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   by drpgq 12y ago

   "The population of the American Colonies in 1790 is estimated at roughly 2.7 million; the United States today has over 300 million inhabitants. In 1780 England and Wales had around 7.5 million inhabitants" I didn't know that
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   Could DuckDuckGo Overtake Bing?(searchengineland.com)

   4 points by drpgq 12y ago|1 comments
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   by drpgq 12y ago

   I guess at the end of the day, the need to publish something is so strong that statistical flukes end up being published. It's too bad that once something's out there it can take a long time to be overturned.
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   by drpgq 12y ago

   I have to admit I can be a bit reticent about having a drink every day, while maybe once a week having three pints with friends.
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   The Truth We Won’t Admit: Drinking Is Healthy(psmag.com)

   14 points by drpgq 12y ago|7 comments
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   by drpgq 12y ago

   I thought this was a little weird: "melanoma diagnosis increased by 1.9 percent annually between 2000 and 2009." I would have thought that this would have went down through this period. I was born in 1973 and wore some sunscreen a
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   by drpgq 12y ago

   Obviously IQ has something to do with this.
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   by drpgq 12y ago

   As a Canadian, I sometimes wonder how much it really benefits the country.
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   by drpgq 12y ago

   Have the movie plans moved forward at all? I seem to recall that something was happening relatively recently.
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    by drpgq 12y ago

    I ended up reading Neuromancer after playing the C64 game, which at the time I loved, but I'm sure if I saw it today I would laugh pretty hard at.
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    by drpgq 12y ago

    I wish they would have given the stat of how many were in the high income bracket and how many of them moved to the low income bracket. I'm sure not many, but I'd be interested to know it.
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    by drpgq 12y ago

    One thing I found interesting about the book 1491 New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus were claims that there were some tribes more advanced around the Amazon than many would commonly think. Of course after first contact, who kno
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    by drpgq 12y ago

    I wonder if the HN countermeasures are stronger than Reddit's. For HN submissions to have much of chance of sticking around you really need a few quick upvotes.
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    Canada’s hitchhiking robot makes it all the way home to spend time with family(news.nationalpost.com)

    1 points by drpgq 12y ago|0 comments
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    by drpgq 12y ago

    I've been experimenting with Adsense on blogger for years. I had some ideas that the company I work for could put on the web and wanted to work with Adsense so I just started with a blog about my local sports team. Eventually I made an
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    by drpgq 12y ago

    'but you can surely rely on Germany to be able to fix such things as fast and thoroughly as possible.' Like the new Berlin airport?
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    Hitchhiking robot journeys alone across Canada(news.nationalpost.com)

    1 points by drpgq 12y ago|0 comments
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    by drpgq 12y ago

    "While very good algorithms exist ... or are not fast enough to run in real time." As a research scientist at a company whose main product is face recognition software I have to disagree with this part of the statement.
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    by drpgq 12y ago

    I thought it was weird that he kept mentioning children's apps but then has one for Vice TV.
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    by drpgq 12y ago

    If you want to see results of state of the art commercial systems see NIST'a recent FRVT 2013's test results: http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/ig/frvt-2013.cfm
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    by drpgq 12y ago

    NIST's latest FRVT results for commercial face recognition (FRVT 2013) is available here: http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/ig/frvt-2013.cfm
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    by drpgq 12y ago

    I wonder if any H-1B workers would have been among those laid off by Microsoft.
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    by drpgq 12y ago

    I think one issue is that cities and regions all over the world are desperate to create a startup scene. They'll pony up some money and there will always be some insiders and grifters around to tell them how to spend it.
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    by drpgq 12y ago

    How good a journal is the Journal of Vibration and Control?
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    by drpgq 12y ago

    I don't know whether to depressed for Canada or not given some of the other countries relative performance. I didn't expect Argentina to be so close though.
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    by drpgq 12y ago

    Has anyone jumped into the pricing service niche? I liked the pricing as well.
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    by drpgq 12y ago

    I was wondering how accurate these heights and weights were. Are these taken from the World Cup site, or wikipedia or something else?
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    by drpgq 12y ago

    Well it is South Florida. I worked with a German software company that for strange reasons opened their US office in Miami. We had a terrible time getting people, although a lot of that was on us. We eventually moved it somewhere else and t
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    by drpgq 12y ago

    Is the answer really everyone having a degree? People think more people going to college is the answer to the current economic malaise, but I think it just leads to more and more people fighting over the same sized piece of pie.
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    by drpgq 12y ago

    The bus is free from the airport isn't it?