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by mizzao 11y ago
Evidence? Most people don't think about prison when they are committing crimes. They might think about whether they will be caught.
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by mizzao 11y ago
Wise people know that they don't know everything and are able to realize that even if they know a lot, someone else may know more about X than they do and absorb their perspective.
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by mizzao 11y ago
Even the dig at Fortran is silly. Most numerical libraries and subroutines are still implemented in Fortran and you have to figure out how to call them from other languages (e.g. scipy, numpy).
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by mizzao 11y ago
(Apple) Research? What research? We're a design company.
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by mizzao 11y ago
The reality is that's not how research works. Inspiration and breakthroughs don't come out of thin air; they come from the freedom to interact with other scientists, process their ideas and work, and then combine them with a new p
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by mizzao 11y ago
Not saying it's what happened here, but an unfortunate consequence of the publicity machine is that it's a lot easier to bullshit, overhype, and sell a story with certainty and simplicity than to be honest and talk about the detai
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by mizzao 11y ago
I don't see a date on this article. Anyone?
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by mizzao 11y ago
I'd love to try this to induce lucid dreaming, but I'm not sure about the unknown health risks of electrical stimulation to my head for hours.
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by mizzao 11y ago
This has to be lifted from some internal BMW models, though - or maybe the creator wants to get a job there?
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So far in 2015, we’ve had 274 days and 294 mass shootings(washingtonpost.com)
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If your iPhone were powered by...(graphics.wsj.com)
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by mizzao 11y ago
> I'd be curious how the hinge works, and although a whole section of the article is dedicated to it, I explains nothing. http://www.wired.com/2015/10/story-behind-surface-books-craz...
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by mizzao 11y ago
MSR has been around for a while, with quite a bit of freedom, and still is a far cry from the accomplishments of Bell Labs (maybe time will tell, though.)
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by mizzao 11y ago
Interdisciplinary work is incredibly hard to pull off in academia due to tribal affiliations. I think the MSR NYC lab (where I work), which consists of computer scientists, economists, and other social scientists, is one of the few places I
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by mizzao 11y ago
Great news! Probably the only other non-university lab at the moment with this type of long-term basic research goal is Microsoft Research.
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by mizzao 11y ago
That's because NIPS 2015 will be held in December. Final papers are due Oct 30th : https://nips.cc/Conferences/2015/Dates
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by mizzao 11y ago
With a SSD on the host OS, I really can't tell much of a difference. Not sure on the battery life, but I've had nothing to complain about as long as I'm careful not to have some random process hogging 100% CPU on either guest
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by mizzao 11y ago
I don't know about that, I think you should give the tablet mode a try before you speculate about what it can and can't do. I use my SP2 a lot with the Pen and OneNote, which provides automatically digitized handwriting that is vi
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by mizzao 11y ago
It seems like running in a VM is a much more attractive option than dual booting these days. The performance hit is negligible (especially with 16GB RAM), you can use both OSes at the same time, and you can use all the native Windows touch&
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by mizzao 11y ago
I run Linux on a VM inside my Surface Pro 2. Best of both worlds. All the touch and pen gestures are handled by Windows and carry over through VirtualBox. Would love to get a Surface Book as soon as possible.
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by mizzao 11y ago
Yep, this particular pricing structure is all about price discrimination.
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by mizzao 11y ago
As someone who studies causality via experiments for a living, this article is a remarkably accessible synthesis given that it covers so much from different disciplines. Definitely bookmarked as a juicy morsel to send to anyone who asks, &q
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by mizzao 11y ago
Not sure if that is the occam's razor for me...
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by mizzao 11y ago
It seems like there's a bug because "people older than you" is incrementing by 3 per second while "people younger than you" isn't. Unless I misunderstand, how is the world generating additional instances of peo
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by mizzao 11y ago
Agreed, it spits out 3 people at the same time and doesn't seem to resemble a Poisson process.
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by mizzao 11y ago
A lot of these numbers need to be weighted by the number of submissions; e.g. fewer samples implies higher variance. The fact that the 3 people who reported from Arizona have high salaries, for example, doesn't mean that one should go
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by mizzao 11y ago
I think the Surface Pro line has great input lag. I write on it all the time. In fact the irritating things are the fact that it's a screen, not paper, and the plastic-on-glass feeling is slippery, and it occasionally runs out of batte
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Periodic Table of Elements(research.google.com)
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by mizzao 11y ago
In economic terms, might we think about this as someone who is maximizing a utility function for social welfare rather than individual welfare? I always thought some of my reasoning about the world was rather strange and hard to comprehend.
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by mizzao 11y ago
Usually when you install Linux on a laptop you can expect any software (non-firmware) battery management to go out the window.

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