of my time worrying about whether or not I should count solutions that are rotations/reflections of other solutions as unique.
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by bloaf 13y ago
If google cached them as soon as they were received wouldn't they, in some cases, effectively perform a DoS attack on whatever was hosting the image? I.e. if a spammer sent out 1,000,000 emails w/ images they were hosting, they w
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by bloaf 13y ago
>Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. John von Neumann The only way to get used to things is to work with them regularly!
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by bloaf 13y ago
Say someone publishes a paper that has the conclusion: If you preform procedure X, you get carbon nanotubes with property Y. Lets then go on to say that someone publishes a paper which states: carbon nanotubes with property Y will theoretic
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by bloaf 13y ago
To check if a number is divisible by 3, you can sum the digits of your number. If the sum of the digits is divisible by 3, then so was the original number. (e.g. 5832 -> 5+8+3+2=18) Therefore, if you recursively sum the digits of your
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by bloaf 13y ago
Not only are his works worth reading, he is endlessly quotable.
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by bloaf 13y ago
"The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter." http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TimeToMakeItShort
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by bloaf 13y ago
The schools are indirectly proving the old computer security saying which holds that there is no security without physical security. As soon as the school hands the iPads to the students, there is nothing the school can do to ensure they r
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by bloaf 13y ago
It'd be cool if Valve incentivized contributions to open source parts of their OS through Steam. E.g. if you fix a bug you get some sort of achievement, and if you fix several bugs you get something valuable like game coupons.
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by bloaf 13y ago
Lacking belief in an afterlife, many early civilizations instead strove to achieve immortality in "kleos": the fame that does not decay.
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by bloaf 13y ago
That is a fairly interesting opinion on that issue: http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/2962...
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by bloaf 13y ago
>A state, is called the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly lieth it also; and this lie creepeth from its mouth: "I, the state, am the people."
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by bloaf 13y ago
Do you remember this from not so long ago? http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/what-exactly-is-a-...
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by bloaf 13y ago
Its simple, Facebook can't set the precedent that people who exploit bugs in this way get paid. If they did, every Joe who felt that their particular bug wasn't being addressed quite right would think that public exploitation is
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by bloaf 13y ago
Teaching someone any computer skill is partly a hardware problem. A large monitor and typing skills improve your abilities to perform most computer tasks more complicated than checking facebook.
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by bloaf 13y ago
Sure, so would high explosives directly on the tube. I am considering a situation that could conceivably be accidental because it is incredibly difficult to engineer something that can stand up to malice.
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by bloaf 13y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUia8HnNZrM&t=10s
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by bloaf 13y ago
If someone shot the tube with a medium sized gun, would the impact cause an internal defect on the order of 0.5mm?
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by bloaf 13y ago
What will probably happen is that you get a transparent car and advertisements on the inside of the tube.
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by bloaf 13y ago
Specifically: the hype it is getting has been distracting people from the performance of Tesla.

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