jj00nathan

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by jj00nathan 14y ago
I disagree with OP. I think the phrase "rocket science" is still valid as a stand-in for the performance of a complicated task with high accuracy. In terms of the effort required to create a useful prediction, I agree that many things are m
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by jj00nathan 14y ago
That's like saying that electrical engineering is trivial because you used an arduino once and it wasn't so hard.
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by jj00nathan 14y ago
I don't think your conclusion follows. An analogous proposition would be "Steve Jobs was a careless slob with no sense of style because he wore jeans to his presentations". It's possible that Einstein chose to look exactly the way he did. O
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by jj00nathan 14y ago
Did you read the article? He explains very precisely what he means and what his conclusion is. "Rational" in the context of the title means "one integer divided by another to which the first is relatively prime", and the word "useless" indi
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by jj00nathan 14y ago
"No one has rights to his personal information he has not decided to share. This attack is despicable." You realize Mitt Romney is campaigning for the office that is the single worst violator of that philosophy in the world, right? Don't ge
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by jj00nathan 14y ago
You can always take enough classes (or hard enough classes) to take up any given amount of time. Or if you're into extracurricular activities, same thing. Consider the quote in bold at the top of this Harvard prof's personal page: http://w
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by jj00nathan 14y ago
Just because desktop always wins in theory doesn't mean that you can't exceed the performance of existing native clients. I'm sure Illustrator leaves a ton of performance on the table simply by virtue of having a large legacy codebase. For