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Why are we Dismantling NASA?(blog.diiq.org)
1 points by diiq 14y ago|0 comments
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by diiq 14y ago
Not that it invalidates the article, but it's worth noting that, no matter how many times it's said, you do not replace everything every 7 years. Not by any available definition of 'everything': cells, atoms, limbs, tastes. http://askanatu
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by diiq 14y ago
No; Jan van Eyck painted the way he did in large part because that is what he was expected to do; 'Art', for him, in his time, had a fairly specific definition. It is the lack of such a definition that makes postmodernism. If someone painte
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by diiq 14y ago
Well named: fear of your own ignorance is an excellent way to hate literature. No one can 'get' it all. There's too much, and besides, half of it might not be there anyway. Devour lit with popcorn. Odysseus is a superhero; Knect a nerd; Blo
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by diiq 14y ago
He is often wise and moving. But In Kafka on the Shore, a nameless concept embodies itself as Colonel Sanders, who is a magical pimp. A line from The Second Bakery Attack1: "Why my wife owned a shotgun, I had no idea. Or ski masks. Neithe
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Modern and Post-, Explained with Puppets(diiq.org)
2 points by diiq 14y ago|0 comments
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by diiq 14y ago
I subscribe to Danto's 'post-historical' description of PoMo (though it's fallen somewhat out of favor). He claims that, with the end of modernism came the end of rules and sweeping movements -- it was no longer possible to distinguish, on
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by diiq 14y ago
For me, the moment that transformed the book from a chore to a delight was the moment I realized it was funny . I was allowed to laugh, but I was also allowed to miss jokes, miss references. There are so many, that if one flies over your h
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Thoughts on the Occasion of Christening a Computer(diiq.org)
1 points by diiq 14y ago|0 comments
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by diiq 14y ago
My degree is in fine art printmaking. I've had 2 jobs programming in research labs. I'm looking for work right now, and my interviews outnumber the applications I've submitted. No one has ever asked about my lack of CS degree -- instead, th
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Ask Guilt to borrow the internet.(chrome.google.com)
1 points by diiq 14y ago|0 comments
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by diiq 14y ago
Am I alone in enjoying "adaptive" and "perfective" code maintenance? Dashing off new code is fun, but making bad code into good code is immensely challenging and satisfying to me. I think it's hard to write beautiful code straight off --
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by diiq 14y ago
It told me how to engage webGL in Safari, but I was using Chrome. And apparently it recommends Chrome to anyone using firefox... fancy a game of three-browser monte? An image of what we luddites are missing out on would improve the no-webG
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by diiq 14y ago
Oh, no; I've seen just as much up North as down South. I'm not talking so much about severe racism; just the more everyday "Maori are lazy, the Asians steal our jobs and our houses, the French are poor workers..." I guess I should call it r
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by diiq 14y ago
As a Yank in New Zealand, here are the things that I enjoy: - The people are friendly. Hitchhiking works; particularly on the South Island. - Everywhere is beautiful. I spend 5 hours in an open-pit coal mine. In NZ, even the coal mines are
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Why I'm Travelling, and How I'm Doing it Cheaply(me.diiq.org)
1 points by diiq 15y ago|0 comments
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How I Went from Problem to Prototype in 14 Days(me.diiq.org)
3 points by diiq 15y ago|0 comments
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Some Things No One Ever Told Me About Drawing Stuff(me.diiq.org)
2 points by diiq 15y ago|0 comments
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by diiq 15y ago
I do.
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by diiq 15y ago
Civil disobedience, the most puissant form of protest, is breaking a law you believe to be unjust, and suffering the consequences if necessary. If you break a law you believe to be unjust and expect to suffer no consequences, that's silly
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by diiq 15y ago
Wonderful. I am envisioning a live pair of images, palette and picture, so manipulations of the palette altered the picture.
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by diiq 15y ago
"Qualified individuals can apply to become an astronaut through the federal government's USAJobs.gov website." http://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/302967000 "Qualified" apparently means healthy, science or engineering bachelors', 20
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by diiq 15y ago
I agree with you that doing proofs isn't the most important thing --- though I might not be so adamant about avoiding it. My own experience with ML is so narrow, it's hard for me to say what else should have made an appearance --- I made
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by diiq 15y ago
I agree totally. The first two sins of education are making simple things complicated and making complicated things simple. Ng was clear, and that is commendable. My concern was not based on how difficult he made the material he presented
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by diiq 15y ago
Fair point. I admit that Khan does an incredible job. I believe it [lecturing to a microphone] is an extremely rare and underdeveloped skill. "EVERY" might have been hyperbole. But when the lecturers at hand are professors who have spent de
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by diiq 15y ago
My degree is in Fine Art, and I thought the class was pointlessly easy. Fix the class in two easy steps: Lecture live, record the lectures. EVERY speaker is more effective when they have the feedback of their audience's faces. Expect the
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The Church of Interruption(me.diiq.org)
1 points by diiq 15y ago|0 comments
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by diiq 15y ago
That reddit thread is delightful, because it is full of wonderful commands that I didn't know, or rarely use, or had forgotten. But it's also terrifying, because it exposes how many people will post questions before using man.
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*That Guy* Syndrome(me.diiq.org)
2 points by diiq 15y ago|0 comments
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by diiq 15y ago
Thanks for setting me straight! Where did you learn these rules? I went hunting and couldn't find much --- not even agreement on the rhymes for the quatrain (which you imply isn't a quatrain at all?).

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