dj-wonk

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   by dj-wonk 12y ago

   Cacao will be my wake word.
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   by dj-wonk 12y ago

   "ALWAYS GETTING SMARTER"
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   Transcranial magnetic stimulation (Brain-controlling magnets: how do they work?)(theguardian.com)

   2 points by dj-wonk 12y ago|0 comments
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   by dj-wonk 12y ago

   You make a good point about needing more bits of resolution, but that's only a factor of ~10. I admit that I don't know the limits of the current sensors and rest of the system, but my guess is that they are not at the point where
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   by dj-wonk 12y ago

   When I read "direct" I was not expecting head-mounted circuitry. This is indeed interesting, but it is not brain-to-brain communication. It is [brain] to [mesh] to [computer processing] to [mesh] to [brain] communication. Awesome,
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   by dj-wonk 12y ago

   Possibly. But it seems to me to hinge upon whether surface-level signals can convey the information of interest. How deep is the cortex and how far in can we detect signals? What kind of resolution is practical or even possible in theory? I
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   by dj-wonk 12y ago

   Hold your horses :) We're talking about surface-level stimulation of neurons. It is huge leap to go from that to inner-level communication. Even if the physics were possible, what are the chances that the two people's neural struc
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   by dj-wonk 12y ago

   Do you think bandwidth is a limiting factor here in practice? FiOS, for example, has plans ranging from 25 to 75 M bits/sec. My impression is that having a sensing apparatus to sense and process would be more of a limiting factor. A sk
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   by dj-wonk 12y ago

   I tried about a week ago, but I couldn't get past the shopping cart.
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    by dj-wonk 12y ago

    Any thoughts on http://software.dell.com/products ? To what degree do the the products shown there factor into Dell's new direction?
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    by dj-wonk 12y ago

    Perhaps not a bad idea. One advantage to David Schnepper's suggestion (in the video above) is that the tombstone is executable code, which can lead to metrics and even automated code removal. Buyer beware!
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    by dj-wonk 12y ago

    This is thought provoking; I shared my reactions here: http://djwonk.tumblr.com/post/101423057084/tombstones-as-a-w...
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    by dj-wonk 12y ago

    Thanks for sharing that. Why can't I stop watching it? I keep waiting for something sinister to happen. Instead, nothing. No plot; just the past's version of the future of computing* coupled with extremely bad acting. * Not just c
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    by dj-wonk 12y ago

    The book called "The Healthy Programmer" talks a bit about Hemingway and his standing desk. The book also cites research showing that standing for extended periods has different (and arguably worse) health risks than sitting for l
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    by dj-wonk 12y ago

    "This document describes the CCNx protocol, the transport protocol for a communications architecture called Content-Centric Networking (CCN) built on named data. CCN has no notion of host at its lowest level — a packet "address&qu
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    by dj-wonk 12y ago

    See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5622209
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    by dj-wonk 12y ago

    I'd be interested in hearing from others about (1) other papers and implementations along these lines; (2) commentary on the approach outlined in the paper.
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    Trusty URIs: Verifiable, Immutable, and Permanent Digital Artifacts [pdf](2014.eswc-conferences.org)

    32 points by dj-wonk 12y ago|15 comments
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    by dj-wonk 12y ago

    Thanks for the updates.
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    by dj-wonk 12y ago

    Re: "Empirical studies showed that the mutli-variate Bernoulli model is inferior to the multinomial Bayes model, and the latter has been shown to reduce the error by 27% on average [13]." I remain skeptical of statements that clai
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    by dj-wonk 12y ago

    There are typos: 2.6.3. The correct term is "Additive Smoothing" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive_smoothing not "smoothening". 3.3. Letters transposed. The author meant "Multi-variate&quo
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    by dj-wonk 12y ago

    It is hard for people to understand why custom framing costs so much. Can you explain why it is often so expensive?
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    by dj-wonk 12y ago

    I'm curious: what about this is particularly interesting or applicable to software developers and/or technologists?
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    by dj-wonk 12y ago

    Complexity, the Destroyer of Simplicity. (Joe's talk is broad, perhaps intentionally so, and hopefully will promote some big-picture thinking.)
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    by dj-wonk 12y ago

    A wise old graybeard who wrote the book on evolutionary and genetic algorithms.
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    by dj-wonk 12y ago

    I wouldn't choose the same words as the author. Perhaps I would say this instead: "... it’s just that the layering of the three is no longer pre-ordained by the framework." Here's my take. Om's "application s
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    by dj-wonk 12y ago

    Can you show some examples (e.g. filed bugs)? If you point out your top bugs, I (for one) will take a look.
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    by dj-wonk 12y ago

    The source article is more detailed and worth reading: http://www.deepdotweb.com/2014/09/13/comcast-declares-war-to...
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    by dj-wonk 12y ago

    I am not a lawyer, but https://www.nsa.gov/about/faqs/oversight.shtml mentions Executive Order 12333 and other legal mechanisms.
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    by dj-wonk 12y ago

    And then the projected light goes into your eyes and strikes your retina, sending signals to your brain. Amazing!