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by likpok 18y ago
Debian comes in three easy flavors: Stable, for those who cannot crash, testing, for those who don't really want to crash, but want some more recent software, and unstable, for people who don't care about crashing and who want up-to-date
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by likpok 18y ago
Rather poorly though. It takes several numbers for which we have no idea of a reasonable guess, multiplies them to get a number. The best we can say about this number (pretty much) is that it is in the interval (0,1]. Which is what you get
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by likpok 18y ago
It seems that a good balance would be to rapidly prototype as a method of understanding the solution (in fact, for most proofs I've done, this is exactly the method: do a few specific cases and try and generalize them). This then lets you s
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by likpok 18y ago
From what I understand, CL is not a functional language. It can be used as such, but is not necessarily one.
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by likpok 18y ago
It's not just arguing about god though. ID makes statements of fact which it is unable to back up with experimental evidence. Evolution makes statement of fact which it can back up with experimental evidence. So the two should not be conf
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by likpok 18y ago
At least for the second point, that's because IDH is Creationism. It purports that somethings are irreducibly complex and must have been designed by a creator. Which is basically the same thing (scientifically) as Creationism.
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by likpok 18y ago
There is a subtle but important difference between money and currency . Only government creates currency , which is-a money. However, both banks and government can create money in other ways, such as through the fractional reserve syste
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by likpok 18y ago
The main issue is that unlike micro or other sciences, there are no experiments. Which is somewhat frightening. There have been something like five or so actual macroeconomic experiments performed. There is no precedent for what we have don
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by likpok 18y ago
Melodyne is pretty crazy. Some of the changes lead to weird results (if you jump to far with vocals), but still pretty cool.
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by likpok 18y ago
Dijkstra talks about it: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EW... . It seems that without DARPA, Ada would have faded away. Perhaps things have changed from his time, but the problem still remains: Ada appears to ha
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by likpok 18y ago
But there are only two other consumer level OS's. Linux and OS X. On Linux, all the software is free (unless you have very special needs) and distributable. And Linux doesn't distribute anything which isn't freely distributable (in general)
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by likpok 18y ago
A example of your first point: Road narrows signs. In my home state of IL, they always (in moderately congested traffic) lead to jams. In MI, they didn't seem to (I have not collected much data there, however), as MI has a law about getting
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by likpok 18y ago
One thing that I dislike about this article is that it implies that there is a dichotomy of programmers, and that it falls like this: new web-savvy developers, and old COBOL mainframe programmers. This is not true. There are still cool thin
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by likpok 18y ago
The problem with Mathematica for serious development is that you need Mathematica to run the stuff. So if you write a gadget/utility, only people with Mathematica can run it. This is an attempt to get deeper penetration into the hobbyist ma
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by likpok 18y ago
Mathematica is a very powerful Lisp-based programming language(without user-visible s-expressions). It is (to an extent) designed for numerical/symbolic math; there are a lot of libraries available for that. However, they've added a lot of
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by likpok 18y ago
Bloomberg uses biometric authentication in their terminals, which makes it fairly difficult to easily share credentials. However, they control the hardware in that case, which is not possible for most places.
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by likpok 18y ago
It might be interesting to see something like this mapped onto a globe (take, say, the blocks of IPs assigned places to get an idea of the worlds "internet lights") It also would be interesting to see this graph normalized for population (o
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by likpok 18y ago
I doubt it. One of the big features of zsh over bash is the tab completion is fantastic (arguments, URLS, etc). With a good .zsh and .zshrc, it is an amazing experience.
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by likpok 18y ago
Cygwin is a bloated piece of crap, especially if you run Vista/Server 200[3-8]. See my other comment about SUA.
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by likpok 18y ago
SUA seems to be what my windowsy friends talk about. It's in newer versions of windows. It natively supports many UNIX apps, and has source compatibility with UNIX.
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by likpok 18y ago
The biggest issue with this contention is that no one knows how far AI can go. Furthermore, I posit that there are people who will never accept what AI does, viewing it as always lesser to human development. Someone (I don't remember who)
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by likpok 18y ago
I should clarify: technically this is the case. However, it is technically illegal to purchase/receive stolen goods (and you can't really argue that you were under the impression that torrented files were legit, at least for the most common
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by likpok 18y ago
Except that they can always get a loan to cover it from the Fed. Back in the day, it took 10% of depositors to make a run on a bank. Now it requires a large number of depositors in the same area to run on all the banks to cause an issue. Th
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by likpok 18y ago
But they are in fact stable. Just the equilibrium point isn't quite where the engineers intended.
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by likpok 18y ago
Downloading a file with bittorrent (lets assume a illegal one) is copyright infringement , which is illegal, and still a crime. One issue is that most copyright infringement cases these days are civil rather than criminal , but the crim
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by likpok 18y ago
May I ask why you don't believe the alternative evolutionary explanation? Forced (to some extent) penetration has been with humanity for a long time, and will likely be with humanity for a long time. It was not until relatively recently tha
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by likpok 18y ago
The main issue with this is that remote bombs do not seem to be a big issue in the US. So we are giving away our freedoms for what amounts to scaremongering: there's no actual reason to use it outside of very few high-profile targets (and m
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by likpok 18y ago
This might lead to a deeper understanding of how neural nets work (or an easier way of implementing them in the hardware, as it were). If we can design regular logic in neurons, we can (eventually?) do some of the fancy neural nets, and the
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by likpok 18y ago
Reading the paper, it seems less useful than perhaps imagined. They claim to be able to reversibly add hydrogen to change the properties of the graphene. This does not seem to lend itself to fast-switching transistors (it seems that the rev
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by likpok 18y ago
There have been a few recent developments (I remember hearing about a concrete 3D printer), but it seems that the technology just isn't there yet. The problem is that the robots need to be small (enough to be transportable and reusable), ch

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