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by glimcat 15y ago
I was hoping it was an ML article on data segmentation techniques, but it looks like it's just a web service announcing that they've improved their filtering options. :(
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by glimcat 15y ago
The purpose of an MVP is to quit screwing around with maybes and some-days and get moving. Also, expanding is often not so good a thing as refining. It's usually better to have one or two features which are well-refined versus a great many
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by glimcat 15y ago
NASA needs to dedicate its pittance of a budget to another manned Moon mission right now about as much as I need another person to point out to me just how much money our government likes to spend on military boondoggles.
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by glimcat 15y ago
I think there's a difference between watching the tele without regard to content and using it to watch specific content. The "read more" crowd gets the reverse of this - much of what is in print is not worth the time it takes to consume it.
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by glimcat 15y ago
I assumed you were calling yourself closed-minded. But my point was that the whole open-minded versus closed-minded conversation hinges upon cultural values which are by no means universal. There are many cases where the reverse is seen as
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by glimcat 15y ago
The concept of closed-mindedness is also heavily cultural; it doesn't always translate or map to local values.
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by glimcat 15y ago
A little John Lennon here, a little Miguel de Cervantes there.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Call it revenge on my elementary school English teacher for complaining about "ain't." ;)
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by glimcat 15y ago
Among academics, the convention is to use "we" when writing papers irregardless of the number of authors. It's half custom and half a matter of maintaining professional distance. Use "we" even if everyone can see that it's a single-author p
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by glimcat 15y ago
Wax pencils work fine in the shower and are fairly easy to clean off later.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Here's a true fact about programming: Following the herd means that there's a better chance that someone will have already solved any given problem you encounter and released documentation or a drop-in implementation. I like the idea of Dja
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by glimcat 15y ago
Normally I'd blame the media for putting a sensational spin on things, but the paper is really at fault here. The usual metamaterials cloaking trick involves spatial-domain cloaking. You make the probe beam go around the target. They're doi
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by glimcat 15y ago
Octopart seems like a useful improvement if I'm asking "what part should I get" rather than "what do I do with this part."
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by glimcat 15y ago
I was able to stump it multiple times without trying very hard. My usual route is: 1. Search Digikey 2. Search Google Compared to Digikey, the results aren't as informative, the likelihood of a valid match is apparently significantly lower,
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by glimcat 15y ago
The abuse of survivor bias in this article pisses me off. There are much more valuable lessons to take away from Amazon et al. than "be radical, be new, run the world differently." For starters, the companies he uses as positive examples al
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by glimcat 15y ago
I still like SCIgen. http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
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by glimcat 15y ago
It depends heavily on the team's culture. Are we talking a team who uses beta as code for not fully supported yet or a team whose stable releases aren't very?
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by glimcat 15y ago
Slightly more info by following this link: http://allthingsd.com/20110715/itc-rules-htc-violated-two-ap... Patents in question: http://www.google.com/patents/about/5946647_System_and_metho... http://www.google.com/patents?id=nCYJAAAAEB