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by maurits 14y ago
My favourite scale of the universe picture: http://scaleofuniverse.com/universe-medium.jpg
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by maurits 14y ago
I only appreciated GEB after I took an advanced logic course featuring Cantor/Godel/Turing in university. Before that I didn't really get it. Well, I still don't, but now I can live with the ideas. "The Mind's I" remains my favourite, by fa
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by maurits 14y ago
Although not specific for languages, memrise.com has flashcards for a handfull of languages. It also remembers what you got wrong and reiterates accordingly.
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EWICON: blade less wind-energy convertor.(ewi.tudelft.nl)
3 points by maurits 14y ago|0 comments
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by maurits 14y ago
Hi! I am in Switzerland, Genf. Drop me a line if you are in for a coffee on the lake sometime.
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by maurits 14y ago
There is no panacea in image processing. These methods work for this particular image, and give an idea about the possible solution, but the thresholding and morphological operations are not scale invariant, and very sensitive to light chan
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by maurits 14y ago
>When you add all of this up, especially when a flight is trying to get out of the gate on time, the pilot is going to err on the side of caution and kick you off the plane. That makes no sense to me because they off load the baggage fr
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by maurits 14y ago
I can't help feel that a lot of the problems mentioned could be substantially mitigated if one had a decent prenuptial agreement. Other than that, I think this idea will work.
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by maurits 14y ago
Sure they could. What they perhaps missed is that this magic device would be used to look at funny cat pictures and share what you had for breakfast with the world. And that people would tune in to that.
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by maurits 14y ago
The Swiss do the same ("Billag") to the tune of 460 CHF per year for radio and tv. I basically see it as a tax for a public system as there seems absolutely no way of wiggling your way out of it. E.g even if you don't have kids, you will al
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by maurits 14y ago
Then I stand corrected, thanks. And for those asking, I read through the terms and conditions until I bounced into this and jumped to a hasty conclusion... Eligibility This Competition is open to all members of the TopCoder website, who hav
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by maurits 14y ago
A bit more accurate title would be "Be A US citizen, write code, fix the not so international space station, win $10,000".
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by maurits 14y ago
Sobering read, reminds me of this rather depressing NY Times article: "Can you call a 9-year old a psychopath". http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/magazine/can-you-call-a-9-...
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by maurits 14y ago
This argument is, I think, completely correct, but also to a certain extend irrelevant. The real discussion should, in my opinion, be held on the supply side of digital content for it still seems to be crowded with companies who for better
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by maurits 14y ago
Thomas Friedman, in "hot flat and crowded" makes an elaborate case linking the price of crude oil to the undemocratic and oppressive nature of (middle eastern) governments.
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by maurits 14y ago
And in Geneve, Switzerland, you would be lucky to have it at all. And it would easily set you back 1500 CHF.
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by maurits 14y ago
So perhaps the real surprise is, is that despite the rather vocal apple/linux crowd, there is still a very large user group for which the crapware-OEM bundles are not big enough an issue to switch or to act up on. Be it for technical or fo
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by maurits 14y ago
Can someone explain me like a five year old (european) how it is that... You put a man on the moon, flew the space shuttle, have a rover sending holiday pics from mars, not to mention, your entire computer industrie.... But you can not make
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Inside the Osama Bin Laden assassination(vanityfair.com)
2 points by maurits 14y ago|0 comments
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by maurits 14y ago
But as this person is a democratic elected official, he is representative for a group. An he is not talking to himself, he is talking to part of that group, in the video. On a side note, it just baffles me that in an age where anybody with
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by maurits 14y ago
To Encourage Biking, Cities should do two things, and two things only: - Bike lanes. Physically separated bike lanes. This is not rocket science. Trains have rails, airplanes have a nice bit of tarmac and bikes should have a space tailored
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by maurits 14y ago
Thanks, my first thought was they were from 'Rendezvous with Rama' by Arthur C. Clarke.
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by maurits 14y ago
I don't think so. I am a mountain climber and my phone is off and for emergencies only. It is not even a smart phone as they are way to vulnerable and consume to much energy to run.
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by maurits 14y ago
That and you need to sign up if you just want to have a (short) peek at the content. One also picks up more than one book in the bookstore before buying, if any. Also, the real value in these courses is that they are the real deal. They sho
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by maurits 14y ago
Quality. Followed by quantity. There is a huge difference between taping lectures and 'throwing them on youtube' and offering a comprehensive package that is specifically tailored for online learning use only. And that is definitely the dir
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by maurits 14y ago
Have a peek at the peers next time. You might be unpleasantly surprised.
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by maurits 14y ago
Well, not to be blunt, but going back a 100 years or so gives me records of senators openly complaining that some of their highly esteemed colleagues have been put in their seats by the railway companies or companies dependent on tariff wal
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by maurits 14y ago
This will fundamentally change nothing. You are basically using the same (money) tactics as the persons you oppose and therefore part of the problem of the entanglement of money and politics. The fact that you are "justified" or "right" in
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by maurits 14y ago
>It's also a bit silly seeing people talking to "Siri" in public. I wouldn't be surprised if this is exactly what the future will bring us as SIRI improves. People talking to it more or less the same you see them talking to their pets n
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by maurits 14y ago
Ah, winamp 2.2-something nostalgia. What a lovely brilliant little player it was. Reminds me of my other favorite player when I switched platform. The story of Audion: http://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/

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