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OCR by uploading images to Google Docs(docs.google.com)
66 points by gintas 16y ago|21 comments
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by gintas 16y ago
Indeed, humans like to "compartmentalize"; the problem is that by definition you have to compartmentalize to define concepts. Without that, everybody would be talking horribly vaguely.
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by gintas 16y ago
I try to use "I" whenever possible. It makes the message more personal and invites comments and replies. "We" is best when talking about collective decisions.
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Marijuana therapeutic for Alzheimer's Disease(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
1 points by gintas 16y ago|0 comments
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Sustainable Energy - without the hot air(inference.phy.cam.ac.uk)
1 points by gintas 16y ago|0 comments
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A Collection of Useful .gitignore Templates(github.com)
171 points by gintas 16y ago|16 comments
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Any statistics regarding relative popularity of OpenId providers available?(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by gintas 16y ago|0 comments
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by gintas 16y ago
One person's bloat is another persons feature (though personally I agree with the spirit of your comment).
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by gintas 16y ago
"The general sentiment" is not a universal truth.
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by gintas 16y ago
I'm not so sure that FP code is so much superior to OO code in terms of reusability as the article implies.
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by gintas 16y ago
Something like http://problemata.com/q/popular-physics-misconceptions perhaps?
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by gintas 16y ago
I'm not sure your plumber example really works out. Facebook could hypothetically tell you that "Your friends X and Y used plumber's Z services, and liked it!", which is much more persuasive information than a generic ad.
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by gintas 16y ago
I think that if it seems that "there is nothing new under the sun", you're probably looking at things from too far away. Try looking into more concrete matters (best: a specific problem, easiest: specific technology). In my experience I kno
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by gintas 16y ago
This reminds me of an incident on Friday night: I noticed an unusually bright planet in the sky, and checked it out with Google Night Sky on my Android phone. When I zoomed in, the software showed the disc of Jupiter overlapping with Uran
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by gintas 16y ago
The cloud can (and will) get cluttered too...
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by gintas 16y ago
Actually, come to think about it, SLRs aren't that cheap either...
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by gintas 16y ago
You did guess wrong - it seems to be 'head reference' actually. As the article explains, the original links were conceptualized with two anchors, the 'head' and the 'tail', and 'href' is the reference to the head of the link.
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by gintas 16y ago
Pieces of information from the same source are not independent with regard to reliability. To establish reliability of the source, one should take a sample of facts and verify. If you can find misinformation even without investigation, it i
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by gintas 16y ago
That one caught me too, even with zero knowledge about CUDA/OpenCL, I actually googled OpenCL to find out the fact of the matter.
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by gintas 16y ago
Well, for one, knowing an attack strategy makes it easier to defend against. Moreover, if the strategy is fair, it levels the playing field; if the strategy is unfair, making it public increases the chance that the legal system will be adju
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by gintas 16y ago
The claim is actually that "all games will become social", and I doubt very much that this will happen. I have an inkling that Solitaire and Minesweeper are going to stay around for a while. Moreover, historically new ideas with a high pote
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by gintas 16y ago
Why relive, when you can 'live' new experiences?
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by gintas 16y ago
I did my Masters thesis informational ontology. Here's the thing: Shannon's information theory is a mathematical formalism, and is not enough to define information. Furthermore, information can only be defined within bounds of a model, and
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by gintas 17y ago
Mediocrity is a worthwhile tactic if you're not optimizing for money or status, but, say, happiness. Ambition can cause a lot of pain, particularly in feelings that you have not lived up to your potential (I've seen plenty of that happening
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by gintas 17y ago
"Fooled By Randomness" is an interesting read and its central claim, namely that humans tend to see patterns where there aren't any, is correct and scientifically proved by psychology. However, the book seems to go way too far by occupying
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by gintas 17y ago
Bioinformatics is cool, but it's basically less sexy than you might think. There are various directions to work on, but the kind of work is essentially statistics and pattern matching. If you want to figure out what genes do or how protein
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by gintas 17y ago
"Why should economics be a social science, because it's about stuff?" Yeah, right. For example, and I build "stuff" (from something like "bit substance", I take it?) for a living... Economics is not related much to physics. On the contrary
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by gintas 17y ago
Piano & pencil.
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Planet Django(planetdjango.org)
41 points by gintas 17y ago|10 comments
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by gintas 17y ago
I used to write summaries for all study materials as I was reading. It helps get a better broad view, I think, and it also encourages writing down any related thoughts that come to your head. I have found that it is best to summarize in a

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