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by idm 10y ago
Binney's project, ThinThread, seems to have been an effort to achieve the NSA mission without the need for bulk data collection ... And he was right to push for that, to the extent that any mass surveillance is justified. A whistleblo
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by idm 10y ago
The stat is not for 'impaired' drivers. Due to the testing procedure used, which lacks accuracy in the time domain, the stat is: 'has used cannabis this month.' More people are able to use cannabis when it is legal, so t
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by idm 10y ago
This is a valuable line of thinking. We could probably convince ourselves "it would never work" but instead, I'd be more interested to hear what other possibilities this would open up.
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by idm 10y ago
I reached a similar conclusion regarding Microsoft, based upon my own analysis: http://www.gh-impact.com/blog/the-most-influential-organizat... Despite being a latecomer to GitHub, Microsoft has risen to become the 4th
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by idm 10y ago
It's smiling! Of course I'd be terrified to see that jowly maw in person, with its horizontally oriented horns and whatnot.
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by idm 10y ago
Luckily, it does not appear that reality is uniformly distributed. Instead, we've found that quite a few phenomena can be modelled using one statistical distribution or another. In other words, reality is quite regular, which makes i
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The Most Influential Organizations on GitHub(gh-impact.com)
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by idm 10y ago
The word "parenting" was coined in the 1950s. Prior to modern times, groups of people (maybe related, maybe just neighbours) shared childrearing responsibilities. It's unlikely anybody was a dedicated caregiver in the same s
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by idm 10y ago
I wanted to mention Flask-Diamond in this thread because it can be used to scaffold large applications quickly, sortof like Django. http://flask-diamond.org One reason you might use Flask-Diamond instead of Django is because you
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by idm 10y ago
While he might have been free by now, he would still have been labeled a felon.
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by idm 11y ago
Research psychologists are at the forefront of science, the scientific method, and statistical methods. Haven't you ever wondered why all of these articles by psychologists have been questing the very fundamentals of the way science is
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by idm 11y ago
I've used Flask for several dozen projects, mostly in the data science space. I combined the reusable bits to create http://flask-diamond.org - and I've written lots documentation to help people get work done using it
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by idm 11y ago
Bit rot, in one form or another, has been causing trouble since we started doing this computer thing. I have nightmares about my thoughts being stored on a punchcard but having no punchcard readers to read my own thoughts.
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by idm 11y ago
I will need to document this, but it's an important question. - All attachments are named using the datestamp, so the first attachment today would be called 2016-01-19-0.pdf or whatever. - The entries are also named using the datestamp
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by idm 11y ago
Thanks! A video is in the works, but it will be a few weeks due to schoolwork. I say it like "G. Think". gthnk is shortened from "greenthink," which was a computer system in Vernor Vinge's "Marooned in Realti
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by idm 11y ago
> we can't entirely anticipate the headaches of future cryptarchs First off, I love the term "cryptarch". :) That's basically the user we're talking about here. My concern is that archival media may become skewed
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by idm 11y ago
Yep. It imports anything imagemagick can handle.
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by idm 11y ago
That's an excellent point about real-time sync. There is a button in gthnk that will grab any notes from mobile devices on-demand. I think this would permit somebody to move from a conference to their desk. However, I can also see how
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by idm 11y ago
Thanks! I added one just now, but I'll do a better job of explaining the features with screenshots in the near future.
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by idm 11y ago
I appreciate that Microsoft has taken to publishing their file format specifications, but what do you make of the changelog? It indicates to me that the format itself is volatile, potentially changing multiple times per year. Further, the
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by idm 11y ago
On the specific point of mobile note capture, I believe I have solved this problem in my own text file-based system. I use dropbox to sync a text file from my phone and a separate file from my tablet. These text files are managed by gthnk
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by idm 11y ago
my workflow is like this on OS X: 1. use hotkey to capture screen or portion of screen 2. screenshot is automatically stored as PNG on Desktop 3. click-drag PNG onto gthnk attachments target 4. done. now it is stored with that day's e
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by idm 11y ago
I recently released an open source note taking application called gthnk ( http://gthnk.com ). It's based around markdown-formatted text files, in part because I do not want to commit my thoughts to a proprietary format that
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Tracert h -90 bad.horse(metafilter.com)
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by idm 12y ago
They didn't say it figuratively caused them nausea, so...
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by idm 12y ago
I'm working with a startup that regularly meets at MaRS. We're in the cafeteria; office space is a little too expensive to be realistic at this point. For me, the "buzz" is a big part of it. The fact that investors jus
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by idm 12y ago
MDMA may have been discovered in a Merck laboratory, but Alexander (Sasha) Shulgin devised an excellent DIY MDMA synthesis that could be attempted outside a laboratory environment. Shulgin has been accused of intentionally designing his MD
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by idm 12y ago
The sample size isn't necessarily the problem. For example: if we wanted to compare 20 cannabis users to 20 non-users, and we measured whether or not they felt "high", I bet our total sample of n=40 would be plenty to show a
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by idm 12y ago
I'm struck by the vignette involving the table leg, in which Oliver describes it as feeling "unnatural" to pass his kinect-sensed leg through the virtual table leg, even though there was no obstruction in "real life.&quo
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by idm 12y ago
Paging Oona Räisänen... It's been posted here before, but that helicopter signal decoding was quite a feat. [1] 1: http://www.windytan.com/2014/02/mystery-signal-from-helicopt...

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