davidbnewquist

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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
It's possible that the article itself may be a counterexample: NYT is running ads alongside this story. So NYT is at least trying to be profitable from online ads.
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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
The author laments: "Web advertising will never be profitable enough to support ambitious news gathering." Really?
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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
Actually, I think 'arguably' could be removed in that context without being disingenuous. Thank you for the feedback.
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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
So by removing that word, I'd be adding 'truthiness'?
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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
Misspellings are deliberate and enhance security. Note that you still knew to pick the misspelled "striped plan" and passed. Another label for that picture might be "stryped plain". Also, you correctly identified hydrant because "moon lan
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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
Its true that a 2 panel peoplesign is slightly larger than most text-based CAPTCHAs. However, there will soon be an option to use only 1 panel, which will hopefully make it small enough even for space conscious sites.
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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
Thanks JJ. You are right about English literacy being useful to pass. Soon, I will expose an option that uses picture labels instead of natural language phrases. But don't throw the proverbial baby out with the metaphorical bath water! T
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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
Good call, in fact I'm working on this. I force numPanels >=2 because 1 panel currently causes layout issues.
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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
You answered your own question. 30-40% > 3%. But more deserves to be said. A site like Hotmail is a big, focused target for spammers. They face pain if a bot can beat their CAPTCHA even 10% of the time. Smaller sites get spam too, bu
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Review my photo CAPTCHA web service(peoplesign.com)
8 points by davidbnewquist 17y ago|16 comments
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by davidbnewquist 18y ago
Well, if the genes regulating sleep patterns are half as tedious as the gc params for the 1.4.2 JVM, I wouldn't want to consider every possibility either:P
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by davidbnewquist 18y ago
In software, optimizing this type of garbage collection for low pauses usually results in reduced application throughput. Evolution in general clearly does not favor "low pause" sleep patterns. However, there are anecdotes of rare people
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by davidbnewquist 18y ago
time-ster! J/k. Maybe time2time?
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by davidbnewquist 18y ago
The hypothetical scenario you describe would be tough for Hazardous software; however, they had the opportunity to do a patent search for related pending applications prior to investing any resources creating Achron. The Patent subsystem of
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by davidbnewquist 18y ago
Good points, good links. True, this is a time traveler's Starcraft/Warcraft/Command and Conquer, etc. On the Achron website they state: "The company's innovation will create new sub-genres of games, starting with the game Achron." Achron
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by davidbnewquist 18y ago
I may not have posed my question clearly. You say: "Nearly every task either adds ... to my stress or relieves it." My question is: why does this seems to be true for everyone? The answer is not necessarily related to energy or time expen
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by davidbnewquist 18y ago
The complexity of their game engine must be staggering...
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by davidbnewquist 18y ago
The time related gameplay elements shown in the videos struck me as extensive, entirely unprecedented and exciting. Wow!
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by davidbnewquist 18y ago
Your "work/chore/business", "fun/relaxing/pleasure" dichotomy seems to be universal. I can look at any task on my to-do list and instantly put it in one of those buckets. Probably anyone with a to-do list can. Why is this?! Assuming this
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by davidbnewquist 18y ago
This has to be the mother of all OCR test cases:)
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by davidbnewquist 18y ago
Sorry: I was actually joking. I should have capped with an emoticon. But it's cool to know Akamai actually has a triangulation DB: I didn't know it was feasible. So I gave you a karma point:)
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by davidbnewquist 18y ago
The method: dynamic programming algorithm, triangulation and tracert.
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by davidbnewquist 18y ago
Keyword based searching definitely has limitations. If a search keyword does not appear in the context of any "good" documents you're searching for, the search engine will not return any "good" results. In the example above, a search for
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by davidbnewquist 18y ago
Good idea, but the results remind me of a Target commercial:P If you switch the query to "dog bullseye" with imgcolor=red, 10 out of the first 20 results show the Target dog. If you remove the color restriction, only 5/10 feature the dog.
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by davidbnewquist 18y ago
It would be nice to submit an image as the search query and have results ordered by color histogram euclidean distance. Result pics would be of similar color and would probably often contain similar objects.
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by davidbnewquist 18y ago
From the article: "online advertising share of all advertising could reach as high as 23% if a scalable advertising solution for social media could be found." Adpinion.com (y-combinator startup) may have an answer for that. Among other thi
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by davidbnewquist 18y ago
Do you feel that Wolfram can rightly claim the thesis offered and explored in the book? Regardless, how well do you think he supported the thesis? The thesis of A New Kind of Science is something like "systems comprised of a small number o