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by dtf 13y ago
Throwing your gender under a bus is a primitive way of signalling that you're an enlightened bro. I find it rather sleazy.
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"Voice risk analysis" used by UK authorities(theguardian.com)
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by dtf 13y ago
I loved that programme and I loved my Model B. Serle & Mac were so easy to watch. It was on BBC2 (then so were a bunch of great early morning Open University programmes on subjects that were way over my young head). http://ww
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by dtf 13y ago
Definitely. Houdini is nodes everywhere. Nodes within nodes within nodes :-) Could maybe add Softimage ICE to that list. Also check out Grasshopper3D for procedural modelling. Blender has a regular flowgraph for it's compositor and sha
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by dtf 13y ago
Also Rep. John Lewis. http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/20/lewis.watchlis...
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by dtf 13y ago
Thanks for introducing me to профессор фортран! I'd never heard of him before. Looks fantastic. I agree - the Usborne computer books made a huge impression on me as a youngster. I'm all for Hello Ruby.
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by dtf 13y ago
Is this the "Daisy" project?
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by dtf 13y ago
We all know that if you add any number of rational numbers you get a rational number. Yet the sum of an infinite number of rational numbers can be irrational (eg equation 2 in the article). Contradiction?
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by dtf 13y ago
Yes, "shoddy research" is unfair. But the scientists went way overboard with their interpretation, given how tiny the differences were. I don't read Jezebel or Feministe, but here are a couple of less mainstream links on the
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by dtf 13y ago
I just want to stress I have no problem with the research presented here, just with the way it is presented - "sexed up", as it were - on the way to the media.
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by dtf 13y ago
Note that only the headline says "may explain why girls mature faster". Note the use of "may". Yet within days, this research becomes: "Girls really do mature quicker than boys, scientists find" - The Tel
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by dtf 13y ago
Pictures of your girlfriend.
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by dtf 13y ago
Is the suggestion of putting "related work" at the end non-standard? As an occasional reader of CS papers I generally remember this part appearing after the introduction, and feeling quite sapped once I'd got through it and t
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by dtf 13y ago
If you already understand the process of modelling, it's really nothing more than learning some keyboard shortcuts. I'd say that the modelling process itself - learning how a modeller thinks about the mesh and approaches various p
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by dtf 13y ago
In general with these things there's a time lag of approximately one or two Daily Mail articles.
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by dtf 13y ago
Or the USA? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/fashion/31Unwashed.html
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by dtf 13y ago
I had eye muscle surgery when I was younger, and while I enjoyed stereopsis for a brief period afterwards, it soon disappeared. I bought an Oculus DK partly with the thought of trying to code up various eye exercises. I read somewhere about
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by dtf 13y ago
Some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4746787
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by dtf 13y ago
Both The Guardian and The Daily Mail, who enjoy huge web audiences, and who campaign passionately for freedom of the press, also campaign incessantly against freedom of expression on the internet, giving our politicians the wide political g
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by dtf 13y ago
“The Department of Defense does engage” in computer network exploitation, according to an e-mailed statement from an NSA spokesman, whose agency is part of the Defense Department. “The department does NOT engage in economic espionage in an
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by dtf 13y ago
Here's some discussion on mozilla's crypto list: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.or...
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by dtf 13y ago
I think it's south Wales that copped the worst of it. 1,219 cases of measles, 88 hospitalisations and one death. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-23168519 National newspapers are very much involved. Journalists
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by dtf 13y ago
Smart marketing agencies can take a dead-end brand that's perceived as low price or low quality, then socially market it to young hipsters and get them (and their friends) to like/follow it as a way to signal to their friends that
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by dtf 13y ago
"No missiles were fired from U.S. ships." That doesn't mean they weren't participating in the test.
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by dtf 13y ago
"He added he was 'very honest' and the companies did ask why he had a premium number." I suppose this honesty was directed to the initial acquirer of his personal number - bank or utility supplier whatever. Once the supp
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by dtf 13y ago
Semi-serious :-) I've worked in a number of cold, sometimes freezing locations in the depths of winter, although not quite as bad as your situation by the sounds of it. Push-ups and exercise does keep you warm and sharp though, should
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by dtf 13y ago
My winter workout: pomodoro technique + no heating + pull-up bar. Work 25 minutes. Now you're so cold your fingers are about to drop off. Do push-ups until warm again. Work another 25 minutes. Now do pull-ups. Repeat..
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by dtf 13y ago
I've gone through two 8GB models in the last two months. Lost the first one (slid out my pocket), then had to buy a replacement at a jacked up price from a different supplier as I was starting work on an Android job the next day. At le
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by dtf 13y ago
Also, surely the presence of beta waves (12-30Hz) needs to be detected by an electroencephalogram (EEG), not fMRI? I thought fMRI has a much lower temporal resolution (~1Hz).
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by dtf 13y ago
I've seen a few suggestions that the SIGINT station is Masirah Island in Oman, which isn't exactly a secret. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=j5J10im3ETMC&lpg=PA212&dq...

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