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by esfandia 10y ago
What's nice with BASIC is that no context is required from the programmer: you don't need to know about the call stack or about variable scope. It's the programming equivalent of WYSIWYG. It also doesn't hurt that BASIC
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by esfandia 11y ago
It seems that AI does well when the problem and the performance metrics are well defined: chess, Go, various scheduling problems, pattern recognition, etc. At the very least we can track, quantitatively, how far off we are from a satisfacto
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by esfandia 11y ago
This is what I've realized lately about job satisfaction: Purpose, autonomy, work/life balance: pick 2
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by esfandia 11y ago
I believe BETA is also a programming language born in Denmark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BETA_%28programming_language%2...
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by esfandia 11y ago
Conversely, maybe this could be used as an extremely lightweight CRM?
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by esfandia 11y ago
Would be interesting doing the same exercise for Java as well. We've been through Hashtable, HashMap, basic for loops, Enumeration, Iterator, foreach loops, generics, and now we have lambdas.
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by esfandia 11y ago
When I think of Wah-Wah in the late 80's I think of "What I Am" by Edie Brickell and New Bohemians: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDl3bdE3YQA The little solo in there uses it in a very melodic way.
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by esfandia 11y ago
Noob question: say I have $1000 that I want to invest in oil (not in an oil company, but in the commodity itself). How do I go about it? Judging by the article, buying actual oil isn't the way to go.
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by esfandia 11y ago
Yeah, I was just rephrasing PG's argument for the OP, not saying whether it was right or wrong. I'm not smart enough to know.
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by esfandia 11y ago
The argument is that First Round Capital must have implictly made it harder for female founders to get funding, since the ones who do perform better. The rational course of action for First Round Capital would be to lower their threshold on
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by esfandia 11y ago
Then, if I understand PG's argument correctly, the VCs should invest in even more startups-with-women, and lower their threshold on investing them, at least until they perform no better than startups-without-women.
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by esfandia 11y ago
Could this be done using Twitter? Each reporter/citizen who has an update on a news item would post a tweet with the info, and create a link back to the original news item(s) or the one(s) that needed updating. Hashtags would be used t
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by esfandia 11y ago
"The essential is invisible to the computer" ~ "The essential is invisible to the eyes"
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by esfandia 11y ago
The OP asks an interesting question though: why would I run an IPFS node if it just benefits the company and not me?
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by esfandia 11y ago
How about a stop in Ottawa, Canada? Two big universities (Carleton and Ottawa U), and a pretty big tech community here.
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by esfandia 11y ago
Of interest to the Canadian readers: one version of Magna Carta is on tour and currently on display at the Canadian Museum of History (i.e., the good old Museum of Civilization) in Ottawa. http://www.magnacartacanada.ca/
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by esfandia 11y ago
YAY (Yagni Ain't Yolo)?
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by esfandia 11y ago
The Smiths should sue these bastards for copyright infringement! ( https://youtu.be/-VjbuM4i--A for those who missed OP's reference and downvoted)
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by esfandia 11y ago
That's really cool! I think one way to make the experiment scalable is to add a social network overlay, where people can "follow" those other authors they're watching, so they can build off their contributions. We'v
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by esfandia 11y ago
Is the merge step really necessary? Let people create their own branches from whatever starting point they like best, and let all branches/versions co-exist. It's not a piece of software you're developing after all; there may
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by esfandia 11y ago
Epistemic logic would probably be the appropriate tool; at least that's what I thought when I first saw the problem. Epistemic logic is the logic of knowledge and belief: you use a modal operator to express the knowledge of an agent ab
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by esfandia 12y ago
Here's one thing I like about Facebook: it has stopped the flood of chain-emails I used to receive from random "friends". They post that stuff on Facebook now instead. It's the perfect honeypot.
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by esfandia 12y ago
We've been working on a similar idea for a few years now. We have a distributed version called P2Pedia: http://www.nmai.ca/research-projects/universal-peer-to-peer/... and a centralized version as a Moodle pl
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by esfandia 12y ago
Is the cautious approach then to treat a p-value in the absence of priors on the same level as a p-value in presence of unfavorable priors? When someone tests positive for a cancer test, the priors are known (probability of cancer in the ge
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by esfandia 12y ago
Just a nice customizable home page would be great, something like My Yahoo or the defunct iGoogle but better. Provide nice calendar and weather widgets and a good API to develop more and you're good to go. Insert ads in the widgets at
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by esfandia 12y ago
I have stayed on Office 2004 for Mac (running on Rosetta, and with the free docx compatibility plugin: I'm pathetic, I know) for the longest time on my laptop just to avoid having to use the ribbon (which I "experience" daily
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by esfandia 12y ago
Isn't the author exaggerating in the other direction? There is obviously correlation between the two time series. Sure, who's saying there is causation (as mentioned in the article there can be a third random variable that the fir
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by esfandia 12y ago
There's a big difference between Tehran and the rest of the country though. I wonder how much of what is said in the article is true in a city like Esfahan, for example. In fact, there's even a big difference between the North and
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by esfandia 12y ago
I'm dreaming of a "GPL" food movement, where the process of making the food in question can be inspected by anyone at any time, and where the ingredients and sub-ingredients that went into it are also recursively "open s
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by esfandia 12y ago
The thing is, email is already distributed. SMTP, NNTP, ftp, talk, finger, etc., we already have all these decentralized applications and protocols. But the adoption of dynamic IP allocation and firewalls has made it quite inconvenient to

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