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by jal278 13y ago
In case my server gets too sluggish, here's the important youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M7IINwTFVw&t=16m2s Basically there's a speedrunner who is technically adept at the game, is a good commun
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Discoveries Ten Years Later in Zelda Speedrun(blog.joellehman.com)
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Living to maximize unique intellectual residue(blog.joellehman.com)
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by jal278 13y ago
I liked the discussion about "'silos' in health policy, meaning that we see crime and low educational achievement as distinct from medical problems like obesity or heart disease." It seems like medicine needs to be less short-sighted and in
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by jal278 13y ago
The problem is definitely nuanced; shopping at a mom&pop store in general may lead to less evil/dollar than at walmart, and even within that store, choosing junk food manufactured by less evil corporations may be better. There are separ
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by jal278 13y ago
I think you're right in that the 'American system' is an evolving entity. The evolution has something to do with how corporations are a relatively recent invention: An entity that that money breathes life into; and that life is sustained by
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by jal278 13y ago
Even if there is a great disparity in wealth, if the company in question depends upon selling products to the poor or middle-class, then this sort of strategy might still be effective
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by jal278 13y ago
That's a true statement; but many companies that do terrible things make all their money not from the rich but from the middle-class and poor
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by jal278 13y ago
Maybe a more tractable approach would just be to have some kind of wiki that would just track articles for given companies along certain categories (e.g. the article on Walmart would have pro's/con's for the worker's rights category). Anyth
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by jal278 13y ago
I'd like to at least minimize evil per dollar
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Make it easy for me to vote with my wallet(blog.joellehman.com)
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A new spin on origins of evolvability: survival of the evolvable(kurzweilai.net)
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by jal278 13y ago
Yep, it feel scuzzy to me when they wait till after I've authorized their facebook app to have access to my friend list and profile before letting me know that the deal is now off. Thanks for signing up! Sadly, we are at capacity at the mom
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Evolvability is inevitable(blog.joellehman.com)
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New theory for how increasingly complex life evolves(today.ucf.edu)
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by jal278 14y ago
i agree that it is an interesting result, however having access to everything is weird from an AI point of view and really muddies any conclusions to be drawn; the headline seems to make it sound like this is a breakthrough in AI, when it
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by jal278 14y ago
Just to note that the AI has complete access to the NES's RAM (and also backtracks whenever it gets into trouble), which is not quite fair to compare to other approaches to AI or playing against a human. I'd be pretty damned good at battles
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Intro to purely functional games, basic Mario in ~30 lines with elm(ustream.tv)
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Single Molecule Determines Complex Behavior, Say Scientists(alandove.com)
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Required Courses for Politicians: MMORPG Design(blog.joellehman.com)
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Art Game allows you to make art from classic games(pippinbarr.com)
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The Joy of Stapling(blog.joellehman.com)
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Natural flavor(blog.joellehman.com)
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by jal278 14y ago
I like how the format forces the papers to be about "big concepts." So many cs papers are about 1% improvements in performance due to esoteric minutiae -- which can't be concisely explained. It biases research towards big picture, heavily-c
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The Kludge Toll(blog.joellehman.com)
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by jal278 14y ago
There's a complicated trade-off between cultivating or supporting interest in what you've done and creating new things. For an academic like me, it's the trade-off between updating the CV and promoting your academic papers versus the necess
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Show HN: DoesMyVoteMatter.com weekend hack with d3.js(doesmyvotematter.com)
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by jal278 14y ago
But there is a WHY associated with F= G* m1 * m2 / r^2 -- an explanation for why gravity exists, which although isn't yet unified with quantum mechanics, is that mass deforms space. The statistical formula is cool on its own right though to
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Dissertation Quest IV: The Hunt For Signatures(blog.joellehman.com)
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by jal278 14y ago
This reminds me of when I first saw drop-box: Immediate recognition of the pain it will save me. I often hack up kludges that approximate this -- os.system calls that pipe to a file, then I read and parse the file. Good work.

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