jplasmeier

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   by jplasmeier 10y ago

   That's true, but there isn't enough value in macOS for me to justify buying old hardware, especially moving forward.
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   by jplasmeier 10y ago

   I can't wait to retire my 2013 MBA and set it aside with my OEM 8800GT (nVidia's iconic desktop GPU). Both represented the best combination of tradeoffs with the tech that was available at the time at a price point that led to ubi
3. 33.▲
   by jplasmeier 10y ago

   What's the difference if the effect is the same?
4. 34.▲
   by jplasmeier 10y ago

   I think you misspelled "cannabis" ;)
5. 35.▲
   by jplasmeier 10y ago

   I think you've posted the wrong link...
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   by jplasmeier 10y ago

   Somewhere in between "Since when do hackers bleat about obeying laws and regulations?" and "I want a nanny state to protect me 24/7" exists a middle ground where people realize that government regulation exists for
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   by jplasmeier 10y ago

   I certainly agree with this sentiment (and the author's words "Read code that you can actually grok"). As a younger programmer, I tried to get into reading the source code for Flask and learned pretty much nothing. The thing
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   by jplasmeier 10y ago

   Hmm. I had read in a book that volitional attentional binding (being able to shift your attention to different parts of your experience was closely related to what we call consciousness/experience, and that a lot of animals exhibit thi
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   by jplasmeier 10y ago

   This strikes me of an example of a sort of dualism that exists within software. The .zip spec is flawed, and can be broken in all sorts of different ways. However, after years and years of using computers, I've never had an issue with
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    by jplasmeier 10y ago

    I would prefer water-resistance to removable batteries... (I don't think it's that simple, but given the choice, I would take the tight seal)
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    by jplasmeier 10y ago

    When I was in elementary school I was singled out as "a genius" because I could add numbers in my head faster than anyone else. I was pretty good at consuming and regurgitating all of the information thrown at us, and I spent a lo
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    by jplasmeier 10y ago

    Or just stay at a few different airbnbs. Which is annoying, but you get what you pay for.
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    by jplasmeier 10y ago

    Per his LinkedIn[0] he started college at age 16. He's 23 now. The fact that he started college 2 years early, seven years ago, made him decide to DDoS a huge DNS provider? That's quite a leap... [0] - https://www.linke
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    by jplasmeier 10y ago

    By matching the author implies couples with XX,XX and XY,XY chromosomes, not necessarily identical chromosomes. Though, it is an odd way of introducing queer couples and does conflate gender with sex chromosomes (and intersex people _do_ ex
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    by jplasmeier 10y ago

    I find this argument to be an unsatisfactory against "algorithmic consciousness". There have been automated proofs of Godel's theorem for a long while [0]. I don't mean this to be evidence on the contrary, but Penrose se
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    by jplasmeier 10y ago

    Rain is normally acidic due to dissolved Carbonic acid. Source: http://chemistry.elmhurst.edu/vchembook/190acidrain.html
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    by jplasmeier 10y ago

    Nevertheless, the title does read a bit like clickbait.
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    by jplasmeier 10y ago

    Today I learned about Betteridge's Law [0], which seems apt here. It states that when a news headline asks a question, the answer is always "no." When it applies to a paper, I'm disinclined to take the paper seriously...
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    by jplasmeier 10y ago

    I nearly skimmed over this line but it's pretty important: "The classifier was trained by the developer using Buzzfeed headlines as clickbait and New York Times headlines as non-clickbait."
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    by jplasmeier 10y ago

    I think we put a little bit too much faith in the scientific process for dealing with cognitive processes (note: I have little background in cogsci or related fields, just books I've read). There's so much happening in our unconsc
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    by jplasmeier 10y ago

    I took John Duncan's course on intro abstract algebra when I was a sophomore at CWRU. I had signed up to take his class on modular forms the next semester but he had been hired away before I had the chance to take it. A big shame as he
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    by jplasmeier 10y ago

    Shouldn't it be "500 Lines or Fewer"?
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    by jplasmeier 10y ago

    I'm a rising Senior Math and CS double major looking for a Fall term co-op, full time. This will be my third internship. Ideally I'd like to something related to Data Science, but I would be interested in any kind of software engi
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    by jplasmeier 10y ago

    Well, what do you want for free ? "ad-supported"