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All Lost in the Supermarket(limn.it)
4 points by mjn 11y ago|1 comments
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by mjn 11y ago
It soft-launched in 2014, I believe. I registered on their website asking for an account sometime in 2014, and got an invite in September 2014 to what the email described as a "private beta". The general public launch where anyone
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by mjn 11y ago
You probably already know this, but as a heads-up to others browsing that site, quoted prices for cruise ships are per-person based on double occupancy, so you'll only get a rate as low as $50/day/person if you're travel
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by mjn 11y ago
Also recommended if you find the idea intriguing, a long-form narrative article on the subject from last year: http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2014/slow-boat-from-china/
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> this builds much more explicit resentment from those that are profit-centers towards those that are cost-centers An additional bit of trouble, coming from the way Google's current profits are made, is that the profit centers are m
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I think it's a good idea, but fwiw it's not CS-specific. Harvey Mudd's idea isn't that CS is so uniquely important that everyone should take it, but rather than everyone should take a lot of things, regardless of major
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by mjn 11y ago
Looks like this was a talk at the Black Hat conference today. In addition to the slides PDF in the Github repository, the Black Hat site also has a short paper: https://www.blackhat.com/us-15/briefings.html#the-memory-s
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The Tapper videogame patent(kmjn.org)
32 points by mjn 11y ago|2 comments
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Reactions vary. From what I've read, Greeks on the islands that are seeing a big influx of immigrants coming by boat from the Turkish coast have generally been treating immigrants well, or at least as well as limited resources allow. I
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It's automatically extracted from video, using six cameras and a commercial system called SportVU: http://stats.nba.com/tracking/
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by mjn 11y ago
We have some pretty good differential evidence suggesting that they would not have been destroyed in the Greek Revolution, if that's the specific threat you're worried about. Elgin did not remove all the marbles, but only a portio
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by mjn 11y ago
Fwiw the remaining sculptures in Greece aren't left outdoors at the actual Parthenon site either, in order to protect them from damage (though they are nearby). The Acropolis Museum [1] stores 5 of the 6 Erechtheion caryatids (the 6th
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by mjn 11y ago
I wonder if borrowing some experience from professors who use a take-home exam format might be a way to improve the quality. The college I went to ( http://www.hmc.edu ) heavily uses take-home exams, and it definitely seemed like
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by mjn 11y ago
> Breaking out of container will always be easier than breaking out of deeper levels of virtualization (Xen/KVM). I agree it's not easy to get right, but it doesn't seem necessary that containers will always be leaky. So
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by mjn 11y ago
Wikipedia's summary of the case doesn't make it sound as positive for 3taps, especially as the status of the case (their motion to dismiss the case was denied) is not what they wanted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by mjn 11y ago
Story generation , or occasionally automated storytelling , is the keyword for systems that aim to write complete stories, with a narrative structure. There is also a field of natural language generation (NLG) that more broadly looks at
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by mjn 11y ago
It appears to be lost. A researcher got in contact with the original author (James Meehan) a few years ago, and he couldn't find a copy himself: https://grandtextauto.soe.ucsc.edu/2006/09/13/the-story-of-
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by mjn 11y ago
With these features that have been added to SQL over the past decades, you could probably at this point implement Datalog in it, or a Datalog-to-SQL translator. Might be an interesting experiment.
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by mjn 11y ago
I think that can be true, but YC has a model that works for them, so it seems ok to me to not try to cover every industry in the world. Some of them are quite different, to the extent that YC's networks and expertise might not be as im
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by mjn 11y ago
The funding numbers I've found for the University of California system are that per-student expenditures are roughly flat, and that tuition increases are almost 1-for-1 offsets for decreasing state funding. Here is a little ASCII table
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Yes, that's why freedom of panorama is an exception to copyright in many jurisdictions, because otherwise taking photos of public places becomes a minefield of copyrightable stuff strewn everywhere.
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If I'm reading the 2nd article correctly, the current situation is that the European Parliament will vote on July 9 whether to recommend removing the freedom-of-panorama exception, but whether that recommendation would be acted on is u
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by mjn 11y ago
Yes, artistic lighting installations can be copyrightable, and that on the Eiffel Tower is newer than the tower. Somewhat similar situation to a mural being painted on an old building, or a new statue being installed on its facade. Without
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by mjn 11y ago
The MEP of the Pirate Party Germany has this explanation. Obviously from a particular direction: https://juliareda.eu/2015/06/who-is-behind-the-attack-on-fre...
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I agree in cases where the compiler knows that undefined behavior is taking place. A lot of the silent optimizations LLVM and GCC make are in cases where the compiler isn't really sure it has identified undefined behavior, though. To
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This sometimes works, but I've found quite a lot of cases where it doesn't. The two most frequent culprits for me: 1) Smaller index. Some stuff just seems not to be in DDG at all. Even after finding a page I'm looking for via
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by mjn 11y ago
CNC milling does have more metal waste up front, but it's usually recovered, separated from any contaminants, and remelted into new metal, so it's not really "waste" in the long-term sense. The recovery isn't free,
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by mjn 11y ago
The first documented success was the system MYCIN in the mid-1970s, which beat expert human performance on diagnosing blood infections: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycin I can't seem to find the paper I'm th
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by mjn 11y ago
I've never used Homebrew, so can't comment on that, but in comparison to Macports, Advantages of pkgsrc: - Everything is a quick binary install. Macports has gotten more and more towards "mostly binary", but I still find
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by mjn 11y ago
I think of classical music as a more "canonical" target than atonal or dissonant music, though it depends on what community of researchers you're looking at. One of the more famous researchers is David Cope, who spent much of

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