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by lkozma 16y ago
Well, Hardy said that mathematicians peak in their twenties or something like that (I can't find the exact quote), but there have been exceptions like Weierstrass for ex.
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by lkozma 16y ago
I liked Marcus Hutter's tutorials on the same site: "Introduction to ML" and "Foundations ..." but not the "Universal AI" stuff. Then there are the Stanford ML lectures. I admit that the topic is not 100% the same though but there is overla
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by lkozma 16y ago
It's a nice presentation, although IMO there are better introductory talks, even on the same site. What's funny about this one though is that over half of the comments say "she's cute" or something similar, it's a bit creepy.
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by lkozma 16y ago
What is social media? Can you be a bit more specific?
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by lkozma 16y ago
But if someone takes money from your credit card then that amount is not there anymore, whereas if I download and watch a movie it does not diminish anyone's chance of watching it. Now I might become less likely to pay for the movie after I
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by lkozma 16y ago
I think 1. is part of what Steve Yegge describes in this post: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/01/pinocchio-problem.ht...
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by lkozma 16y ago
Did you want to remove the same result from the list further down? It also appears as item 4.
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by lkozma 16y ago
Unintentionally funny line in TC article: "having deals on things as diverse as handguns". Can one thing be diverse ?
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by lkozma 16y ago
I had this idea of a real social event, say on campuses, etc. that would be called "Quit Facebook Party". It would be a themed party where people delete their accounts permanently, the process being projected on the wall for others to see.
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by lkozma 16y ago
I think the assumption is that these are possible reasons for failure after you discarded "not intelligent enough", which indeed could be a pretty valid reason. The article refers to the remaining branches, thus the title.
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by lkozma 16y ago
"The companies that shape our culture – Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, etc. – are almost always started in a dorm room." Yeah but Craigslist, Amazon, Wikipedia, ... were not started by 20 year-olds. Ok, last one is not a company
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by lkozma 16y ago
Yeah, kitsch especially is quite fuzzy, but the way I understand it most of this "form imitating function" falls under it.
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by lkozma 16y ago
Also known as kitsch. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsch
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by lkozma 16y ago
"Got that bit from Mihaly himself, though it's possible I took it out of context." I'm curious also about the context, I'd be ready to argue against M.Cs. himself, if he really claimed that, but it would be strange, because one of his main
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by lkozma 16y ago
"In communist Russia, the ego goals might be to work in the factory in service to the state. Unfortunately, this is a really shitty goal because it does not provide opportunity for happiness." I stopped reading here - it is a stupid general
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by lkozma 16y ago
He gives all these ideas away for free, seems to have fun writing them, while making a point about IP in general ( http://iotd.patrickandrews.com/about/ ). Why belittle the effort?
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by lkozma 16y ago
I've been following the ideas of this guy also: http://stealchoofsideas.blogspot.com/ Would be worth a post of its own, some are really technical.
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by lkozma 16y ago
At least one has been made :) : http://www.patrickandrews.com/design/index.php?next=25 But I suspect he has more projects going on.
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An invention a day for the past 4 years(iotd.patrickandrews.com)
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by lkozma 16y ago
One could argue that the advice is better if he isn't. Otherwise it would be just hindsight bias. Of course it would be interesting to see his status 3 years from now.
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by lkozma 16y ago
There was this one for Helsinki buses for a while: http://transport.wspgroup.fi/hklkartta/defaultEn.aspx
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by lkozma 16y ago
Even with your addition, I stand by my point: getting from these facts to the statement that it is surprising/curageous for a design studio to blog about their process is a broad generalization. They are basically unrelated things.
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by lkozma 16y ago
"the studio has an excellent play by play of its design process, which seems rather courageous in a country that doesn't exactly encourage the sharing of information" Now that's a quite broad generalization.
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by lkozma 16y ago
Yes :)
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by lkozma 16y ago
Reminds me of Edison's saying: "Tesla, you don't understand our American humor"
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by lkozma 16y ago
Nice... Related to the historical family from Transylvania? http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=int&w=all&q=banffy+c...
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by lkozma 16y ago
rel. to 2), also figure out which one you would actually like on your site. Depending on how you design things, you will get different commenting behavior.
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by lkozma 16y ago
The first one makes sense from a practical point of view but still I find it quite depressing. "If you don't know how to do the job right, you don't know how to hire for it." This means that if you work for them you will do things which the
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by lkozma 16y ago
"157-year-old Indonesian woman" "Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, died at the age of 122." "Turinah would be fully 25 years older than Calment when she died, according to officials." so according to officials 122+25=157 or am I missing some deta
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by lkozma 16y ago
But there the device itself has accelerometers, whereas here, at least if I uderstood it correctly, the camera has to capture the markers on the hand which is much more noisy.

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