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by murbard2 12y ago
2^4 x 21 mm x 29.7 mm ~ 1 m^2 Yup, he was being dumb.
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by murbard2 12y ago
People have already pointed out why. In addition, let me point out why it is also no more powerful than a Turing machine. If you accept physicalism, then thoughts arise as the result of electrical, mechanical, and chemical processes. As far
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by murbard2 12y ago
It depends on your design. You can build it with separate engines and manage to land safely on two diagonally opposite engines.
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by murbard2 12y ago
It would look like a quadrotor, and therefore be more hip and attract more press and possibly more investments. If I'm being generous, I'd say the advantages are: - Safer than a helicopter due to rotor redundancy - Easier to pilot
725.
by murbard2 12y ago
Security is what matters here, the DRM can be circumvented anyway.
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by murbard2 12y ago
I agree with you on the sentiment, but note that Jetbrains products run great on Linux and do a lot more magic than IntelliSense. PyCharm even does a great job for dynamically typed Python, relying on type annotations, run time logs, etc.
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by murbard2 12y ago
There's nothing wrong with the Turing test as long as it is adversarial . The people who chatted with Eugene did not particularly try to trip it. The beauty of an adversarial Turing test is that it is AI complete because almost pr
728.
by murbard2 12y ago
As with everything in crypto: it depends on your threat model. If you are sending very sensitive secret messages, it is indeed crucial that you take the precaution to verify the keys very thoroughly. If however, you merely want to avoid bei
729.
by murbard2 12y ago
What kind of programming doesn't lead to programs? And before you say proofs, proofs are programs, that's the point.
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by murbard2 12y ago
Stupid frat guys aren't going to fly explosive laden drones over restricted areas. However, everyone will have to pay the cost of this stupid DRM as it slows down operations and sucks battery. Worse, if it's made mandatory, it m
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by murbard2 12y ago
I own the "Etymotic Research ER20 ETY-Plugs", about $13 on Amazon Prime. They're much more comfortable than the cheap foam ones you can buy, they actually stay in your hear, and the tube means that you can still hear high fre
732.
by murbard2 12y ago
It is not a sensible idea. First of, people will be able to go around your DRM by patching the firmware, or spoofing the data coming from the GPS. Second, your proposal would require the GPS to be always on. Not every drone needs a GPS, and
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by murbard2 12y ago
This is an old project http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/ but the idea is still sound. It's routing inspired by ant colonies, for anonymous file sharing. See http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/howAnts.shtml
734.
by murbard2 12y ago
Slavery is a legal or economic system under which people are treated as property. It has nothing to do with wages. Slaves under ancient Rome could earned wages and sometimes bought themselves out of slavery. In the U.S. for a variety of rea
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by murbard2 12y ago
1) I said no such thing. I said tribalism causes both bad politics and interest for sports. 2) Did you even bother reading about the Nika riots? It shows the deep connection there is between arbitrary tribal affiliations, sports, and politi
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by murbard2 12y ago
I give you the Nika Riots, to begin with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nika_riots
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by murbard2 12y ago
No, tribalism is the reason we have both sports and stupid policies. The hope is that by condemning sports one can make a more general point about tribalism.
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by murbard2 12y ago
The article is correct that one should not cultivate a disinterest in sports and talk about the "working class struggle". If you're going to be an elitist, do it right. Spectator sports, rooting for a team, appeal to the most
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by murbard2 12y ago
No, that would imply a linear cost per person
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by murbard2 12y ago
That's quadratic growth for the city, not per person . It's linear growth per person.
741.
by murbard2 12y ago
I get \sigma < 4 \gamma for 3.c, did I understand this correctly? The model doesn't make much sense to me. Why would the per person coordination cost be quadratic. You'd expect something maybe linear.
742.
by murbard2 12y ago
Infix notation is when the operators goes in the middle. For instance, the expression: x * (y-z) uses infix notation. When I look at it, I can see at a glance that x is multiplied by the difference between y and z. However, were I to listen
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by murbard2 12y ago
Thanks for writing this article. I've often wondered if I could still program if I lost my eyesight; this is reassuring. When I consider at expressions with infix notations, I visually scan then from left to right and right to left. Vi
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by murbard2 12y ago
a cryptogtaphic digest, http://linux.die.net/man/1/sha256sum The message is a joke intended to make people think about limitations of null hypothesis techniques. On the one hand, the technique I describe is statis
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by murbard2 12y ago
There's a very easy way to do null hypothesis testing. Take the sha256 sum of all your experimental data. If the first fives bits of the hash are 0, then you can reject the null hypothesis with p < 3%
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by murbard2 12y ago
Ghost like faces? It's as if they are... spectral (•_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■)
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by murbard2 12y ago
Yes, this is important. Everyone probably has experienced dreams where they stumble upon a powerful, deep, great idea. Upon waking up, the idea generally turns out to be trivial. Psychedelics and entheogenics often give you the feeling of
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by murbard2 12y ago
Even if it's made legal, they can always sell you a 100 year lease on the car with terms and conditions. If it's that bad, let market pressure will push the model out of existence.
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by murbard2 12y ago
Go the Brookstone way? Did you see what happened to sharper image? Their main asset was brand recognition, and a network of retail stores. But that network didn't fit with what they were selling anymore. I think a good strategy would h
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by murbard2 12y ago
You could also prevent editing the main title, once you pick it, it's set in stone (or limit the edits to a small Levenshtein ball). That way you can do as many corrections to the document as you wish, but it's much harder to chea

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