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by haliax 15y ago
No it doesn't. The death of young children, or victims of accidents or violent crimes for instance, doesn't force them to chose anything. The notion that you have limited time, might make you want to prioritize. You can hardly speak for
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by haliax 15y ago
You haven't really justified anything you've said. What is the ethical question? Why must it be fear of death rather than simply wanting more of life -- more time to spend with people you love, to do exciting things, to learn everything the
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by haliax 15y ago
The author never said that Sahil is "just some dumb kid who got lucky". He didn't say they're quitting, or blame Gumroad's success for that. Instead, he was honest about why a well funded competitor is a daunting prospect to someone who's p
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by haliax 15y ago
What standards/techniques do you use?
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by haliax 15y ago
Off-topic, but how did you get into commodities? Do you trade independently, or for a large firm?
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by haliax 15y ago
Actually I don't think this is illegal. They aren't brokers, or otherwise filling orders, so they can't "front-run" per se. Also, I don't believe front-running is illegal in commodities markets, as they aren't regulated like equity markets.
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by haliax 15y ago
A Cellular Automaton is inherently parallelizable because the state of any given cell at time t+1 can be computed from nothing more than the the state of its neighbors at time t, see http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/geraint.jones/publications/book/P
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by haliax 15y ago
Which field? Materials Science? Parallelizing CAs?
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by haliax 15y ago
"parallelizing a cellular automaton is trivial" != "build my own, special-purpose hardware" You can parallelize a cellular automaton trivially with any form of parallel computation, from multiple cores, to a GPU, to an FGPA. Hence my ske
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by haliax 15y ago
This may or may not be some seriously cool materials science, but parallelizing a cellular automaton is trivial (as cells change state based on local interactions) and has been done with conventional hardware already, as has the constructio
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by haliax 15y ago
IT was pretty clear from the story about AirBNB spam that they did not adhere to those requirements, in any way.
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by haliax 15y ago
While there is nothing inherently wrong with making a profit from data about users, there is quite a bit wrong with the way it's being done on Facebook, and much of the rest of the web/mobile for that matter. For one thing, services fail to
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by haliax 15y ago
> I think ANN is the real thing, and most of the other "AI" solutions that we have give the impression of intelligence, but are simply algorithms that solve problems we have in very well defined ways...ANN is a general intelligence that
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by haliax 15y ago
> I guess this depends on how advanced your toolkit is. I'm assuming you mean this to counter the "simplest of biological neural networks" part, rather than the "completely opaque black boxes" part. Nonetheless, I think it is fair to sa
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by haliax 15y ago
Completely disagree about Ruby on Rails, the experience of using happstack ( http://happstack.com/index.html ) blows it out of the water. The RAM Cloud database is really natural to use; it eliminates problems like object-relational misma
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by haliax 15y ago
Is there any particular reason I shouldn't want to send advertising emails, generate pages, or buy domain names en-masse with the hope of generating revenue? I'm not doing anything harmful (hence the exclusion of phishing) -- and I'm making
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by haliax 15y ago
Nice hack, and a cool way to get your feet wet with developing Android apps as a business.
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by haliax 15y ago
A find analogue would be a cool extension of this idea: it'd be cross-language tool that shows you the definition of a given function, or where a function is used, or otherwise lets you run simple queries on your code base.
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by haliax 15y ago
This seems to be a related idea: http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Chaffing.txt
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by haliax 15y ago
I graduated from the Comlab / New College last year. Which college are you at? What year?
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Quantum Physics & Natural Language Processing (pp. 8-11)(cs.ox.ac.uk)
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by haliax 15y ago
Why couldn't this co-exist with a hirerarchical filesystem, maybe via a special subdirectory as procfs does? (With homonym files getting some distinguishing prefix, possibly based on their hierarchical paths.) It seems somewhat like a more
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Building web apps sans database w/ Terracotta(willcode4beer.com)
2 points by haliax 16y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Are any companies in NYC looking for interns? (March 2011)
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Ask HN: What do you think of mobile development tools?
6 points by haliax 16y ago|2 comments
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by haliax 16y ago
> I'm not sure anyone is arguing against the latter part of your statement but you as you contradict yourself by arguing that it's a software problem first. AI is a biological, psychological, cog sci, EE/hardware, et al problem because,
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by haliax 16y ago
If the parent means the No Free Lunch Theorem, then the point is mistaken. That theorem says that you can't improve the performance of a classifier for some objective function, without making it worse on another -- in other words, all algor
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Paul Krugman: The Theory of Interstellar Trade(standupeconomist.com)
2 points by haliax 16y ago|0 comments
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by haliax 16y ago
I was at New
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by haliax 16y ago
It's doable at Oxford as well, though not terribly common.

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