lotophage

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by lotophage 8y ago
Out of curiosity, how much do you smoke?
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by lotophage 8y ago
Unless it was designed for swimming, that would be pretty nasty. It would cause a lot of drag and would likely chafe.
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by lotophage 9y ago
> the researcher or institution that wishes to publish pays up front to have the paper published Isn't this the case with the subscription-based model as well?
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by lotophage 9y ago
People are working on it: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/faking-elephan...
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by lotophage 9y ago
That's a terrible idea. Science shouldn't rely on "trust", and reviewers and reviewees should be anonymous to one another. A fact stands on it's own; it's not dependent on it's source.
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by lotophage 9y ago
Sissoko did this in 1995, which predates Runescape. It's essentially a Ponzi scheme, variations of which are mentioned as far back as the 1800s. I suspect that they are even older than that.
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by lotophage 9y ago
Also in MOOC form now too: https://www.coursera.org/learn/build-a-computer
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by lotophage 9y ago
> I have trouble seeing a ship being able to recover enough plastic to be greater than its fuel use skimming through it There are passive technologies that claim to be able to skim plastic from the ocean: https://www.theoceanc
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by lotophage 10y ago
> she simply wasn't heartless and evil enough to fight in that chaotic, insane and corrupt political environment What are you talking about? She managed to make enough backroom deals to oust a standing Prime Minister. That's pr
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by lotophage 11y ago
> You can turn the page with either the touch display or physical buttons, and a built-in accelerometer detects whether you are reading with your left or right hand — automatically rotating the page (and page turn buttons) to match. [1]
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by lotophage 11y ago
This is an entirely personal opinion, but as nice as it is, I find the font painfully difficult to read.
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by lotophage 12y ago
but they were all 2x engineers!
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by lotophage 12y ago
> Whenever I hear about stuff like this, I wonder: Is there anything the failure modes of the human brain allow us to deduce about the software architecture? There is a long history of this in Neuropsychology. It's referred to as Do
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by lotophage 12y ago
Not adhering to style guides is now a privacy issue.
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by lotophage 12y ago
What you really want is a lemmatizer (stemming approximates lemmatization). I believe that NLTK has a WordNet lemmatizer, but I don't know much about it.
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by lotophage 12y ago
The module names "legspin" and "willischeck" refer to the sport of Cricket.
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by lotophage 12y ago
If they're being acquired by twitter, that would be one incredibly hostile acquisition!
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by lotophage 12y ago
Like a contemporary version of: http://nerdboyfriend.tumblr.com/
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by lotophage 12y ago
> I would like to see fluffy degree programs ended, so that legitimate work in the humanities can continue without anyone wasting time... > ... the heaviest users of the service were education majors.. Aren't you contributing to