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by dubya 14y ago
Hmmm. I think I must have clicked through this the other day when I signed up for the machine learning class. There was something that looked a bit like an EULA.
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by dubya 14y ago
"... Samsung's iPad is the same as Apple's iPad, and I paid how much for the Apple one?" pretty much clinches this as fiction. Samsung's tablets are not "a lot cheaper" than the iPad. Not to mention all of the Starbucks patrons chatting w
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by dubya 14y ago
This reminds me of http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/Opinion71.html , where a number of prominent mathematicians and computer scientists are traced to an Israeli mathematical magazine for young people. These are certainly not kids who
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by dubya 14y ago
I think the second version "I do not believe in gods" is more like agnosticism than atheism. The law of the excluded middle does not necessarily apply to the statement "there is a god". You might consider it unknown or undecidable.
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by dubya 14y ago
This behavior wasn't really introduced with "Save as..." in ML. In Lion, if you rotate a page in the middle of a PDF, then quit and reopen the file hoping to undo the rotate, it will still be rotated. Fortunately, it was someone else's pr
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by dubya 14y ago
That's more or less what HEB's store brand looked like in the early 1980's (HEB is a South Texas grocery chain). But, I think all of the generic products were on one aisle rather than mixed in.
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by dubya 14y ago
It's worse than that, because the larger pipes take longer to sound, so you have to deal with variable latency. If you get a chance, you should watch an organist play from close up. It's really disorienting how little immediate feedback t
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by dubya 14y ago
I did a lot of the later Project Euler problems when I was trying to learn Haskell. Getting things to run in a reasonable amount of time without just writing brute force C code was very challenging, and I learned a lot from the discussion
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by dubya 14y ago
I recently got an email from Amazon stating the amount I owed sales tax on in my home state of Tennessee, with a link to a tn.gov site where I could pay. Amazon actually seems to ship a lot of things to Memphis, so I'm not sure why they do
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by dubya 14y ago
It's still useful to have though, and Apple makes it really easy to install. GlimmerBlocker, Maple, Processing and a few game clients I use need it. It does seem that the default is that "Enable applet plug-in and Web Start applications"
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by dubya 14y ago
I can't tell if your original comment was more than a rant. In some sense you own those bits, but not in a way that is useful to you. Starting with just the bits, it's going to be a lot of work to make iTunes skinnable, and you likely won
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by dubya 14y ago
If you are that particular about your tools you should consider making them yourself, or using software you can really claim ownership of. iTunes and Chrome are not your software in any meaningful sense. Even less so probably because they
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by dubya 14y ago
As I recall, "analysts" were predicting much higher prices for the iPad before it was released. Maybe they'll be wrong again.
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by dubya 14y ago
It's worth pointing out that Boaler's work is fairly controversial. There's a review by Bishop, Milgram, and Clopton that refutes many of her claims. Her work is interesting, but it seems that much of its appeal is that it confirms people
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by dubya 14y ago
You can try it yourself by dropping a bit of pencil lead across the prongs a slightly unplugged plug. You get a flash and it hops away, but I don't know that a piece of metal would break contact. I don't recall this ever even tripping a b
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by dubya 14y ago
The Chromebox apparently uses a verified boot, so no Linux unless you can replace the bios. It's a shame since a small footprint, low-power, turnkey Linux box would be just the thing for a number of applications, though the Chromebox lacks
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by dubya 14y ago
It's technically possible for sites to not serve content to those who use adblock. I remember arstechnica.com did this once to make a point. I guess if this was widespread, it would turn into an arms race though.
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by dubya 14y ago
This is an exercise in Knuth, TAOCP v.1.
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by dubya 14y ago
Most of the battery packs for tools are proprietary shells around completely standard cells inside. If you can open the plastic shell without destroying it, you can just replace the cells, usually for less than the manufacturer wants for t
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by dubya 14y ago
You could work in the Euclidean domain of integers with sqrt(5) adjoined and avoid floating point completely. The matrix version is actually pretty efficient, and leads to the above if you diagonalize.
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by dubya 14y ago
I don't care for the multi-touch mouse, but the trackpad is really nice. The gestures probably should be more transparent or off by default though, since I suspect many users find them accidentally and aren't sure how. There are several sh
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by dubya 14y ago
I use C as a language of last resort, as a sort of universal assembly language. If I get a problem to the point that I know exactly what I want the machine to do, but can't convince Haskell or Python or Java to do it and don't have the tim
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by dubya 14y ago
Probably something like the Rorschach tests being copyrighted until recently. The actual test questions and the scoring rubric that, applied to a subject, yield a number or set of numbers.
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by dubya 14y ago
The sections are still there, so it depends on which part is legally binding, the excerpts or the clarifications. Even if Google isn't claiming my IP, they could guarantee that my documents will not be viewable by others except when explic
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by dubya 14y ago
On Mac laptops there's not much reason. You probably have an Nvidia GPU, which is still a bit faster than Intel ones and supports OpenCL. An upgrade would probably get you more max memory, and maybe twice the CPU performance, but it's not
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by dubya 14y ago
Control + D works nearly everywhere as well. Incidentally, now I really miss the Fn + arrow for pg up/home/end/pg down when I use a full size keyboard.
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by dubya 14y ago
Not AT&T, unfortunately. They're just starting to unlock at end of contract, but as far as I can tell won't unlock for overseas travel. And AT&T has sold most international-cable phones in the US, by far.
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by dubya 15y ago
The main place that pixels were noticeable was in an Apple store. Next to the iPhone 4, the older iPads looked much less sharp, at least for text (particularly Computer Modern). There have been lots of attempts at resolution independence,
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by dubya 15y ago
That sounds like a LaTeX koan. If you really must use LaTeX, eventually you reach the state of just writing the content and to heck with the formatting, or you go nuts and learn to write a proper style file. You are pretty certain not to
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by dubya 15y ago
Joel Stein is Time's humor columnist. It's sometimes confusing because he's not usually very funny. Although to be fair, I can't think of anyone who could make a 100 item list, so he's doomed this time by his choice of format.

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