bpchaps

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by bpchaps 10y ago
Thanks for the link. I've been struggling recently in trying to explain a lot of ideas that seem to coincide very tightly with cybernetics. This gives me so much to read on! :)
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Right - a popup at launch with useful context rather than a blind "We want $ALLTHETHINGS".
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Why is it the worst way? It would make total sense to combine those ideas.
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Sorry, but no.
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Absolutely. Back when I first started doing FOIA requests, everything was anonymous. Not necessarily because of paranoia, but because it gave me a calm peace of mind after submitting requests. After some bogus FOIA redactions and misinterpr
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Maybe he's getting better, though! ;) Compared to his similar articles about Ramanujan and Minsky: sed 's/[^a-zA-Z]/ /' ramanujan.txt | tr ' ' '\n' | tr '[:upper:]' '[:low
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Maybe. When it came out, everybody was talking about the two in an almost identical light. That probably didn't help, either :)
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Has anybody gone through their privacy policy? The speed that this became viral and the possibilities to have an enormous amount of people take video all over the place gives me the heeby jeebies.. Some of the things in the policy sound ver
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Huh. You're right. Wonder where that impression came from, then..
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by bpchaps 10y ago
comment was entirely irrelevant - deleting
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Fair enough - I completely agree.
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Thanks, I'll check it out!
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by bpchaps 10y ago
I understand what you mean, but calling it an accident of history is a pretty strong minimization of what amounts to applied philosophy towards genuine innovation. When I talk about information theory, I'm talking more about the more g
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by bpchaps 10y ago
And calling philosophy navel-gazing is navel-gazing. The philosophy of information is a great example of where it's incredibly important [1]. I seriously, seriously doubt that information theory would have come about without many of th
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Do you have a link?
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Instead of strace, check out sysdig. It's significantly more powerful so long as you're willing to install the associated kernel modules: http://www.sysdig.org/
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by bpchaps 10y ago
And bees have been around a lot, lot longer than that. Also, thousands of years ago, there wasn't the capability of mass production like we have today.
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by bpchaps 10y ago
> I think it's safe to say it doesn't have anything to do with humans taking the bees' food. > we don't really understand colony collapse disorder Look at the bee expert here. ;) But really, the parent post didn&#x
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Right, they did actually give me the surface scan. It was really, really cool, though with really low resolution. What got me interested in getting the data was this: [1]. It might be difficult to work with, but there was a lot of motivatio
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Agreed on leaking information. It make total sense why they wouldn't want the participants to get access to the data. Though, when I found that out, I did some naive scans to see if they had any public webservers that would have the re
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Yeah, it's pretty frustrating. I tried getting my own data from an fMRI study, but was told that the signed paperwork specifically disallowed this sort of thing. Not even my doctor could request it. The only option I have is to complet
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by bpchaps 10y ago
This might be true. When I worked at a helpdesk, I was given praise for having the fastest call times on the floor. In the same review though, I was critiqued just as strongly for not being personal enough. It was and telling.
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by bpchaps 10y ago
My last job had a relaxed dress policy that allowed people to wear jerseys during football season. Not being a football fan, it felt really oddly unfair in ways I'm not really sure how to describe. I asked them if it was fine to wear a
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by bpchaps 10y ago
I'm going to take a long break from this project, I think. Working with the data has been fun and all and has probably been the biggest learning experience of anything I've ever done... but doing it all on my own has been pretty s
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Sure - Raw: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8w4PnXvOPIiVmNiUzVPZ1JfX0... Mostly cleaned up (ignore the file name :p ): https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8w4PnXvOPIia0J3RGVyd0tka2...
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Hah, thanks. She sounds like she's had a lot more success than I have, though. :)
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by bpchaps 10y ago
This matches my experiences in Chicago. A FOIA request got me all of Chicago's parking ticket data from Jan 2009 to March 2016 and I did some quick awk commands to find the most ticketed spots. I found some pretty interesting ones and
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by bpchaps 10y ago
If you want help with something like that, I'd love to. Oh, the dogfooding possibilities..
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by bpchaps 10y ago
A lot of it is me getting annoyed at something that certainly impacts many others. It's gone down some interesting paths. What I've found in general is that the small things not only add up, but they help find where the root cause
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Lots of the work is just me identifying problems that I see and trying to fix them. Most of it is just exploratory and can be stressful at times, but it's overall very rewarding. I just accepted an offer in the infosec field to get out

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