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by jholman 11y ago
I agree with you that the new name is more representative, and I am a fan of using the new name, and I disagree with aaronbrethorst's comment. But you're just flat wrong that there are no rights being managed. The right that is b
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by jholman 11y ago
I hate it when people repeat gossip without actually knowing what they're talking about, but here I go doing that very thing! My ignorant understanding of this issue is that it has not been tested in court, and there are differing opin
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by jholman 11y ago
I'll let the other answers stand for explaining Kaggle and their game, and try to answer "overfitting" with an ELI5 example. Here is a hypothetical problem: Please write a calculator program, that takes input from stdin, con
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by jholman 11y ago
Time for old-man-stories about CD-ROMs? Oh, oh! In high school, I loaned my best friend my life savings, $7000, with interest, $6k of which was used to purchase a CD writer, which he was planning to use to run a data backup service for loc
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by jholman 12y ago
I agree that many words "have meanings", including "matrix" in general, and "CSC matrix" in particular. I think you have the wrong definitions for both. In my experience, "matrix" is a mathematical c
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by jholman 12y ago
> emphasize cinematic gaming over intricate mechanics > the SNES generation has yet to be topped [for those who prefer mechanics] Starsiege Tribes. Tony Hawk. DotA/LoL/HotS/etc. Dark Souls. Portal. N/N+&#x
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by jholman 12y ago
Relevant link: Veritasium, "This will revolutionize education". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEmuEWjHr5c
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by jholman 12y ago
I was all set to downvote you, but I thought I should read your actual argument first (madness, I know), so I did that. And then you got an upvote from me instead, because I found your blogpost to be a useful contribution to the discussion
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by jholman 12y ago
I think you're making the same category of error of which you accuse the_duck, albeit in the opposite direction, when you say "that art has happened" or claiming that field recording is art, or reverently quoting Yan Jun draw
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by jholman 12y ago
No, we're not. You might be, but no one else is. What people are generally discussing is whether or not Monsanto is poisoning humans, and meta-issues like whether or not the article does a good job of helping us understand whether or
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by jholman 12y ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-12-05/cablefree-...
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by jholman 12y ago
I think you mis-parsed. I think Sam intended "(though it is not clear to me [that] anyone who wants to .... should be ...)", with the word "that" elided.
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by jholman 12y ago
It has been long enough that your memory is faulty. The "W" stood for "winsock", as in the Windows Socket API, as in network software for MS Windows.
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by jholman 12y ago
The only truly reliable way to validate an email address is to try to send email to it.
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by jholman 12y ago
I endorse the creativity in your approach, but you are mistaken; this will not (deterministically) work. Given a hash function that hashes an input I (of size N, comprised of N arbitrary bytes) to a digest D (of size M), then assuming that
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by jholman 12y ago
Based on two recommendations, I went and read the slatestarcodex article. I too enjoyed it greatly, though I had a methodological quibble or two. The main reason I'm commenting is because I want to note that the entire point of the ar
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by jholman 12y ago
Yeah, I went and read their FAQ, and I'm struggling to see how this tool isn't equally useful to target sex workers. I'm perfectly willing (in my ignorance) to believe that sex trafficking is a problem worth tackling (in scal
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by jholman 12y ago
Thank you for the reply, and once I read it enough times in a row, I got it through my thick head. It's still not clear to me, however, how to generalize this technique to create limited-use links that are not necessarily for resetting
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by jholman 12y ago
I don't think you understand. At a minimum, I don't understand you. The question is not how to make links that expire after a time, the question is how to make links that expire after a fixed number of uses (e.g. one use). Suppos
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by jholman 12y ago
I'm confused, fnordfnordfnord; what is it you (and others in this thread) think you're arguing about? You and rayiner and Aleynikov all agree that it's fine and reasonable that Aleynikov was pardoned. There's no argumen
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by jholman 12y ago
I agree with you about the (original and most important) meaning of "socialism", and I agree with the majority of the declarative sentences in your comment. However, that's not what the "socialized" in "sociali
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by jholman 12y ago
Here's a talk by one of the inventors of FLIP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM6jFokRoZk He talks about the ship design a little bit, and about his research. There's an impressive clip in there, starting around
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by jholman 12y ago
I agree that 40 hour weeks was silly. ;) 100 hour weeks are also silly, however, especially when you consider the religious proscriptions against working on the Sabbath. 100 hour weeks is almost 17 hours a day (six days), leaving 7 hours
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by jholman 12y ago
Yeah, that's the crucial question in the estimating. Here are some other issues. She claims 2 yards of tie-off for every 4 yards of fabric, in both the warp and the weft. You only weave 4 yards before re-warping?!? Bullshit. And y
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by jholman 12y ago
It doesn't matter whether $7.25 is hyperbole. What matters is whether or not 479 hours is hyperbole. Let's see. IRL, I own around ten t-shirts, and they seem to wear out in 2-4 years, so let's say around 100 wearings. I&#x
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by jholman 12y ago
I think this "thing" is insane. First of all, battery life. He specifically calls out phones, and "not just phones, they could be wearables and other...", as targets for this. Every bit of computing you do on my device
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by jholman 12y ago
Yeah, I'm very curious about the degradation behaviour, especially abrasion.
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by jholman 12y ago
btilly's comment is exactly correct (though obviously not a complete explanation of everything). The S.O. link you posted contains an Accepted Answer which is also exactly correct, and happens to agree exactly with btilly. I don't
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by jholman 12y ago
I already addressed some of this in my cousin-comment, and I think unclebucknasty addresses a lot of it, but anyway... 1) Yes, he depicts CH as mocking for the sake of mocking. Perhaps islamophobic-specific, perhaps just whoever-we-can-hur
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by jholman 12y ago
I don't see anything in Sacco that says "we should not offend". I think Sacco's piece as a whole says three things, and I think that Bolling agrees with the first, rebuts the second, and ignores the third. From the ton

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