dave_au

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by dave_au 17y ago
I have a sister and a step-sister who are both chiropractors. Apparently there are two disjoint schools of thought within chiropractry, at least in Australia. My sister does the science based stuff that's mostly about the back and very clo
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by dave_au 17y ago
I've worked at a place with CD-R versioning scheme but without the Tim equivalent. Although the backups were pretty important because the founder was paranoid and insisted that we put the hard drives and swap space of every machine through
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by dave_au 17y ago
There's probably two sets of people at work in the statement. The people who made the frameworks would require a good understand as well as the idea that an abstraction might make life easier. The side effect is that if you create a good en
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by dave_au 17y ago
You could conceivably ssh into anything, so you could just leave copies _everywhere_.
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by dave_au 17y ago
I wasn't knocking your blog, and I assumed from your current blogs welcome message that there were other blogs out there and the current one might not be representative. From what I've seen you write pretty clearly and lay your ideas out w
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by dave_au 17y ago
I don't want to be harsh, but I took a look at your blog, and I'm struggling to come up with some kind of reasonable measure for "complex subjects" that matches any of the entries. And with 8 entries the "all the time" bit doesn't seem tha
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by dave_au 17y ago
More than some, I think. Most strong crypto short of one-time pads makes use of NP (or at least problems solvable by NP problems, factoring is probably a little easier than NP). NP is nice for crypto since it has P time checkable solutions
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by dave_au 17y ago
I thought protein folding was harder than NP. IIRC, calculating the free energy of a molecule is in #P (count the number of solutions to a problem in NP), and you still need to step it through time or otherwise deal with the actual folding
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by dave_au 17y ago
I'd write a kick-ass regular expression engine. http://perl.plover.com/NPC/NPC-3SAT.html
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by dave_au 17y ago
Answer from Cook: www.cs.toronto.edu/~sacook/homepage/JACMpvsnp.ps Highlights - Computers could find formal proofs for any theorem with a reasonable length - All you need then is a good recognition algorithm for formal proofs - Then you can
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by dave_au 17y ago
I've handed my copy to a few people now, some found it intimidating it first but I don't think it's genius level material. Just take it a page at a time and keep in mind that it'll be worth it. Oh yeah - and if you're struggling with the m
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by dave_au 17y ago
You could duplicate the system - so you have something like "White House 2" and "anti-White House 2" - try to get each group to focus on getting their ideas / facts / opinions organised rather than on sinking each other ships. It'd potentia
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by dave_au 17y ago
Leechblock: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4476 Lets me set fairly fine grained time limits on various sites that I'd otherwise spend too much time on.
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by dave_au 17y ago
They're releasing the spec and large chunk of the code openly - if it's a good idea and google stop developing it I'm sure someone else will step in.
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by dave_au 17y ago
Gah - too late to edit. I was wondering specifically about how would it effect development mailing lists - with wave plugins to look at patches / browse repositories / review code things could get pretty interesting. Although with non-devel
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by dave_au 17y ago
Whenever micropayments come up - and specifically with the idea of making the payments from some kind of broker account so that the transaction cost isn't a hassle - it colours my thinking for the next couple of days. It gets tied into my "
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by dave_au 17y ago
It seems to be acting like a lot of communication tools at once. If there's some way to partition the usage up somehow then it's like a combination of several quality tools in the one place with the option to let the borders blur. It'd be n
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by dave_au 17y ago
How would this effect mailing lists?
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by dave_au 17y ago
Well, if you're going to try to reinvent email you've got a better chance at making whitelists useful. Even if your inbox (or whatever the wave equivalent is) could divide incoming waves based on whether they were from whitelisted contacts
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by dave_au 17y ago
It doesn't seem like it's about getting a better result. As far as I can see it's allowing people to get a result in less time. Imagine if CSS made you style every element individually, so you had to specify the full path through the DOM b
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by dave_au 17y ago
AFAIK it's reasonably well known as an unintentional troll - there was a stackoverflow question about the FQA (still looking for the link) that basically mooted almost every point. I was reading it as a neutral party, however some very know
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by dave_au 17y ago
Dealing with mass migrations is also interesting in this context. I'm one of what appears to be many reddit refugees, and I mainly left because of what appeared to be a medium size exodus from digg to reddit. I assume that the people were
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by dave_au 17y ago
The 42 minutes to anywhere idea is covered briefly as well. It's like it's Fforde day. And I'll never complain about Fforde day.
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by dave_au 17y ago
I've been doing this (other than doing it I'm unaffiliated with the site): http://www.simplefit.org/ It's been good - it's a program of pull-ups, push-ups and squats with 3 sessions a week and a series of levels to work through. Pretty n
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by dave_au 17y ago
I don't think it's that much of a miracle - Cobham's "The intrinsic computational difficulty of functions" covered it pretty well - or least explained the intuition behind why it's a pretty sensible idea - and he (along with Jack Edmonds) p
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by dave_au 17y ago
Is it just me or does the article read like the author is calling Tiananmen Square a country?
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by dave_au 18y ago
Comes from Dinosaur Comics for those who liked it. http://www.qwantz.com Took me a while to warm up to the comics, but there's some gold in there, eg: http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001426.html http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001433.html
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by dave_au 18y ago
I went there to post a link to http://skepdic.com/myersb.html but Alex3917 has beaten me to it almost a year ago.
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by dave_au 18y ago
Dude is drawing something like free body diagrams here - http://www.theforgottentechnology.com/newpage2 - so he's doing alright sans formal education.
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by dave_au 18y ago
Here's the main website from the guy behind it: http://www.theforgottentechnology.com/ If you click through you all the pages you get some decent details on what's going on, despite the ancient technology theme extending to the design of

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