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by gord 17y ago
I think the s is round the wrong way.
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by gord 17y ago
the big bang.
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by gord 17y ago
With anonymous downvoting comes an ethical responsibility : clarify your position with counter argument. My position is that psychology is not [yet] a science. Falling back on what we actually objectively know about dolphin anatomy [and sub
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by gord 17y ago
Thats kind of the definition of good fiction [or good art, even highly abstract art]... eg. Neal Stephensons Young ladies illustrated primer or Cryptonomicon strike me that way - they make you think even more about what is real.
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by gord 17y ago
op anecdote : "Not only do the dolphins understand the meaning of individual words, they also understand the significance of word order in a sentence. ... learned a vocabulary of more than 60 words and can understand more than 2,000 senten
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by gord 17y ago
related [ previous post? ] : dolphins blowing bubble rings - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMCf7SNUb-Q
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by gord 17y ago
Assuming for a moment that psychology is pap, not science... And assuming EQ is based on some objective anatomical comparison of the brain... Then Dolphins are 5.6/7.4 as smart as Man. A rational society would be bound to protect the dolphi
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by gord 17y ago
Do dolphins try to mimic our language?
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by gord 17y ago
upvote, with the disclaimer that science also acknowledges that some experiments are non-repeatable either in theory or practice.
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by gord 17y ago
That they dont get split into smaller pieces [like Ma Bell]
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by gord 17y ago
I like Joel, and hes made a nice place to work... but, its _too_ nice : I need the anarchy of a startup. The atomic moments of xen calm are appreciated more against a backdrop of reality-chaos-screaming-towards-outrageously-impossible-produ
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by gord 17y ago
Google could solve the spam problem in groups, they've solved it in gmail. That they havent, is most likely a symptom of their size and having so many balls in the air.
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by gord 17y ago
Thats what the first startup is for.
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by gord 17y ago
The markets aren't perfect. But, if an algorithm can find this mispriced asset, and trade to exploit it before a human can, then that should improve the markets efficiency and reduce the arbitrage.. or so it goes.
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by gord 17y ago
actually, dont kid. Lets assume Information propagates according to some diffusion model, forward only in time, and after some delay affects the price of a given stock. Twitter is the perfect feed to match against high frequency stock data
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by gord 17y ago
both agree and not.. The internet was pretty closed when DARPA owned it and so TCP was proprietary. Fortunately it became ubiquitous, was written up in an RFC and we can all inter-operate now. Calling it a 'protocol' is useful.
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by gord 17y ago
The body adjusts to a large degree.. I could drink a coffee and easily fall asleep, when I was drinking 6 cups per day.
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by gord 17y ago
Surprisingly drinking chocolate has a few mg of caffeine also.
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by gord 17y ago
Recently took the plunge and went from 7 cups coffee plus 5 tea per day.. to around 1 coffee and 2 tea per day. First few days were very surreal.. equivalent to slight hangover. Drinking lots of water seemed to help. For me it was more som
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by gord 17y ago
I got that at one point with the stream during the 37signals talk - rhythmic cutout, so assume its a network issue, on top of bad mic... Talks hosted anywhere else?
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by gord 17y ago
agreed, needs a minimize button. I used click user > ignore but it seemed to need reloading to work. Cant blame justin.tv for the bad audio, of course.
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by gord 17y ago
GraphData.
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by gord 17y ago
Well, Id say SQL is close to unusable.. it has just enough good design to explain its long life. I do respect it. SQL is a bit like Cobol - served us well for 30 years, time to move on.
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by gord 17y ago
Id put it in the same category as RDF - largely unusable. I think data is much wider than 'what can be stored in tables' - that's the whole problem. Although all data could be stored in tables and accessed via SQL, it shouldn't be. I conte
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by gord 17y ago
Well, I just think that a lot of data, most of it in practice, does not naturally fall into a table structure. Social networks, heirarchies of inheritance, arbitrary relations between documents such as the web itself - most data is naturall
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by gord 17y ago
Yep.. my university covered things like data structures and complexity well enough, but felt they had to dumb things down for freshmans, many of who would not be advancing. So we had java and pascal for various first year courses... I wish
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by gord 17y ago
A moments thought and they would have realized that Apple will do all the work for them. Huge waste of time, money, energy - and basically the things they dont want, wont be filtered out by this [ eg. uncategorized porn on jailbroken phones
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by gord 17y ago
sounds like lisp.
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by gord 17y ago
preferably the same thing - search field top and bottom that does a google site:foo closure over Ycombinator.com.
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by gord 17y ago
second that, and maybe repeat in top bar if graphic design looks ok. I periodically google search with site:news.ycomb..

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