mizzao

59 ms·

871.
by mizzao 12y ago
The energy (molecular bonds) gets dumped into the universe as heat, but not the mass (i.e. carbon atoms).
872.
by mizzao 12y ago
It seems that the ability to tell what is fundamentally different about one framework versus another, instead of just treating all frameworks as interchangeable keywords, is what distinguishes some good engineers from bad :)
873.
by mizzao 12y ago
You can always use an existing OT stack within Meteor, such as this package I wrote integrating ShareJS: https://github.com/mizzao/meteor-sharejs
874.
by mizzao 12y ago
I think there is something to be said about letting a person have their childhood. It is far too easy to burn someone out by a raft of accomplishments when they are very young. A child prodigy has the potential to be successful at any point
875.
by mizzao 12y ago
It's ac.uk for "academic".
876.
by mizzao 12y ago
I've tried to use probabilistic programming for building a model of real data, and it seems that there is a long way to go before it's practical and fast. On one hand, there are the Monte Carlo-based methods that will support mode
877.
by mizzao 12y ago
Apple's considerable open source contributions?
878.
by mizzao 12y ago
A good summary of why probabilistic models are important is this article by the legendary Chris Bishop: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/cmbishop/downl...
879.
by mizzao 12y ago
Save a hundred bucks for a loss of how much productivity? Surely more than $100.
880.
by mizzao 12y ago
This code is very old. It also helps to explain why there are so many libraries checked in directly to the repo instead of being installed by NPM, etc. EDIT: I guess it is also explained by the apparent fact that it was written by a math pr
881.
by mizzao 12y ago
I open this (Chrome, Linux 3.18) and just get the two carets on an orange background. WebGL works on other sites. Broken?
882.
by mizzao 12y ago
I wonder what it would be like if some food products were versioned 0.x, like OSS projects :)
883.
by mizzao 12y ago
YES! So many old school projects hosted on janky sites that are immeasurably harder to contribute to. Looking forward to getting them all moved. ...as long as GitHub doesn't become an evil empire of some sort.
884.
by mizzao 12y ago
Another way to look at what you're saying is to ask whether a small cap index beat the S&P 500 over the last 40 years. Of course it did (see the following link for the last 10 years, as Google doesn't have earlier data; https
885.
by mizzao 12y ago
A Wikipedia hosted in a decentralized manner (i.e. DHT on running computers) that could still be updated in a distributed fashion would really help us maintain that knowledge for the future while not relying Wikimedia's servers to keep
886.
by mizzao 12y ago
Also known as the `locate` command? :)