m-photonic

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by m-photonic 10y ago
So, does it?
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by m-photonic 11y ago
I don't think there's going to be a winter this time. The current boom may only take us so far, but there are a couple more booms on the horizon that in all likelihood will be cusping well before this one is finished.
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by m-photonic 11y ago
And all successful activists.
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by m-photonic 11y ago
The complaints about "SJWs", while indelicately phrased, aren't completely off-base. Hacker News has gotten way more PC over the past 5 years, much to its detriment. I remember what the site was like before the big reddit inf
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by m-photonic 11y ago
This technology isn't a luxury. The vigor of youth and the wisdom of age underlie all of human flourishing. Whatever meager good we manage to achieve in the world flows from these things. The first world wouldn't be doing the thir
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by m-photonic 11y ago
The Pythagorean comma is nothing to worry about -- it's tiny and more or less negligible. It's the syntonic comma that's the killer. The fifths in equal temperament are completely fine, but the thirds are really quite a ways
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by m-photonic 11y ago
Optimized? A lot of those chairs look pretty uncomfortable.
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by m-photonic 12y ago
Very interesting. What if you took a large set of musical notes on various instruments, with about a two-second duration, with the same pitch, same volume, and same sample rate, and did the same thing? Eigensounds! And that's just with
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by m-photonic 12y ago
This is true, but it's too easy to go from that to assuming that ALL our cognitive biases were selected for. Some of them just emerge because it's hard to design a brain that doesn't work like that. But some really basic cogn
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by m-photonic 12y ago
Not me, I'm just linking this here. It was submitted the other day but didn't get much attention. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9092545
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by m-photonic 12y ago
"When I'm hiring, I have an HR intern (or the external recruiter) strip anything that could indicate gender or race from the résumés before they get their initial evaluation. For the ones that make the first cut, I have the recrui
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by m-photonic 12y ago
It was released two years later, but all the upgrades were to more peripheral features like the palette and various special effects. They're both chewing through the same amount of memory each raster to draw the screen, which is the co
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by m-photonic 12y ago
You're being discriminatory in a sense, but then being discriminatory is normal. It's just what people do, and the large-scale consequences can be trivial or important depending on any number of things. Whether or not it's wo
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by m-photonic 12y ago
I especially liked how he would give examples of similar techniques being used outside of chipmusic where similar constraints would come up, such as the bass player adding percussive slaps to the gaps in his melody.
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by m-photonic 12y ago
That would take another few articles.
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by m-photonic 12y ago
Don't have the study handy, but measures of working memory such as the OSPAN were found to predict proficiency in a programming course even better than an algebra test that participants also took.
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by m-photonic 12y ago
"Leftist ideology used as a vehicle for tabloid clickbait" would be more accurate.
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by m-photonic 12y ago
To be fair, Asians DO score higher than Europeans -- it isn't just some ploy to establish credibility. Anyone looking at SAT data can tell you that. I would frame your objection a bit differently: finding an Asian IQ advantage is in no
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by m-photonic 12y ago
The Space Invaders clone at the end of the video blew me away when he explained that it was running on the Z-machine. That is something I never would've thought I'd see.
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by m-photonic 12y ago
But "ancient" astronomers would have been even less accurate, and headlines need words that people can instantly recognize.
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by m-photonic 12y ago
I can see why he thought it was ill-posed -- it doesn't have a single solution if you think in fractions rather than dollars and cents.
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by m-photonic 12y ago
Exactly. Proponents of the notion of learning styles have focused on individual differences, but it's somewhat of a red herring. The vast majority of people, whatever their strengths may be, benefit from approaching a subject using MUL
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by m-photonic 12y ago
I wouldn't assume that's his actual karma score.
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by m-photonic 12y ago
There's a difference between seeing lots of minorities around your town, and having minority friends. One of these things makes you more likely to post on Stormfront, the other makes it less likely.
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by m-photonic 12y ago
That's about four cents, or a twenty-fifth of a semitone. I don't think I can even distinguish relative pitch at that level (although 15 cents I can do easily -- roughly the difference between a just major third and an equal-tempe
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by m-photonic 12y ago
It is, but it shouldn't be.
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by m-photonic 13y ago
Another day, another demonstration that the loudest voices on any given issue are never those that are most nuanced. The squeaky wheel gets the grease indeed.
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by m-photonic 13y ago
Apparently it's an Apple II game, not a CGA game. I was fooled too though.
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by m-photonic 13y ago
From what I've heard, in parts of Asia it's common for antibiotics to be sold over the counter, and a lot of the worst drug-resistant strains come out of the developing world. It's a much bigger deal than American agriculture
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by m-photonic 13y ago
>to my ears it sounds unlistenable, but I'm always curious if that's just a cultural thing. If you're musically inclined, I highly recommend the software synthesizer "2032" (freeware). It allows you to mess with

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