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by hodwik 11y ago
Is that a community? I thought that was just a blog.
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The larger the board, generally, the harder for the computer to play it, because it can't just pre-calculate all of the possible games. Computers have been beating humans at 9x9 Wei Qi for quite a while, because they can calculate all
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by hodwik 11y ago
>"I can't tell you how many games I've lost because I misread a complicated variation which I could have avoided entirely when I was ahead." Isn't that Go in a nutshell though.
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by hodwik 11y ago
Your not thinking us hipsters is actually not good evidence for us not being hipsters. As Wikipedia notes: "Members of the subculture typically do not self-identify as hipsters, and the word hipster is often used as a pejorative to des
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by hodwik 11y ago
Patents are generally structured like "Method for solving XYZ problem". You could patent your FPGA invention, sure, but that wouldn't stop someone from re-implementing it in code.
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by hodwik 11y ago
That implementation of the program in silicon would be patented, but if someone wrote it again as code they'd be good to go.
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by hodwik 11y ago
On the contrary, Feith's public and private sector customers are an intelligent bunch: NASA, IEEE, Netflix, Hitachi, AstraZeneca, Agilent, BAE Systems, etc.
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by hodwik 11y ago
Up in Fort Washington, so about 18 miles out of the city, is Feith Systems and Software Inc. One of the only tech companies in the world certified to sell Records Management software to the DoD ( http://jitc.fhu.disa.mil/proj
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by hodwik 11y ago
You take the word 'line' too literally here, it just means a boundary. Reality has very few lines. Using an unnecessarily strict definition for line, you'll find there is almost nothing in the universe that is perfectly disti
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by hodwik 11y ago
For some people who live near the ghetto, that's not really an option. If I'm coming from the South I either have to go through the ghetto, or add another 30 minutes to my ride to avoid it.
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by hodwik 11y ago
As did quadrupeds and bipeds, but if asked to draw a line about their locomotion that is quite easy to do. Have not seen a convincing argument that we will not find an evolutionary line in the sand between sentient and automaton animals.
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by hodwik 11y ago
Work for a company that sells visual programming tools. Our customers absolutely love the functionality. A number of very large organizations are using it: from the military, to Netflix, HP, NASA, Pharmaceutical companies, and so on. The m
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by hodwik 11y ago
What is that good reason, pray tell?
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by hodwik 11y ago
I started reading Numero Zero for the first time a few days ago, and decided to stop, because I had a feeling he might be dying soon. It's the last book of his I have left to read, and I wanted to make sure I had something to read of h
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by hodwik 11y ago
The irony here is that using/liking something specifically because it makes you unusual, and wards off people who aren't like you, is exactly what hipster means. So OpenBSD are a bunch of hipsters.
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by hodwik 11y ago
You don't need to really meditate once you get in the habit of breathing exercises. After doing meditation for a while, I found it was much easier to just breathe and calm myself while going about my daily life. Once you know how to do
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by hodwik 11y ago
Why don't you e-mail continuum and report back: https://www.continuum.io/contact-us
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by hodwik 11y ago
Weirdest downvotes I've ever gotten.
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by hodwik 11y ago
Or, when two people meet, and find that incredibly they have multiple characteristics in common -- name, age, hometown, favorite book, childhood dog name, etc. I like to imagine the two people are sitting, and rolling dice over and over a
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by hodwik 11y ago
Absolutely, people seem to find/get jobs for reasons that look very much like insane luck. I found my current job through a long chain of "crazy" coincidences. In reality, what looks like luck is very normal. Humans are pro
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by hodwik 11y ago
If you decide to learn Python, I'd suggest going through the Learn Python the Hard Way book. It's excellent.
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by hodwik 11y ago
In the US it is considered bad form to date someone who is in your close circle -- to the level that it's called "friend-cest" where I am from. Many Americans believe that by having your romantic relationships come from outsi
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by hodwik 11y ago
D3 is not concise compared with most simple js graphing libs -- e.g. highcharts.
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by hodwik 11y ago
We need a military. All states do -- its part of their duty to their citizenry. The problem in the US is that our hippy-run academia are driving the smart people out of jobs in the military (and police force for that matter), and it's
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by hodwik 11y ago
You're confusing Dating with Dates (at least in US terminology). Dating is once someone has become a romantic partner, passing the phase of going on Dates. If you're going on Dates with someone, you're not Dating. If you&#x27
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by hodwik 11y ago
I disagree. In the US you may go on dates with multiple people at the same time, but it is very frowned upon to be dating multiple people at the same time. By the time you are dating, you are no longer going on dates. I think this is part
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by hodwik 11y ago
Dates are a way to spend time with someone that you otherwise wouldn't have the opportunity -- because you don't know each-other, have no friends in common, just met, etc. People are much more spread out in the US than in Europe,
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by hodwik 11y ago
> (the idea that not knowing a language is acceptable) It's not? I'm in big trouble. There are more than 6,000 languages I do not know.
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by hodwik 11y ago
People in tech are suspicious of mass surveillance because most people in tech got here by way of Science Fiction, which was in a dystopian phase when we were highly impressionable.
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by hodwik 11y ago
A front-page article announcing that a piece of software (that just formats a usb with a specific iso) got added to the apt-get repository? What am I missing?

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