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by mellavora 12y ago
How do you know if you have committed a crime or not? How do you know that the LEO will not, during his discussion with you, trick or lead you into committing or admitting to some crime?
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by mellavora 12y ago
Strong disagreement. If we are going to get real reform, we need the police to also buy in. Alienating them doesn't help. The drive to consider oneself a "good person" is fundamental to human nature (yes, psychopathy is a pat
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by mellavora 12y ago
Aaron Swartz
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by mellavora 12y ago
Remember also we need to end civil forfeiture, which lets police take your stuff without charging you with a crime. It is a growing business in the US, police are now regularly trained in the game and rewarded based on their daily take. mor
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by mellavora 12y ago
So my question is what can we, the hacker community, do to change this? Would pervasive sousveillance help? Thinking deeper: we need to change the culture of LE in the US. What needs to change such that LEOs become part of the wider communi
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by mellavora 12y ago
I hope more people start to ask your questions. Law enforcement in the US has drifted far from what most people consider moral or right.
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by mellavora 12y ago
Fantastic solution to a major problem; I'll keep it on my radar.
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by mellavora 12y ago
A quick look suggests the rave reviews are justified. I'll add it to my rotation and see if I like the tea. Thanks for the tip.
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by mellavora 12y ago
it also is an interactive language, much like CL. This is a killer feature for exploratory work. The other two posts are right about the main differentiators.
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by mellavora 12y ago
I've got a Pakistani on my team. Tough man.
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by mellavora 12y ago
Fantastic! Good steps towards "artificial wisdom". Define wisdom-- skill in a craft (here: knowing how to think). Using ML to identify "wise" programming mindsets. Then (presumably) developing educational programs which
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by mellavora 12y ago
Nice summary/intro to ML. I challenge one point, near the end "Life is the greatest epistemological problem of all... We arrive into this world not knowing anything, and using only these mountains of data, we try to put them toget
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by mellavora 12y ago
Yesterday was Pi day. 3.14.15, so at 9.26:53 I had a piece of apple pie and a slice of key lime pie. On such a special day we went full circle, two pie. My wife is a great cook
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by mellavora 12y ago
For programming/design, download youtubes from Pando and convert to mp3s. easy. Same for the sam altman/ycombinator lectures. For real thought, Long Now. http://longnow.org/projects/seminars/SALT.xml For
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by mellavora 12y ago
Lisp was my first and last love. But I left her years ago due to lack of libraries and etc. Work mostly in R these days, but I do mess with my .emacs file every now and then. Similar experience to yours, Mandus. (oh, post-doc in computation
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by mellavora 12y ago
Using a computer algorithm, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_twister is a good choice. "Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin." -- Von Neum
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by mellavora 12y ago
Yeah, I was trying to be snarky, thinking about the guy who is responsible for everything but doesn't have any creative freedom. Epic fail on my part. I'd also enjoy what you describe.
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Understanding the influence of all nodes in a network (open access)(nature.com)
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by mellavora 12y ago
I'm an American expat, 15 years in the EU, and 10 years working cross-border within the EU. The IRS is very clear that you have to file with them regardless, though you may not have to pay anything (due to FEIE or similar). What you ha
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by mellavora 12y ago
burnout? Or the thrill of being a founder...