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by gosub 15y ago
Or they are in a "medieval" stage, and the message is interpreted as god speaking. And we become someone else's religion.
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by gosub 15y ago
Well, I think that most of android devices spend their time sitting on top of a desk.
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by gosub 15y ago
Would something like this work for you? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/95072/what-are-your-favor...
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by gosub 15y ago
One bug I've found: selecting more than a line and applying bold or italics is not reversible. (Win7 x32, Chrome 15.0.874.121)
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by gosub 15y ago
http://raphaeljs.com/animation.html
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by gosub 15y ago
What about machinima style videos?
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by gosub 15y ago
I'd like to see a serious discussion about the possibility that western economies reached their maximum capacity for employment. Probably the level of production for goods and services will hit a plateau (even if we increase the number of p
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by gosub 15y ago
An Intuitive Explanation of Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Intuitive Explanation of Bayes’ Theorem: http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=13156
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by gosub 15y ago
It's a garden path sentence, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence
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by gosub 15y ago
"iterate and repair" is a pretty standard form of local optimum search, like in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_climbing or simulated annealing. Why are you surprised that works for exploring the decision tree of a puzzle game?
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by gosub 15y ago
regarding n.2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity defines formally the concept of minimal encoding of a message
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by gosub 15y ago
a markup language like html is not made of elements that containts other elements, that is just an artifact of the syntax. A tag is more like a "semantic modifier" of its argument/the thing that it contains. How is <i>Lorem ipsum&#6
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by gosub 15y ago
> Plus, for what "X" are both "Patents about X" and "Date with X" meaningful statements? robot girlfriend?
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by gosub 15y ago
I don't understand. Is consciousness a feeling or an external manifestation? It's something purely internal or something also visible on the outside? If it's only internal you cannot, by defition, say if a machine is conscious, but also eve
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by gosub 15y ago
there are no uninteresting numbers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox
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by gosub 15y ago
You're saying that since we can't measure it or detect it, it doesn't exist, and therefore isn't important If you can't measure it or detect it, how would you know it's there and it's the source of the phenomenon? If I tell you th
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by gosub 15y ago
There is a comparison table on the page, it says that in ZFC less than 50% of the statements are true. A quick google search gave me nothing, does anybody know where I can learn more about this statement? Or is it a meta-joke?
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by gosub 15y ago
caveat: I'm extrapolating from the descriptions and screenshots. I think it's kinda neat, textual shells need to embrace the power of graphical representations (as in CLIM for Common Lisp). Nonetheless, I don't think that overloading someth
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by gosub 15y ago
there is also this talk from pycon 2011: Fun with Python's Newer Tools: http://blip.tv/file/4883247
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by gosub 15y ago
A nice quote from the video: "If it's in the news, don't worry about it"
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by gosub 16y ago
Lately, I've been thinking a lot about interfaces, operating systems and procedure composition and this are some of my "ruminations": - None of the modern operating systems is really orthogonal: neither linux nor the BSDs embrace the real "
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by gosub 16y ago
This is what I'm waiting for: http://armdevices.net/2011/01/07/nufront-arm-powered-laptops...
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by gosub 16y ago
«[...] an encoder is not a state machine. Meaning that there need not, and probably should not be, a single base encoder.» This is not the meaning of "State machine". What I think the author means is "Two encoders for the same video codec c
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Wolfram Mathematica 8 released(wolfram.com)
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by gosub 16y ago
If I remember correctly, in one of the SICP video lecture, Hal Abelson says that s-exprs are equivalent to the the syntax tree of the program and, given a graphical interface, we would be manipulating this tree directly. AppInventor for And
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by gosub 16y ago
"You Should Be Making A Premium Flash Game" http://blog.gambrinous.com/2009/10/07/you-should-be-making-a...
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by gosub 16y ago
Not related to the article: the typography on this page gives me a headache (I'm on win7/chrome5). Ten different font size, random kerning and line space, serif mixed with sans-serif, bold/italics/bold-italics without a ratio. Argh.
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by gosub 16y ago
It's not just 'easier', there are different orders of magnitude of work involved. Modding a complete game is like fast prototyping game design ideas with a very specific DSL.
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by gosub 16y ago
Is a sub-case of the more general "freedom to tinker" with the things you own.
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by gosub 16y ago
and perseverance.

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