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by jamessb 12y ago
There are several other typos which, whilst trivial, are quite jarring: http://fasterstat.com/Product produsing -> producing poverfull -> powerful http://fasterstat.com/ anoher -> another There is
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by jamessb 12y ago
The precise composition of the resin isn't specified, but the online material and methods state: The ramp test patterns in Fig. 1C were printed with trimethylolpropane triacrylate (TMPTA) using the photoinitiator, diphenyl(2,4,6-trime
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by jamessb 12y ago
The thread you're referring to is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5769506 He gave 4 example categories: "expert developers with domain expertise in finance" also "cryptographic security specialists
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by jamessb 12y ago
An article introducing Geometric Algebra ( A Unified Mathematical Language for Physics and Engineering ) was posted to HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8192054 ) and may be of interest. It's authors also have ot
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by jamessb 12y ago
It also reminded me of Elias Pampalk's Islands of Music project: http://www.ofai.at/~elias.pampalk/music/
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by jamessb 12y ago
At least for companies that recognise they have a problem, and want ideas for how to solve it, such a market already exists - Innocentive https://www.innocentive.com/ar/challenge/browse This includes various class
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by jamessb 12y ago
The first sentence of the original article states that XRF won't tell you if the core of the bar has been replaced with a different metal: "You don’t need to be a conspiracy theorist to find this worrying: a 1kg gold bar, certifi
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by jamessb 12y ago
> Well... I don't think that's really an explanation at all of why e^(-x^2) is such a privileged function. Why would any distribution converge to a normal distribution? > It essentially boils down to the Fourier transform
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by jamessb 12y ago
A much more feasible idea is to use a drone to quickly deliver a defibrillator/AED to where it is needed, rather than for patient transfer: http://www.medgadget.com/2014/11/ambulance-drone-delivers-de... htt
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by jamessb 12y ago
> If you had to put up a deposit to buy on eBay or to get a Gmail account or to post on Facebook or Hacker News, few would bother. MetaFilter charges a $5 fee to create an account, which is necessary to post (but not to read). This is
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by jamessb 12y ago
Indeed. The title of the post made me think of one of the posters the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences produced to go on the London Underground in 2000: http://www-old.newton.ac.uk/wmy2kposters/april&#x2
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by jamessb 12y ago
I agree, but wanted to point out that "hot water + plastic" is not necessarily "a bad equation for coffee quality": the aeropress is polypropylene and produces very good coffee.
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by jamessb 12y ago
It doesn't contain any new ideas, no - there are many other tutorials about eigenfaces with example code, such as: http://jeremykun.com/2011/07/27/eigenfaces/ http://nbviewer.ipython.org&
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by jamessb 12y ago
This is not the first instance of drones being used for smuggling - previously, a fixed-wing drone carrying cigarettes across the Russia-Lithuania border was intercepted in May 2014: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2
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by jamessb 12y ago
Or the Rapere Intercept Drone, which uses physical rather than electronic means: http://rapere.io/
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by jamessb 12y ago
Why would they need to store the hash of both possibilities? They can simply invert the case of what the user types before hashing it - ie. compare both hash(enteredPassword) and hash(invertCase(enteredPassword)) to the hash in the database
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by jamessb 12y ago
The abstract in reference 3 says it is the "extreme studentized deviate".
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Many books are indeed initially written and edited using Word, but aren't they generally passed on to someone who does the final layout in InDesign/QuarkXpress before printing? In contrast, authors using LaTeX often produce camera
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by jamessb 12y ago
Almost all scientific papers have more than one author, so collaboration and version control features are also important, but were not considered in this study. (For example, since .tex files are plain text they can be conveniently managed
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by jamessb 12y ago
Perhaps a better example of how a naive assumption of statistical independence has led to a severe miscarriage of justice is provided by the case of Sally Clark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Clark I would be ext
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by jamessb 12y ago
Firefox 33.1.1 on Mac OS 10.10.1. Initially it would get stuck looking like: http://imgur.com/DhXAmI7 After refreshing the page a few times, all the formulae rendered correctly. In Safari things rendered correctly immediate
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by jamessb 12y ago
This is a nice introduction, but it looks there is a problem with the formatting: some of the math is not rendered properly (in the source, some expressions are wrapped in dollar-signs rather than script tags).
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by jamessb 12y ago
Not all markdown text is written with the intention of being converted to HTML. Pandoc can convert markdown to .pdf (via LaTeX), .doc, a slide-deck (using either LaTeX-Beamer or one the HTML presentation tools) etc. Compared to LaTeX, markd
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by jamessb 12y ago
I think there might be confusion about wht nl was referring to. Yes, the link is to a list (produced by Karpathy) of papers on which LDA has been performed. But one of the listed papers is also by Kapathy ("Deep Fragment Embeddings for
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by jamessb 12y ago
The earliest reference to an index in the English language is from 1593 [0]: I don't really think it qualifies as a "A little known hack from Japan". [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_%28publishing
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by jamessb 12y ago
The transform was produced by a different David Wheeler, who was a computer scientist at Cambridge and died in 2004: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wheeler_%28British_compu...
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by jamessb 12y ago
So the root cause of this is similar to that of the broken Bumbeebee upgrade script [1,2]: a typo (missing quotation marks or unintended space) caused far more data than intended (a whole volume or /usr) to be rm'd. 1: https:&#x2
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by jamessb 12y ago
There have been several patients who had had custom implants designed using CT scans of their skull, then 3D printed and surgically attached to replace part of their skull: one nice report is http://thescipub.com/PDF/aj
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by jamessb 12y ago
The date in the URL (2001-01-01) might be the original publication date - it isn't the declassification date (which was 2014/09/03). The previous URL indicates the article was originally published in Studies in Intelligence,
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by jamessb 12y ago
I thing probably_wrong is more likely to object to the appointment Conoleezza Rice, despite this no longer being the latest change: http://www.drop-dropbox.com/

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