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by diiq 16y ago
As a painter, I am tremendously excited to be able to take a closer look at some of these paintings than I could in their galleries, and to have so many works from so many collections in one place. I'm itching with anticipation to look at e
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On "Fooling Us"(blog.diiq.org)
2 points by diiq 16y ago|0 comments
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by diiq 16y ago
I'm disappointed that this summary doesn't touch on the actual results; the system recognizes 19/20 characters in the best of cases, and 9/10 is an optimistic number otherwise (so many different trials make naming one number impossible). I
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by diiq 16y ago
I agree that the timing of meals probably doesn't affect weight much. I do not hope to gain or lose weight by making this change; I've modified my behavior (not my diet) in order to improve my lifestyle (not my health).
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Why I'm Eating Dinner for Breakfast(blog.diiq.org)
3 points by diiq 16y ago|5 comments
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Stuffed animal enthusiasts think differently than non-enthusiasts(blog.diiq.org)
1 points by diiq 16y ago|0 comments
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by diiq 16y ago
Oops. I admit that is not an interpretation that even occurred to me.
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WhiteProxy: only allow yourself the Internet that's relevant(github.com)
26 points by diiq 16y ago|11 comments
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by diiq 16y ago
I agree that that headline is awfully dramatic --- but your summary misses what is, to me, the most interesting part of the article: that enforcing freedom of religion has led to inconsistencies in the way we maintain those other rights. Th
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by diiq 16y ago
I guess I would have failed to create complexity theory with my solution --- but everyone involved would have understood it, no long calculations required: give the guard a lock and the spy a key. It's still a sort of one-way function (easi
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by diiq 16y ago
(I'll assume that, here, performance means speed of memory access and calculation.)If all that memristors offer is performance, and you propose memristors will lead to AI, you are suggesting that what is currently preventing an artificial i
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by diiq 16y ago
I suspect it NASA's press conference will be related to this: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/whycassini/cassini... Oxygen and CO2 on Rhea; suggesting an easy route to complex chemistry near gas giants (which are so much easier
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by diiq 16y ago
I love it. But: The book is NOT a good introduction to the incompleteness theorem. It is not a book about M.C. Escher. It could, barely, be said to be about papa Bach. If you read it for math or science, you will be disappointed. It's a hor
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by diiq 16y ago
Do you want clothes manufactured, or just printed on? That is, when you say 'design clothes' do you mean material, cut, and construction, or jut a picture on any old t-shirt or tank? What contributes to an item of clothing being 'well made'
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by diiq 16y ago
As martijn points out in the comments, no conclusions can be drawn without data about the pool of all movies. If it makes you feel better about the world, actual murders per capita is not significantly higher now than it was in the 1960's
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by diiq 16y ago
I write most things two or three times. I am not clever enough to hold a whole system in my head at once --- so doing it wrong the first time gives me somewhere to hang my ideas. The first time through is very fast --- lots of code written
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RNA Folding: STMV(diiq.org)
1 points by diiq 16y ago|0 comments
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by diiq 16y ago
Absolutely true. They were all mystics and goofballs. But I'm not justifying the mysticism. I never mentioned 'blond types' and 'black types', I didn't touch on the 'passion' of red, or the 'purity' of white. I'm talking about the bits that
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by diiq 16y ago
Re: gray. Yes. I didn't say it was a medium gray, I said it was a neutral gray (neither warm nor cool). But you're absolutely right, this model is merely an approximation of perceptual color. You could instead build a complicated manifold r
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by diiq 16y ago
This is going to be a little more technical than I'd like, but it should be concrete enough to implement on a computer. So, start with the color sphere: a unit sphere, and each point in the volume represents a color. Around the equater is a
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Blue Mazurka (A description of fantastic design)(diiq.org)
3 points by diiq 17y ago|0 comments
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by diiq 17y ago
Yeah, this was frustrating to me as well. oconnore's point is valid, in that CL is not the only language to behave this way --- but Java (his example) is more up front about it :) (that is to say, learning Java, you learn this limitation qu
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by diiq 17y ago
As an artist, I can offer a third option: don't try to make money doing what you love. I laid out a budget that would keep me alive --- food, shelter, etc. Essentially, what it would take to be personally ramen-profitable. Then I made a bud
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by diiq 17y ago
Yes, it is. At light speed, time dilation brings the high-speed observer to see the trip as instantaneous : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Time_dilation.svg You can choose ANY time dilation factor and determine a velocity accordingly,
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by diiq 17y ago
In the end, there aren't really that many differences between them; there is more variation from person to person then there is from subject to subject. Certainly the greatest difference I notice is one of passion; the good artists and the
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by diiq 17y ago
I am a student in art school, but I work in a machine learning research lab. I talk to hip people half the day, and nerds the other half. I hope (at least in part) that I've managed to pick up a little of both dialects. I think that the poi
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by diiq 17y ago
Seems to be missing some short names --- for instance, while diiq.com and diiq.org are owned, diiq.net is unclaimed --- but 'diiq' does not appear at all, despite being four characters long. What qualifies a domain name to appear in your li
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by diiq 17y ago
And to complete the anecdotal refutation, I'm 21 and I'm perfectly happy to see non-tech articles on HN, as long as it's pepper over the techy meat & potatoes.
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by diiq 17y ago
It is my fervent hope that the only service I receive for signing up is being in the "in" crowd instead of the "out" crowd.
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by diiq 17y ago
Picolisp was a major inspiration for me to start writing my own lisp --- I love the idea of removing lambda in favor of quote. I was constantly frustrated by the dynamic binding, though, and the lack of idiomatic macros --- I guess you can'

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