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by joeyo 16y ago
Best wishes!
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by joeyo 16y ago
Yeah. I miss searchwiki. :-(
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by joeyo 16y ago
It likely just means that they prefer to have many false negatives (rejecting good employees) and reduce the number of false positives (accepting poor employees). If the size of their applicant pool is high, that's a trade-off they can affo
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by joeyo 16y ago
> It would stand to reason that since the cerebral cortex > is the home of our higher-thinking abilities ... Not only that, but the prefrontal cortex (PFC) is one particular cortical region that has become enlarged in hum
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by joeyo 16y ago
PHP on Trax ( http://www.phpontrax.com/ )
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by joeyo 16y ago
I've always assumed that there was some kind of fee that needed paying to get your airline listed on Orbitz.
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by joeyo 16y ago
There is sponsorship for a PPC LuaJIT port (targeting embedded systems, I believe) and Mike Pall has expressed interest in an ARM port in the past, but I don't know what the status of that is.
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by joeyo 16y ago
> You think just any 4-year-old can play amazing music just > because they have a lot of time to practice? Honestly, it's a pretty reasonable hypothesis. That's not to say that narrow-minded focus and incessant practice on
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by joeyo 16y ago
> I found it disappointing that they limit the height to 10 > ft above the ground. Time to hack it? Afaik, it has an ultrasonic range finder that it uses to maintain a safe distance to the ground (this could be tested by
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by joeyo 16y ago
I agree that the menu and messaging icon look different but the bluetooth icon is the same as on my phone (2.2.1 FRG83D).
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by joeyo 16y ago
It's really too bad that brownian motion doesn't work at the macroscale, then. :)
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by joeyo 16y ago
> I say: does a CD reproduce when a human copies it? If CDs somehow found their way to my burner and caused themselves to be copied, I'd be inclined to say yes.
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by joeyo 16y ago
It's not only to calculate the position of the cameras (x,y,z) but also the additional DoF of the lens orientation (roll,pitch,yaw). Any set of eight points would work, but a checkerboard provides a nice surface with a known geometry. The c
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by joeyo 16y ago
That's a really good point. This may be telling us something more general about what the cerebral cortex is doing, too. For example, when people learn a new language that involves phonemes very different from those of their native tongue, t
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by joeyo 16y ago
Here is a similar treatment of Das Racist lyrics: http://blog.mtviggy.com/2010/03/16/an-exercise-in-futility-d...
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by joeyo 16y ago
> what would it be like to see from two sets of eyes?! Obviously, this is pure speculation but in the same way that we can fuse the signals from two eyes into one coherent image, I don't see why, in principle, the brain couldn't
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by joeyo 16y ago
I absolutely agree that emotional processing is an important component of intelligence. But I'm still not convinced that it's a good way of ascribing rights. Regarding your examples: we certainly do act in the interests of the insane, menta
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by joeyo 16y ago
I can also cause you to experience green by electrically stimulating your visual cortex, so ~500nm light need not be involved, nor your retina even. What is green now?
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by joeyo 16y ago
I've always been a little uneasy with the idea that we should assign rights (or personhood, or whatever) to animals in a graded way in proportion to their intelligence. It implies that humans should be deprived of those same rights when the
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by joeyo 16y ago
ANOVA agrees with you: Source Sum Sq. d.f. Mean Sq. F Prob>F ------------------------------------------------------- Loan Type 9.6665 2 4.8333 16.47 0.001 Browser 0 1 0
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by joeyo 16y ago
> I want discussion, reason, and persuasion to be used to > solve society's ills; you want the gun. What do you do with criminals in your utopia? Discuss their crimes with them and persuade them to pay restitution?
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by joeyo 16y ago
> As soon as it costs more, people will be back to circuit- > switched voice calls (which are higher quality anyway). In my experience the quality of Skype to Skype calls (Android to desktop) can be way better than POTS.
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by joeyo 16y ago
> FWIW in most areas police are statistically less > likely to die a violent death than the populace at large. [Citation Needed]
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by joeyo 16y ago
This is a because a professor of finance or accounting also has the credentials to be a CFO (or even CEO). They're in demand and that's the price that the market will bear. There is probably a similar effect in computer science, engineering
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by joeyo 16y ago
The story can't be that simple. If so, you wouldn't expect there to be an increased cancer risk from the use of smokeless tobacco.
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by joeyo 16y ago
Ed Felten and the other freedom-to-tinker bloggers have a pretty long history of interest in electronic voting. http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/tags/voting
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by joeyo 16y ago
That's for the jury to decide, eh?
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Another cost saving measure that Southwest appears to use is to access the "worst" terminals via the "worst" gates. What I mean by that is their flights consistently service older terminals, gates that are further away from the security che
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by joeyo 16y ago
I can't speak as to whether or not it would be a good idea for -dbg packages to run unit tests, but their nominal purpose is that they contain extra symbols to allow for debugging. http://wiki.debian.org/DebugPackage
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by joeyo 16y ago
> This probably happened only once in history and under > very specific conditions, which are very unlikely to be > repeated. Anything not forbidden is compulsory. -- Murray Gell-Mann

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