joeyo

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by joeyo 11y ago
Even 1% is still abysmal. Some of that 100k should be in cash, because liquidity is useful, but long-term returns on capital should be much closer to 5%.
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by joeyo 11y ago
Sounds a little bit like (though more sophisticated than) the timed lights that some cities employ, for example Oak and Fell streets in San Francisco. If you go the speed limit you'll get green all the way though; if you speed you&#x27
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by joeyo 11y ago
They are. See: http://www.darpa.mil/program/revolutionizing-prosthetics and http://www.darpa.mil/program/hand-proprioception-and-touch-i... among others.
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by joeyo 11y ago
The (slightly cynical) argument could be made that the concessions made by capital to labor in the United States in the early 20th century were to prevent revolts (of the sort that happened in Europe and elsewhere) and especially to reduce
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by joeyo 11y ago
Indeed. > The contingency table (Table 6) shows that 20% (49) > of individuals classified as African Americans > [by their fingerprint model] are actually > European American and 22% (54) classified as European &gt
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by joeyo 11y ago
I have to disagree with your nitpick. The presentation basically depicts spike timing dependent plasticity (STDP). STDP has been shown to occur in many brain regions and species, including mammals. It may not be the only learning rule that
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by joeyo 11y ago
Dead on. There is very likely some very specialized neural motor control circuitry that humans use for speech that is missing from other primates. If you consider, for example, dexterous finger movements, there is a strong correlation betwe
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by joeyo 11y ago
Dot grids are nice too. They're a good compromise between blank pages and graph paper: http://rhodiapads.com/collections_dot_everything.php
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by joeyo 11y ago
Well, there's the Republic of Kugelmugel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugelmugel
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by joeyo 11y ago
Presumably this is what will happen to the entirety of the Central Waterfront from Mission Bay to Candlestick point.
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by joeyo 11y ago
> I can't see how drones made killing any more economical > than high-altitude daylight bombing did in WWII and Vietnam. Presumably there is a USAF whitepaper or two that outlines exactly how much cheaper drones are (el
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by joeyo 11y ago
It's not all fun and games: ketamine will eventually destroy your bladder.
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by joeyo 11y ago
For what it's worth, MuPDF is quite good.
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by joeyo 11y ago
I dunno, this is actually very reminiscent to me of how neurons (putatively) store information in their firing rates--at least in the short-term--before consolidating state into their synaptic weights.
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by joeyo 11y ago
You basically want it a little above body temperature. My crock pot is too hot, even on its lowest setting, so I just use it as a dumb insulated water bath. I heat it to about 45 C, turn it off and let jars of milk/culture sit in the b
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by joeyo 11y ago
I make yogurt with the second gallon. It feels like magic: I get cheaper milk and cheaper yogurt (free modulo a very modest investment of effort).
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by joeyo 11y ago
> England has forests Ireland had forests too. Where are they now? Mostly in English castles.
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by joeyo 11y ago
In case you aren't aware of them, eLua [1] or PIC32Lua [2] may fit your needs. 1. http://www.eluaproject.net/overview/status 2. https://github.com/FMMT666/PIC32Lua
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by joeyo 11y ago
Their (ElectroCore's) transcutaneous stimulation protocol is very cool. Being able to lower the risk profile (eliminating invasive surgery) may mitigate somewhat the fairly low efficacies that have been demonstrated for previous VN sti
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by joeyo 11y ago
The most obvious difference is that it doesn't require line-of-sight. The spatial resolution is presumably better as well.
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by joeyo 11y ago
Perhaps the sample size isn't as large as you'd prefer, but the use of causal language is appropriate here. Indeed, the authors applied a causal intervention (tDCS or a sham treatment) to randomly assigned subjects. This type of
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by joeyo 11y ago
> And your second part is exactly why medical devices are not, or at > the very least, should not, have changes done to them after-the-fact. I don't think this is self-evident. There are already a number of devices on t
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by joeyo 11y ago
Daniel Wolpert has a TED talk where he makes this point [1]. And I think he's basically got it right. Certainly there are organisms that can move without a nervous system (single celled amoebas, venus fly traps, etc) but by and large y
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by joeyo 12y ago
More than 1000 people doesn't sound like a workplace, it sounds like a Red Cross disaster shelter.
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by joeyo 12y ago
Same for git, though.
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by joeyo 12y ago
Presumably Portland's reservoirs are located somewhere uphill (in the Cascades even?) so this would be exploiting a natural gradient.
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by joeyo 12y ago
What do you do when the rocket explodes on launch?
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by joeyo 12y ago
> but this test has a Gaussian assumption, not a Poisson assumption. In practice the Gaussian assumption might not be too badly abused (at least for Twitter) since the Poisson distribution approaches the Gaussian when lambda is l
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by joeyo 12y ago
It's certainly sane in the sense that it was an intentional, if perhaps unusual, design decision. I personally like it since it results in an efficient implementation of sparse arrays. In any event, Lua 5.2 will respect the __len, __pa
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by joeyo 12y ago
This is one of those funny cases where the etymological connection has been a bit obscured by time. Patents are called such because they are "open letters" disclosing the invention. Patent : Open :: Latent : Hidden. Of course in t

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