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by mbq 14y ago
The main problem with Chomsky's approach is that it is quite likely that human intelligence mechanics are just incomprehensible for a human intelligence, and not because of some crazy construction tricks but simply plain old brute size and
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by mbq 14y ago
I'm sure this will add a lot of awesomeness to tasks like creating a web page or an application; all the pngs and jpegs mixed together in Photos, templates and styles in Documents...
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by mbq 14y ago
You may end up writing C...
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by mbq 14y ago
But why a stacked barplot? This way you can easily see the dynamics in reds but the apparent amount of blue is quite deceiving. IMO a better idea is fixed hue grid and modulated saturation for the counts.
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by mbq 14y ago
Agree; in fact every single proprietary software or technology I have ever paid for was abandoned or turned into a pile of junk.
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by mbq 14y ago
There are Node.js debuggers? Oh, seems so: http://github.com/dannycoates/node-inspector
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by mbq 14y ago
This is rather a short list hiding open alternatives to Revo works; the better idea is to read CRAN task views http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/
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by mbq 14y ago
This explains the care about Solaris compatibility of R packages.
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by mbq 14y ago
The problem is that real neurons are way more complex than those simple functions AI guys build their networks of.
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by mbq 14y ago
Yeah, it should certainly start with some intro explaining the idea of VC and defining words like commit or repo.
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by mbq 14y ago
This is an oversimplification -- many (if not most) PCs are superfluous, but this is because they belong to people who do not need a computer at all. Even with them all replaced with tablets or whatever, PCs will still live long and prosper
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by mbq 14y ago
Even if, you'll never get a guarantee that it will be safe, secure (no encryption will help you if someone can get a snapshot of RAM) and no storm will put it (or your connection) down in the most unfortunate moment.
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by mbq 14y ago
Its... worse. We can track time so easily and so well that we decided to screw it up.
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by mbq 14y ago
Thanks to the fact it is open and published under PLoS's "limited warranty" everybody can read the actual paper and are encouraged to judge it. And this is good, because papers are voices in the discussion not an indisputable statements of
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by mbq 14y ago
I can't understand why they haven't just made FP open source... Flash on the web is maybe dead, but it is still usable for kiosks, games and AIR-related stuff (AIR used to be a best idea for platform-independent wrapper of active PDFs, thus
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by mbq 14y ago
Microsoft should put "doesn't get Mac viruses" on Windows.com.
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by mbq 14y ago
Agreed; it has just happened -- in a rapid idea-exchange environment science just works way better using a common language, regardless how hard or illogical it is; and English was on a right place and time (German and French used to have th
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FreeBSD Debian slower than Linux Debian(phoronix.com)
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by mbq 14y ago
As I understand, this is only about this side experiment with ImageNet data which uses logistic regression on those neurons in some cryptic way; I was trying to comprehend the core work (faces) before that.
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by mbq 14y ago
The train is not labeled, so it is not possible; and they do not mention that the labeled set was split or used in validation -- it is just called "test".
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by mbq 14y ago
I think it will be beneficial for Qt; for a few recent years Nokia is a sort of anti-Midas -- whatever they hold or touch turns into junk (Symbian buried, phone Meego wasted, computer Meego demolished...). Plus it is a chance for Qt to fina
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by mbq 14y ago
Well, it is obvious the if you don't need in-browser drawing you should just use static image files; but if you do, Raphael is way more versatile than canvas api or tricks with CSS. About bugs, I haven't seen any yet; what kind of them are
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by mbq 14y ago
For small and complex things yeah, for big and simple not at all.
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by mbq 14y ago
There is a nice SVG drawing lib called Raphael.js ( http://raphaeljs.com/ ); it does animations pretty well and works even in IE6 (via fallback to VML). So it basically does not work only on old Android and links.
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by mbq 14y ago
As far as I can tell, this is let's train a huge number of models and then cherry-pick few that works well on a test set, so an overfitted junk. What have I missed?
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by mbq 14y ago
I was trying to imply that conceptually there is no difference between 1kg and 10000kg of nuclear waste if the only that we do about it is to sit and cry that it would kill as all -- this way it certainly will finally end up smuggled and du
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by mbq 14y ago
The nuclear plants are not the only source of highly toxic nuclear waste -- medicine, science and industry have also a fine share, and they are often dealing with much more dangerous isotopes that are in the nuclear waste. The storage probl
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by mbq 14y ago
The problem is that this money is spent not on how to make usable "green" energy but how to be more efficient in consuming gov's subsidies to "green" technologies.
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by mbq 14y ago
The core of this is not a problem of fixing some naming convention (like leap years), but to actually disturb the measuring of time for a sake of making idealistic views of solar system dynamics the canonical time source. If you measure c d
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by mbq 14y ago
At least UNIX time is sane enough not to count this madness, so all time differences are objective; only one timestamp value will ambiguously mean (-1):60th and :00th second in UTC.

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