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by haliax 11y ago
How are they creating a magnetic field that writes out the time? Is it a large grid of magnets or something more clever?
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by haliax 12y ago
Is it even possible to have a decentralized currency where the mining problem isn't directly related to the maintenance of the ledger? Won't people just be incentivized to mine rather than preventing double spends, and the like?
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by haliax 12y ago
"seems to be a product of our intricate biological structure" How do you know?
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by haliax 12y ago
Before World War 2 crypto was done by linguists, not mathematicians. A lot of the work was like solving cryptgrams. So a crossword puzzle was actually a pretty reasonable test.
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by haliax 12y ago
Actually, I don't believe this is correct. The weak form EMH claims that any information provided by the price history of a security should already be incorporated into the current price. You can claim that Technical Analysis (construe
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by haliax 12y ago
How would you advise someone to learn how to negotiate and get better at negotiation?
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Steve Perlman Says He Can Speed Cell Data 1,000-Fold(wired.com)
2 points by haliax 13y ago|1 comments
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by haliax 13y ago
> But anti-intellectualism is not cool. Saying "she did a little dance and that's all there is to it" or even "she's just being young" is more obnoxious than the fact that she did it. It isn't anti-inte
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by haliax 13y ago
I'm a coder with a strong synthetic bio interest. (I've done some stuff at GenSpace in NYC. Email: devan.lochees@gmail.com -- please get in touch!
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by haliax 13y ago
Literary knowledge has little to do with measuring people's enjoyment of a book. Mattress quality has a great deal to do with measuring their enjoyment of a mattress.
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by haliax 13y ago
I'm guessing this has something to do with your username, so what is the better unix? BSD? Minix?
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by haliax 13y ago
You're using a very specific definition of backdoor there. I can think of others that at least seem plausible to introduce at the compiler level. Timing attacks for instance, could plausibly fall out of optimizations that terminate a
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by haliax 13y ago
> For 100 stock fund managers buying and selling stocks, statistics tells us that 50 of them will do better than the market averages (and 50 will do worse). 50 will do better/worse than the MEDIAN of that GROUP OF 100 fund managers,
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by haliax 13y ago
Why should it matter whether or not "qualitative experience is fundamentally no different to the state of a Turing machine"? I don't see a claim anywhere that a Turing machine can't be conscious. "but it must exist
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by haliax 13y ago
I have to take issue with the point about negative statements, surely it's no more fruitful to say "Prove there IS an invisible ball of undetectable mass swirling in my hand." Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that it&
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by haliax 13y ago
Upvoted to draw attention to this dishonest piece of astroturfing.
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by haliax 13y ago
This is phenomenal, does anyone have sources of more physics concepts explained simply? Scott Aaronson's Quantum Physics is one: http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html
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by haliax 13y ago
Is there a good way to buy only products that avoid use of these chemicals?
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by haliax 13y ago
What sort of analysis was used to figure out the power and protection requirements you needed to make these viable? Are these within reach of an individual to build, if not to launch? If I build one, how do I launch it? Why do the signals n
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by haliax 14y ago
Source? I'd be very interested to read more.
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by haliax 14y ago
I'd love to read such a post and best of luck!
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by haliax 14y ago
Where did you get your initial data when you were starting up?
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by haliax 14y ago
Source? Google yields nothing for that phrase.
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by haliax 14y ago
http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/scientists-create... Seems like a promising approach. Does anyone know about this?
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by haliax 14y ago
If you could build a sufficiently cheap robot capable of navigating rough terrain would that do the trick?
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by haliax 14y ago
Typically, you'll have something like the following: - The government funds the research - The developers get first refusal on patenting - If they refuse, the government can patent - If they patent, the government is given a perpetual f
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by haliax 14y ago
That sounds really interesting. How hard do you think it would be to automate that kind of analysis of newspapers and such? Would love to hear what you think. Email's in my profile.
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by haliax 14y ago
There's no reason you can't innovate within representational art, and your "freed itself from almost every constraint imaginable" is someone else's "descended into idiotic gibberish".
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by haliax 14y ago
I think that that's what the chapter on primitives -- introducing csound is for. Also, I think that experimenting with musical conventions and the like is really interesting. If you want to talk about this sort of thing further, my email's
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by haliax 14y ago
This reminds me of http://www.pluraprocessing.com/

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