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by drhodes 10y ago
there's also millet, a staple of ancient china. It's the small round seed commonly found in bird food.
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by drhodes 10y ago
What if the display sub system organized the screen into partitions and prioritized the redraws based on which partition the input was happening in? If that's where the eye is focused, then maybe any artifact from refresh-neglect in th
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by drhodes 10y ago
Then you pay rent to the server farm to keep your ancestors alive in perpetuity. Generations of them, all criticizing you from the ungrave, soon they'll have voting rights .. soon, you'll be them. That's why we at Forever No
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by drhodes 10y ago
An icon? no. There are however, online hanzi dictionaries where the user draws a character, here's one: http://ce.linedict.com/dict.html#/cnen/home See the paintbrush next to the magnifying glass in the searc
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by drhodes 10y ago
there is: http://www.copblock.org/
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by drhodes 10y ago
There's a recent econtalk episode that delves into transferring control from machine to human. Specifically, regarding the air france disaster: "The Air France story is a story about a failed handoff, where the automation onboard
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by drhodes 10y ago
Norvig's lispy (lisp in python) is a good one, http://norvig.com/lispy.html
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by drhodes 10y ago
check out bitmessage https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Main_Page
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by drhodes 11y ago
reminds me of a radiolab episode: http://www.radiolab.org/story/eye-sky/ here's the summary, > In 2004, when casualties in Iraq were rising due to roadside bombs, Ross McNutt and his team came up with an i
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by drhodes 11y ago
If you haven't seen it, there's a neat movie called THX1138, you'd probably like it.
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by drhodes 11y ago
This is called apostasy and in lots of places it carries the death sentence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam#Iran
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by drhodes 11y ago
Last month, there was a software engineering radio episode about rethinkdb, http://www.se-radio.net/2015/12/se-radio-episode-243-rethink...
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by drhodes 11y ago
People are also moving to NH for the free state project[1]. https://freestateproject.org/
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by drhodes 11y ago
Here's an article that cites two studies that show runners suffer from fewer knee issues. > The other U.S. study was from 2013 and involved more than 74,000. The runners reported a lower rate of knee arthritis and a lower risk of ne
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by drhodes 11y ago
I also neglected statistics, it seems there's no avoiding it these days. What cured me was a MOOC from edx/MITx called 6.041x. It literally had me close to tears a couple of times. There was carnage, whining and general malaise.
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by drhodes 11y ago
AAAAAnd reddit just jumped the shark.
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by drhodes 11y ago
There are two tiers of certification at edx. The unverified certificate is free.
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by drhodes 11y ago
By the by, there's a recent software engineering radio podcast on technical debt: http://www.se-radio.net/2015/04/episode-224-sven-johann-and-...
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by drhodes 11y ago
At that point they'd necessarily have some way to quantify dangerousity. There will be a ranking. Somewhere deep in the bowels of google, there will be a list, Top Ten most dangerous drivers. Google is about to get into the car insu
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by drhodes 11y ago
It may seem like a waste of life to you. To me, it sounds like an adventure. Potato, Potatto, hakuna matata.
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by drhodes 11y ago
Yes, but only use fractals for initial geometry, just to get some structure and then reduce the complexity and imposing a lower limit on the recursive cell size. The routine would be run once at level creation and then the geometry would o
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by drhodes 11y ago
Author was talking about generating initial geometry, but I didn't see anything about 3D fractals on that page. 3D fractals are right down the hall, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsuYZg8k-Zc
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by drhodes 11y ago
for those curious about the icon in the upper right, google "ncsa mosaic"
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[Coursera] Miracles of Human Language: Intro to Linguistics(class.coursera.org)
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by drhodes 12y ago
FWIW, I have a friend with a form of skin cancer who got orders from his doctor to go to a tanning salon.
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by drhodes 12y ago
Here's one way to live on $1.70 per day if buying in bulk. lentil: 180 g rice: 180 g banana: 120 g olive oil: 20 g egg: 112 g milk: 99 g dry roasted peanuts: 50 g cost : $1.70 calories: 2000
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by drhodes 12y ago
I don't think the first sentence of this article still holds. In 2011, the UN convened a global commission on drug policy which stated: "The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societ
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by drhodes 12y ago
I think there's an easier way. Piazza has a "Set an access code to enroll" feature on the following page (third option down on the left column) https://piazza.com/product/features To limit enrollm
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by drhodes 12y ago
Examples? Found some. https://github.com/privat/nit/tree/master/examples
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by drhodes 12y ago
Btw, there is a machine readable subset of English called Attempto: http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/

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