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by curi 19y ago
The "Watch The Keynote Address" button doesn't work (or even show up) in Safari, but does work in Firefox. lol
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Macworld Keynote Page: Broken In Safari(apple.com)
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by curi 19y ago
That was funny, so I downmodded you. This makes it funnier. Enjoy.
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by curi 19y ago
"DHH's opinion appears to be that shared hosts should put up or shut up, but I disagree" Ugh. He said it should be solved by people who need a solution. He doesn't used shared hosting, so it's not his priority.
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by curi 19y ago
Indeed other traditions have flaws as well. I did not say schooling should be immediately abolished, or throw anything out. But schooling should definitely be reformed, and people are right to criticize it. The anecdote about your personal
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by curi 19y ago
Good intentions aren't good enough. Schooling has a tradition of imparting some knowledge, but also some irrationalities. Primarily it is coming under attack because it has trouble changing as fast as modern life changes, so the knowledge b
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by curi 19y ago
Shouldn't it be the highest common denominator? In the metaphor, I prefer a number compatible with me first, and a higher one second. The highest common denominator is the highest number compatible with everyone.
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by curi 19y ago
popurls, yc
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by curi 19y ago
i don't get it. for me (safari on mac) they both go off horizontally. so it's not a problem specific to pre. and horizontal scrollbars suck anyway.
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by curi 19y ago
It's easy in Ruby. For example: require 'tk' root=TkRoot.new{title "curi"} label = TkLabel.new(root) {text "i'm text"}.pack button = TkButton.new(root) {text "click me"}.pack Tk.mainloop
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by curi 19y ago
It's not a tautology. The Dark Ages was a period when we seemed to be worse off than we had been when Greece and Rome were powerful. The reliable , continual improvement of human knowledge, without stuff getting lost, is a recent phenomeno
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by curi 19y ago
Now that their kids are starting to get laptops, it shouldn't be too long before you could make a web app which helps third-world poor people learn to farm better, or do other types of work more efficiently. It's easy to come up with things
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by curi 19y ago
Web applications, including both code and English sentences, have unlimited capability to express knowledge. They have universality. There is no limit to our use for knowledge. No point at which things could never be improved again. No end
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by curi 19y ago
Did Aaron really have to lie to us? If he has such a good cause, won't the truth suffice? Also the reason so many people starve to death isn't really lack of money. It's more political repression keeping money away from them, socialism, bar
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by curi 19y ago
Speculating in physical goods does generate wealth.
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by curi 19y ago
eh? lots of them are not serious. only a handful are of comparable quality to Aubrey.
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by curi 19y ago
Where else does complexity/knowledge come from, besides evolution, then? While it's possible some answer to that question will be invented in the future, it definitely doesn't exist now, and is not known to Montessori. -- A computer finding
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by curi 19y ago
The human brain uses evolution, computers today don't create knowledge. I thought this was well known. The famous question, asked by Paley and others, was: where did complexity come from? And the presumed answer was: a designer (God, who im
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by curi 19y ago
Another issue is that people who want to learn worthwhile stuff are often forced to go to school instead. I for one was often torn away from chess to be extremely bored at school. That is one of the results of indiscriminately forcing eve
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by curi 19y ago
One of the premises of the Montessori method from the article is: That children learn in a distinctly different way from adults. That isn't reasonable, and isn't backed up by any serious theories of learning. There is only one known metho
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by curi 19y ago
I don't need to be forced to learn about a variety of things and do what's best for myself. A lot of people don't. Why assume that kids do, just because they are young? I realize some people think everyone needs to be forced to do what's
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by curi 19y ago
School is unpleasant. This turns people off learning. Then schools say: see? kids don't like learning. we have to force them. That isn't a valid argument. If pleasant, voluntary, interest-based learning was offered, you don't know how child
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by curi 19y ago
Forced learning is unreasonable. If you can't demonstrate the merits of something, so that a student judges it would be a good idea to learn it (now), then in what position are you to say it really should be learned? If motivation to learn
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by curi 19y ago
Here's a paper on the subject: http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/papers/100prisonersLightBul... It includes my answer :)
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by curi 19y ago
so, the light gets turned off 100 times in total. there are 100 different people counting. none ever reach 100 in their count.
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by curi 19y ago
i wrote code. 1000 trials. naive mean: 10389.832 my strategy's mean: 9392.652 i think the improvement was a little less good than i guessed because i jumpstart getting the first dozen or so people counted, and they are a little easier to co
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by curi 19y ago
First 99 days: if bulb on: do not touch if bulb off: if you haven't been visited before, consider yourself counted, and do nothing. if you have been in here before, turn it on. you are now the counter. look at the day number (1-based). if i
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by curi 19y ago
Some is scripted. They do a variety of other things too. For example, path finding gets its own algorithm. And they have algorithms for getting multiple guys to move around in formation. Sometimes there is some type of system with goals (ge
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by curi 19y ago
i think he meant data backup
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by curi 19y ago
wow scribd fails. it worked last night. email me if you want to see. (see my profile for addy)

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