jlg23

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by jlg23 9y ago
Sorry, inherently hard to find again again on google, so no links, but I remember 2 different studies, one in Central- or Eastern Africa and another in the Amazon rain forest: People who where never exposed to harmonic music don't have
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by jlg23 9y ago
Where are you trying to go? First it was that, to understand, we have to "actually return to the complex terminology you're simplifying". I disagree. Now it is, that we need some common way of communicating. I agree. But th
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by jlg23 9y ago
A classical joke from the GDR (about scientific language, not about farmers): "The production volume of agriculturists is the reciprocal of the intellectual capacity of the producers." also known as: "The less intelligent the
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by jlg23 9y ago
It's the other way around: First was the concept, then the agreement which words we use to describe them. > If you skip out the part of the analogy where you actually return to the complex terminology you're simplifying, you ha
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by jlg23 9y ago
> If you rehash it in smaller words, just by information density alone, aren't you guaranteed to be losing some detail? Of course, but when explaining something to another person, one should strive to optimize for being understood,
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by jlg23 9y ago
Rarely did bring a title such a broad smile to my face. And it turned in roaring laughter when going through the page. Absolute brilliant :)
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by jlg23 9y ago
There was no real competition because there was no real market. The high roaming fees were simply a trap for unsuspecting consumers who got a smartphone, went on holiday and only then learned about "roaming", "automatic updat
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by jlg23 9y ago
I'm not an expert in forestry, but I don't get the correlation between mono-cultures and the overall forest area. If there was one, then the forests should be smaller now due to higher yield per area. Mind you, I'm not saying
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by jlg23 9y ago
> In the United States, which contains 8 percent of the world's forests, there are more trees than there were 100 years ago. Same is true for Europe[1], though I don't think that we "made it sustainable" - wood just w
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by jlg23 9y ago
Just a month ago: "NVIDIA and SAP Partner to Create a New Wave of AI Business Applications" https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2017/05/10/nvidia-sap-partner/
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by jlg23 9y ago
"After taking pembrolizumab, 66 patients had their tumors shrink substantially and stabilize, instead of continuing to grow. Among them were 18 patients whose tumors vanished and have not returned." BUT "Just 4 percent of can
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by jlg23 9y ago
> There is no technical reason that Android phones aren't up to date with patches. That's true for the 1st world only. Where I currently live the most recent phone I can get within 1.5h of driving runs Android 4. Also, Apple ha
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by jlg23 9y ago
Thanks for the links, had not seen this before. (though your links are slightly broken)
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by jlg23 9y ago
> I mean jesus, aren't many people on here some kind of intellectual elite? Instead of debating based on facts and laws (codified morale and ethics) you expect the "intellectual elite" to debate mob style based on gut feel
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by jlg23 9y ago
Clickbait. "an attacker with visual access to the LEDs and either control of or knowledge about exact on/off meanings could steal data". Otherwise, when lore comes up again and again as "new", you realize that you a
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by jlg23 9y ago
Of course they don't have a say unless they have a legal residency according to the new laws. But, afaik, those have not been drawn up, there is no consensus of how the situation will be handled and I would expect the status of foreign
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by jlg23 9y ago
Can we please live in a time where this is not news but common sense?
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by jlg23 9y ago
> I would guess the P!=NP proof would be an example. Unfortunately, it doesn't have any easy description that the average person would understand. "Hard. Really hard. Don't be ridiculous.". Now backtrack 2 small examp
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by jlg23 9y ago
No, strictly speaking I was speaking of Morphic[1], squeak's main interface. But scratch[2] indeed should have been in the list. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphic_(software) [2] https://scratch.
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by jlg23 9y ago
> arguably easier to understand than their text-based counterparts, but large programs quickly become a complete and utter mess of tangled wires and hierarchical blocks. Or the other way around: When you write a tangled mess of code you
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by jlg23 9y ago
correlation != causation. That conviction rates in some disadvantaged communities are so much higher has also been linked to disproportional levels of policing in those communities. A potentially contributing factor does not invalidate le
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by jlg23 9y ago
Python fat has been used to treat painful joints in Nigeria for ages and its effectiveness has also been proven in a scientific study.[1] [1] https://www.biomedscidirect.com/1195/python_fat_effect_on_co...
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by jlg23 9y ago
You are oversimplifying and overcomplicating at the same time. If it was an easy/obvious zero-sum game, we'd not have people going into finance at all. MIT does not teach "HFT", those "MIT PHD Quants" are just
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by jlg23 9y ago
Talk to people. If you go to just one or two trade shows a year and talk to people during "unsociable hours" you've just saved yourself a year of reading ads. Especially the niche-companies are low on staff and usually volunt
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by jlg23 9y ago
I think for a demo that is perfectly fine since you get an immediate performance indicator. I remember that the initial fbdev-on-linux folks showcased their drivers with well known animations[1] at 4-digit frame rates and never had to answe
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by jlg23 9y ago
When medical staff puts "their foot down and refuses to work" patients will suffer. Most feel bound by the Hippocratic Oath[1], in some countries violation of it can be reason for stripping you of your medical license (e.g. in Ger
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by jlg23 9y ago
"Pedantic"? Your post is wholly based on time travel (~"nosql predates sql") and introduces a completely alternative evolution of database design in which quel never happened and we go "full circle" to the nosq
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by jlg23 9y ago
> Your approach of trying to make an open source driver is a losing one, it requires a lot of work and you can't reasonably keep up with it. Not necessarily, the more diverse the devices you have drivers for, the more code you can r
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by jlg23 9y ago
> The person who says that is either an idiot or doesn't care about the product. There's really no third option. Obviously an idiot. > It's fine if you [...] want to abandon [a project]. Really! I understand that. The i
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by jlg23 9y ago
> This just smacks of arrogance and hostility towards other developers you make your work open to. You have gotten a sign wrong here in your sensor readings where arrogance and hostility are. Someone gives you a present that comes with a

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