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by guygurari 15y ago
iTunes has a new iPhone 4S entry, but it shows a picture of the existing iPhone 4. What does it mean? "Unless Apple still has the CDMA iPhone 4 as a placeholder image ... we’re fairly confident that the iPhone 4S will pack the CDMA iPhone d
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The Social Logic of Ivy League Admissions - Malcolm Gladwell(newyorker.com)
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by guygurari 15y ago
Religion is wrong in the sense that it is based on incorrect assumptions, namely that God exists. This is not a moral statement. Whether or not it is harmful is to be decided by the evidence (many terrorists are religiously-motivated etc.),
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by guygurari 15y ago
As pointed out by others, Dawkins does consider the evolutionary mechanisms behind evolution. In The God Delusion he offers additional possible mechanisms to the one you mention. But Dawkins' goal is not to understand the mechanism by which
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by guygurari 15y ago
Page One [1] is a browser extension that automatically redirects you to the single-page version of articles on popular news sites, including NYT. Works great for me. [1] http://globalmoxie.com/blog/page-one-safari-chrome-extension...
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by guygurari 15y ago
Thank you, now I understand what you meant. I concede (again) that using Bayesian analysis the new results do lower the probability that the Higgs exists. Personally I don't subscribe to this point of view since, if the Higgs exists and has
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by guygurari 15y ago
"we should discount our belief that the Higgs has a mass at 140GeV by a factor roughly proportionate to the 95% confidence of the result" I'm sorry but I don't understand what this means in practice. The first part is a Bayesian b
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by guygurari 15y ago
In many applications, data outlives code. This is certainly the case in enterprise applications, where data can sometimes migrate across several generations of an application. Data may also be more valuable to the organization than the code
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by guygurari 15y ago
For discovering an effect the standard is indeed 5-sigma. But here we are discussing excluding an effect, namely deciding that a suggested effect isn't there. For this the standard is lower.
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by guygurari 15y ago
I'm not saying Bayesian inference isn't applicable, I'm just cautioning against an careless interpretation of its results. But if you insist on interpreting it in this way then yes, it means the probability of finding a Higgs is lower. Howe
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by guygurari 15y ago
I think we should be careful with Bayesian inference for the usual reason -- there is only one universe with one (or zero) Higgs particle. You can't really collect statistics over universes, so what is the meaning of probability in this cas
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by guygurari 15y ago
I'm a particle physics grad student. My god, what utter nonsense. The only reasonably accurate paragraph is this: "And, more importantly, the lower energy range from 114 to just under 145 billion electron volts, a region of energy tha
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by guygurari 15y ago
It's not true that 1/2 the players will flip tails each round, or that there will necessarily be one winner. In fact, if you go 7 rounds with 64 people there's a 60% chance that no one will flip all-heads.
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by guygurari 15y ago
Today's markets don't operate 24/7 (they close at night for instance), and yet everyone uses them because they have no choice. Limiting HFT can happen through regulation.
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by guygurari 15y ago
Your responses remind me of disturbing passages from Kafka's The Trial. There is no need to discuss specifics in public, but why not let the Accused know the violation they've committed? Why is there no appeals process where the Accused can
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by guygurari 15y ago
At least part of the problem is in communicating great discoveries to the general public. Let me give an example. In the last few decades, Cosmology transformed from being a speculative, mostly theoretical field to a precise, quantitative s
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by guygurari 15y ago
> How much good does this do you once the government has sold off the national infrastructure ... It does a lot of good if you vote in a government that buys back said infrastructure. "Sold" does not equal "destroyed". But let me addres
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by guygurari 15y ago
> Our difference of opinion appears to be that you believe a government which collectivizes property to be automatically illegitimate, and one which privatizes formerly collectivized property to be automatically legitimate. You define t
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by guygurari 15y ago
You went after his first link but ignored the second one on collectivization which I think is more pertinent. At least with privatization the government, which represents the interests of the people, acts within its mandate: It sells assets
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by guygurari 15y ago
It seems to me that code that uses super() in these creative ways will be very difficult to maintain. You need to understand the subtleties of the MRO just to find out which method is being called. Pitty the poor Python programmer who stumb
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by guygurari 15y ago
Certainly not all behavior is the direct result of genes; I don't think this is the common viewpoint. For example there are genes that enable learning. This is extremely useful since disseminating behavior by learning is much faster than do
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by guygurari 15y ago
In order to have altruistic behavior in a group you need to spread a gene that promotes such behavior within the group. The simplest way for this to happen is for the gene to appear in one member, and then spread to others by inheritance.
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by guygurari 15y ago
While I understand your thinking, what you're suggesting is not the correct methodology. General Relativity makes a specific, quantitative prediction for an effect. The prediction is not trivial, in the sense that the most reasonable altern
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by guygurari 15y ago
The 'G' and the 'M' are undrinkable, but we also have Leffe and Guinness which I find pretty good. If you want more quality choices in Israel you should consider switching to wine...
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by guygurari 15y ago
The desktop has several limitations. First, you have to code separately for each platform because there's not even a common runtime, let alone API. Second, installation and updates are not seamless. Third, it is less secure since native cod
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by guygurari 15y ago
Yes, seriously. In what sense are JVMs "specialized for long-running applications"? If you mean they start slowly, that's hardly the case even if you start from scratch: > time java HelloWorld Hello, World! java HelloWorld 0
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by guygurari 15y ago
Applets are terrible but it's not what I'm suggesting. See my reply to mythz.
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by guygurari 15y ago
I have used and written applets, and they are horrible, but it's not what I'm suggesting. Applets run in their own area on the page and can't interact with the rest of the page like javascript does. I'm suggesting to replace the javascript
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by guygurari 15y ago
Exactly. I never understood why the web community decided to re-invent this wheel. We started with a model for text publishing (HTML), and are trying to evolve it to allow full blown apps. If browsers simply supported the JVM as the browser
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by guygurari 15y ago
This is interesting. Maps are themselves functions, taking the key as a parameter and returning its associated value. So when your basic data type is a map, the language is arguably more "functional" than the usual functions + lists combina

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