lqdc13

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by lqdc13 12y ago
I don't think education is the answer. There is no great conspiracy to keep people computer-illiterate. Most people follow the path of least resistance. We just have to make sure that path involves open technologies. This can be done
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by lqdc13 12y ago
This is actually a good idea. If I didn't care what other people think, I'd probably do that. Only problem is that you get social_standing-=1; romantic_relationships-=1; But if you have a good amount of money, it suddenly become
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by lqdc13 12y ago
I am not sure if there is an increase in meth use. Last couple of years look roughly the same as 10 yrs ago in absolute amount.
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by lqdc13 12y ago
That seaborn lib cut down on the code a lot. I can imagine it would be 10x more if you implement all of those graphs with pure matplotlib.
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by lqdc13 12y ago
Because you can't survive playing video games. If the final goal is sort of hedonistic lifestyle, it is sometimes best to do the exact opposite of what you want to end up doing to maximize the time actually enjoying the lifestyle. Sor
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by lqdc13 12y ago
I am not sure if the logic makes sense for everyone. If I had 10 years to live and got $20 million, I would immediately stop working and start playing video games to get as much in as possible before I die.
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by lqdc13 12y ago
I had the same issue. For me it was pages' JS having bugs or pages recreating ads after adblock blocks them.
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by lqdc13 12y ago
I'm not getting that Firefox issue now for some reason. I'll file a bug report if it happens again.
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by lqdc13 12y ago
It's great for some things, but bad for others. If you're using Firefox for example, and the notebook is calculating something, it will lock up all Firefox windows. Also, if you are printing a lot, the html rendering is very slow
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by lqdc13 12y ago
Most of the libs that you use are written in C with Python bindings, so they're not that slow. It's only slow if you are implementing a new algorithm without using numpy/scipy to do matrix operations.
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by lqdc13 12y ago
It could also be sub-optimal because there would be less time spent rearing the offspring that you do have. So they would have a lower reproductive success.
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by lqdc13 12y ago
This is super useful feature for debugging. Happens sometimes that something goes wrong and an ad is regenerated after being blocked. So the ad blocker would block it again, thus generating an infinite loop that can take up all the memory (
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by lqdc13 12y ago
You need to have multiple copies open at the same time if you want to refer to different parts at the same time. Ctrl+f is great, but you end up losing the part of the book you were at before you started searching. So basically I needed to
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by lqdc13 12y ago
Also heats up like crazy and battery life goes to about 1.5-2hrs if all cores are used. I don't get the powerful part if you aren't using the power.
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by lqdc13 12y ago
"significant long term effect on the rise of modern Russia" probably doesn't mean positive effect. Just that it happened this way because of Mongol rule. I.E. destruction of Kiev, crazy internal Mongolian-facilitated infighti
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by lqdc13 12y ago
not a huge one. Because now instead of testing just the common passwords, the cracker would just have to double the amount of work by testing their hashes. Granted, fragmentation in this space is actually good for security, because now ther
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by lqdc13 12y ago
It also completely destroyed Russian culture for example and set them back hundreds of years[1]. Payments to Mongols continued up until almost 1500. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_invasion_of_Rus%27#Impac...
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by lqdc13 12y ago
Ok, the idea in general isn't good because most people won't use a good password and also because now there's a single point of failure if someone sees your password. However, it might be okay if one can provide their own has
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by lqdc13 12y ago
With most other things, you know what you are getting. With software, you are not sure. For this one, specifically, I'm not sure if I want my wallpapers to change all the time. Maybe it would have network issues. Maybe it would show a
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by lqdc13 12y ago
Unfortunately, these don't host many of the articles I would love to have access to. If I didn't know anyone still in uni, I would probably have no way of doing good research. Looks like one of them is proxying through a universit
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by lqdc13 12y ago
Wouldn't spaghettification happen anyway, but at a later point? Maybe everything after he fell in was a dream of his? This would actually make it much more interesting for me although many people probably wouldn't like this sort
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by lqdc13 12y ago
I attributed it to the fact that the black hole is very close, so it had a "helping hand". I'm not sure if it adds up though.
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by lqdc13 12y ago
Wait what? What about sending "quantum data" back from the black hole? The point is that no information can leave. Also, from what I learned in high school physics, the body of a human would completely fall apart if it's fal
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by lqdc13 12y ago
Dictionary performance is still slow from what I can't tell. Like 2x slower than Python last time I checked. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-users/hxfR70Ro... I also find the dataframe libr
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by lqdc13 12y ago
but isn't O(phi^n) < O(2^n)? Exponential regardless.
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by lqdc13 12y ago
If you just want insertion, deletion, resizing and merging with better data locality and roughly same performance as Bloom Filter, also consider Quotient Filter http://arxiv.org/pdf/1208.0290.pdf
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by lqdc13 12y ago
A good portion of it might be with people simply forgetting to pay bills and/or not caring.
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by lqdc13 12y ago
bad coding style in some places (e.g.: https://github.com/Yipit/pyeqs/blob/master/pyeqs/dsl/range.p... where he redefines python range)
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by lqdc13 13y ago
In those applications, everyone would be writing everything in C then and such benchmarks would be useless.
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by lqdc13 13y ago
I am always confused by this. I think the primary reason for picking a language is how simple it is to write something in it. So if I can call scipy and get the result easily in one line, I would do that. When implementing new algorithms,

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