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by lliiffee 16y ago
I've recently discovered the secret to frozen vegetables: put them in freezer bags. The bags the vegetables come in don't prevent freezer burn, so the vegetables taste terrible after a couple weeks. In freezer bags, you have a huge range
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by lliiffee 16y ago
It looks like it is just sending a total blank white screen while it takes a picture. Sure you can change the intensity-- use a gray pixel instead of a white one.
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by lliiffee 16y ago
Looks like it just uses the reflected intensity to estimate the depth, then pastes the original colormap on top of that? Incredibly clever and simple hack.
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The Economist: Online dating: Love at first byte(economist.com)
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by lliiffee 16y ago
This link might work: http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_0_0_...
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by lliiffee 16y ago
Here is a link that you might be able to use to avoid the user-login wall. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&v...
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by lliiffee 16y ago
Another option is to just install Sage. It "just works" to install. Though it is less about numerical computation than symbolic computation. (Though both are targets, there isn't really equal focus, in my opinion.)
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by lliiffee 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
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by lliiffee 16y ago
Actually, even if no one dies, we can still all have children without creating infinite population, as long as we have, on average, less than 2 per couple (1 per person). For example, if we have 1 billion people who suddenly all become immo
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by lliiffee 16y ago
Candidly, you already know who wants to opt out: they have images blocked. If you really want to do the right thing, don't add more tricky tracking mechanisms than hidden images.
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by lliiffee 16y ago
Out of interest, why do you prefer the second line to (1-p)**70 ? Is there some kind of improved numerical stability?
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by lliiffee 16y ago
Which is odd since, doesn't ALDI not accept credit cards?
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by lliiffee 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Rhee
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by lliiffee 16y ago
That reminds me of another effect: I am thought of as a person that regards missing these things as a benefit!
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by lliiffee 16y ago
As a facebook non-joiner myself, I find that I miss out on a lot of baby pictures, knowledge of other people's birthdays, and (a few) parties.
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by lliiffee 16y ago
There is some truth in his point about big buttons. The idea of using a traditional keyboard+mouse interface with software designed for fingers is actually pretty appealing, just because of the ease of use constraints on the software.
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by lliiffee 16y ago
That is a pretty common problem in machine learning. There are tons of solutions, but they are usually classifier specific. For example, if using a decision tree, one can take test data and determine for each leaf node in the tree what fr
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by lliiffee 16y ago
> Recognizing the food with few errors would be horribly hard. I wonder if it would be possible to have some sort of a hybrid system, where automatic recognition is attempted, with a fall-back to manual input where this fails. (The man
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by lliiffee 16y ago
meetup.com serves this purpose to a large degree. Unofficially, of course, but I think that is part of what makes it effective.
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by lliiffee 16y ago
Good point! Theoretically, you could have Montana come and run a prison in California. Of course, that would never be allowed, for the same reasons that it costs so much to house prisoners in California now...
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by lliiffee 16y ago
I meant that I was joking about putting a dollar number on "justice". Although, I'm not sure how unreasonable that is.
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by lliiffee 16y ago
If we are committed to the mercenary approach, we would have to define how bad a murder is "in dollars". If you think we should be focused on justice instead of a cold cost-benefit analysis, may I suggest defining how valuable justice is, i
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by lliiffee 16y ago
I believe Schwarzenegger wants to do exactly that, but has been prevented by prison guard unions.
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by lliiffee 16y ago
I wonder if the algorithm includes the taxes that people won't be paying due to sentences. That could get really complicated. For example, having a felony conviction on your record probably hugely reduces lifetime incomes. For certain pe
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by lliiffee 16y ago
I don't know. A very high-quality small school will have a tendency to get bigger.
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by lliiffee 16y ago
I couldn't quite understand how it works. Was the idea as simple as just creating the infographic, then putting it somewhere on the site you want to juice up? (There were details about links I couldn't really follow on Reddit...)
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by lliiffee 16y ago
For better or for worse, it isn't that unusual. https://support.sas.com/opal/external/dm
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by lliiffee 16y ago
Incidentally, Time Warner just informed me that they were raising the price of my internet-only plan to $54.95, and pointed out that internet + cable plans start at $56.95.
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by lliiffee 16y ago
Thanks for the recommendation! If anyone else isn't familiar, there is an exceptionally good Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyer%E2%80%93Moore_string_sear...
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by lliiffee 16y ago
My understanding is that Google totally agrees that they are weeding out talented people. However, given the number of applications they get, they are wise to be more concerned about false-positives than false-negatives. Most companies do

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