ignifero

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by ignifero 15y ago
Yes. However, this guy is also the general secretariat of information systems of the greek government, and oversees the online tax reporting system, which has been having extended outages in the past months. I 'd rather he fixed that instea
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by ignifero 15y ago
Men are tough nowadays. In fact, we are so manly, we hide Moleskines (tm)(R) in our hipster pockets. I always keep a half-burnt papyrus with me, like Archimedes.
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by ignifero 15y ago
So indeed, nothing new. They might have the same results if they used phone calls as well. I 'm not sure twitter is the right medium for such studies, though.
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by ignifero 15y ago
There is also an infographics bubble.
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by ignifero 15y ago
Alternative energy sources are a viable "do X", and not just left-green propaganda. I read somewhere that as soon as 2013, solar power is going to be as cheap as coal [citation needed], which is an important milestone. If projects like Dese
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by ignifero 15y ago
The main differentiating factor that turns humans to thinkers is language. There are very few other species who have some form of communications and none have the capacity to express complex abstract syntactic structures like we do. It has
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by ignifero 15y ago
The assumption is that in the process we will have discovered new insights in the high-level functions of the brain that are not apparent in our current-level AI. We should then be able to figure out how to make it "better" at math or motor
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by ignifero 15y ago
A typical spike is of the order of 2msec, so required time step should be of that order. In detailed neuronal simulations, one usually uses a time step of 0.1msec
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by ignifero 15y ago
The author was using a play on words using IT terms in the title. This has nothing to do with actual brain simulation.
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by ignifero 15y ago
i disagree on the screen color
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by ignifero 15y ago
While it's true that some cells, e.g. pyramidals in the hippocampus can exhibit intrinsic oscillations, it's not true for most of the brain. Plus rhythms usually arise in networks, not single cells, and require the network to sustain themse
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by ignifero 15y ago
Comments are data points and there's no reason to hide them.
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by ignifero 15y ago
The article refers to some form of clinical depression. Having the blues is not depression. Although we dont know the exact correlates of depression, we know it has something to do with neurotransmitters and is most definately physiologic
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by ignifero 15y ago
I m curious about reading: when I m moody, I try to read something that will take my mind off things, like a train of wikipedia articles. Does this also work with depressive people too?
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by ignifero 15y ago
Depression is as physiological as any other disease. And it's chronic. Drugs are probably the most effective way to fight it and they can help the depressed person energize themselves towards tackling their problem in other ways. Of course
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by ignifero 15y ago
Ahmie's time to run away is coming, it seems ...
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by ignifero 15y ago
So they don't really test the code, they just push it out, and fix the bugs on Thursdays. Genius strategy. No wonder their platform breaks so often.
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by ignifero 15y ago
OR, it's just because they used the English wikipedia for it
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by ignifero 15y ago
You mean I have to install and licence it on every system that i use? No thanks, i prefer python that I can use everywhere, even in remote clusters overseas. FYI Numpy + Matplotlib have a very intuitive syntax for matlab users. http://mat
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by ignifero 15y ago
Makes one think that we are moving from a world of corporations to a world where only people matter, and everyone works as a contractor directly with a VC.
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by ignifero 15y ago
The best way to go would be to use a wiki
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by ignifero 15y ago
I m trying to imagine a serial killer killing goblins... That's why it's torture.
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by ignifero 15y ago
You mean they 're not? They scammed me? I like my scams to be original. I wonder why i never see public service announcements about these, though. It's unbelievable that people still fall for them.
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by ignifero 15y ago
As of 2008, the center of English Wikipedia is the article 2007. From that article, it takes on average 3.45 clicks to get to any of the 2,111,479 articles reachable from it. Disregarding all of the articles that are just lists, years or d
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Reading Can Also Make You Dumb(spiegel.de)
2 points by ignifero 15y ago|0 comments
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by ignifero 15y ago
They had us for ~400 years. It was called the 'Cretan Renaissance'. Their mark is still pretty obvious here. Kind of wish they'd stayed longer
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by ignifero 15y ago
Microsoft Live Social Network, very catchy
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by ignifero 15y ago
I think it's because he has no expertise on technology, can give you zero advice, will actually probably give you the wrong advice, cannot help you with your scaling or implementation issues, cannot refer you to the right technical people w
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JFK Tapes Show Man-on-Moon Dream, Worry Over Stunt(bloomberg.com)
5 points by ignifero 15y ago|0 comments
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by ignifero 15y ago
Entrepreneurs tend to underestimate how many brilliant low-payed people work in universities, and how rewarding it is to work with such people. Plus the job of a lucky researcher is just as a appealing as an entrepreneur. As long as you don

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