joeyo

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   by joeyo 16y ago

   Also, they had slavery.
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   by joeyo 16y ago

   It would critically depend on the frequencies used by RFID (and multipath) but perhaps it could be done by measuring the time of transit?
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   by joeyo 16y ago

   Those are saccades. They keep the area of interest on the most sensitive part of the retina. Trying to understand how the brain produces stable vision from such a sequence of unstable "snapshots" is an area of active research. http://en.wi
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   by joeyo 16y ago

   My guess is that any downvotes are because of the sarcastic tone. Sarcasm has (mercifully) never been a part of HN culture in my recollection.
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   by joeyo 16y ago

   _delirium's contention is simply that all brain states (even those underlying "psychological issues") have physical bases and therefore we can (theoretically) measure them. The problem is that a set of brain states may have different "cause
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   by joeyo 16y ago

   That's a really excellent point. Displaying other contact indicators (surface deformation?) when virtual objects come into contact with other (real or virtual) objects would probably also be beneficial.
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   by joeyo 16y ago

   Thanks for that. I was curious how they are getting depth information with only a single camera; it looks like they are using knowledge of the size of the users hand to infer depth.
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   by joeyo 16y ago

   Welch and Bishop also have an excellent introduction: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~welch/media/pdf/kalman_intro.pdf
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   by joeyo 16y ago

   Regardless of whether or not it should, Asperger's (and related terms like "aspie" and "spectrum-y") can have derogatory connotations.
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    by joeyo 16y ago

    Unless you are proposing that CS schools are not linearly rankable or that being "top" is not a unitary quantity, then the only way that I can see that the set of top US CS schools has a cardinality of four is if you are defining that axiom
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    by joeyo 16y ago

    Auditory mirror cells, perhaps?
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    by joeyo 16y ago

    Evolution contradicts the desire for smaller. This is not strictly speaking true. There are ecosystems that favor smaller animals/traits. Islands, for example.
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    by joeyo 16y ago

    Very apropos. Many of the worst effects of the Irish famine of 1846 can be attributed to British farm policy, such as an unwillingness to block the export of grain from Ireland after the famine started.
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    by joeyo 16y ago

    Does anyone know of a way to reorder the icons?
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    by joeyo 16y ago

    Thanks!
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    by joeyo 16y ago

    Is that actually the case? I'm of the impression that TMS systems 1) are audibly noisy when in use and 2) evoke activity in the scalp that can be perceived by the subject ("tingling"). Admittedly, adding sham noise would be fairly easy, but
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    by joeyo 16y ago

    Here are the data for 2007: http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/basic.htm#hivaids... Estimated # of HIV/AIDS Cases, in 2007 Category | Adult & Adolescent Male | Adult & Adolescent Female | Total
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    by joeyo 17y ago

    Rich Hickey, of Clojure fame, has some very interesting musings on this topic (time and its implications): http://wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/images/a/ab/HickeyJVMSummit200... [pdf link] (It's interesting all the way though, but it gets Really
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    by joeyo 17y ago

    Finally! ;-)
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    by joeyo 17y ago

    Android phones would seem to be in the set of phones with bluetooth and support for third-party apps (as is the iPhone). The iPod Touch is not a phone. ;-)
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    by joeyo 17y ago

    I am hoping you mean a recumbent stationary bike, not a recumbent for bike commuting, which would also nullify the time expense. :)
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    by joeyo 17y ago

    Ah, so we simply need to match people with work "suitable" for them? Socrates also wondered about how best divide labor. He couldn't come up with a good argument, so he proposed to invent a lie: Citizens, we shall say to them in our tale,
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    by joeyo 17y ago

    I hate to be that guy, but the headline should say fewer absences.
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    by joeyo 17y ago

    Wow. You're right. Not quite sure how I managed to miss that.
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    by joeyo 17y ago

    I've more or less stopped paying attention to favicons ever since I started using chrome because they don't show up on the URL bar anymore. They're still there on bookmarks, true, but I basically don't use bookmarks anymore either. And most
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    by joeyo 17y ago

    They frequently don't allow apostrophes either.
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    by joeyo 17y ago

    I'm not sure if it's a metaphor. Normally, predators will eat the smaller, younger and sicker animals, leaving the larger and stronger ones to survive. So there is pressure for prey animals to get larger to escape predators and pressure for
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    by joeyo 17y ago

    Unless I am horribly behind the times, people in the US still use 'sleep with' as a euphemism for sex.
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    by joeyo 17y ago

    My understanding is there was no word in English for the word orange before the fruit was widely introduced in Europe. In other words the fruit gave the name to the color, not vice versa. (Other orange colored things were usually called 'gi
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    by joeyo 17y ago

    To interpret this we'd need to know what the distribution of Prius drivers is. Perhaps it overwhelmingly attracts older drivers?