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by cdcox 13y ago
It's not a direct comparison, but consider the handling of Ebola, where due to simple epidemiological interventions spread has basically been localized and stopped and no outbreak has killed more than 1000 people. Or consider the regul
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by cdcox 13y ago
According to Pandora about 800 musicians received over 50k a year from them and 2000 received 10k a year. So some people are making a living off Pandora. As Pandora currently has 7% the listeners of radio, it's entirely possible upward
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by cdcox 13y ago
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sce.21055/full Link to the research article. The link in the article is dead.
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by cdcox 14y ago
To be fair, they also offer a digital library of many (kind of randomly selected) 6 months and older issues for $10 a month or $5 if you pay for a year. Marvel's digital strategy is kind of confused right now.
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by cdcox 14y ago
MOOCS are nice as a kind of podcast when they are on a n interesting subject. That being said I don't see them replacing academia until three big problems are solved. The first is the value added problem, at the end of the day they aren't b
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by cdcox 14y ago
The demand still dramatically outstrips the supply for the time being and programming has a social network effect. Every device/store/application provides a wealth of data and interaction that other programmers can improve, work on or analy
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by cdcox 14y ago
This is one of the beauties of Matlab and similar languages. They look and act like excel but more explicit and powerful. (and harder to use) Matlab documentaiton is very similar to excel documentation and the ability to run m-files with th
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by cdcox 14y ago
I agree, cars and horses fail in many similar ways to bikes. Feet can handle a lot. Horses and dogs take a lot of maintenance (more for horses obviously), but unlike a bike, car, or gun, anyone who owns one and thinks of taking it on a long
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by cdcox 14y ago
It really depends. In a lot of disaster novels, things like roads are destroyed or unusable (packed with crashed in cars). While a bike might seem convenient at first, it quickly becomes an impossible burden at the first blown out bridge or
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by cdcox 14y ago
Some notes: Birds follow a slightly different power law and consequently live much longer. However, they do still follow a similar relationship. Interesting exceptions in mammals are humans and (surprisingly) bats, both of which beat the cu
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by cdcox 14y ago
Yes I'd say about 20% of them get a well explained no, 20% get a yes based off something already happening, 10% get a yes on their own, 20% are things they can't comment on (active legal cases for instance), 20% get stupid responses, and 10
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by cdcox 14y ago
Oops, I just checked my facebook Other and it turns out someone had found my credit card and had messaged me (in April). I feel like this is a problem and I'm kind of disappointed Facebook did this without any notification or indication. Ca
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Darpa and Defense Department look to a more open source future(radar.oreilly.com)
5 points by cdcox 14y ago|0 comments
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by cdcox 14y ago
It appears the term was used to describe the Allied powers between 1939 and 1945. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations#History
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by cdcox 14y ago
Because history and polls essentially show that the other candidate winning that state is impossible. They wait until voting closes in that state before calling it as a courtesy. The majority of states could have been called weeks in advanc
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An Online Bioinformatics Curriculum(ploscompbiol.org)
2 points by cdcox 14y ago|0 comments
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by cdcox 14y ago
Incredibly cool idea. Though I wonder if they couldn't use a well trained animal instead of a human as the 'threat detector'. This would allow more direct access to the brain (implanting electrodes in soldiers is not usually acceptable). It
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by cdcox 14y ago
It's a convenient library of games on an application built specifically for that purpose. It keeps games updated and doesn't get angry about mods, it's also relatively easy to tell which games you have played and which you haven't. It also
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by cdcox 14y ago
It's easy to rant for or against this. On a flipside: 1. Copyright is deeply broken. It currently extends well beyond any reasonable interpretation of it's original purpose. 2. You can't enter a medium and regulate it so you can do business
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by cdcox 14y ago
Does it actually do video processing? My impression was it was a screen, touchpad, and camera (for taking pictures) you stuck on the side of your head.
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by cdcox 14y ago
As to your first argument, I don't think it's quite the same. This is like saying that when I buy a song I can freely resell it. Farmers aren't buying the crops and using it for personal use and giving it to friends for personal use. They a
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by cdcox 14y ago
Windows is a closed platform? It's obviously less open than Linux but it's hardly closed compared to iOS. I can install anything I want on my Windows computer without approval from Microsoft. I can stop updates, limit updates, change the w
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by cdcox 14y ago
I'm curious about one line in this "Imagine for a moment what it would feel like if people walked into your company and used the lobby to call your competitors and buy their products. That’s standard consumer behavior in a bookstore. People
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by cdcox 14y ago
This is like saying "People find food made by machines as tasty as human made food" and failing to mention that you only did the test at McDonalds Looking at the original study: These were intro stats classes with 100-1000. These classes ar
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by cdcox 14y ago
Could be Google Scholar. There isn't an API yet (I think) but I've seen sites that use its numbers. It's a very vulnerable measure, unlike Web of Knowledge's numbers. But it would work with proper filtering.
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by cdcox 14y ago
Actually, I would really like to see a navigable map of science. What web of science has is weak (you can check two citations back and forward) but it really doesn't let you check out nodes or unexpectedly valuable but potentially under-cit
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by cdcox 15y ago
I'm extremely excited for this, it has been a long time coming and I deeply hope they succeed. They have some really good people attached to this project and it looks like they have the support needed to carry a product from start to finish
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by cdcox 15y ago
That title is incorrect. These researchers did not stimulate one neuron to activate one memory. They stimulated a group of neurons in one region using a fiber optic. I'll go through the experiment for those who don't really get the write up
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by cdcox 15y ago
Boyden and Hausser gave a talk claiming they can do it in 2009. However, I cannot find a citation claiming they ever published this work. As it goes in the field, first to publish is more important than first to claim.
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by cdcox 15y ago
This is mostly inaccurate. He starts by cherry picking his definition of ODD describing it as “a pattern of negativistic, hostile, and defiant behavior without the more serious violations of the basic rights of others that are seen in condu

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