memetichazard

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by memetichazard 17y ago
One thing I want to see done is a good swordfighting game. The Wii hasn't achieved that yet, but some of the videos for Red Steel 2 show promise. Overall, it seems that even with good motion sensing for swinging the sword, footwork is still
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by memetichazard 17y ago
Does it matter that the trademark is based on something that precedes the company? I vaguely recall hearing that a trademark is hard to defend if it becomes part of the common language.
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by memetichazard 17y ago
Here's an idea. Take the scaled function: g(x, y; k) = log( exp(kx) + exp(ky) ) / k Let k be 1/max(x,y) so that you have: g(x,y) = log(exp(1)+exp(min(x,y)/max(x,y))*max(x,y) There are some issues if the maximum value can be negative or zer
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by memetichazard 17y ago
I'm a bit rusty on my linear algebra. Without inverting the matrix, what's the algorithm for solving Ax=b? Factorization is mentioned but I'm not sure what it means in this case.
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by memetichazard 17y ago
It seems like you're saying, once you've gone through 90% of the effort to learn a language, you've only got 10% left (as opposed to 10% for basics then 90% to master).
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by memetichazard 17y ago
In the video, it's shown that there's a cone of galaxies and quasars that we have seen and mapped. What prevents us from mapping the dark areas? Is the the light from the other stars in the Milky Way?
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by memetichazard 17y ago
No discussion on this? Ah well. Does anyone know if the Russian temperature data is freely available though?
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by memetichazard 17y ago
I've heard those stories too. That's why we have fire alarms. When does the plural of anecdote become data? At least, there will be a point where we've got enough data points to start taking precautions.
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by memetichazard 17y ago
Linear Algebra... perhaps not used quite as often by non-scientists/non-engineers but in those domains it's used quite a bit. An example: Control Systems. You have a device that takes some inputs and has some outputs. This device is usually
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by memetichazard 17y ago
Kind of funny when you compare it against this rejection, also done by Steve Jobs: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=950735
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by memetichazard 17y ago
How does it contradict the research? By 'no matter what we do', it doesn't mean she's swapping out the geeky material for the magazines (which makes women more comfortable, apparently), it means she's doing everything without changing the r
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by memetichazard 17y ago
I'm curious about why adding two additional fields to the registration actually improved the conversion rate. Was this just an example, or does someone have some ideas as to why this happened?
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by memetichazard 17y ago
The wikipedia definition is a bit abstruce. One of the links in the external links section has a much better definition, and is more relevant to usability rather than being the more general definition: http://www.usabilityfirst.com/glossar
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by memetichazard 17y ago
There doesn't seem to be anything particularly new or interesting to what's being said here. In particular, there have been many articles on this issue submitted already. Is this worthy of being posted on Hacker News simply because Seth God
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by memetichazard 17y ago
Maybe, maybe not. At least once, being on the net allowed him to see that he was close to being caught. Also, he did make use of it to throw off pursuers. Really, though, it wasn't that he shouldn't have been using twitter. Facebook, etc.,
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by memetichazard 17y ago
okcupid is doing science in the same way that Mythbusters is doing science. Obligatory xkcd reference: http://xkcd.com/397/
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by memetichazard 17y ago
I'm guessing you're the owner of the site. Question - Is 'Clips' supposed to be CLisp? There is an article about a CLIPS programming language on Wikipedia, but I couldn't find anything else for Common Lisp on your site.
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by memetichazard 17y ago
It brings to mind the rationality taboo puzzle you get on one of your CS Algorithms assignments. You know, the one whre all the tribesmen with blue birthmarks commit ritual suicide or cuckolded wives kill their adulterer husbands, all becau
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by memetichazard 17y ago
I'm getting a little bit annoyed with the argument that 'Internet taking over these businesses is BAD because it's replacing quality with quantity! You won't get quality anymore because people are flocking to quantity and we can't afford to
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by memetichazard 17y ago
I'd read it! Well, if I happened to stumble across it anyways. Might I suggest something like, say, Sudoku? :P Not having done any TDD, I'm feeling the same way as most of the responders here so far, and I think the problem is that Fibonacc
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by memetichazard 17y ago
Interesting. I've been thinking about the 'Small World' problem for the Facebook puzzles and came up with the quadtree concept, but I never even imagined something like the geohash/Hilbert curve.
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by memetichazard 17y ago
Possibly related to this story ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=928025 ) which has to do with parsing.
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by memetichazard 17y ago
I don't get it. It seems like for the author, ugly means 'not like OSX', since the only one found likeable was the one most like the default OSX slider. In particular, layer blender, threshold, and color balance would suffer if it was more
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by memetichazard 17y ago
Not in Europe, but in Montreal (Canada), we've got Bixi bikes ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIXI ) and it has similar issues with damage and theft. In addition to the issues mentioned in the wiki page, there were also problems with double
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by memetichazard 17y ago
And there's not even that much correlation. From the comments on the post, someone did did some calculations and it's about 0.18 - and the line pretty much becomes flat if the US and Mexico are removed.
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by memetichazard 17y ago
From the rules. Eligibility: The DARPA Network Challenge is open to individuals of all ages irrespective of nationality or residency. Prizes: The winner must provide a U.S. taxpayer identification number (e.g. a social security number) to r
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by memetichazard 17y ago
Cliff Notes version: -Tainter's model of collapse - that of society reducing itself in complexity when it reaches some level that is too complex to sustain - is flawed. Evidence given in the form of several civilizations for which the decay
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by memetichazard 17y ago
It blocks Opera... then tells you how to get around it. Why not permit it in the first place? Well, it doesn't work perfectly with Opera. I was unable to drag the signs past the no-entry sign - when dragged, they only showed up at the top o
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by memetichazard 17y ago
Having read through the first third of the paper or so, here's some thoughts. I'm not convinced by the fact that showing 'possibility' of zombies is enough to eliminate physicalism. The argument they use is too slippery for me to grasp, but
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by memetichazard 17y ago
The sad part is, they've been saying that since the beginning. Just, no one's bothering to read and instead they go straight to 'Hulu's dead' and all that hyperbole.

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