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by lkozma 16y ago
Also, if you want a more readable and entertaining introduction, I highly recommend the book "Linked: The new science of networks" by Barabasi.
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by lkozma 16y ago
No, they argue that this would lead to less demand for prostitutes, which would balance it out. In effect they say that disease would spread more slowly in a graph with less highly connected hubs and more balanced number of connections per
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by lkozma 16y ago
I think what the article argues is exactly this: there would be less hyper-connected nodes if the nodes would be more locally connected. The spreading of the disease would happen much more slowly in this case. This fits in with the theory o
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by lkozma 16y ago
"If you're a public health official, you probably care about the absolute number of infections, not the number per sexual encounter" Perhaps they made the assumption that the total number of sexual encounters over the entire population is r
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by lkozma 16y ago
Also because it evolved so that we can learn and speak it.
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by lkozma 16y ago
Thanks, very good suggestions. Also I'll look into the deferred javascript trick.
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Review my webapp (#2): sharebookbox.com
2 points by lkozma 16y ago|2 comments
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by lkozma 16y ago
Thanks, I did mean that :)
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by lkozma 16y ago
Sorry, I'm skeptical about that. The movements are big so that they will be captured and correctly interpreted by their pattern recognition system. I think they would not be able to detect very subtle movements like ASL. It is ingenious to
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by lkozma 16y ago
Similarly I find parallel coordinates diagrams hard to grasp. I know they show direct and inverse correlation between neighboring variables but surely there are much better tools for that.
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by lkozma 16y ago
Would you tell about some other projects that you did before delicious? Not necessarily their names, just roughly what they were about. Basically I'm curious whether there was a logical succession or were you just trying out random ideas.
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by lkozma 16y ago
To me his suggestion towards to end sounds the most attractive: "Do I pick up a bartending job to cover my food budget, and try to hack on my projects on the side? ".. Doing different types of mental work all day and the constant context sw
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by lkozma 16y ago
It's worth mentioning that Finland is quite egalitarian, so the difference between the "minimum wage" and a "decent wage" and a "very nice wage" are pretty small. e2k is quite close to what can be earned as a programmer or engineer at entry
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by lkozma 16y ago
The article speculates about Roman or Phoenician maps that might have been lost, but makes no mention of the more probable Arab influence. This is just my naive guess, but wasn't Arab mathematics and astronomy the state-of-the-art of the ti
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by lkozma 16y ago
In the tradition of news.yc, I'd be glad to get your feedback on these ideas. I'm not pursuing any of them right now, so I'd just like to find out if there is any value in them, if they already exist, or are impossible, etc.
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Web app ideas(lkozma.net)
42 points by lkozma 16y ago|26 comments
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by lkozma 16y ago
Where is Nokia in this game?
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by lkozma 16y ago
Or you could say simply "Facebook is the new TV" which would probably be quite accurate.
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by lkozma 16y ago
No, I haven't noticed it. Might be because I don't have a Facebook account.
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by lkozma 16y ago
I'd argue that using FB is pointless, not quiting it. Not using it is the default state of things, so the burden of proof should be on the other side. It's a bit like with smoking.
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by lkozma 16y ago
Thanks, that settles the question. However, browsing interfaces might still affect the statistics, for example, if someone right-clicks a link and selects "copy link location" than pastes it into address bar, it is clearly a "direct access"
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by lkozma 16y ago
I hope someone with more experience will help clarify this: if in Firefox I click "open in new tab" instead of simply clicking the link, will the referring url be preserved, or will it be counted as "direct"? If the referrer is lost in this
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by lkozma 16y ago
Running barefoot is cool, but at least to me these five finger high tech socks kind of miss the point. Part of the reason for barefoot running is the "back to the basics" feeling, I wouldn't want to get into another arms race for better equ
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Designer's block(artlebedev.com)
1 points by lkozma 16y ago|0 comments
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by lkozma 16y ago
But then physical goods wear out AND become obsolete.
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by lkozma 16y ago
I wouldn't bet on it, if you search "stupid boss" on that facebook status search someone hacked together or on twitter, half of the results are comments about the facebook search site or about facebook privacy. Don't underestimate how quick
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An essay on metadata (2001)(well.com)
2 points by lkozma 16y ago|0 comments
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by lkozma 16y ago
Have you seen this classic piece from 2001? http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm It argues quite convincingly why semantic web is useless.
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by lkozma 16y ago
This mentality has lead OS designers to come up with those "My Documents", "My Videos", "My Photos" folders that are auto-created on installation. It's been there in Windows, recently Ubuntu has them, probably Macs have something similar. I

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