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by lliiffee 18y ago
There is a real possibility that lobbying by scientists is at least behind this. I can easily imagine someone so angry that their grant forbids them from sending their paper to Nature (which has prestige above any open journal) that th
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by lliiffee 18y ago
It is probable that there would be more drug use if drugs were legalized. (This is acknowledged in the article.) However, its not clear at all if related crime and accidents would go up. Looking to the example of alcohol prohibition, cri
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by lliiffee 18y ago
On the other hand, The Economist has been against drug prohibition for a long time. (If I recall correctly) So it is questionable how novel this really is.
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by lliiffee 18y ago
Pedals exclusively? Interesting! Do you have anything you can point to? Do you mean pedals + vocals like Reggie Watts?
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by lliiffee 18y ago
Read the full text online right now: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html If you meant an investment of time, then, well yes. But SICP is really, really fun.
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by lliiffee 18y ago
It is generally acknowledged that e-readers aren't yet as good for technical books where you will flip around somewhat randomly, and want high quality photos, etc. We need somewhat higher resolution, color, and a nice interface for flittin
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by lliiffee 18y ago
I did search for DWT. I don't understand how wavelets would be used in this context, so I was hoping for some verification.
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by lliiffee 18y ago
Hey, what do FDA and DWT stand for? (Sorry, that link doesn't work for me.) Thanks!
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by lliiffee 18y ago
To my knowledge, most autodiff tools will tend to silently ignore discontinuities, as long as you don't compute them at a non-differentiable point. E.g. if you have y = abs(x) you will get back the derivative g = sign(x). Thi
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by lliiffee 18y ago
Do you seriously mean to suggest that Google got to profitability on 20k?
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by lliiffee 18y ago
So people who live in the US nearby (Bay area?) can visit easily.
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by lliiffee 18y ago
According to the article, NYT revenue last year (a bad year) was $1 billion.
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by lliiffee 18y ago
His argument is basically that even if people do, it isn't enough money. The WSJ costs 79 bucks a year (and I somehow suspect many people aren't paying that full price) 79 million a year isn't nearly enough to save the NYT. I guess the va
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by lliiffee 18y ago
I think it is very shrewd how they emphasize making it EASY to pay for each article. I would absolutely click a little 'pay $0.10' button. The trouble of pulling my credit card out of my wallet, typing everything in, worrying how the webs
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by lliiffee 18y ago
I'm not sure why the number of years of school matters. Are you assuming that the student gives up 0.1% total or 0.1% for each year of teaching? In the latter case, it works out about perfectly: 30 students * 30 = 900 students 900
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by lliiffee 18y ago
If you happen to be much better at math than programming, starting with the theory could be much easier. This survey is the best introduction I have found. The alternative being to read Vapnik's "The Nature of Statistical Learning Theory"
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by lliiffee 18y ago
I interpreted 'resign' to mean that iamdave would quit his job at Facebook.
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by lliiffee 18y ago
The answer to that is "What is Mathematics?" by Courant and Robbins.
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by lliiffee 18y ago
Try comparing ruby to c++!
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by lliiffee 18y ago
This is obviously trivial, but why have a "* - required" thing on the application form when every element is required?
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by lliiffee 18y ago
I largely agree with you. If I "hate" C++ so much, why do I program in it? The answer is that sometimes I need my code to be very fast, and C++ has language features making abstraction easier than C or Fortran. I think the main reason pe
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by lliiffee 18y ago
Most C++ haters (e.g. me) can program in C++ and probably even do program in it sometimes, but just don't like to . I can certainly do anything in C++ I could do in any other language, just with a hell of a lot more cursing and kickin
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by lliiffee 18y ago
In what sense are academic publications more a crapshoot than patents? I hope you don't mean that because they might be rejected ! That would completely convince me of Carmack's correctness.
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by lliiffee 18y ago
Much higher quality. There is something in our animal selves that demands a certain threshold of realism, which these new systems have. Technically, it's just higher resolution, faster connections, better screens, better cameras, etc.,
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by lliiffee 18y ago
my all-time-favorite novel was published in 2006 The Road? (I'm extrapolating from what you say about The Wire.)
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by lliiffee 18y ago
I was thinking that anyone can access the site and do anything that they would do now. The only difference is that what you do doesn't affect other people until the freeze interval is over.
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by lliiffee 18y ago
An alternative to fully shutting down the site would be to "freeze" it. The site is available, but nothing changes. (This could even happen 24 hours per day: updates only happen every 6 hours or something.) To me, the alarmingly addictive
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by lliiffee 18y ago
With random pivot selection, quicksort is expected O(n log n) time for all inputs. (The expectation is over the set of random numbers used to pick the random pivots, and doesn't involve the input at all ). Algorithms like this are called
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by lliiffee 18y ago
The videos by Aubrey de Gray are absolutely fascinating. His solutions are (by design) risky and quite possibly will fail. However, the background he gives on problems is wonderful. This one, on cancer, mostly had the effect of convincin
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by lliiffee 18y ago
Another possibility: The humanities and other non-practical research aren't declining , but rather failing to expand along with the rest of college education. I would think that most University of Phoenix students wouldn't have gone to

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