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by dschoon 17y ago
Related, I think, to OP's point: Smart People Can Rationalize Anything: http://habitatchronicles.com/2006/12/smart-people-can-ration...
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by dschoon 17y ago
... I am actually saddened I now know that. I kind of wish I could have had that same experience.
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by dschoon 17y ago
I wondered the same thing, so I did a little extra footwork. Berkeley Professor David Wagner conducted basically the same research as this dude: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/faa/ He came to similar findings regarding selectees: http:/
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by dschoon 17y ago
This article is just filled with gems. The "Crucible" idea is both aptly named and powerfully explanatory. I do not think college is terribly good at educating. Even so, I'm forced to admit the cliché is probably right: it's a powerfully li
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by dschoon 17y ago
Does anyone here have experience with the concave mirror holographic display mentioned offhand in that video? Is something like that difficult and/or expensive to build?
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by dschoon 17y ago
For me, the most important sentence was near the end: "The Leaf car battery can be charged to 80% capacity in about 20 minutes, compared with almost three and a half hours needed for the G-Wiz." Seems totally reasonable for an intra-city co
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by dschoon 17y ago
I joke that my domain purchase may or may not indirectly fund state-supported terrorism. As far as my customers are concerned though, I think you'd be hard-pressed to find that 1% knows that .ly is Libya.
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by dschoon 17y ago
I doubt the technical regulatory infrastructure is sufficiently vigilant for them to notice, but as far as I understand their TOS, yes.
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by dschoon 17y ago
I've owned a .ly domain for about two years now (with libyanspider has been the only registrar I know of for that time). While the prices are high, and the support staff speaks limited english, and the site is confusing, I haven't had any s
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by dschoon 17y ago
I have great admiration for the amount of time and precision put into this article--as well as Amazon's relentless, cold, uncool devotion to optimization. These meditations on A/B optimization reminded me of a genetic algorithm-based A/B te
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by dschoon 17y ago
Thoughtful, fair, interesting discussion. I'd love to see Park hang out here and comment (does he?). I personally agree with everything he wrote, but I imagine there are positions out here he didn't consider.
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by dschoon 17y ago
As many people have already observed, ideal rationality and reality are very different. This is one of the reasons why assertiveness and risk-seeking behavior is rewarded in {dating,business}. The game theoretic calculus might not provide t
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by dschoon 17y ago
Totally agreed; this is exactly the generalized message I took away. How many "lessons" (goals) could we tailor to the desires of the "student" (user) as a substitute for enforcement mechanisms? Surely not all, but many more than we're pres
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by dschoon 17y ago
PDF: http://www.ma.rhbnc.ac.uk/~elsholtz/WWW/papers/papers28liste...
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by dschoon 17y ago
The full PDF: http://www.ma.rhbnc.ac.uk/~elsholtz/WWW/papers/papers28liste...
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Agent-based Modeling of Bee-Colony Nest Choice(paul.kedrosky.com)
1 points by dschoon 17y ago|1 comments
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by dschoon 17y ago
Similarly interesting research modeling bee colony nest choice through individual agents: http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2009/03/bees_nesting_an.ht... The paper is rather straight-forward for anyone here, so I'd recommend just reading
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by dschoon 17y ago
I was kind of hoping there wouldn't be release notes, heh. Are there speed metrics on Parrot vs CPython, SpiderMonkey, V8, etc?
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by dschoon 17y ago
> if you died anything but alone and penniless, you hadn't done your job. To me, that doesn't sound like a business plan for anyone on HN. I think following the moral behind that quip makes it unlikely you end up alone and penniless :)
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by dschoon 17y ago
I think the goal is to prevent other robots from accidentally crawling the Google corpus. At the end of the day, robots.txt is a stab at comity. There are many well-known services which use crawlers that fail to obey it (or identify thems
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by dschoon 17y ago
I'm pretty sure ChromeBug ( http://getfirebug.com/releases/#chromebug ) lets you do this, though it has some trade-offs. On one hand, it's built on top of Firebug; this adds a lot of power (chrome inspection, javascript debugging/breakpoint
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by dschoon 17y ago
This is as dry as it gets, folks. If you can say "If only there was a way to get POW to run PHP.JS" with a straight face, there is nothing beyond your reach.
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by dschoon 17y ago
Personally, I greatly enjoyed the post because it embodies many of the concepts I've come to agree with. When it comes to humans, perception creates reality. However, I think it's an idiosyncratic point of view (not ironic!). It's not the r
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by dschoon 17y ago
I did a few quick calculations, most of which were uninteresting. The only thing that's remotely notable is: 0.07% of the users (the top 100) account for 34.7% of the karma. Numbers in easily consumable python form: http://tire.less.ly/hac
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by dschoon 17y ago
I love how simple and practical this is. This is exactly the sort of tool I never know I need until I desperately need it, and by that point, I typically don't have the time to build it. Wonderful.
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by dschoon 17y ago
It would be a slight undercount if karma didn't follow a power-law. How many users are there again? How many were loaded when you ran that?
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by dschoon 17y ago
Though not a critique of medicine (or of what could potentially be an amazing treatment), it always saddens me when I read the headline of a medical breakthrough only to find that we really have no idea how it works. Some day, we'll underst
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by dschoon 17y ago
I am offended by your disrespect for Erlang.
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by dschoon 17y ago
Personally, I think the blog-post author deserves the traffic. He through the trouble of putting up that PDF (which is excellent, btw) and will bear the cost of the bandwidth. Would you have dug it up otherwise?
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by dschoon 17y ago
This doesn't solve everything, as many commenters have already pointed out. There are going to be legacy app-holdouts. There are going to be upgrade skeptics who stay with "what works". There are going to be lazy people, dumb people, and al

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