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by ellyagg 11y ago
Couchbase is perfect for this use case and, in fact, a grocery list app that syncs between clients is their primary demo app.
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AI solves 100-hat puzzle used in Google job interviews(newscientist.com)
1 points by ellyagg 11y ago|0 comments
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by ellyagg 11y ago
http://www.bmj.com/content/327/7429/1459
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by ellyagg 11y ago
Not all advice is supposed to be generally applicable and there's nothing wrong with that. And, you should shut down your company when either 1) you lose hope, or 2) continuing will be unethical, whichever comes first. If it's lik
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by ellyagg 11y ago
It's not insane. I want to buy things, I'm going to continue to buy things, and advertisements sometimes make me aware of things I want to buy. If you think that's insane, I'm confused about why you're participating
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by ellyagg 11y ago
I read this yesterday and it was useful: http://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/opinions/10/10-6244.pdf
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by ellyagg 11y ago
I think Clojure is finding it pretty easy to sell its advantages over Java...
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by ellyagg 11y ago
Erlang got it from Prolog and Prolog's been around since 1972.
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by ellyagg 11y ago
Considering that Snowden massively raised awareness of how much closer to 1984 we are than many people thought, and considering that 1984 is considered to exemplify a horrific dystopia, it's hard to imagine a realistic downside to a Sn
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by ellyagg 11y ago
Me too. My 16 year old son just totaled our car on his 6th drive out on his learner's permit. He was already nervous about driving, like those poor goslings at the edge of the cliff. Watch out for those unprotected lefts! It's now
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by ellyagg 12y ago
Who cares how many times a question comes up? That is just such a non-issue, a peeve of a minority of replaceable people, because people are always replaceable, including the ranks of those who answer the most questions. Resurfacing questio
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by ellyagg 12y ago
No one is claiming the Patriots aren't good. They are claiming that, with extremely good evidence at this point, they also cheated. There are other teams that try really hard to train their players not to fumble, including taking them
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Chinese demolition firm uses a man with a hammer instead of dynamite(dailymail.co.uk)
10 points by ellyagg 12y ago|4 comments
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by ellyagg 12y ago
In NFL fandom, Football Outsiders's Defense-adjusted Value Over Average (DVOA), is perhaps the best-regarded predictive model of results. In a shoot-out on /r/nfl last year, it outdid ~20 other ratings and rankings in predict
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by ellyagg 12y ago
Given that he mentions he was in contact with the dev team, we can be pretty sure he provided feedback. Ten years ago I participated on that list and 'has' was full of opinionated feedback for everyone. He's the one who wrote
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by ellyagg 12y ago
What is not what the author was getting at? It's clear from your comments here--continually scare quoting "frequentist" and "Bayesian"--and your answer on Quora, that you're contemptuous of this debate, like th
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by ellyagg 12y ago
You should try harder not to assume the people you're talking to are morons. The person you're debating doesn't think evolution is going away, not even a little bit, not even for a second. That you don't recognize this m
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by ellyagg 12y ago
We have to make decisions now. Do you think the prescriptions from the current state of nutrition science outperform ancestral eating heuristics in real life? I don't, and whether it's true or not is one of the major points under
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by ellyagg 12y ago
My dad is a retired DoD engineer who worked extensively with Ada. Sent him this link, and this was his response: Yeah, I liked Ada because it was very readable, and decomposition into smaller units was easy. I always liked the package conce
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by ellyagg 12y ago
According to the apparently well-informed first comment[1] on that article, it's not really an exception. The first paragraph: As a former Coastal Commission staff member in the 1980s, I've seen this scenario played out
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by ellyagg 12y ago
Dr. Mel Siff was a famous scholar in sport science. He hosted a mailing list for a decade that everyone in the field subscribed to. He wrote a comprehensive text on the subject of sport science, Supertraining: http://www.amazon.c
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by ellyagg 13y ago
There is no Neanderthal mtDNA in modern humans, so any raping was going the other direction. And, if indeed humans were regularly attacked by Neanderthals, that would explain why they disappeared, as pre-civilization humans would have had m
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by ellyagg 13y ago
Differences in degree produce differences in kind all the time. Some places you're allowed to have small amounts of recreational drugs, but if you have large amounts you're presumed drug dealing. Over the years we've allowed
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by ellyagg 13y ago
Unbelievable. Yes, we know they do this. We had this conversation a couple months ago and it was attached to an article describing exactly what they do. They don't just put cops "in the right place at the right time", which i
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by ellyagg 13y ago
Well, sure. They have a right to explore it, just as Facebook has a right to make fun of it. Maybe it's not the original authors' fault it blew up, but that doesn't mean Facebook has to ignore the consequences.
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by ellyagg 13y ago
Nope, and now perhaps you can appreciate how hard it is to come up with solutions. Problems are easy to spot, your intuitions on solutions is often wrong. Thousands of drones are in use right now, this very day, serving useful purposes. Dro
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by ellyagg 13y ago
It's dumbfounding this is the top comment. If we can't be critical of government waste in this case, when can we be? It seems you don't even understand your policy opponents' position; overpaying contractors is one of th
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by ellyagg 13y ago
The insult here--"groupie-purchases"--suggests you understand Buffett's existence is a serious blow to your case. As you implicitly acknowledge with your hypothesis of the "announcement effect", the null hypothesis
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by ellyagg 13y ago
I would like to see that study saying most projects come in under budget. I'm guessing it doesn't apply to the large and complex projects we're talking about here, which are probably harder to estimate. And, the fact that it&
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by ellyagg 13y ago
You claimed he misread the story. He did not. The government is using illegal evidence as probable cause and then lying and saying something else is probable cause. That is, the real probable cause, the thing that actually turned them on to

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