bugsbunnyak

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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
Press release: http://www.ll.mit.edu/news/DRACO.html Journal article (open access, hooray!) http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
Agreed. Given the scope constraints, a successful Encyclopedia should be expected to have sigmoid growth. Less-to-contribute will inevitably invite fewer contributors.
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
I think MediaWiki is showing its age. Some improvements could include: - reputation system and better meta-edit controls a la StackOverflow. This could help remove some of the politics associated with Administrative rights in the current sy
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
Yup, he built that too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutan_Defiant
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
Not launched yet, but there will (hopefully soon) be an XPrize for that: http://www.xprize.org/prize-development/life-sciences#artifi...
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
Knime http://www.knime.org/ . To a lesser (but free) extent, Orange http://orange.biolab.si/
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Shyness: it's natural(mobile.nytimes.com)
3 points by bugsbunnyak 15y ago|1 comments
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
It's nothing to do with dark matter physics directly. "just" a hard deconvolution problem: improving the image-analysis of ellipticity in (telescope) images. Dark matter is inferred from this apparent ellipticity, as evidence of gravitation
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
my first thought: ultimate captcha!
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
It's an interesting thought experiment, but the 1% is an oversimplification - necessary, perhaps, in a general audience. The 1% difference he talks about is not phenotype (reasoning ability) but genotype (DNA). It's not hard to imagine a fe
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_grammar
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
scvngr? And there seemed to be a fair number of QR codes on several subway systems I've used.
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
You were alive three years ago; no? AIG, "AAA" rated CDOs, any of that ringing a bell?