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by earljwagner 11y ago
Also worth noting, dazzle camouflage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage "Unlike some other forms of camouflage, dazzle works, if at all, not by offering concealment but by making it difficult to esti
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by earljwagner 11y ago
This also shows up on the part of airplane passengers. How many people listen to the safety instructions, well, as is their lives depended on it?
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by earljwagner 11y ago
An additional factor is the low probability of negative consequences.
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by earljwagner 11y ago
I wouldn't agree with the conclusion of being truly inferior - there could be ongoing issues with the work context. I'll put it another way: Graham says we can look at just the performance by group to detect bias in selection. But
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by earljwagner 11y ago
The phenomena of "stereotype threat" complicates this conclusion however: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_threat When a member of a group is primed with a stereotype that their group underperforms at
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Ultrathin 'Invisibility Cloak' Can Match Any Background(livescience.com)
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by earljwagner 11y ago
I disagree that we're underestimating the time to automate human tasks with robots. Speaking of the failures of humanoid robots at the recent DARPA robotics challenge, he notes "We're at that stage, where our expectations hav
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by earljwagner 11y ago
Looks promising. Can anyone experienced in Aspect-Oriented Programming say how complete/useful this implementation is?
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Do Corporations Have Minds?(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Do Corporations Have Minds?(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by earljwagner 11y ago
What dimensions of difference do you look for?
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by earljwagner 11y ago
I think of my work in terms of seeing unexplored areas to go with software (e.g. support self-insight or personal growth). I prefer to work with people having a similar perspective and aesthetic sensibility. A lot of the examples in this ar
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by earljwagner 11y ago
Graves did some really interesting psychology research by asking undergrads to describe the psychology of a healthy, mature adult human. He had his grad students cluster the essays and they did, initially into self-expressing and self-contr
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by earljwagner 11y ago
That's a long linear distance in a small volume. I'm reminded of space-filling curves in math: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-filling_curve
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by earljwagner 11y ago
It reminded me of Cialdini's "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion." I'm curious if it's also the work of a similarly calculating social psychologist.
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by earljwagner 11y ago
Acute analysis applicable to a lot of industries based on low-wage jobs, e.g. NYTimes on nail salons: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/nyregion/at-nail-salons-in...
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by earljwagner 12y ago
That's (partly) provided by running this REPL: https://github.com/rocky/go-fish with this eval for Go code: https://github.com/0xfaded/eval
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by earljwagner 12y ago
Basically, a bunch of folks are trying to convince RMS to allow GCC to provide more information about parsed C++ programs to Emacs. This would allow Emacs to implement a bunch of modern types of program transformations, e.g.: https:/&
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by earljwagner 12y ago
Thanks for the insights. OK, that makes more sense and I can see the utility of the published results. Now it sounds to me like when a corporation or large federal agency fails in implementing a new or upgraded software system because the p
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by earljwagner 12y ago
Wow, $1.3 billion is a huge amount for a single study. For comparison, the Framingham Heart Study, going on 65 years, has an annual budget of about $10 million: (Concerns that the 2013 sequester would cut about $4 million, about 40% of its
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by earljwagner 12y ago
So how are the portable ectoplasmic containment units coming along?
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Song poem(en.wikipedia.org)
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What is an Objectionable Airport?(aviation.stackexchange.com)
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by earljwagner 12y ago
Tale-Spin was a earlier system that generated stories with morals: "In Tale-Spin‘s case, the processes simulate character reasoning and behavior, while the data defines a virtual world inhabited by the characters. As a result, while al
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by earljwagner 12y ago
Some trivia: Bravo, the first WYSIWYG word processor, was developed by Butler Lampson and Charles Simonyi at PARC. Simonyi left PARC in 1981 to join Microsoft and led the Word and Excel projects.
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by earljwagner 12y ago
I think this is more about California culture than the Bay Area specifically. Are L.A. Or San Diego really that much different?
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by earljwagner 12y ago
Yes, and sometimes you want to loop over something that can't be expressed with existing syntax. That's the benefit of Lisp-style macros: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
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by earljwagner 12y ago
Trey Brackish: "I'm standing here at Thrill World where this roller coaster continues taking the lives of innocent people. Earlier today we spoke with John Oakfellow of the Red Cross." John Oakfellow: "We're doing w
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by earljwagner 12y ago
Thorp is pretty interesting. With Claude Shannon he invented the first wearable computer: "It's with Shannon that Thorp would revisit a question he had considered years earlier: whether he could apply mathematics to beat the game
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Closed city(en.wikipedia.org)
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