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by craigyk 9y ago
You could be right, but it seems to me there is a lot of data going into that thing, if it is designed to not just check the data for matches, but also self-consistency across inputs it could be a pretty high bar... I imagine it does depth,
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by craigyk 9y ago
The unlock itself actually looked pretty fast... it just seemed a bit awkward that it had to be paired with a swipe to unlock.
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by craigyk 9y ago
I'm curious as to wether any lawyers here can chime in on how well this TOS would hold up in court. I know when I went to check I was never shown the TOS or even a checkbox that needed to be checked to confirm that I agreed to the ToS
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by craigyk 9y ago
The first time I learned of adversarial research my initial thought was GD, in our automated AI-driven future, the people who master this are going to live like wizards.
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by craigyk 9y ago
Not just overspending, but also quite a bit of corruption. I remember my parents complaining that PR senators got better job perks than US senators.
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by craigyk 10y ago
I share your dislike of this quote, but it reminds me of another I'm fond of, as rebuttal: "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice they are not"
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by craigyk 10y ago
Part of the equation is do what makes the most sense locally. So sure, if you are closer to desert, that's the way to go.
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by craigyk 10y ago
I've been doing preliminary research on what kind of high-density trees grow reasonably fast in different climates. If the wood has a high enough density it will sink in water without treatment. Wood that has been submerged can take
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by craigyk 10y ago
Good. Can't wait to see further editorials in Nature talking about all the problems in science (as a community, career, and funding) whilst the whole time meandering around the elephant in the room: they are a _big_ part of the probl
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by craigyk 10y ago
Windup girl was an amazingly imaginative extrapolation. I do have a bit of a problem with how fatalistic most post-apocalypse works are. I think what would actually emerge would be very messy, but still far more hopeful than depicted. Fo
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by craigyk 10y ago
No, humans as batteries was a stupid plot device. Still a neat movie, but instantly disqualified as a classic because of that unforced error.
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by craigyk 10y ago
I initially thought it didn't look good when looking at the amount absorbed yearly per tree, but then was surprised by some estimates on how many trees you can fit per unit area. A more accurate estimate needs to be done though, diffe
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by craigyk 10y ago
Then again, if my numbers are right, if humankind dedicated <1% of land used worldwide for food to growing trees and locking away the cellulose, we would cancel out worldwide CO2 emissions. Since most of that land is used as pasture, th
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by craigyk 10y ago
Nvmind, ran the numbers... this plan sucks.
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by craigyk 10y ago
I've been meaning to try and do an estimate related to this. Just how much CO2 could be pulled out of the air by _extensive_ farming of fast growing trees. We could find ways to use as much of the wood as possible (construction mater
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by craigyk 10y ago
OK, that's right, was working from memory. In any case, GPUs are making big inroads into HPC.
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by craigyk 10y ago
I believe the DOD already has plans to bring online two new computers in the near future that will retake the crown. At least one of them with Nvidia with a big emphasis on P100 and nvlink.
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by craigyk 10y ago
I'd say US news sources strive to hard to be "fair" where their definition of fair is based on a prior of both sides being on opposite sides, but equally distant, from some "center". I can't go to CNN (what mos
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by craigyk 10y ago
I don't think there are many "major" left-wing sites that are as full of hate and fear-mongering as a large population of their equivalents on the right. You are falling for the fallacy that both sides fall somewhat evenly o
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by craigyk 10y ago
On a lark, I registered as a republican back in 2008 specifically so I could vote for Obama as a republican. That action, however, got me registered to all sorts of conservative mailing lists that initially boggled my mind with how full th
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by craigyk 10y ago
Pick two: 1. Valuable product maintained by professionals 2. Is free 3. Will be around for a long time Yes, I know there are exceptions.
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by craigyk 10y ago
sounds like a PITA.
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by craigyk 10y ago
I liked the talk, but when he talks about the GIL keeping Python "fast" I have to laugh. It's so slow already, who cares? He is talking about a factor of 1.3 to 2X to remove the GIL in a language that is already 30-100X slo
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by craigyk 10y ago
Underlying a lot of this is the fact that not everyone can perform like Germany, because, by definition, not everyone can be a net exporter. Germany has benefitted greatly from the Euro to get to its position as a net exporter.
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by craigyk 10y ago
I'm not sure this is a strong counterargument.
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by craigyk 10y ago
maybe partial ranking, like a heap? Only try to identify your top 10%, and do so by peer voting?
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by craigyk 10y ago
Apple's P/E has always been low compared to its peers. Even when the iPhone and iPad growth were both very high, I think it has always had a < 20 P/E.
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by craigyk 10y ago
Well said. I find it disappointing how many cancer researchers delight in their arcane knowledge of cell line characteristics and will debate heartily about which is the right model for an experiment, so at the end of the day other cancer
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by craigyk 10y ago
I've seen this repeated a lot, but have not had quite the same experience with "permanent" performance degradation. Especially if I eventually expand the pool with another vdev. Not sure about ZFSonLinux, but: 1) Having a Z
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by craigyk 10y ago
The Water Knife: http://www.amazon.com/Water-Knife-Novel-Paolo-Bacigalupi/dp/... which repeatedly mentions the book Cadillac Desert (which my dad has been trying to get me to read for 15+ years, dads are smart).

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