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by jibiki 18y ago
Am I missing something? Why would you expect a connection?
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by jibiki 18y ago
Maybe they go into sociology because they are good at it, or they enjoy it, or they can't find anything more lucrative, or (most likely of all) it was the first interesting opportunity to cross their path... exactly the same reasons anybody
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by jibiki 18y ago
Counterpoint: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=373740 I think there is a lot to be said for both sides. The one thing we don't want is a situation where we keep giving money to management that is unable or unwilling to become profitab
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by jibiki 18y ago
Surely you aren't denying the existence of religious believers? I mean, I'm pretty sure I've met a few...
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by jibiki 18y ago
The two ends of the spectrum are "education for education's sake" and "education for the real world." You can't insist on both.
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by jibiki 18y ago
Personally, I'm interested in fusion even if it can't be used to generate power (for instance, I liked the article about building your own fusion reactor using electrostatic confinement, which obviously eats far more power than it produces.
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by jibiki 18y ago
Mostly it seems to be a virus, called IAPV, which attacks colonies weakened by poor nutrition, stress, and (possibly) pesticides. But it's actually much more complicated than that, you'd have to RTFA...
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by jibiki 18y ago
It's a lot easier to get a mortgage if the bank believes that the value of your house will increase?
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by jibiki 18y ago
Two exceptions: 1. Many computer vision algorithms (Canny...) are more clever than search. 2. Fourier analysis is not search. But maybe that's too low-level to be "real" AI.
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by jibiki 18y ago
Would you feel that people were doing you a disservice if their admiration for you prevented them from honestly evaluating your arguments?
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by jibiki 18y ago
I can't figure out where you're coming from here. People I know use "infamous" facetiously all the time, and I almost never hear it used literally.
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by jibiki 18y ago
From what people say, the police are remarkably unsuccessful at prosecuting CP producers and distributors. They're good at prosecuting consumers, but I think that's like trying to empty the ocean with a teaspoon. (Of course, fighting crim
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by jibiki 18y ago
MRI stuff, but maybe that's already been done.
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by jibiki 18y ago
What specifically makes English "loose"? What makes other tongues "tight"?
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by jibiki 18y ago
The way the article totally changes course on the last page is brilliant. This might be the only news article I've seen that used the hypertext format that well.
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by jibiki 18y ago
My vague recollection is that RPS is the subject of AI competitions. You can't "beat" random selection, but you can't lose to it either. So if you want to win a tournament, you have to try to guess what your opponents will do, assuming th
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by jibiki 18y ago
Probably a good business opportunity for a tough bailbondsman/repoman type: find these people and rent to them. (Obviously, you can offer cheaper rent than a hotel, which has a staff, typically.)
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by jibiki 18y ago
A low-energy hub for controlling household robots?
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by jibiki 18y ago
I think this one is pretty ubiquitous.
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by jibiki 18y ago
Isn't it correct to say "the plural of invertebrate is not lobsters"? Similarly, the plural of anecdote can be many things, including data, but it is still correct to say "the plural of anecdote is not data."
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by jibiki 18y ago
Would this be legal in the US?
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by jibiki 18y ago
It's a little off-topic, but does anyone else here feel like Spitzer kind of got a raw deal from the media?
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by jibiki 18y ago
His point is that special interest groups cause inequality, but his last example is government workers. How are government workers unequal? Do postmen think they're superior to those lowly I-bankers? Do school principals look down on law
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by jibiki 18y ago
Do humans generally beat computers at this game?
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by jibiki 18y ago
> Saying "For one business to pay back what it owes, another must go bankrupt", he reveals a childish idea that all business must be zero-sum, so that there must always be a winner and a loser. I think he's making a comment about the fa
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by jibiki 18y ago
"Olson notes that special-interest groups increase inequality in a society. A union prevents companies from hiring black workers at the same wages at whites. A caste system prevents someone from rising above the station to which he was bo
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by jibiki 18y ago
It's not the shortest page on wikipedia, just the shortest non-notable page. (As in "shortest(non-notable page)", not "(shortest, non-notable)page".)
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by jibiki 18y ago
The author's suggestion seems to be that local governments should pay people directly for creating resources (like his example of receipts for grain.) I'm a little skeptical about how well that model works in the real world. It's worth not
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by jibiki 18y ago
My teachers never directly prepared me for olympiad style events. We did have a math team, but that was more focused on a local competition with short time limits (very similar to ARML, if you are familiar with that.) In terms of real mat
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by jibiki 18y ago
I'm pretty sure that this is going to get flagged (it is in no way HN material,) but I found it an interesting read.

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