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Building extensions for Python 3.5(stevedower.id.au)
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by dewarrn1 11y ago
Here's my terribly hackish version for BSD userlands (briefly tested on FreeBSD, may work on OS X): #!/bin/sh eg () { man $1 | grep '^E.EX.XA' -A 1000 | grep '^[A-Z]' -m 2 -B 1000 -A 0 |
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by dewarrn1 11y ago
Interesting idea. Before Shai Agassi's electric car company (Better Place) folded there was talk of a similar motorized arm [0]. I don't know whether that ever got past the discussion stage at BP, and they're out of busines
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by dewarrn1 11y ago
I wouldn't be in cognitive neuroscience if I thought our methods held no promise, but there's a vast gap between reconstructing images from visual cortex responses and accurately determining whether a person is lying. Farah et al
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by dewarrn1 11y ago
There are already commercial operations using (or claiming to use) fMRI for lie detection [0]. I can understand the potential appeal of similar positions for applicants — there's a scarcity of academic jobs for even highly skilled cog
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by dewarrn1 11y ago
fMRI as a method is not bankrupt or ill-founded. However, as the study you linked shows, it is susceptible to statistical artifacts that must be controlled to support rigorous conclusions.
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by dewarrn1 11y ago
Don't believe the hype. Applying fMRI methods to lie detection is at least as problematic as the polygraph. Here's a good review: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15265160701842007
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by dewarrn1 11y ago
Excellent news! The Anaconda distribution has been great for me, and CA's policy of free academic licensing for their go-fast extensions [0] is the cherry on top. [0] https://store.continuum.io/cshop/academicanaco
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Microsoft Thinks the Smartphone Is Over. It’s Wrong(wired.com)
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by dewarrn1 11y ago
So with a 5.5% margin the $1.6 billion contract would be expected to yield $88 million in profit? Given what I'm assuming are large R&D expenditures on top of launch-related costs, I wonder whether the business is sustainable.
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by dewarrn1 11y ago
I think s/he means that the HTML source includes ASCII art showing Mario: <!------------ SUPER MARIO BROS. 30TH --------------- \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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by dewarrn1 11y ago
A legend. My first exposure was through his participation in U2's Rattle and Hum album/rockumentary [0]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRHV-HWhqWQ
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by dewarrn1 11y ago
Looks like FreeBSD runs relatively well on many ThinkPad models: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Laptops
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by dewarrn1 12y ago
Agreed, I like FreeBSD a great deal. I especially like Nicole's guide because it's so matter-of-fact. By following her instructions, I think anyone with *NIX experience could get a similar setup working without too much hassle,
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A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To(cooltrainer.org)
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by dewarrn1 12y ago
I've been using it for about 6 months and I've been very satisfied.
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by dewarrn1 12y ago
Yes, URL appears in the statusbar on Windows 7 Thunderbird 31.5.0.
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by dewarrn1 12y ago
ggplot2 is a very elegant language for describing how to draw your data. Two great books for interested parties: the R Graphics Cookbook [0] which has tons of ggplot2 examples and gets you plotting immediately; and ggplot2: Elegant Graphic
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by dewarrn1 12y ago
Decent references. I find myself doing similar, final-draft touch-ups with plots for manuscripts.
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by dewarrn1 12y ago
R has a built-in Cairo-based SVG output device that allows you to write out any plot in a vector format: http://www.inside-r.org/r-doc/grDevices/cairo . It's great for publication-quality plotting.
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by dewarrn1 12y ago
ggplot for Python [0] is coming along nicely. My own recent use suggests that for basic plotting, most of the expected functionality is there. More advanced displays, such as faceting, are still in progress. Overall, I've been impre
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by dewarrn1 12y ago
Not bloat, configuration. That is, I suspect the parent comment is not suggesting that these Debian installations are bloated, but that their default configuration leaves much to be desired. In my own use, I found Crunchbang to have the UX
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by dewarrn1 12y ago
First, I should point out the original work of Ralph Adolphs, the Damasios, and Dan Tranel on this case [0]. It's a short, important paper that started this whole line of investigation based on the single extraordinary case of SM. In
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by dewarrn1 12y ago
I've had the privilege of working with the patient described in the podcast. She's unique in any sense of the word.
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by dewarrn1 12y ago
Regarding custom kernels, DO says that BSD will be able to boot them: http://disq.us/8lqxh7 .
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by dewarrn1 12y ago
False memories of the kind that Chabris and Simons discuss are ubiquitous in healthy people, and there are lots of interesting wrinkles in the literature describing these memory errors — here are two of my favorites. First, even individuals
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by dewarrn1 12y ago
This may be a silly question, but could publishers simply set up their own Amazon storefronts? That is, could I buy a book from "Hachette, fulfilled by Amazon" if Hachette was willing to set things up on their end? I'm sure
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by dewarrn1 12y ago
Earlier comments are already critiquing the author for suggesting that exercise is a bad thing or that particular exercises don't work, but that perspective misses the point. The author isn't criticizing exercise itself, but she
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Ag (grep/ack replacement): Getting to 1.0(geoff.greer.fm)
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by dewarrn1 12y ago
DFW's commencement speech at Kenyon is another terrific example: http://web.archive.org/web/20080213082423/http://www.margina...

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