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by flashman 10y ago
Quick plug for my map of NSFW Reddit: http://electronsoup.net/nsfw_subreddits/
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by flashman 10y ago
By way of explanation, an article describes this as "an automated system to potentially provide evidence of money laundering" http://europe.newsweek.com/twitter-bot-tracks-flights-switze... “When you see a dictat
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by flashman 10y ago
Beagle 2: solar panels didn't deploy. Philae: didn't anchor to surface, bounced into a crevice. Schiaparelli: missing in action. If this is another loss, ESA is continuing its bad run with landers.
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by flashman 10y ago
This is the average price from my city, which moves in cycles: https://www.accc.gov.au/sites/default/files/fuelwatch/sydney... The baseline price is also related to the wholesale price of fuel, which is
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by flashman 10y ago
I have time series data from over a thousand gas stations. How can I forecast the price of gas?
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by flashman 10y ago
> Do mountains affect gameplay in a way that gets more compelling if they're placed according to tectonic movement? One of the supposed problems with No Man's Sky is planetary isotropy (uniformity at a global scale, variation
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by flashman 10y ago
Where did you source your Geiger-Müller tube?
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by flashman 10y ago
I think procedural generation needs an AI editor: a second layer that assesses the generated forms and selects only the most interesting and pleasing ones. This could be informed by real-world animal body ratios, and subsequently trained by
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by flashman 10y ago
Here's a complex biology article that contains a lot of technical terms and links, yet still manages to be readable to a general audience: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf I get the feeling that most math-involv
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by flashman 10y ago
Good. It's one of those bloody articles that requires a layman to read all of the attached articles, two or three links deep, to have any chance of understanding just the parts without mathematical formulae. And before anyone accuses m
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by flashman 10y ago
I don't see that as inconsistent. The term is 'advertiser friendly'. Plenty of advertisers are happy to be associated with popular artists because their popularity gives the advertiser cover. Equally, they might not want to b
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by flashman 10y ago
In 2009 I registered a hyphenless version of a Scientology domain name, and scored tens of thousands of visitors, who I rickrolled. I would never, ever recommend settling for a hyphenated domain name.
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by flashman 10y ago
SO could be the internet's technical manual if good answers were properly organised and maintained - if the point of providing answers was to document 'how to do programming' and you could only close a duplicate by explaining
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by flashman 10y ago
Here's an article with more information on the potential for bias in algorithms: https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm... Based on a list of 137 questions[1] the Northpointe system predicts
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by flashman 10y ago
It's possible to predict race by looking at several other variables which are correlated to race. See Technical Appendix A and especially Table 8 for an example of predicting ethnicity using surname and state only: http://fi
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by flashman 10y ago
> “I likely cost them a ton of money today.” But more specifically, whoever launched the attack cost them that money. Also, ha: PING krebsonsecurity.com (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
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by flashman 10y ago
Finally, a reliable way to contact YouTube support: add 400 sentences of subtitles
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by flashman 10y ago
I owned internets.computer for a year, then the novelty wore off. It was a tongue-in-cheek parody of branding and new TLDs, and great for catching certain tech-savvy people's attention, but ultimately not worth the several-times multip
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by flashman 10y ago
> The specific case seems to stem from professors suggesting students read various sections of different texts and the copying service preparing collections of those reading assignments for various courses. Actually, in Australia univers
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by flashman 10y ago
In Australia, we had a High Court case in the 1970s[1] in which a university library was declared to have authorised copyright infringement by providing coin-operated photocopiers and taking no steps to prevent infringements. To have a univ
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by flashman 10y ago
Here's an F-16 pilot talking to the creators of the Auto-GCAS system (Air Force Research Laboratory) about how important the system is to him and his colleagues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6WbBAplCLo And here&#x2
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by flashman 10y ago
But far more than 1% of the restaurant's visitors would order the gluten free noodles - I'd ballpark 5-15%. And ordering an uncommon variation on a menu item gives the reviewer a chance to test whether the restaurant can deliver o
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by flashman 10y ago
A service with check-in data could probably quantify the uplift of a favourable review, by looking at the number of patrons before and after publication.
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by flashman 10y ago
Style transfer is just a complicated method for tracing one picture onto another.
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by flashman 10y ago
Subvocal microphones work (to some extent) by detecting the electrical impulses sent to speech muscles when somebody speaks mentally instead of physically. I wonder if this would work with involuntary recollection - I ask you to think of yo
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by flashman 10y ago
Here's the actual release: https://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsI... Might as well just quote it in full: > In light of recent incidents and concerns raised by Samsung about its Galax
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by flashman 10y ago
It's almost like saying the birth of Hitler changed the world. No it didn't, it was what he did later.
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by flashman 10y ago
Some enlarged pictures of paper edges: http://nanofabrication.tumblr.com/post/134064732751/a-sheet-... These don't look particularly serrated, but perhaps you need yet higher magnification. I would think that
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by flashman 10y ago
This is one of my very favourite features of Spotify, because they consistently serve up songs that I like listening to. (Although I'm sure there's the psychological factor of me thinking "these songs were picked just for me,
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by flashman 10y ago
> it is really hard to scrub Youtube videos pip install youtube-dl https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/

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