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by kubrickslair 15y ago
Thanks, looking at the right textures, instead of texture generating algorithms helped here. I think I will purchase a bunch, and that should suffice.
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
Thanks a lot! It is often the right things to search for, and this really helped. Also, your installation was a big relief from gradschool stress. And I enjoyed guessing the algorithms that went into different visuals, though I am sure I wa
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
Thanks! I did not think of smoothing the vector shapes, that partially explains how it blends so well. The other thing is the edges of the shape- they are darker and blend in the lighter body of the fill. I guess that works by inverting the
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
Loved the watercolor tile. And a plea to HN folks: I am working on a project, and it will be great if someone can point me to a way to dynamically apply such a filter to vector derived solid color images. I am thinking of running a GIMP ser
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
Well, one can get many multiples of the investment if they focus on real estate as opposed to the savings account. The rich are indeed getting fabulously rich. And all the while the conditions of the real poor are in fact getting worse. And
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
I have not yet been a part of YC, but know a fair number of YC founders. But among all people I know, I found Sam to be probably the smartest and also very helpful. But more than that, he is both nice but still nudges you towards the right
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
I don't mean to cause offense, but I find people who never went to college or did not major or focus heavily on CS or engineering generally more interesting to both work with and as people. Somehow college grads (especially in math heavy fi
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
Get's most interesting (statistics and real-world wise) from 13:00 onwards.
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Nassim Taleb discusses uncertainty; more technical than his other talks (2009)(streamer.perimeterinstitute.ca)
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
Don't know much about Mayer, but found it interesting that he deleted the post honoring Steve Jobs after SJ's biography came out and he was quoted as saying that Mayer was "out of control". http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/ld6th/john
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
I remember seeing your Apple developer video (an year later) and then checking out your blog, and finding out that it was rather dormant. I thought you were only enjoying your newly earned wealth, and did not care about work or anything els
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
I should also add that do not try to be so f*cking revolutionary. Most products and schemes that aim to be revolutionary seldom end up being that. Apple has been an anomaly. Edit: I should also add that being inside academia, I have seen so
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
Thank you for posting it. I should say this: When Steve Jobs talks about intersection of Liberal Arts and Technology people think it's some marketing gimmick. But he was saying pretty much the same thing in 1982, when he was at the top, the
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
Someone here correctly commented how this post showed Reddit level discussion and team based upmanship. You cannot trace the level of influence in a one-dimensional number line, of any two successful people or companies. Who has had more in
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
Parent and grandparent, take some deep breadths and relax. Please don't quibble. Then watch this rather insightful video titled 'Everything is a Remix' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq5D43qAsVg And pardon me, for coming off as arrogant,
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
Yes, the difference with Apple is illuminance. But I think they started it when they were much smaller, and it was meant to be promote word-of-mouth-ish promotion. Sure now that Macs are popular, it sucks to have too many illuminated logos
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
Almost every other laptop manufacturer also does that, at least now-a-days. And it was true when I got my first laptop, a ThinkPad in 2004. Did Apple start the trend, and was it different before that? I am not sure, I could not find enough
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
I have posted this a few days back, but I guess in the context of persistance. He indeed did wait for the next big thing. Rumelt congratulated Jobs on the turnaround but expressed skepticism about Apple’s chances of overcoming the Windows-I
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
I don't want to come off as arrogant but I should say this. People generally do not select engineering as a profession in India- it's one of the default professions for most of the middle class. I have been involved with computers since I w
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
> their cult following Have a look at the top rated comments on the link to get a better perspective of the cult the company fans are part of. Most people are pretty balanced and more meaning can be found in having faith in a political
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
Yes, but I also feel that things are not going to get any better for most of the general population who got laid off.
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
Not sure why you are getting downvoted, except that your comment may come off as rather sentimental. I distinctly remember few years in my middle school, when my family business was not doing that well. I could still get pretty much anythin
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
Also to add to the earlier comment, the only reason I wrote the rant was that I care enough about HN. I am not looking for approval or karma- I knew what I meant and what I was saying. But you know how people get irritated by a stupid fanbo
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
Yeah, there are some selection bias issues here. From what I have seen, anomaly detection especially graph based ones can be pretty robust, but they break when the person has written only one or so reviews- which is what I guess the majorit
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
I would agree with you, but the comments were initially upvoted a lot, which tells me some people got it. I think it's my mistake to write it without providing context in the first place. The comments probably made sense to some, but not mo
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
My comment was NOT about a solar battery tree, but a general philosophical statement about how we interpret and judge information. The moment I start loving HN, I start seeing such Aspergeristic tendencies. So downvote me to hell, but I am
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
If I dare say the blind 'this tribe hates that tribe' seems like a very modern concept. It was always subtle alliances, people fighting and cooperating together, bar some very monotheistic warfare like the crusades, and even they were not s
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
Yes, but my comment was much more general than this particular event or invention. I only posted it because it seemed like a good context.
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
You missed the point of what I am saying, if you are debating on this minutiae.
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
A bigger point here is how we all mistook the results. There is always a struggle between extreme peer review, which leads to insularity, and going by the net real impact- 'don't publish, build'. In the latter approach, the winner often for

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