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by lmkg 12y ago
Randomization lets you ignore dimensions that you're not interested in. It doesn't do much in the way of letting you attribute an effect to one or more dimensions from a large set of them. There's a fundamental lower boun
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by lmkg 12y ago
Turns out... one of the easiest ways to create a better economy is to eliminate malaria. It's that bad of a disease, that it contributes to poverty at the national level. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria#Econ
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by lmkg 12y ago
I think by a "transpiling solution," he means something that is transpiled from (like coffeescript or dart), as opposed to something that is transpiled to , which is asm.js. The problem with transpiled languages is that each tr
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by lmkg 12y ago
I've heard that in a couple of places, it's difficult to track down a specific source. It looks like that particular fact isn't on Wikipedia anymore, although it does say he learned English from a young age. Source for being
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by lmkg 12y ago
I think comparing Brave New World to 1984 misses a bit of the point. The books came out near each other and deal with similar themes, so they very often get compared to each other. But they are also significant and important books in is
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by lmkg 12y ago
Borges was well-read and read English and international works extensively (in fact, English was his first language, not Spanish), so it's not completely unreasonable that he kept abreast of new developments. It's still a stretch t
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by lmkg 12y ago
The set of rational numbers that lie inside the interval [0,1]. This set is not closed there are non-rational numbers in that interval which are limit points of sequences that consist only of rationals. For example, any of the algebraic num
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by lmkg 12y ago
Books can be worth reading without being good books, especially sci-fi. Brave New World is absurdly heavy-handed, but it's worth reading because it describes an important type of social dystopia. Honestly, I think 1984 is just as o
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by lmkg 12y ago
The hammer thing is about Uber. It was in the news recently.
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by lmkg 12y ago
Genes of the baby are 100% determined by the fertilized egg. The genes will be from whoever donated the egg. This is usually the mother in practice, but since you need to do In-Vitro Fertilization anyways, there's no fundamental reason
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by lmkg 12y ago
Yup. I'm using Opera 12.16. The User Agent starts with Opera 9.80 (the last version before 10 was 9.6x). Apparently, too many sites would use a regex to parse the first digit after "Opera" and check if it was higher than 6 or
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by lmkg 12y ago
If this is a user-facing tech-support position, then it is a hard job requirement that the candidate be able to handle being lied to by the user. I don't care what they say, they didn't check the cable, they didn't reboot, an
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by lmkg 12y ago
Voted 'yes,' but much less so than your average ad-blocker. I blacklist rather than whitelist, which is probably the opposite behavior of most people with blockers. I want to support sites that I consume content from, so by defaul
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by lmkg 12y ago
This is the one I have: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0140286802/?tag=mh0b-20&hvadid=3524... ISBN: 0-14-028680-2 It's a complete collection of his short-story fiction, which is nice. I think the translation is
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by lmkg 12y ago
Modal behavior always introduce cognitive overhead. It's something that you have to track, and it introduces the possibility of getting it wrong. To your point, that overhead can be reduced through various UI techniques, but it can
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by lmkg 12y ago
23andMe has not proved that the information it provides is sufficiently accurate. It makes claims about an individual's susceptibility to various diseases, and furthermore it markets itself as a reliable source of information (which th
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by lmkg 12y ago
This OS isn't completely hypothetical--what you describe is similar to the design of Singularity OS, a (now-dormant?) project at Microsoft Research. Large parts of the OS were written in managed code (related to C#), and programs did r
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by lmkg 12y ago
> having identified a statistical anomaly, she is assuming one explanation That is where you are going askew. There are two ways to derive knowledge from data. A) Start with a theory. Generate falsifiable hypothesis. Perform observation
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by lmkg 12y ago
The reasoning in the article is correct. Cubicles 1-10 are occupied in both scenarios, but the observation of (self <= 10) is much less likely in the Doom Late scenario. This means that if you observe (self <= 10), the conditional p
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by lmkg 12y ago
On the ground, a large portion of (consumer) debt collection is based on pulling fast ones. The people in debt are not aware of their rights and protects, and the debt collectors deceive, sometimes stretching the truth and sometimes outrigh
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by lmkg 12y ago
- Missing the base case (or not realizing there are multiple) - Not understanding/using variable scoping - Insufficiently-exhaustive case checking (especially if there are multiple variables) - Using built-in data-types that do not ha
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by lmkg 12y ago
Yes, success in the United States can be explained by some combination of hard work, intelligence, and luck. Hard work and intelligence can, to a depressingly large extent, be predicted by the success of your parents.
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by lmkg 12y ago
Clojure is dynamically typed in the sense that programs are not type-checked at compile time, values are tagged with types, and type errors are runtime errors. On other words, it is dynamic, in contrast to static type systems. This says not
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by lmkg 12y ago
Grammar rules should certainly be descriptive, no argument there. But the proscription against adverbs is a stylistic rule, not a grammatical one. Arguing descriptive vs prescriptive on a rule of style doesn't make much sense to me; is
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by lmkg 12y ago
IFERROR was introduced in Excel 2007, and is not compatible with the old-school .xls files. I haven't had to worry about 2003 in the wild in a few years, but some tools may not have migrated to the new file format.
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by lmkg 12y ago
Why not both? I say that flippantly, but I mean that quite seriously. With the amount of resources available to the US military, I see no reason why they should constrain themselves to only a subset of capabilities, especially if the one th
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by lmkg 12y ago
A totally different type of procedurally-generated content: The physical card game, Dominion. It is a deck-building game, where players play cards to generate cash to buy cards that go into the deck that they are playing out of (which cycle
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by lmkg 12y ago
This definition of memory safety reminds me of a story of writing a C compiler for LISP machines. As I recall, C pointers were represented in LISP as a tuple of a reference to a buffer, and an index into that buffer. In other words, the exa
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by lmkg 12y ago
I assume you're aware, but for the general audience: Every bit of memory on space shuttles was an individual physical bead stored in a hand-woven wire grid, with memory contents stored as magnetic orientation. This style of storage w
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by lmkg 12y ago
The function returned by 'compose' is a closure because it captures references to its local environment (the two functions passed to 'compose'). If it did not close over these variables, it would not work. It might be po

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