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by gsam 9y ago
Because politicians require hyper-competitiveness to reach the top of the political hierarchy. Unfortunately most women would be considered far too agreeable, or conversely gender stereotypes portray females as being out-of-character (bossy
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by gsam 9y ago
There's definitely some research on this, and from memory they confirm your observations. The older generation actually understands what might be inside your computer far more than the newer generation. The newer generation is so detac
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by gsam 10y ago
A simple decision tree could suffice. Is it a speech problem, is it an image problem? Is it a classification problem? Failing to find an acceptable answer, it does what seems closest or makes a random but plausible decision. This doesn&#x27
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by gsam 10y ago
In my view, part of the fundamental problem of current AI approaches for tackling general intelligence is the inability to collate and organize different systems and algorithms together in a coherent manner. To use a flawed but useful mode
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by gsam 10y ago
There's the benefit/detriment of scale to consider. One guy who contributes to a widely used piece of software stands to affect millions if not almost billions. How do you mediate the difference in impact and infinite liability on
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by gsam 10y ago
Google can almost drive a half-year to a year's worth of driving for the average individual without any intervention at all. That is very impressive, and their streak is growing fairly quickly. Of course, that would probably be done in
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by gsam 10y ago
It seems like a straightforward relation. Less self-filtering results in more honesty. Honesty is often not what people want to hear, and that includes profanity.
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by gsam 10y ago
Widely used only applies when the paper was written. Actual code snippets put more future demand on readers when those languages are potentially no longer popular. I would strongly suggest the use of an abstract version merely for the autho
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by gsam 10y ago
In the end, it's really the consumer's fault for not caring. But then again, there's really nowhere to run to anyways. The companies are beginning to cover their asses with cyberinsurance so that they can cover their legal fe
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by gsam 10y ago
Which says a lot about relying specifically on optics. Readjusting vantage points from an autonomous vehicle is as simple as having multiple sensors and deciding to rely more on a particular sensor in particular conditions. In particular, G
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by gsam 10y ago
I get the intention here, but sometimes code really needs to be touched. Otherwise you get in the modern day, some-variant-of-Whitesmiths code that nobody can read, or wants to read ever. If you separate it out, business processes usually i
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by gsam 10y ago
It's helplessness.
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Show HN: Samba file server running in Bash on Windows(samba.org)
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by gsam 10y ago
You're paying people to maintain your machines. You're eliminating the need for your own sys-admins to keep your servers up to date and patched. For small businesses who have no IT staff for instance, this is exactly what you want
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by gsam 10y ago
There's also the fact that their Windows infrastructure is probably costlier to maintain. Windows wasn't built for this use-case, and they're desperately trying to catch up. In the meantime, they have this convenient project
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by gsam 10y ago
If you verified the code performed the correct function, ensured it ran correctly and computed the result, then the code itself serves as most of the proof (not the 200TB). Really what you want to be peer-reviewed is the code, not the swath
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by gsam 10y ago
>I guarantee you the smarter students will be correcting their teachers and making a mockery of them Like what happens already with exceptional students for any subject. The fact that a number of teachers are barely ahead of their own ma
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by gsam 10y ago
I think the thing that bothers me most about Feedly is paid-search. Sure, I don't mind if you limit advanced searches to paid users, but when I'm trying to do a simple search for something I know exists in the same feed (and saw l
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by gsam 11y ago
>So You Think You Can Program an Elevator No, especially not in practice. I would never proclaim to have such a belief unless it was my job to do so. Even then, I wouldn't be convinced I was doing a good job of it. The amount of unf
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by gsam 11y ago
Maybe they just looked at the stats and thought this was a non-game? Furthermore, even with 'censorship', somehow I doubt many of the regular big names in search have algorithms that do all that well targeting Chinese.
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by gsam 11y ago
>I had to give it up as I began obsessing about the game. When I started dreaming about playing tetris, I realized I should probably take it easy.
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by gsam 11y ago
While I grew up with mostly whiteboards, there's just something magical about blackboards. Disregarding my disgust for screeching on a blackboard, mathematics on a chalkboard seems so natural. Where I study they've been constantly
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by gsam 11y ago
First Google Reader and now Pipes? What's the problem with RSS and please tell me what's better?
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by gsam 11y ago
>40 Triple digit version numbers are just going to sound ridiculous. I really hope someone reigns this back in at some point. I'm keen to test some of these new features out though. The tools in Firefox have always been a bit hit an
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by gsam 11y ago
To be a good security researcher, no doubt it often takes a devious mind. Now whether or not this deviousness is used for good or evil depends on temperament, upbringing and acceptance or ignorance by other parties. You don't piss off
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by gsam 11y ago
The general programmer, no. But, at the risk of inflating the title, software engineer is supposed to mean something. Especially in places where they actually are part of professional bodies. In my studies, computer science and software eng
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by gsam 12y ago
If you think you can subvert the business or sociological aspects of hiring and working, you are sadly mistaken. While people still use it, I'll keep a profile up, otherwise bear the mistake of being the 'inept' person withou
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by gsam 12y ago
Rapidshare links have continuously died whether they were legit or not for a long while. Sure, a lot of it was illegitimate, but people simply moved on.
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by gsam 12y ago
Now known as the finer art of bullshit.
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by gsam 12y ago
Looking forward to see how much of a 'Web IDE' can actually be achieved. I continually feel like I should be making things in the browser, but there's no adequate editor still.

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