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by devilsavocado 10y ago
The fact that you can just sell patents always seemed a little bit off to me. Does that really further the purpose of a patent? I understand that we can't just ban the selling of patents, but there must be a better way to avoid situati
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by devilsavocado 10y ago
I might be missing something as well, but it appears to me that the article was published about 7 months before Mathematical Apocrypha Redux was (Feb 2005, vs Oct 2005). No?
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by devilsavocado 10y ago
Brutalism came and went fairly quickly as an architectural trend. I feel like it never had much opportunity to develop. As a result, for every great example of brutalist architecture today you can point to 10 others that really are eye-sore
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by devilsavocado 10y ago
Meditation works. We've known about the usefulness of it for thousands of years, and more recently there is a growing body of scientific proof [1]. Everyone really should try it. I firmly believe there is nothing that you can do in 20
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by devilsavocado 10y ago
Just one data point: After owning 4 nexus phones and being an 'android fanboy' I just bought an iPhone 7. I've decided that while still not that great, Apple's take on user privacy is much closer aligned with my own. I d
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by devilsavocado 10y ago
I'm not sure how much longer I'll continue with the mobile revolution. Pretty much everything I've seen so far that's being branded as AI and the future of mobile computing is just something that saves you from opening u
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by devilsavocado 10y ago
The name Github Audio reminds me of something I've been searching for: Version control for Musicians. A lot of music is now made over the internet. When I'm working on a track with a remote bandmate my workflow consists of recordi
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by devilsavocado 10y ago
Sounds right to me. Worded differently, #4 is the basis of Cognitive behavioral therapy. Except you can't quite just 'discard' thoughts, but I get your point.
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by devilsavocado 10y ago
I was thinking about something that I didn't already fear. I should have been more clear. Your example is exactly the type of thing I also stress over, but it also sounds like it is something that it is healthy to have at least some fe
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by devilsavocado 10y ago
First, I think you're using more of a 'wise' mind than you think. You've (1) recognized the emotion that you are feeling and have acknowledged it, (2) thought about how important it was to you, and (3) compared it with o
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by devilsavocado 10y ago
Sorry if I implied you did something wrong, not my intention at all. I'm just curious how someone comes up with an estimation at all for a game that doesn't have pre-orders, and where similar games don't already exist.
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by devilsavocado 10y ago
Do you know how those estimates are made? As someone who only passively follows some Pokemon news it was obvious that Pokemon Go would be absolutely huge on launch. It was all over facebook, youtube, reddit etc since the day it was announce
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by devilsavocado 10y ago
Right, just so we're clear, I think you relied on memories and emotional thinking to bring out other emotions, not logical thinking? You didn't come up with a proof for why you should be sad and then started crying. I definitely a
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by devilsavocado 10y ago
Try this right now: Pick an emotion. Fear, anger, etc. Now, using logic, make yourself feel that emotion. How did it go? I picked fear. I reasoned myself into feeling a little bit worried, but I sure didn't experience actual fear. So w
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by devilsavocado 10y ago
Reading that snapchat is not intuitive is always weird for me. It was the most immediately obvious and intuitive app I've ever used. Maybe you are thinking it is a lot more complex than it actually is? Take a picture then select who yo
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by devilsavocado 10y ago
Like most Shakespeare, a single interpretation rarely does it justice. I think it ties in with Thompson's idea of either floating with the tide or swimming towards a goal very well. The soliloquy it is taken from is about Hamlet debati
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by devilsavocado 10y ago
I don't think he missed the idea at all. He's not saying that his food is an example of a strange loop or self-reference. He's saying that the reaction to a dish can be similar to the reaction of coming across a strange loop.
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by devilsavocado 10y ago
Can you explain what you liked about The War of Art? I read it because I have seen it mentioned on this site many times, but I did not enjoy it at all. I found that the first two sections contained very little useful information, and the th
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by devilsavocado 10y ago
I'd recommend Scott Aaronson's book Quantum Computing Since Democritus to anyone interested in quantum computing, mathematics, and computer science in general. It covers a vast array of material, from the basics of set theory to G
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by devilsavocado 10y ago
I don't necessarily think that it's his fault... But try asking 100 random people on the street what it means when you ask a girl out and she responds that she is busy, and she does not suggest another date. I'd bet that at l
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by devilsavocado 11y ago
Sure, but that is kind of beside the point. For most problems where the distinction between P and NP is important, the biggest being encryption, "95% efficiency" is absolutely useless.
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by devilsavocado 11y ago
But is that a convincing argument? His argument seems to be that he can come up with a integer M that is so unimaginably large that we can surely solve any n bit problem in NP space in n^M steps. Knuth himself prefaces his argument by sayin