euccastro

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by euccastro 15y ago
What is a "female-oriented" area of study, and what kinds of projects will "naturally be female-led"?
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by euccastro 15y ago
If your country of citizenship is eligible for the Visa Waiver Program [1] you just need to fill a form [2] online, declaring you're not a terrorist, drug dealer, child abuser/abductor, etc. [3] It is probably a good idea to get some health
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by euccastro 15y ago
[In summer 2001] We talked constantly, speculated, made suggestions, argued about how Jedi should work; we were two years from ever even playing and we already had deep and powerful opinions about a game that didn’t exist yet. It was unpre
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by euccastro 15y ago
Instead of checking out the course and then commenting on your impressions you troll the thread so others can spend their time rebating your unsubstantiated, entitled whining. "Unmitigated disaster" is not belittling; it's plain badmouthin
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by euccastro 15y ago
> Well, first off, there was the fact that the "whiteboard" consisted of them writing on notebook paper. What's wrong with this? Handwriting looks way better on notebook paper than on a tablet or on an actual whiteboard. The only probl
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by euccastro 15y ago
Funny glitch: draw an alpha, get \alpha. Then draw a beta and gamma to the right, without touching or overlapping the alpha, and I get \propto \beta \gamma. I've found it shuns greek letters in general. I get an `x' from by best attepmts
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by euccastro 15y ago
Andrew Ng is the dude of ML Class. Do you mean why wouldn't they collaborate with the dude(s) of AI Class?
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by euccastro 15y ago
How this was solved in a Brazilian city back in the 70s. Some nice thinking in there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRD3l3rlMpo
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by euccastro 15y ago
Stackless-like tasklets and channels: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45561
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by euccastro 15y ago
If you've opened that file in the right mode, you can conceivably append to it once you reach its end. Even in read only mode, I imagine you may conceivably seek back for further reading?
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by euccastro 15y ago
You can assign arbitrary attributes to a plain function: >>> def f(): ... print f.something ... >>> f.something = 'blah' >>> f() blah
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by euccastro 15y ago
There's a football (soccer) saying: "the most important play is always the next one."
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by euccastro 15y ago
Concentration of eggs helps all. Extra eggs will trickle down back to the birds.
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by euccastro 15y ago
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5631882395226827730
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by euccastro 15y ago
You forget US citizens after WWII. I've seen bigger fuss than Occupy Wall Street over milk prices over here.
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by euccastro 15y ago
Done with what? You sure don't think schooling has been "universal" for long before the XX century?
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by euccastro 15y ago
Practice deliberately on the stuff for which you want to improve your brain.
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by euccastro 15y ago
(1) having no facts to back the opposite assertion either, I'll take intuition as an heuristic. (2) I explicitly noted the caveat that taste may be cheated. Now, taste was developed by evolution, and is cheated by the food industry, not (n
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by euccastro 15y ago
Fat is where many toxins accumulate. If the animal you eat has been fed with pesticide-ridden, fattening-rather-than-nutritious crap and pumped up with hormones and antibiotics, I bet its fat is not as good for you. As an heuristic, taste
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Handmade functional miniature V-12 engine [video](youtube.com)
2 points by euccastro 15y ago|0 comments
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by euccastro 15y ago
FWIW[+], two-and-a-half suggestions for playback mode: - mark the current edit point more prominently, - automatically scroll to where the edits are taking place (obvious if you test this on a small screen), - if you implement the former su
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by euccastro 15y ago
(I'm no C expert, I'm posting my take on this mainly because I'm interested in learning from counterarguments): Greatgrandparent's error was lack of such inner declaration. -Wshadow wouldn't help with that. Also, I imagine enforcing old-
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by euccastro 15y ago
My point is, why are there laws that exist to prevent the sort of absurd things I propose? That is, why isn't "if you don't like it then don't buy it" sufficient in those cases? There is a line to be drawn somewhere and different people
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by euccastro 15y ago
Not so simple. Let me illustrate in increasing levels of absurdity: if Peach Inc. tried to, say, claim property of any data or content authored, produced or processed with any of their devices, and forbid you from using them in the loo bec
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by euccastro 15y ago
Do you mean idealistic? I don't think RMS fails to perceive reality, he just thinks fighting statu quo and the current trends is worth it.
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by euccastro 15y ago
Create an account for them, send them the wallet.dat, let them log in and transfer to their own account whenever they want? Or just change password, if that's possible.
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by euccastro 15y ago
Bail-outs are a symptom of plutocracy, which is very much the fundamental nature of the American system (amongst many others).
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by euccastro 15y ago
It can, if that 1% effectively control the system.
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by euccastro 15y ago
Talk about distraction!
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by euccastro 15y ago
Unless in your circumstances it's easier and safer for him to just say yes. In that case go right before lunch, or late in the evening --I guess.

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