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by drsopp 8y ago
I remember this phenomenon as far back as Mario Kart on Nintendo 64.
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by drsopp 8y ago
Perhaps it is the article On Sense and Reference by Gottlob Frege? http://www.scu.edu.tw/philos/98class/Peng/05.pdf
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by drsopp 8y ago
I remember fondly analyzing the old facebook game Maze Defence, and proving that the optimal ratio between area dedicated to towers and area for paths is .5
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by drsopp 8y ago
> First appeared in SIAM News, 1977-06.
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by drsopp 8y ago
A lot of the comments here are about imagining blackness. Lately, I’ve been contemplating the infinite thinness of mathematical planes. I mostly do it when I try to sleep; maybe that’s a key; letting the brain associate certain thought patt
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by drsopp 8y ago
Yes. Mainstream programming is more art than engineering, like how we built buildings before statics.
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by drsopp 8y ago
IMO this kind of work is very important, and is necessary to be able to categorize computer science as engineering. How do you see the future of this kind of programming? Will it become much easier/semi automated? Even mainstream? Coul
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by drsopp 8y ago
I hate this phone. Typing is slow. I swap auto completion dictionaries a lot. Limited memory forces you to delete previous reminders and sms conversations. Deleting them is done with a menu system that is inconsistent; the same command jump
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by drsopp 8y ago
‘Amiga PCs’ is an oxymoron.
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by drsopp 8y ago
They could be modified to wake up on a timer, or to only transmit a burst at intervals ~ 6-12 hours.
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by drsopp 8y ago
Also on Safari (iPhone).
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by drsopp 8y ago
Perhaps regression toward the mean counteracts this?
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by drsopp 8y ago
Wow! This is amazing. Thank you!
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by drsopp 8y ago
I'm a high school science teacher. Could you point me to the typical methods you use to calculate the level of confidence of results at CERN?
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by drsopp 8y ago
From the article: Blaise Pascal summarised it by saying that “I would have written you a shorter email, but I did not have the time.” That’s impressive, as he died over 300 years before email was invented.
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by drsopp 8y ago
Steganography, you mean.
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by drsopp 8y ago
Why cannot we, as consumers, gang up and define a kind of universal and fair ‘reverse contract’ that defines rights and duties that a potential service provider needs to conform to? If they don’t, we just don’t use their service.
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by drsopp 9y ago
I agree that WeChat translate is much more convenient. But the WeChat translation is much worse than Google Translate in my experience.
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by drsopp 9y ago
Come on. Just think little bit about what Intel (and their competitors) have given us. It is obvious that they are straining against the inevitable end of Moore’s prediction. I salute them. This despite of Spectre etc.
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by drsopp 9y ago
https://www.un.org/development/desa/publications/world-popul...
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by drsopp 9y ago
They refer to the learning cone a.k.a. the learning pyramid. That model needs to die. See https://www.worklearning.com/2006/05/01/people_remember/
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by drsopp 9y ago
I’m sorry for bringing this up here, but why do I need to scroll sideways in Safari on iphone on Hacker News every time there is a quote written in an unproportional font? Just, why?
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by drsopp 9y ago
I remember back in the 90s when I listened to my 100MHz CPU with a radio. FreeBSD sounded like gentle raindrops. Windows 95 screamed.
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by drsopp 9y ago
There is a phenomenon in Norway that might be related to this that I find very interesting. The research here is called Project Hessdalen. See http://www.hessdalen.org/index_e.shtml Unfortunately, the phenomenon has been vi
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by drsopp 9y ago
No, I don't agree. Where did you get this idea? Did you see Antoni Gaudí's organic arcitecture in Barcelona? I find them so soothing. I think our rectangular inclinations stems mostly from what we can afford.
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by drsopp 9y ago
The last pieces will progressively often become more and more important because of a difference between supply and demand.
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by drsopp 9y ago
This is my prime concern when teaching and writing. Other terms for this I've seen is Expert Blindness and Expert Blindspot. A related term I've made up is Cognitive Empathy; ones ability to overcome this curse. I've struggle
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by drsopp 10y ago
What about dealing with the AI only via an expert system? This system would consist of formally proved bug free code, and have a limited protocol for dialogue (and basically be dumb as a bread). We pose interesting questions through it. The
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by drsopp 10y ago
The brilliant lecture by John Cleese on Creativity is apt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMj_CFPHYc
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by drsopp 10y ago
I'm wearing one. The only feature I miss is a countdown timer.

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