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by cgs1019 13y ago
Can't figure out if this turn of phrase originates outside of the Laurie Anderson song Let X = X. Were you quoting it?
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by cgs1019 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson's_paradox
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by cgs1019 13y ago
Look into the SecureShell chrome extension. I use a mac basically like a chromebook, using just chrome+SecureShell, and I do all my real work on a remote linux box through ssh. I do everything through SecureShell now...no more terminal or i
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by cgs1019 13y ago
How about "Former Google corporate attorney becomes Deputy Director of US Patent Office"? EDIT: (commenting on the article title; not the HN title)
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by cgs1019 13y ago
It's similar to Green's Theorem, a special case of Stokes' Theorem. The latter is probably very closely related to the ideas underpinning the holographic principal (just guessing; my background is more math than physics, thou
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"Gravity," the Chinese, and an End to American Exceptionalism in Outer Space(laurly.com)
2 points by cgs1019 13y ago|0 comments
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by cgs1019 13y ago
keyboard shortcut: '/' to focus search textbox
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by cgs1019 13y ago
Right, I realized that. I guess I don't grok what RapGenius and these annotations are about.
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by cgs1019 13y ago
Sorry..what's the significance of this (I feel like I'm missing something)?
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by cgs1019 13y ago
This is just special relativity (space need not be curved for this description to work). Brian Greene's "Fabric of the Cosmos" gives a good layman's exposition of this idea, using a loaf-of-bread metaphor (this was the f
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by cgs1019 13y ago
If you were heading due north at 100m/s, then changed your bearing to head slightly east without changing your overall speed, then you'd now be heading a bit less than 100m/s north and a bit more than 0m/s east. This is
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Larry Page funds voice health research initiative(plus.google.com)
1 points by cgs1019 13y ago|0 comments
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AIG considers suing government for bailing it out(washingtonpost.com)
67 points by cgs1019 14y ago|38 comments
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by cgs1019 14y ago
Maybe I'm overlooking something obvious but wouldn't piping through awk 'rand()<.1{print}' give a decent streaming random sample of roughly 10% of input?
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by cgs1019 14y ago
This breaks ctl-c in my opinion. When I ctl-c I want shit to stop, not dump (potentially large quantities of) output into my terminal.
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by cgs1019 14y ago
Here's a slightly less superficial version of the same article from CSIRO who produced the work: http://www.csiro.au/en/Portals/Media/CSIRO-explains-the-myst... Here's the paper: http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2012/2012JD017921.shtml
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by cgs1019 14y ago
This article comes across as really cynical and entirely lacking in the kind of rigor and detail I have previously found on highscalability. Spanner is really mind-blowingly cool tech. I thought this article was much more informative and wo
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by cgs1019 14y ago
I am struck by the dissonance of the video. The low-budget feel makes me expect "crackpot" more at every moment, yet at every moment I love and trust the guy more and want to support him more. I really love the basic concept of wanting to r
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by cgs1019 14y ago
Given the proximity of `<` and `>`, and the fact that `> somefile.txt` will silently truncate the file, I would take issue with the "safeness" claim :P Also, `< file.txt | wc` doesn't work (at least not in bash; zsh (my inst
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by cgs1019 14y ago
Here's the preprint: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1208.0034.pdf
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by cgs1019 14y ago
Gotcha. Definitely didn't doubt the article; just wondering what you meant. Thanks!
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by cgs1019 14y ago
Wait...why can you say (very, very precisely) that lens (or similar) was the one used? Because of this other picture? I see no resemblance... Would you mind elaborating? I have no idea what you are implying or why.
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by cgs1019 14y ago
You remind me of http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2009/02/18/
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Grooveshark app back in Google Play Store(venturebeat.com)
3 points by cgs1019 14y ago|0 comments
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by cgs1019 14y ago
Those examples were deviations of reality from prediction/model. This is sort of the opposite -- the model predicts negative frequency light but we ignore this because it doesn't match what we thought reality was doing. Now we see that ther
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by cgs1019 14y ago
Life insurance is provided as a separate benefit.
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by cgs1019 14y ago
I am not ignoring its slang meaning -- it's that meaning that I am saying is unnecessary. I think using slang that derives from segregating concepts is damaging to society. I'm not on a high horse, I just think most people aren't conscious
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by cgs1019 14y ago
Sorry for incorrectly presuming you used it knowingly. The word "retarded" as it is commonly used in modern colloquial English originates with its use to describe people with mental disabilities of one form or another: they were at one time
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by cgs1019 14y ago
I agree wholeheartedly with your sentiment but call foul your pejorative use of the word "retarded". It's just too easy not to compare bad things to "other" groups. English is a great and vast language; show some respect.
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by cgs1019 14y ago
A commonly overlooked aspect to the vim way of describing what you're doing in verbs and nouns and prepositions is that the "." character in vim means "repeat my previous edit". So if you can find a way to "phrase" your edit as a single cha

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