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by murbard2 12y ago
It's a markov chain if your state is the vector representing the size of each cell
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by murbard2 12y ago
Yes but that is not what you do. You calculate the expected proportion of each atom at each step, but: 1) this does not tell you what the distribution is. Decay is a random process... what is the probability that you have more than 90% of a
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by murbard2 12y ago
Very well done. Despite my skepticism around graphical programming languages (Dijkstra...) I must say this is quite impressive. I think I would hit its limits pretty soon with the type of projects I work on, but for 99% of websites this is
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Did China Order Hackers to Cripple the Hong Kong Protest?(motherboard.vice.com)
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by murbard2 12y ago
I found this presentation a bit more helpful to understand the concept https://www.blackhat.com/docs/eu-14/materials/eu-14-Hafif-Re...
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by murbard2 12y ago
In my experience, people who work on Wall Street. And there are many groups in the US which are much more liberal and likely to hold unscientific views about IQ.
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by murbard2 12y ago
The article points out that this is the approach taken by the researchers who found the effect.
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by murbard2 12y ago
I don't know of any field where there is a larger gap between mainstream science's position and what the public think this position is. It's "common knowledge" among a certain educated elite that IQ has been debunke
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by murbard2 12y ago
I understand that the argument that drug legalization would bring additional tax revenue to the state is effective. That is, however, a sad state of affair when hundreds of thousands are jailed or have their lives ruined for a victimless cr
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by murbard2 12y ago
As it's been pointed out, the title is a bit misleading. That said, one should keep in mind that, technically, everything you experience changes your brain -- it's called learning.
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by murbard2 12y ago
> What makes you think human brain isn't just an ensemble of hundreds of different specialized algorithms? Experiments such as this one http://web.mit.edu/msur/www/publications/Newton_Sur04.pdf The pl
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by murbard2 12y ago
They use Google in the demo from Microsoft Research, that's a little embarrassing :)
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by murbard2 12y ago
One of the reason such proofs are hard is that there is no reason for these numbers to be rational, it would be a huge coincidence. Proofs typically happen when there is a good reason for things to be a certain way.
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by murbard2 12y ago
What do you think is Mailpile's biggest issue? Not something you'd mention in a FAQ but the type of issue that's almost inherent to the project and that bothers you the most?
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by murbard2 12y ago
Actually that would be called homicide. And why use other words? Because words are loaded with connotation that may not apply to the circumstance.
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by murbard2 12y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/arts/design/23pain.html?_r... I think this story is evidence that there are some non arbitrary qualities to artwork that you (and I) are not perceiving. It would ne
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by murbard2 12y ago
I'm not sure what the difference between statistics and machine-learning is supposed to be, seriously. The theoretical foundation of any machine learning algorithm is probability theory and statistics. Is machine learning implied to be
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by murbard2 12y ago
I hear the game is so realistic that when you recklessly shoot a bystander, you're placed on a two week paid suspension until you respawn.
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by murbard2 12y ago
Oh, then indeed I'm wrong here.
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by murbard2 12y ago
This is not how it works, you don't send an entire image to the client, you send the coordinates of discrete objects and each client renders locally. And yes, the coordinates of objects moving behind you are being sent too.
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by murbard2 12y ago
All the known laws of physics are local* so there is no latency issue. (* EPR only violates locality if you believe in wave function collapse, but there's no reason to)
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by murbard2 12y ago
It seems that the jury selection process selects for people who don't really have jobs and who don't have particularly strong views on much. If the goal is to act as mere fact checkers and verify that the law is being applied cons
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by murbard2 12y ago
Another way to do it would be to stop offering a free phone plan, or free rent for that matter. What kind of self respect do you have if you're letting a teenager whose lifestyle you're subsidizing treat you like this?
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by murbard2 12y ago
Shall we play a game? How about Global Thermonuclear War.
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by murbard2 12y ago
It's easy to forget that - perhaps for most people - there are ads on the web, and, yes, browser toolbars that open pop up ads.
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by murbard2 12y ago
I do accept Many Worlds, that's why Borne probabilities make no sense :-/
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by murbard2 12y ago
I've always found E.T. Jayne's treatment of the topic to be good. Randomness is in the mind of the experimenter, it does not represent an intrinsic characteristic of the system but the ignorance of the experimenter. This is, in my
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by murbard2 12y ago
Indeed there is, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCP_theorem
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by murbard2 12y ago
One approach that you might want to try is to generate the planet using spherical harmonics. If you draw random coefficients for those harmonics, their distribution (in particular their rate of decay) will dictate how "coarse" the
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by murbard2 12y ago
So what do you make of the papers such as SybilLimit[1] or SybilInfer[2] which rely on a fast-mixing assumption? They do seem to claim good empirical results on actual social graphs... [1] https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~yuhf&#

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