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by fh 17y ago
In a way, Youtube is a bigger filter now than any of the suggestions in the article. There are so many videos on Youtube, so many upcoming artists performing there, that most of them hardly get any attention at all. If you're popular on You
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by fh 17y ago
Words are bad, pictures are good. Children's books have got it right.
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by fh 17y ago
nanijoe is still pretty much technically correct (the best kind of correct). It's just that when chess players talk about plotting "n moves ahead", they mean something different than a programmer talking about a program computing "n moves a
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by fh 17y ago
Thanks for the link! The "comic timing" of Shannon's machine is much better (if that makes any sense).
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by fh 17y ago
> The definition of a plant is that they produce food. This can't be true: Not all plants are autotrophic, and not all autotrophic organisms are plants.
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by fh 17y ago
Maybe plants evolved very late on this world, maybe from simple animals that became ever more stationary. Not having to move is an advantage: you can invest more in static defenses (like bark) if you don't have to carry them around. Sea she
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by fh 17y ago
I don't think so. Life on Earth is so diverse already. Your best examples are animals that are close relatives already (birds and bats aren't all that far apart in evolutionary terms, and their common reptilian ancestors already had by an
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by fh 17y ago
> That sounds hard to detect. Well, obviously you need really precise spectrometers, but just because the effect is tiny, doesn't mean that you can't detect it.
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by fh 17y ago
> There won’t be any negotiation or compromise over the phone’s design of features – Google is dictating every last piece of it. No splintering of the Android OS that makes some applications unusable. Like the iPhone for Apple, this pho
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by fh 17y ago
That's in some sense even more broken: Not all combined characters have a normalized form, so the result is even less predictable. (I don't have an example ready.)
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by fh 17y ago
For the species or society, likely none. But consider the individual gene. Assume there's a gene X, that causes a desire to have many children. Let's say people with gene X have twice as many children on average as people without it. The so
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by fh 17y ago
This is essentially a critique of specialization, applied to the field of mathematics. I think that this trend might be inevitable, not just in the field of mathematics. The total amount of knowledge that humanity has accumulated continues
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by fh 17y ago
There's also the fact that these logos are on the front where they would annoy me, whereas the Apple logo is on the back of the iPhone where I couldn't care less about it.
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by fh 17y ago
Not that rare, I remember a dozen or two across Northrend. Almost every major quest chain ends with such a sequence (and most of them involve the Lich King taunting you). Admittedly the many many quests along the quest chain typically don'
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by fh 17y ago
Let's suppose that, for reasons of security and integrity, that's a really stupid idea?
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by fh 17y ago
True, I think that their ships would go at least a hundred times as fast. Oh wait...
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by fh 17y ago
What you say is correct, but has been known for some time and has nothing to do with the thing proved being here. This new result is quite theoretical, and I fear that I can't explain all the relevant definitions in a few sentences. QIP = I
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by fh 17y ago
I agree, I used to bash evolutionary psychology myself, but then I realized: We know how "accurately" the media portray research in physics, mathematics, biology and chemistry; how do we figure that the way they represent evolutionary psych
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by fh 17y ago
Summary: a large database + Mathematica + natural language processing that doesn't always work.
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by fh 17y ago
On the contrary, I bet that depending on the exact search algorithm, it would be possible to make some very specific predictions. To pick a simple example, say you use this technique on quicksort of the "pivot on the first element" variety.
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by fh 18y ago
I don't really know, and I don't speak from first-hand experience. But from what I've heard, the main concern is not air quality, but humidity. When you heat up air, its relative humidity goes down. So especially in winter, the ventilation
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by fh 18y ago
The idea is to keep the heat inside, not the air. Passive houses typically come with special ventilation systems that completely exchange the air once every 2-3 hours, while keeping >80% of the energy inside. This kind of design is beco
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by fh 18y ago
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by ignorance." What if something can't be adequately explained by ignorance?
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by fh 18y ago
> Which means married Anglican priests who convert to Catholicism (slightly more complicated -- you need the bishop to sign off on it) are now married Catholic priests. If you are correct, then by the same trick a woman can become a Cat
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by fh 18y ago
> (Yes, it's a rhetorical question, but if there's a reason why this has suddenly become timely I'd actually like to know.) That I can answer. In a recent episode of the Stack Overflow podcast, Joel Spolsky mentioned that old Excel Basi
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by fh 18y ago
> If 100% of provocative linkbait titles lead to crappy articles, then I can safely ignore them, but if , say, 85% of them lead to crappy articles and 15% to good ones, then I have to waste resources derefencing pointers. That's an inte
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by fh 18y ago
According to the Intel IA-32 Optimization Reference Manual, integer multiplication has a 3 cycle latency. What's "hopelessly inefficient" about 3 cycles? ( Source: http://download.intel.com/design/processor/manuals/248966.pd... )
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by fh 18y ago
Downvoted for implying there's anything mathematically special or interesting about base 10. Okay, I can't really downvote, but you get the idea.
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by fh 18y ago
> Even so, it might be difficult to kindle the interest of pharmaceutical companies. I don't buy this. By the exact same argument, Aspirin can't possibly be profitable because a headache is only a minor annoyance. It can't be that hard
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by fh 18y ago
"Flawless logic" in here: > Lots of arguments do turn out to be wrong. To get an idea of how many, Ord and his colleagues looked at the proportion of published scientific papers that are eventually retracted. Using Medline as their sour

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