hyperion2010

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   by hyperion2010 13y ago

   Damn I wish the media would run more scare stories about pandemics of extremely virulent diseases that are actually completely preventable! "Don't want to risk having your child die? Don't want potential life long health prob
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   by hyperion2010 13y ago

   Gross conflation of 'we warned you foreign political spending would happen' and 'the SCOTUS citizens united ruling is wrong.' Seriously, did anyone miss the 'Congress shall make no law' bit of the 1st amendment
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   by hyperion2010 13y ago

   This article is completely overstated. People have been measuring this for decades. Look up the work of Mountcastle or Bensmaia on somatosensation and vibrotaction. Most of what we perceive down at the nm scale is differences in frequency w
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   by hyperion2010 13y ago

   So this makes for ok PR, but when there is a global market for commodities this is all feel good bullshit. Sure the atoms that are in your CPU weren't mined in a warzone but does that absolve you of complicity in participating in a glo
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   by hyperion2010 13y ago

   My main issue, one that is especially relevant to gaming, is with the shitstorm around Mir. I would be thrilled if Valve built off Debian, however I would be disappointed if their interpretation of 'open' was strictly literal (GPL
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   by hyperion2010 13y ago

   For some reason I think that Gabe et. al. are smart enough to know that partnering with ubuntu right now would not be met with enthusiasm by the community, on the other hand maybe pressure from Valve could get Mark to pull his head out of h
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   by hyperion2010 13y ago

   Hey man, reinventing the wheel is a surprisingly expensive proposition!
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   by hyperion2010 13y ago

   Except that policies like that are completely meaningless in the face of the law. They are like the rules you used to make up as a kid.
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   by hyperion2010 13y ago

   I wouldn't be quite so pessimistic. We can capture a large part of neuronal variability using Hodgkin Huxley type models (like the one they use in the paper). Dendritic spikes have been hypothesized to be involved in computations for q
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    by hyperion2010 13y ago

    The 'science' in Gattaca is just an excuse for segregating human beings based on some arbitrary criteria. As others have pointed out this is nothing new. What is extremely irritating is that people actually think that genetics wor
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    by hyperion2010 13y ago

    I'm building a tool (using python) that helps scientists (me) plan and automate repetitive experiments of pretty much any kind. The amusing part is that by using a database as a back end one can--guess what--query data based on experim
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    by hyperion2010 13y ago

    I use ipython for all my (mostly scientific) python interpreter needs and have been looking for a functional programming language to learn. Between all the recent posts on haskell and now this, I think I know which one it will be.
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    by hyperion2010 13y ago

    Let me rephrase my original statement. We need to segregate data from a single format/layout. I do not think the analogy to spreadsheets applies here. There are (at least) thousands of perspectives on/presentations of scientific d
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    by hyperion2010 13y ago

    So I see a number of replies that say 'add the list up' but there is no list. There are no spaces, you would have to add in the spaces yourself which is an extremely difficult problem. Since there are no spaces in the list: 1) I w
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    by hyperion2010 13y ago

    There seems to me that there is a solution to this on the web and perhaps elsewhere (scientific publishing comes to mind for me). We need to segregate data from presentation. More importantly we need to give users a choice in how their data
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    by hyperion2010 13y ago

    Yep. I absolutely agree. Games have only started to explore 'alternate' monetization schemes. DLC was on my mind as I was writing my comment. In one sense DLC makes games more like serialized television rather than the (supposedly
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    by hyperion2010 13y ago

    So the comparisons to other industries are misleading in one sense and deeply revealing in another. Movies spread out their sales over an extremely long time compared to games. This means that box office numbers will be smaller. This ALSO m
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    by hyperion2010 13y ago

    There is sandboxing. The native code is not run in the browser or by the host OS. The native code is executed inside a linux guest running on virtual box. The browser itself does not run any native code. Others have pointed out that there a