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by msravi 10y ago
Two books by Simon Singh: The Code Book Big Bang He has an amazing ability to go really deep into what he's explaining. No hand waving over the details. And yet, it's so very readable. Unfortunately that wasn't true with his
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by msravi 10y ago
As of June 2016, VimR moved from using a MacVim backend to a NeoVim backend. I've been using it for a while now, and the combination of VimR and NeoVim has been great.
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Refined NeoVim Experience for MacOS(vimr.org)
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Julia has this kind of syntax (among others) for functions.
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> The design decision referenced in the Guardian story prevents millions of messages from being lost So it's a classic tradeoff - convenience vs. security, and the Guardian story correctly reported it. > and WhatsApp offers peopl
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uMatrix
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Notice that I didn't say "newspaper" or "tv"? It isn't about the medium - mainstream (established) media is as much on social media as other news websites that may or may not be fake. It's the credibility
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I think the mainstream media is using this to support their own delusions. It is because of the drop in credibility of mainstream media that people have begun believing in unverified sources. It is because of the blatant and obvious bia
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Mystery Hackers Blow Up Secret NSA Hacking Tools in ‘Final F--k You’(thedailybeast.com)
1 points by msravi 10y ago|2 comments
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Carbon seen bonding with six other atoms for the first time(newscientist.com)
3 points by msravi 10y ago|0 comments
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by msravi 10y ago
I can stand just outside the venue and sue them for sending me deauth frames... I haven't entered the venue, I haven't agreed to their terms, and they're interfering with my transmission/reception.
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Autumn Snow Cover Second Highest on Record(realclimatescience.com)
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Right, the data. So the proper way to do this would be to set up a massive A/B test, with everyone entering the US to be randomly assigned to one of two groups - either you're put into the hierarchical filter and you're profi
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In order to sort the bad apples you do need some sort of filter. You can do it either by (a) having sets of hierarchical filters with increasingly finer pores, or (b) with a single filter with the finest possible pores that everyone is pu
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by msravi 10y ago
> US citizens of Pakistani origin need to jump through hoops to get an Indian visa, for example. That's far more intrusive and harmful. With good reason, after the 26/11 Mumbai attack, which had the extensive involvement of an
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by msravi 10y ago
It isn't too clear from the description, but isn't non-saturation of the inertial measurement responsible, rather than saturation? I'd expect that some computation did not saturate its output, and the result overflowed (a
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by msravi 10y ago
Hypocrisy. At least here in India, the hypocrisy of what is labeled the "liberal left" is nauseating. - I clamor for women's rights but when a certain religion is guilty of trampling over women's rights, I go quiet - I c
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by msravi 10y ago
> For example, retrieving 500 archives that are 1 GB each would cost 500GB x $0.01 + 500 x $0.05/1,000 = $5.25 Shouldn't that be $5.025? Or did I misunderstand?
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by msravi 10y ago
Sorry, fixed the typo.
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Does prospect theory explain Trump and Brexit votes?(cognitionandculture.net)
37 points by msravi 10y ago|54 comments
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The gist of the article is not that fake news is not the problem, but that people have lost faith in all media, including mainstream media. > The problem, Binkowski believes, is that the public has lost faith in the media broadly — the
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And that affects the outcome of an election, how? Sure, it's a bias that you ought to measure and factor in into your projections and your campaigning, but to say that the fake news item swung the vote in one or either direction is t
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by msravi 10y ago
I think the BBC is missing some of these images: https://twitter.com/NileshShah68/status/797097848470929412 https://twitter.com/gbhimani/status/797021076182077440 https://twit
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The partisan nature of this piece is amazing. Contrary to what is presented here, the whole exercise was one that was brilliantly executed, and one that has caused minimal disruption. See this: http://swirlingtea.blogspot.in&#x2F
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> Mass media probably could stand to tone down the commentary and go back to facts - it would be nice, and we do occasionally get some really good pieces of journalism as a result of an editorial/opinion piece, but some more bare fa
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I'll repeat what I said in response to another comment: I think you're underestimating the intelligence of people. We like to think that we're much better than the average Joe at separating the wheat from the chaff, but the t
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by msravi 10y ago
I think you're underestimating the intelligence of people. We like to think that we're much better than the average Joe at separating the wheat from the chaff, but the truth is that the average Joe just isn't so bad at it eit
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by msravi 10y ago
I don't understand how thick headed the mainstream media (MSM) seems to be in not getting it. This "upset" win of Trump (upset in the sense that it didn't play by the MSM's wishes) was not an isolated incident - it&
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by msravi 10y ago
I don't understand how thick headed the mainstream media (MSM) seems to be in not getting it. This "upset" win of Trump (upset in the sense that it didn't play by the MSM's wishes) was not an isolated incident - it&
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Apple, metadata, and encryption (from the podesta emails)(wikileaks.org)
2 points by msravi 10y ago|0 comments

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