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by esfandia 9y ago
I can't explain the difference, but I bet that infrastructure costs have gone up drastically there as well.
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by esfandia 9y ago
I always liked this idea of a "ruleless, diceless RPG". I was always too lazy to read the RPG manuals, I didn't necessarily like the Tolkien universe, and I never liked randomness in battle outcomes. So the only way you could
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by esfandia 9y ago
There doesn't need to be a merge. Just pick the most promising version and edit it to create a new version. The old version sticks around. An add-only data structure.
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by esfandia 9y ago
An alternative is to eschew conflict resolution altogether, and have various edits co-exist. That would basically be like the fork model on GitHub. The main issue then is how to help the user choose between competing edits. That's wher
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by esfandia 10y ago
I hope this question is relevant enough to the thread to ask here: what language did the people of Turkey, and by extension most of the Turkic-speaking countries, speak before the Mongolian invasion? Are there traces of that former language
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by esfandia 10y ago
I just implemented the reading quiz idea this term, and I thought that it went really well. Give the students a manageable chunk of reading material (in my case, the material came from various sources, not a single textbook), and give them
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by esfandia 10y ago
I think you meant: Legislators drafted ambiguous statute, and company's interpretation lost out. ;)
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by esfandia 10y ago
I love this. It has a Back to Basics, no BS approach to CS that appeals to me. I agree with all the recommendations. A couple of tiny comments: - I know that learning C is not strictly speaking part of Computer Science, but it is a nice cou
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by esfandia 10y ago
The book has examples in both C++ and Smalltalk.
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by esfandia 10y ago
It was a big time scandal in around 2009: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ehealth-scandal-a-1b-w... Things may have changed since.
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by esfandia 10y ago
Healthcare definitely seems like the land of process inefficiency, even in developed countries like here in Canada, so there's plenty of opportunity for major improvement. There's still plenty of paperwork done on... paper, inform
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by esfandia 10y ago
Universities would seem like a good target market to me. There's privacy requirements (student grades shouldn't leave the premises!), there's a need for fine-grained access control, there's a need for easy to use file sh
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by esfandia 10y ago
I had the same experience as the OP. My Mac Mini was getting old, and the fan was making a worrisome noise. I wasn't going to buy the "latest" Mini, since it is very stale, hard to upgrade and expensive for what it is. Funnil
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by esfandia 10y ago
The "4-year renewable" visa would make me hesitate, unless you don't mind going back to where you came from in case your business didn't work out or you got laid off. The feeling that you're in a temporary situation
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by esfandia 10y ago
I haven't tried it yet, but there's an app for "running" chess books, i.e. you can play the positions described in the book right in the app. No need to have a chess board. According to the site, there's a big list
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by esfandia 10y ago
IMO it's better to just plot the two distributions that you want to compare so that people can eyeball the difference (or run the statistical tests themselves should they wish to do so). For one thing not all distributions are Gaussian
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by esfandia 10y ago
There's something minimalistic and artful in trying to come up with the smallest packaging possible, which will probably appeal to the same people who enjoy Japanese candy, and Japanese culture in general. And it doubles up as a 3D puz
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by esfandia 10y ago
Very true re: RNG seed.
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by esfandia 10y ago
As a student a long time ago I worked with a friend on a 2-d version of this problem for a client who had a framing store. He was trying to cut mirrors of certain sizes in large sheets while minimizing the waste. The approach we used was to
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by esfandia 10y ago
Weka is a popular machine learning toolkit in Java: http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/ and they have a textbook to go with it: http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/book.html as well as
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by esfandia 10y ago
Jennifer Widom's database course was part of the first three MOOCs offered in 2011, and I thought it was excellent also.
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by esfandia 10y ago
Tenure also allows the researcher to keep digging that rabbit hole that he/she is specializing in without fear of one day having to work in "the real world", where that very specialized knowledge is essentially useless. (That
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by esfandia 10y ago
My thought as well: I could see this for novels/short stories, or even could revolutionize the academic publishing system.
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by esfandia 10y ago
Looks really interesting! This may sound like a stupid question, but do you have any publication I can cite by any chance?
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by esfandia 10y ago
But then you'd need to answer 100 or more test questions instead of 13. This is necessarily simplistic given how much involvement they can ask of participants. Also, I don't think they're implying anything nefarious about the
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by esfandia 10y ago
The system isn't making any value judgment; it's gauging whether /you/ are. And then it compares your value judgments with others. It's interesting in that it has the potential to show your biases, at least relative
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by esfandia 10y ago
Also reminds me of CMIP and GDMO in old ITU network management standards in the mid 90s. They were RESTful, object-oriented, and you could make some pretty expressive queries with them. The standards failed probably because they were way ah
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by esfandia 10y ago
Amazing little essay. I love his intellectual honesty, and his lucid view of his career path. While he claims to have no takeway, I think one obvious one is that, barring disaster, you'll eventually end up where you belong no matter wh
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by esfandia 10y ago
I use post-its, and I let some of it stick out of the page in question to serve as a bookmark for important notions. Or if I need more space I write on a separate sheet of paper that I leave in there, at the risk of losing it though.
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by esfandia 10y ago
Thanks, this explanation made a lot of sense to me.

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