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by cfcef 11y ago
Forced-choice is deliberate because it maximizes the information of the question. If you put in intermediate options, that can mask real differences by letting peoples' differing preferences for certainty influence whether their respon
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by cfcef 11y ago
If you're reading files rather than writing them, then you must be decrypting them and in possession of the private key, which means you are permitted access to everything; so you could cache all the decryptions. Initial reads might be
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by cfcef 11y ago
About time. Cryptsy's end has been more telegraphed and expected than Mtgox's was. The site had many bugs in basic functionality long before the hack.
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by cfcef 11y ago
Perhaps I'm missing something obvious, but why can't the filename be encrypted as well? (So you have public key 0xDEAFBEEF; you want to write a file named 'secret.txt' with the contents 'We attack at dawn'. Owe
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by cfcef 11y ago
Third sentence of OP: "Google has also been testing its autonomous vehicles in the snow."
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by cfcef 11y ago
They don't necessarily have to, that's true. But if there was any appetite to have gargantuan 500MB+ decompression libraries to save 20 or 30% on downloaded bytes while browsing, we would have seen much more uptake of existing sim
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by cfcef 11y ago
> the results here are extremely poor compared to modern techniques. Could you link a demonstration of the much superior results?
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by cfcef 11y ago
Asymptotically, yes; prediction = compression (if you have a model for a bitstream which produces probabilities over the next bit, it can be fed into an arithmetic encoder and you now have a compressor). In this case, it's not practica
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by cfcef 11y ago
So the problem with this gambling site, which defends itself as being a game of skill, is that some players are far more skilled than others and so win regularly. I see.
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by cfcef 11y ago
You'll pick up a lot of post-WWII differences, but you can still try. There's an interesting paper exploiting the meandering of river-defined national borders to do a discontinuity design for long-run effects of the Austro-Hungari
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by cfcef 11y ago
Of course C relies on an OS. The point of an OS is securely mediating access to resources; a C program is going through the OS, using syscalls, in order to do stuff like 'write a file'. Which bears a certain resemblance to what th
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by cfcef 11y ago
Typical epi-nonsense: ignore the huge and omnipresent genetic and other confounds which lead to long pre-existing differences, find congenial event to blame as origin, then leap to the most exotic methods of transmission possible; bonus poi
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by cfcef 11y ago
Another question: is the old code even valid in any sense compared to the current code? Since the original was written before 1985, then 99.9% of the people running Emacs will be running it on an OS that did not exist in any form in 1985 (L
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by cfcef 11y ago
I don't think that's an answer but passing the buck. Why are they separate in the first place? Why aren't record labels, as part of standard modus operandi, been buying copyrights from bands? They are best placed to do this
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by cfcef 11y ago
> In the Stanford lab, researchers have found even a single experience can affect people. In one test, researchers found that test subjects who had just cut down a virtual tree used fewer paper towels when cleaning up a spill after the e
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by cfcef 11y ago
What I'm wondering reading this is why song rights were so profitable in this time period. Why were McCartney and Jackson making so much money and why didn't the record labels keep the rights locked up tight if the rights were so
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by cfcef 11y ago
Very similar to patio11's writeup. Note the same caveats apply, more or less: this is working at a big Japanese company, which is far from all of them.
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by cfcef 11y ago
A better link might be http://flatassembler.net/docs.php?article=design which helps explain wtf this is and why anyone should care.
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by cfcef 11y ago
See the comments: lots of tweaking and unreliability and not guaranteed to work in emails, apparently.
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by cfcef 11y ago
They say it would be illegal and unethical for them: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/3yy0vp/usi...
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by cfcef 11y ago
Could be Instagram, judging by that recent security writeup...
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by cfcef 11y ago
As far as ignorance goes, check out this fascinating quote from the judge: "In fact, as plaintiffs point out in their submissions, Deputy Burns testified that, at the time he tested the plant material he discovered in plaintiffs’ trash
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by cfcef 11y ago
"Levine easily admits that 16 and Pregnant is unlikely to be the entire story. One data point his theory has trouble explaining is the steep decline in teen pregnancy rates between 2012 and 2013, long after the MTV shows' ratings
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by cfcef 11y ago
That output doesn't look good, especially compared with the Obama char-rnn output: https://medium.com/@samim/obama-rnn-machine-generated-politi... Perhaps the Trump corpus could be fed into char-rnn for comparison
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by cfcef 11y ago
(Noka isn't the Mast Brothers, in case anyone is confused, but an earlier boutique chocolate seller who was employing the same basic scam.) That is an impressively thorough and readable set of posts by Scott. I don't care that muc
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by cfcef 11y ago
Borowitz is not as clever as he thinks he is, and the attempt to make a satirical analogy here in imaging Shkreli hoist on his own petard fails because lawyers lack the defining feature of drug patent law which made Shkreli's notorie
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by cfcef 11y ago
You might enjoy http://genekogan.com/works/a-book-from-the-sky.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10750252 as a perspective on automated font construction.
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by cfcef 11y ago
Looks like Lasagne ( https://github.com/alrojo/lasagne_residual_network ) and a stab at Keras/Theano ( https://github.com/ndronen/modeling/blob/master/modeling/res... ). At a
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by cfcef 11y ago
You could try looking at existing animal neural counts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_n... Doublings or 20xing get you a long way: a 1/20x cerebral cortex neural count decrease takes y
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by cfcef 11y ago
I was thinking about Instapainting, but then I realized - way too late for Christmas.

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