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by mjn 12y ago
In my own limited experience, Facebook has changed less than Twitter from the perspective of conversation dynamics, to the extent that I now prefer FB, while I used to prefer Twitter. For one thing, FB is less "flat". On FB, my up
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The End of Big Twitter(text-patterns.thenewatlantis.com)
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by mjn 12y ago
It sort of does; the justices' law clerks do this kind of research, often digging up data or analysis to cite in support of an opinion's claimed policy effects (not all of these references come directly from amicus briefs). I be
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by mjn 12y ago
I agree to some extent, and even wrote an op-ed along those lines a few years ago [1]. The issue with asymptotic algorithmic analysis isn't only the constant-factors-matter one (which most people are aware of), but also that some heuri
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What's Wrong with Journalism About College?(utotherescue.blogspot.com)
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Alt_Cph 14 Assemble(altcph.dk)
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by mjn 12y ago
Significantly lower cost of living, or better sources of early-stage funding. Some countries have started including games in their arts or film funding, which can be a viable source of initial funds (especially in countries where the arts f
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by mjn 12y ago
I don't think everyone uses that definition of declarative, though it is one of them. A very common different definition is that declarative programs specify "what", not "how", i.e. desired outcomes are explicit, wh
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by mjn 12y ago
There's also a commercial ($200) Common Lisp implementation that targets Android (and iOS): https://wukix.com/mocl Somewhat different setup though. Instead of a Java-replacement language on top of a JVM, I believe it&#
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by mjn 12y ago
That's a common problem with concluding things from automated literature analysis. Often the decision to scan only abstracts isn't an intentional experimental-design decision, but made due to "data of convenience": the r
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by mjn 12y ago
Yes! I wish there was more work in that line. Very interesting work, but also hit some major problems. This 1984 postmortem paper by Lenat and a collaborator is also thought-provoking: http://eksl.isi.edu/files/library&
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by mjn 12y ago
I've only been using mu for about a week, so I'm not any kind of expert. On the other hand I did just spend a bunch of time reading about both mu and notmuch to try to pick one (and picked mu), so I can list some of what I came
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by mjn 12y ago
Recent versions of mu do have some thread-reconstruction support. On the command line, you can use the --include-related parameter to 'mu find' to return whole threads when any message in the thread matches the search (rather than
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by mjn 12y ago
Conventions vary by subfield. In my field (AI) it's more common for the related-work section to go up front, as the 2nd section right after the Introduction. You first set up/motivate/preview what you're going to do, the
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by mjn 12y ago
Yes, that's also my understanding. Important background is that this is not (or at least not solely) a commercial initiative by IBM to produce a machine-learning chip, though I'm sure they would love to sell some too. It's a
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by mjn 12y ago
They discuss their reasoning briefly in the manual [1, p. 3]: We are far from the first to contemplate an open ISA design suitable for hardware implementation. We also considered other existing open ISA designs, of which the closest to ou
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by mjn 12y ago
In general no, parties have pretty wide latitude to file motions. If the law doesn't permit the request, the remedy is just that the court rejects it. That's the basis of the adversarial system; parties are expected to try to make
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by mjn 12y ago
Tangential question: reading the transcript, I'm surprised that two of the three parties' lawyers are attending the court session via speakerphone. Is that common?
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by mjn 12y ago
There are a few papers circa 1980 that cite an AI Lab memo with this title and give a date of 1979 [1], so there must indeed have been a version circulated earlier than the 1981 "A" version. Have you tried contacting the CSAIL arc
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by mjn 12y ago
Hmm, this other 1979-era history of Emacs also doesn't mention Steele, though it does mention Weinreb and Moon, whom the author seems to have worked with closely: http://www.multicians.org/mepap.html .
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Welcome to Dataland(medium.com)
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A tangential nitpick, but perhaps interesting from a history-of-symbols perspective: ...the skull and crossbones permeated culture as a symbol of danger. By the late 1800s, it was starting to be used as a symbol for poison. Then in the 194
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by mjn 12y ago
This wasn't approved by anyone in particular. SSRN is a preprint archive, like arXiv.org, where anyone can upload their work. Some of the work published there has also published in peer-reviewed venues, some hasn't. This particula
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by mjn 12y ago
That's definitely an interesting addition. In the past, I've bought Nooks rather than Kindles as gifts for elderly relatives, because of the ability to just take it to the nearest brick-and-mortar B&N in case of trouble (or ev
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by mjn 12y ago
That's often a problem with what's sometimes called "constructive" PCG, i.e. manually writing an algorithm that generates variations of content. It's somewhat hard to craft an algorithm that produces a ton of variat
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by mjn 12y ago
Having a pre-filled form you could look over and send back is suggested occasionally, but seems never to pass. The nefarious explanation for why is that Intuit has good lobbyists [1], but I'm not sure how true that is. We have pre-fill
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by mjn 12y ago
Minor nitpick, though with this caveat the article is great: > At the time, ideas of race in America were quite literally black and white. Not so much America as specifically the south, where white vs. black was the dividing line, and an
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by mjn 12y ago
I'm an expat in Copenhagen and definitely find it comfortable, almost embarrassingly so. It feels like being in a foreign country on "easy" difficulty level. Not only does everyone speak English, but at least in Copenhagen, E
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by mjn 12y ago
That's also true in Denmark (everything is built for the winter). Although since it doesn't get that hot, rather than AC, it would suffice if things were just better ventilated. There are 2-4 weeks every summer where office buil
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by mjn 12y ago
Street noise isn't really an issue for me. The windows are double-pane with a thick space between the panes, and in my particular case the apartment isn't on a street with much automobile traffic anyway. Unlike an NYC-style grid w

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