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by cyorir 12y ago
Maybe they skipped Google. After all, there is already a better search engine[0] when looking for existing names of brands. [0] http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/
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by cyorir 12y ago
"Science would pretty much be ok." Here the author takes a very limited view of science. Specifically, genetics, neuroscience, and parts of molecular biology are completely ignored in the discussion of statistics and medicine. Sur
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by cyorir 12y ago
I think this is misunderstanding the role of math in science. Math is not used to "prove" scientific results, per se. Math is used to construct models, and prove that certain results would be expected from a given model. That does
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by cyorir 12y ago
The neuroscience review cited in this blog post is originally from nature reviews [0]. While I agree with the general notion that neuroscientists need to get better at using statistical methods and tools, I wonder if the author of the blog
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by cyorir 12y ago
Where do I argue in favor of mind police? Don't put words in my mouth for me, thank you. I look at how attitudes towards things like race have changed in the past 50 years. That is not a result of regulation imposed on society, that is
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by cyorir 12y ago
My apologies, I phrased things poorly. I don't want to say a majority of society is bad. I just think that even a small contingent, if loud enough, can make society seem more toxic than it needs to be.
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by cyorir 12y ago
Agreed. Applying filters hides the symptoms without treating the underlying illness, which is a society that is infested with sexism. We can treat the symptoms by filtering but at the end of the day we need strategies for making society les
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by cyorir 12y ago
I think that in a lot of companies, this would be a terrible approach to take. By not standing up against such things, you could easily destroy the cohesion in a company. Maybe if you have a very homogenous company then noone will be there
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by cyorir 12y ago
This article reads like a crude and incomplete rehashing of Buddhism's four noble truths, minus the fourth. Humans experience suffering, this suffering comes from desire, to eliminate suffering one must eliminate desire. The differenc
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by cyorir 12y ago
It's important to have as many sides involved as possible - I wouldn't trust US satellites alone or Russian satellites alone, but I would trust all satellites together. Russia, US, and EU could all try to spin this story in their
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by cyorir 12y ago
Supercool. I have no doubts you'll find lots of Chicago-area people looking to put that land to use. However, if you are looking for a good base of people to reach out to my suggestion is to tap into Northwestern University. It's
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by cyorir 12y ago
With respect to relicensing, I assume that depends on a country's specific copyright laws. Ordinarily this license is as close to the public domain as you can be while still still having a license. So the protections against re-licensi
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by cyorir 12y ago
There has been a lot of study into sexual dimorphisms. Check wikipedia for a primer[0]. Or grab yourself a basic neuroscience textbook[1]. That being said, the poster above stated, "Guys are less subtle -- we're wired to be more a
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by cyorir 12y ago
I couldn't agree more. If a child is bullied for a specific reason (not conforming to society's perceptions or expectations) then there is no guarantee that that reason will go away unless society changes (which tends to happen sl
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by cyorir 12y ago
I didn't mean to imply that the term metrosexual is strictly related to gender. I know that terms like this, as well as behavior about calling someone by the opposite sex or gender as an insult are things that differ a lot by culture a
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by cyorir 12y ago
I see more good asm examples are being devoloped. This is a good, cool start for connecting to IRC, but it would be even more cool to see the bot do something beyond looking for a single line. What do you plan to do with it, if I might ask?
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by cyorir 12y ago
In short a lot of this comes down to the distinctions between sex, gender, and sexual orientation. Over the past two decades attitudes have shifted to where most people can clearly distinguish sexual orientation from sex and gender, but soc
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by cyorir 12y ago
http://jalopnik.com/why-the-solar-roadway-is-a-terrible-idea... http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/183130-solar-roadways-pas...
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by cyorir 12y ago
That is a rather narrow (formal?) definition of OS. If instead you consider an OS to be (more generally) a collection of system-level software providing the interface between hardware and the userspace application, then in this case the sys
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by cyorir 12y ago
True, you could leave out the bootloader and some of the sys code and this would then nearly be a DOS program, at least the port to DOS would be easy. Leaving it as is allows it to boot without an OS.
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by cyorir 12y ago
The person who wrote this wrote it to be booted directly from BIOS. That means it must handle everything an OS would otherwise do for it: bootloader, resource management, hardware access, random number generation, etc. So a project like thi
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by cyorir 12y ago
I would agree with most of this except for the establishment of the technocracy. I do not think Mao or the gang of four wanted to establish a technocracy. That is a bit different from the aim of the cultural revolution, which was hostile to
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by cyorir 12y ago
As I recall that includes the Z80 instruction set. I remember this because I wanted to program my Ti-83 with assembly rather than the included basic interpreter, and was surprised to learn that the CPU in my graphing calculator could only a
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by cyorir 12y ago
True. We shape laws to approximate a vision of what should be moral. As views of morality change, the laws often fail to keep pace.
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by cyorir 12y ago
I'll admit that I gave official election figures, as estimated by Russian election officials. They are at link [0]. Judging by official results, support for the communist party in Russia has not been anywhere near 30% since the 90&#x27
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by cyorir 12y ago
You believe that censorship by governments is universally wrong, but that view is not universal. German laws have been oriented to allow censorship since the allied occupation of West Germany. It is perfectly legal by German law as it is pr
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by cyorir 12y ago
Off by a factor of 2, if you are referring to the Presidential elections in Russia, where the communist party candidate received less than 20% of the vote. 35% roughly includes all parties except Putin's. Although I am not sure that vo
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by cyorir 12y ago
I'd love to see someone scrape all of these comments (since they're provided in convenient tabular form, might as well!) and analyze them to see if there is any interesting data to be seen. Just browsing through a couple, some peo
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by cyorir 12y ago
I wouldn't draw very much from that violent crime factoid. Denver was not exactly the most violent city before legalization, and has its own circumstances, so you wouldn't want to generalize from Denver's example to more viol
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by cyorir 12y ago
I like this one because it is easier to get an idea of what the layout of the neural network itself is, and gives more control. Off the topic of neural networks in javascript but on the topic of neural networks in general, the readme links

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