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by mchahn 9y ago
> The fact that identical twins look similar suggests that most of the variation in facial identity is going to be driven by a heritable element. I don't see how you get to that conclusion. If a set of twins inherited nothing from
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by mchahn 9y ago
When there are a lot fewer cars, congestion will go down. Cars will be shared. Sort of a Uber without drivers. Why own your own car?
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by mchahn 9y ago
"Once perfected, the berserk Super Ball ... The ball became so popular that football's biggest game, the Super Bowl, was a pun on it". Color me skeptical.
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by mchahn 9y ago
I assume the video frames are each from a different reaction, or many many reactions. Then they are combined to create a model of a single reaction.
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by mchahn 9y ago
What do you mean by "recreate types in tests"? Checking for the right results doesn't require any type-checking. If the result is right the type is right.
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by mchahn 9y ago
I started a company, Corvus Systems, that sold 5 MByte hard disk drives for $4000. We sold a zillion. Of course the competition was 74 KByte floppies at the time.
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by mchahn 9y ago
> most of the world thinks pilots in commercial aircraft turn on the autopilot and can then go for a sleep They can go to sleep and the plane will continue to fly itself. However, if anyone found out they were sleeping heads would roll.
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by mchahn 9y ago
I have noticed here in California the the police always leave their patrol cars running when parked. I was entering a restaurant a saw a patrol car running. I saw the officer inside and asked him why they leave the cars running. I asked
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by mchahn 9y ago
"I'm miffed that a single experiment gets described as 'this is science, dude!'". A single data point is still a data point and this is still science.
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by mchahn 9y ago
I enjoyed that and the books on PI, e, and zero (I may be forgetting one or more). Each one is an excuse to discuss the history of mathematics which is always interesting to me.
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by mchahn 9y ago
Once again, people registered to vote and people who vote are not the same thing. As anyone with a lot of DB experience, I appreciate how hard it is to keep data fresh.
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by mchahn 9y ago
At least alt-meds do nothing (usually). Radiating people is actively worse.
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by mchahn 9y ago
I hate it when people misspell functions and commands to save one letter. umount comes to mind.
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by mchahn 10y ago
A similar myth: The feds banned a Vodka ad that promoted the taste. The reason was that their definition of Vodka was a "tasteless" beverage. Clearly every vodka tastes different.
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by mchahn 10y ago
> If anybody has done / is doing anything fun in this regard, I would love to hear about it. There were several hybrid computers sold in the 60's.
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by mchahn 10y ago
> Maybe down the line it will consider offering its Bayesian machine learning technique to outsiders, but it would be a hard sell as the tech industry has adopted deep learning systems fanatically. I call BS. Build a better mousetrap an
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by mchahn 10y ago
A very simple way to fix wrist problems is to switch hands for the mouse. I had carpal tunnel bad enough to stop me from using a mouse at all and then I tried switching hands. At first my useless left had couldn't click on the side o
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by mchahn 10y ago
> but $140 is a long way from $6000. Which is apples to oranges of course. One instance compared to a tool to make many. I have a startup that needs 12" by 12" plates (quite a coincidence) in small production quantities with
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by mchahn 10y ago
That ice cream was real, it was just freeze-dried. Most astronaut foods were freeze-dried because of its shelf-life and light weight. My brother-in-law's dad had a small company that freeze-dried foods for NASA. I got to sample freez
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by mchahn 10y ago
And I don't see how making phones for someone else is a bad thing. It shows you know what you are doing.
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by mchahn 10y ago
I haven't done any calculations but this is pure BS. With the situation almost a inverse square law, a significant portion of the earth would have to be liquefied for this much energy.
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by mchahn 10y ago
While I totally agree, pure politics is probably not appropriate here.
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by mchahn 10y ago
So, did the penguin represent Linux?
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by mchahn 10y ago
This seems like a rehash of the book Pencil from years ago. A large book about only the pencil. While it was intriguing I could only make it through the first 100 pages or so.
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by mchahn 10y ago
> Autonomous systems won't be good enough to detect threats That reminds me of the worry about hacking pacemakers. If someone wants to kill you there are much easier ways to do it. A rock to the head works well without much techno
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by mchahn 10y ago
I exercise and work at the same time for 45 minutes a day. I installed a workstation on my treadmill, but unlike most worker's treadmills I use it for aerobic exercise, not a slow walk. I can type because I set the treadmill on maxim
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by mchahn 10y ago
I'm still confused. What is Google doing that blocks something?
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by mchahn 10y ago
So Gimp can run on a device with no mouse, just a touchscreen? That is news to me. How could google make that possible? Oh, maybe I'm not getting it. You want to run all the linux apps, but know that it's impossible?
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by mchahn 10y ago
All applications need to be ported to a platform before they can run on it. What linux app do you want on Android? It can be ported. You can't do that on ios.
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by mchahn 10y ago
Feynman used to break into safes (he had a non-evil reason). His main technique was looking for notes in the person's desk with the combination. Everyone thought he was a "safe-cracker".

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