jmmcd

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   by jmmcd 15y ago

   Starting many instances of emacs and using tabs, of all things, suggests a certain "you're doing it wrong".
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   by jmmcd 15y ago

   Yeah and there's a lot more out there http://www.amazon.com/Art-Artificial-Evolution-Evolutionary-... (about graphics as well as music)
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   by jmmcd 15y ago

   Great example. Before Twitter, Google had already begun the re-education of the masses to use text-oriented interfaces with things like "label:" in Gmail search and "filetype:" in Google search.
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   by jmmcd 15y ago

   Real question: will reviewers take such papers seriously, or will they be overly-impressed by the trappings of "real" papers (which include vocabulary as a relatively minor point), thus giving the wrong incentives to authors?
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   by jmmcd 15y ago

   Haha. He must've published it on purpose, right? That seems like a Yegge thing to do. Easier to ask forgiveness than permission and all that.
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   by jmmcd 15y ago

   Is there a layman-readable proof or proof-sketch of the reduction from Group Isomorphism to Graph Isomorphism? Is the method constructive, so that every group reduces to a corresponding graph in an understandable way? I have a somewhat cran
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   by jmmcd 15y ago

   > He stressed that the study does not prove that coffee lowers depression risk - only that it might be protective against depression in some way. Sounds like the journalist got confused. The study probably shows that there is a correlat
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   by jmmcd 15y ago

   Let's just say that I had a meeting with my boss at 7pm last night. Yes, Friday. But at least we all went for beers afterwards.
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   by jmmcd 15y ago

   The ipod shuffle is awesome, I use it everyday because it's tiny and I don't care what happens to it. I almost never use my ipod touch or classic.
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    by jmmcd 15y ago

    Obvious one is Stanislaw Lem -- The Cyberiad would be my recommendation.
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    by jmmcd 15y ago

    > I don’t want my reputation and talent to take me where my integrity can’t sustain me (and it will, if left unchecked). It must be tough having so much reputation and talent. If you can learn to control your talent the world will truly
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    by jmmcd 15y ago

    Presumably the earthquake caused a spike in social network usage, microblogging of various popular types, and reload-mashing on cnn.com and similar. If any of those is hosted on AWS then they might steal some cycles from other AWS users.
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    by jmmcd 15y ago

    But according to the article (and it's also pasted [here]( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2903166) ), they've identified something independent of experience and preparation.
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    by jmmcd 15y ago

    Nonsense. The Albini article covers a lot less ground and has far fewer ideas. In particular it says nothing about alternative distribution models or the internet.
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    by jmmcd 15y ago

    Map m = new HashMap(); m.put("a", 1); m.put("b", 2); m.put("c", 3); . . . The single worst thing in Java?
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    by jmmcd 15y ago

    The search keyword you want is "Santa Fe market simulator".
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    by jmmcd 17y ago

    It gets a different point across.