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by iandanforth 16y ago
1. There are a bunch of greedy selfish bastards here 2. Greed can be a powerful motivator so how about this Original proposition: Make it easy to share your network freely and securely because it's the nice thing to do. New proposition: Mak
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by iandanforth 16y ago
No.
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by iandanforth 16y ago
Tangential Question: Is is possible to allow Chrome to modify files on the local hd? I'd love to use a web-based editor like this for many things I do.
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by iandanforth 16y ago
A number of posts have made this point and all seem to have not understood the article and the FAQ. (Or just like to nitpick) Let x be a three word pass-phrase of 11 characters and y be a 6 character standard complex password. The argument
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by iandanforth 16y ago
Legal issues aside, does anyone know enough about Google Apps Premier and Google Apps for Government to tell us if there are real security distinctions that would make this something more than lawyers bickering?
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by iandanforth 16y ago
That 'first step' is so dangerous its mind blowing. One thing that is seriously holding academic CV back is datasets made for slow computers. Eyes take advantage of every possible input and the idea that you should start your CV task by thr
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by iandanforth 16y ago
I just read the following for the first time and I thought I'd put down my responses. The original piece is sad and I pity the author for his loss of pride and idealism. Lets see how we can turn this into a message of hope ...
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by iandanforth 16y ago
As someone who is just making the transition to OOP in Python I totally agree with this post. I started with PHP: Learning programming syntax was really annoying then learning loop and nested loop structures was hard then learning a set of
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by iandanforth 16y ago
The summary is missing a couple very important points 1. There a ramp up of deliberate practice time in all experts developments starting from 20-30m a day to the noted 4 hours a day. 2. There is a ramp up in skill level of the teachers of
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by iandanforth 16y ago
I am impressed and reminded of this quote: "He showed those men of will what will really was." Overly dramatic? Perhaps, but it's not easy to give up a name to retain the freedom for a project.
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by iandanforth 16y ago
Seeing Interactive has a branding problem: "We want newspapers to make money; we want newspapers to own local." If I own a small business that doesn't speak to me at all, and once I realize that 'local' means me, then it's even a little off
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by iandanforth 16y ago
In my career I've never encountered an IT lab so your product isn't clear as to what it does/replaces. I suspect I'm not your target audience, but I feel that under all buzzwords there are real problems shared across businesses. Try to find
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by iandanforth 16y ago
Do you have a light box? Seasonal Affective Disorder has high co-morbidity with depression and getting the right amount of the right wavelengths of light at the right time has a surprisingly helpful effect. If you're into hacking in physica
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by iandanforth 16y ago
Here's an interesting thought. This app is so good it could influence Apple hardware. While I agree this is a killer app for the iOS platform, it doesn't yet have the polish that Jobs would demand for a live demo. A good deal of that is the
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by iandanforth 16y ago
I want to add my support for the author. I didn't know about this policy before reading his blog and I've been flying for years. I've never missed a flight so this has never come up. Secondly I think there can't be a more appropriate place
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by iandanforth 16y ago
Having read the original paper I can tell you a couple things: 1. The technique used to visualize synapses is awesome. 2. This quote about molecular switches comes out of nowhere. It's related but not really part of this study. More importa
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by iandanforth 16y ago
"I would temper this with we are likely in the age of unmarked data and unstructured data. Less often are we asked to automate a known prediction and more often we are asked to cluster, characterize and segment wild data. In my opinion the
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by iandanforth 16y ago
Ultimately what matters is time spent doing math. In the short term this seems to have created a powerful motivation for his daughter to do math, which is something a lot of parents would kill for. If in the long term this were to somehow r
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by iandanforth 16y ago
I suggest reading the decision which rebuts this point, or I can simply point to Brown v Board which enshrined the notion that separate institutions are "inherently unequal." More importantly though I think you miss the extent to which the
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by iandanforth 16y ago
Two interesting things to notice from the video: 1. In the failure trials the robot does not move its arm toward the object as it falls. This is distinctly inhuman! When we initiate a motor program we are constantly checking our prediction
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by iandanforth 16y ago
If you enjoy this series you will love In Search of Memory by Eric Kandel the co-host of this series.
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by iandanforth 16y ago
You're absolutely correct about the scale of input available through the web. The databases that Google has amassed are a perfect example. However my thinking is as follows. 1. The variety, detail and coherency of input available from int
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by iandanforth 16y ago
I believe we're much closer than other commenters apparently. Here's why. 1. The wetware is nifty but it's not what makes up intelligence. The differences between sapient and non-sapient species are slight at the level of genetic code. The
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by iandanforth 17y ago
While this algorithm is very simple it doesn't seem to take into account critical periods in memory formation. Just choosing which card to show next is only half the battle. If you're learning X cards you need to review all X within the fir
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by iandanforth 17y ago
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