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by caffeine 17y ago
I love the Wikipedia page. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_inkblot_test ) Check out the "Tester Projection" and "Validity" sections - it's a battleground of fact and counterfact, backed up by different references, each sentence dis
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by caffeine 17y ago
I go into situation A with expected reward 100. I receive reward 100. Yes - I might have gotten reward 100 by going into the situation with expected reward -12 .. but that would be a dumb thing to do. That is the nature of acting intelli
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by caffeine 17y ago
I feel similarly. But I worry that I'll wake up one morning and be 50, not having stopped feeling that way.
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by caffeine 17y ago
The discussion of biotech was interesting. It made clear that Y Combinator is replicating the biotech model of mass production of innovation. Paul said (more or less) that the risk investing in Biotech was in some ways lower (because it'
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by caffeine 17y ago
Exactly :)
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by caffeine 17y ago
What you've proven is that if I choose whatever numbers I want, and add and multiply them together in whatever order I choose, I can get whatever answer I please. Also, if you read the article, he doesn't argue that source code should be cl
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by caffeine 17y ago
It's even better than that. Real Buddhists are likely the most expert meditators you can find. And meditation, like anything worth doing, benefits from good teaching. Buddhism is not an evangelical religion. Thus a real Buddhist teacher
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by caffeine 17y ago
To be fair, the same thing used to happen to suspected communists in the U.S., not so long ago. We still do it today, to youths in the Middle East. No trial, no warning - they just vanish, (and if they're lucky, show up in Guantanamo Bay
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by caffeine 17y ago
Grad school. They pay your rent for a few years, and you just kind of do whatever you'd be doing anyway. It's great.
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by caffeine 17y ago
Lesson: Do not live in the US. Just Don't Do It.
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by caffeine 17y ago
Most probably think it's nice, but: - I can't ride it up an 80 degree slope covered in ice with unreasonably intense instrumental metal playing in the background. - It cannot carry the enormous frozen mammal I just picked up at Sam's Club,
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by caffeine 17y ago
I don't get why Shimomura is listed on there? Surely getting owned by Mitnick disqualifies him? I think getting the FBI to step in qualifies as "winning" in the as much as screaming for your mommy and having her scold the other boy qualifi
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by caffeine 17y ago
Yes, much of the methodology can still work. This is like multiplayer Extreme Hacking ( http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExtremeHacking ). The full-on testing, DRY code, tight iterations, and frequent releases to the user all still apply. Each u
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by caffeine 17y ago
I see a lot of articles gushing praise for the parallelism and concurrency benefits of the new breed of functional languages (Scalohaskojuremlang), but too few of them include code. Can anyone share links that include simple tutorials on h
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by caffeine 17y ago
Wow .. I can't believe that site isn't more popular. It's awesome!
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by caffeine 17y ago
; *** remove before flight (hspace 30) (intag (a href "kapow") (pr "kill server")) lol..
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by caffeine 17y ago
"Dog! I will sue you." I think someone at the AP had drinks with someone at the RIAA and they decided the best idea would be to leap off a bridge, together.
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by caffeine 17y ago
There's a picture of me as a young child (4 years old) playing with the first Macintosh. From then until now (19 years later), I've been completely plugged in, basically all day every day. So ... this post was amazing for me. It's like th
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by caffeine 17y ago
That's sort of true - but I've noticed a much more troubling phenomenon. My questions are increasingly tending to be those that are answerable by the internet. I used to regularly wonder who I really am and why I'm here - now, I've given
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by caffeine 17y ago
You couldn't kiss any of those people, though.
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by caffeine 17y ago
People get their circle of friends and associates, and that becomes their whole world, which in turn becomes the whole world. You're right - and I'm afraid it might be even worse than that. A world built of online "contacts" rather than r
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by caffeine 17y ago
We're doing the Keynesian thing again because during the last couple of economic disasters, the "throw more shit at the fan 'til it starts spinning again" approach gave many people the vague impression that it might be working. Interesting
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by caffeine 17y ago
The Chinese make the technology we do. But we make new stuff. So, the race is on. (That said - go to your local research university's Bioengineering department and tally up the various races. China's going to pwn us. Bad.)
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by caffeine 17y ago
Did anyone watch that video? I can't help but get the sense that the web world overestimates its own importance. One of the engineers that built FB video: "With this job [...] you can go home saying, I've changed the world." Really? I gue
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by caffeine 17y ago
Have you checked out PG's site? Rather than a blog, it's an (occasionally) updated set of essays and thoughts. They are usually reviewed by several people before publication (so are higher quality than blog posts), and most of them have a
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by caffeine 17y ago
Einstein's Pyramid Club was relativity itself.
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by caffeine 17y ago
It's different strokes for different folks. His article highlights this. For example: rapping onstage is rapping onstage. But writing for the literary journal is not writing a novel. To use a martial arts analogy, the rapping is kumite (s
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by caffeine 17y ago
It makes so much sense now. After all, who hasn't wondered whether IE wasn't written by an errant gas station attendant who just wandered into the MSFT offices to use the bathroom?
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by caffeine 17y ago
I'd like to add the following note: for me, at least, while regular marijuana use did not particularly affect my academic abilities, it did affect my ability to meditate, both while under the influence and during the following day. "Prop
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by caffeine 17y ago
It's just about you. You need to surround yourself with people trying to improve themselves as well. Find a club for exercising or music or something - a place where everyone is dedicated to the task. It's one of the most powerful motiva

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