jballanc

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by jballanc 9y ago
Just a guess, but based on your comment that you can't "justify moving away from Python or C", I suspect you've never moved much beyond procedural programming, possibly with a bit of OOP mixed in. If you stick with proce
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by jballanc 9y ago
Venter led the team to sequence the first genome of a free-living organism. Before Venter left NIH to start Celera, the Human Genome Project was entirely focused on making long, pre-aligned reads. It wasn't until Celera started embarra
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by jballanc 9y ago
Before leaving, figure out what time breakfast is in the timezone you're traveling to. Then, 12 hours before that time, start fasting. When you arrive, have breakfast at a normal (for your new time zone) time. Your circadian rhythm wil
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by jballanc 9y ago
I understand the Nobel committee's desire to see results validated many times over before making an award, in order to avoid embarrassment should the findings be overturned as has happened in the past. I also acknowledge that the resea
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by jballanc 9y ago
> When Google keeps the canonical git repo in googlesource, and uses a google-run gerrit instance for code reviews, it does not make the project feel like it's open source. It makes it feel like it's a google project that they
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by jballanc 9y ago
Wow...no idea how that happened...
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...wrong thread...
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by jballanc 9y ago
What makes you think Safari has gone stagnant? Apple, Microsoft, and Google all have different approaches to the consumer software that they put out. Microsoft values backwards-compatibility above all else, and Google values the bleeding ed
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by jballanc 9y ago
Now combine this with the 4-color theorem to set up a competition of 4 species on the grid...
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by jballanc 9y ago
This raises the inevitable question: what's the bandwidth of a 747 full of these cards?
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by jballanc 9y ago
Honestly, I don't understand why the automobile industry doesn't learn from the airline industry. Airplanes have worked out how to balance autopilot capabilities with the need for pilots to remain engaged and attentive for years.
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by jballanc 9y ago
First part is Hanlon's Razor, second part is Einstein: > "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
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by jballanc 9y ago
(For those not accustomed to checking usernames, I feel fairly certain this comment was made in jest ;-) )
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by jballanc 9y ago
Even at 50% the speed of light, adding in a fudge factor for acceleration/deceleration, you're still talking about a trip time of 50 yrs. Even if you go all Neon Genesis and send 15 year olds on the journey, they'll be at ret
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by jballanc 9y ago
If you think that it's "luck" that Turkey's location on the map is important in 2017, you should go back and look at the history of the region. Istanbul has been one of the major focal points of world history for literal
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by jballanc 9y ago
I mean, I'm no fan of the British, but I wouldn't call them "scum". Oh, or did you mean a different situation where a misunderstanding via text led to a murder? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl
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by jballanc 9y ago
I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying that, because a misunderstanding over text led to one person murdering another, that the culture in which these events occurred was primitive, backwards, and deserving of the epithet "scum
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by jballanc 9y ago
Not sure if this is still the case, but 10-15 years ago most vinyl albums were mastered separately from CDs. CDs were subject to the horrors of the loudness wars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war . So, in man
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by jballanc 9y ago
For anyone unfamiliar, the reason the airline would've denied him boarding if they even thought there was an issue with ESTA is because airlines are responsible for bearing the cost of his return flight if he is denied entry in the US.
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by jballanc 9y ago
I'd actually be interested to see the numbers. Obviously, as you say, it's not just size but also the risk profile of the group...but add to that the fact that this pool is being split between as many companies as are selling on t
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by jballanc 9y ago
I always wonder why, in all the coverage about health care and insurance groups "pulling out" of the marketplace, no one seems to want to state the obvious: * Insurers are not pulling out of the insurance market . * Insurers are
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by jballanc 9y ago
All the factors you mention are accounted for by researchers that use game theory as the basis for evolutionary modeling (for a primer, check out "Evolutionary games on graphs" - https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat
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by jballanc 9y ago
That cooperation is eventually selected for has been known for decades, but we didn't know how. Yes, there have been many speculative models describing how cooperation might arise, kin selection being among the earliest of these. E
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by jballanc 9y ago
Unless big changes to the environment happen at least once every generation, then there is no way that diversity of offspring will be selected for. Say you have a population of 100,000 organisms and 1 randomly mutates to produce more divers
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by jballanc 9y ago
Almost all of the responses here putting this down as "not that big a deal" are completely missing the point. It's extremely easy to say that evolution should do a thing, but if you cannot provide a mechanism to explain how
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by jballanc 9y ago
Gee, it's almost as if a municipality that valued the good provided by a shared-ride or car-for-hire service to their community would have an interest in creating an artificial monopoly for the sake of allowing such a service to operat
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by jballanc 9y ago
There's always NetBSD! ;-)
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Great additions! How could I forget Irmik Helvası?! Especially when my mother-in-law makes it so well (and it's relatively simple, as desserts go, to make). I've only lived 5 years of my life in Turkey (I married into it!), but
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by jballanc 9y ago
And the strudel...oh, the strudel!
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by jballanc 9y ago
The Turkish Delight in "The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe" was, for me, one of the first and clearest examples of how literature can project, even if unintentionally, a skewed view of a culture that bears little to no resembla

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