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mitko
15y ago
or just calculate statistical significance?
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mitko
15y ago
don't forget eye excersices - they eye doctor recommended the other day that every half an hour or so I rest my eyes from staring at the monitor by looking at something few meters away or just closing them.
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mitko
15y ago
similar successful project of a robot playing chess naturally: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ0Hx04KFCg
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mitko
15y ago
I wonder why the pnathan was able to see the post then?
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mitko
15y ago
http://www.bilibot.com/
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mitko
15y ago
That sounds like a pretty interesting research I'd like to read more about - can you please provide some citations/ links.
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mitko
15y ago
2 suggestions: 1) Ask people in mechanical turk to write those sentences. Then you can ask others to verify them - you get far with few dollars 2) Include higher level features - for example bi-grams, there is more information in them Also:
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mitko
15y ago
IMHO, the early Facebook was much better designed for one purpose (flirting and hooking up with members of the opposite sex), the current version is decently designed for multiple purposes (online identity, social games, etc...)
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mitko
15y ago
Larry Page, take a note: your employees may be more motivated by free food than by using geek gadgets or by the company mission
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mitko
15y ago
Thanks a lot - this is the first time I actually create a melody that sounds good and it is sooo easy
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mitko
15y ago
On the other hand this testing doesn't include any other ubuntu user. Of course you'll have some learnability gap. I see also a lot of windows people having trouble to figure out in their first few hours in OS X. While Unity definitely n
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mitko
15y ago
You're right, sorry about the wrong information.
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mitko
15y ago
I see 2 nice ideas in thinking about productivity - which are novel at least to me: managing energy instead of time and being able to disengage from your main project (it being a startup or s.th. else). Does anybody has ideas on how to meas
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mitko
15y ago
also, past performance is not guarantee for future success- otherwise there would be much fewer banks bankrupting.
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mitko
16y ago
lame artists copy, great artists steal.
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mitko
16y ago
Actuators in phones include - playing sound, displaying images, connecting to networks and other appliances, vibrating... etc.
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mitko
16y ago
I feel sad reading stuff on April 1st knowing its not true. Life could've been so much more interesting
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mitko
16y ago
what about the robots in people's pockets. iPhones and Androids can do so many things and have so many sensors. These are robots, just not in the shape we imagined they will take. And they are not yet in the autonomous decision level we ima
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mitko
16y ago
"Requires OS X 10.5+ Intel" Unless you make it run everywhere Dropbox runs this is gonna be "The Dropbox + Mac powered social network". I'd like to try it and give some more constructive feedback but I'm running Ubuntu.
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mitko
16y ago
Unrelated to what you said, but I like how you start your references by 0.
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mitko
16y ago
I don't want to be disrespectful to anybody affected by the earthquake but your comment made me remember this: http://xkcd.com/723/
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mitko
16y ago
hm, how come gcc comes for free on lunux, and install is as easy as: >> sudo apt-get install gcc
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mitko
16y ago
They used to teach us elementary school that "blue+yellow=green". With the advance of science we fix some of our naive illusions. I don't know how many new we introduce...
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mitko
16y ago
he makes it sound that they were allies - they signed a non-aggression pact to divide the area between themselves - the two biggest bullies in the region.
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mitko
16y ago
what the hell is he talking about at 5:40 Germany and Russia (soviet union at the time) attacked Poland in September 1939 he loses all credibility about history when he makes such egregious mistake during the first 5 minutes of the talk.
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mitko
16y ago
indeed if you tune in to twitter channel #lybia you can hear a lot about shootings. Tweets say that there are ~500 shot people in Lybia. Disclaimer: I don't use twitter, but I don't know of any other real time source of info.
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16y ago
This is similar to the way I compare Python and Lisp: Common ground: first class functions, a lot of flexibility, closures Lisp: macros, performance? Python: easy to learn by example, readability, batteries included I use Python day-to-day
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mitko
16y ago
Do you mean these were mistakes, or these are correct?
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mitko
16y ago
but he continued listening lectures - he just stopped paying. Apparently he was smart enough to realize that the knowledge is worth much more than the degree.
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16y ago
>> Science productivity is nonlinear. Maybe you are right, if you try to do it the way the majority does it - brute-forcing and less-efficiently. As a counter example, a friend of mine was able to graduate a Math PhD from MIT in 2.5
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