jamesjporter

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by jamesjporter 14y ago
I don't plan on being a car owner any time in the near future, but out of pure curiosity I wonder how easy/legal it will be to remove these?
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Ugh, sounds like my experience with my parents . . . but my Dad has started using right click! :)
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Would it work to just put your blog under a permissive distribution license (Creative Commons or the like)? I know nothing about the German legal system or the exact phrasing of this law; could someone with more domain knowledge comment on
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> isn't it more accurate to say that the natural sciences today explore models for the world in which we live? This is entirely true, and there are absolutely areas of natural science where the "right models" are pretty unclear, such as
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
Great post. As someone who works in a different field of science, one bit got me thinking: >Like any academic community, the work within NLP had become largely an internal dialogue about approaches to problems the community had itself r
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
I suppose that's true; its also a good summary of how molecular biology has been done thus far and we've managed to learn quite a bit. Translating it into practical applications has been more of a challenge. I'm skeptical that we'll see any
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
Unfortunately, this future is still very, very far away. We're not even close to understanding how a single eukaryotic cell works, much less an entire organism as complex as a human being or a bird.
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
You should wait. I don't work in neuroscience per se, but I am a biologist and I have some friends who are (or have been) neuroscientists. The long and short of it is that the technology and underlying theoretical framework for understandin
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
In the spirit of noelwelsh's comment above, we could say that the "trades" are things like "writing webapps" or "writing control software or airplanes" or "writing simulations of chemical systems." "Solving problems with computers" is too b
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
Let the record show: I'm trying to teach myself a bit of web design and I've so far found MDN to be a far better resource than W3Schools, so perhaps good behavior triumphs in the end?
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The problem with 6 is that often the PDF of a research article is behind the paywall of the journal that published it. I agree that news organizations often do a horrible job of citing their sources for science coverage though; they could a
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Cancerous cells are part of your body — they've just mutated such that they don't respond to signals that tell them to die or slow their rate of replication. The reason your immune system doesn't recognize them is because they are literally
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
This is a fair point, but I think its also fair for the parent to point the potential for bias out, given that some people may have perused the article quickly without realizing that its posted to the blog of a company with a large stake in
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Perhaps what we can take away from this is that Mathmatica (at least in this case, and I would imagine many others) is more terse that other languages because the base language includes features such as factorization that require libraries
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
Wow thank you, this is the clearest and most straightforward explanation of the difference between the two camps in this thread.
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I agree — if an when Apple locks down OSX so that the only source for software is the App Store, that's when ChuckMcM's company can take off. I think there are enough people who are technically minded (no even necessarily developers) and cu