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by musesum 5y ago
> I infer from this and your domain name that you plan on using ML ... Yep > I’m curious if you remember the example. Also - Tog worked at Apple for 14 years I couldn't find it, although he has another post on Fitt's Law. T
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by musesum 5y ago
> Seems like your approach would require 3rd party developers to build a completely new UI Nope; no changes to existing UIs. Instead a driver, which has its own problems of deployment, as that requires convincing the hardware OEMs. >
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by musesum 5y ago
Have been discussing with a visually impaired friend how to rethink Accessibility. Over the last 20 years, I've seen him use Accessibility on Windows and then moving over to the Mac and finally the iPhone. The main problem is that Voic
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by musesum 5y ago
I once wrote an l-system to generate class trees to explore where the next version of Turbo Pascal 5.5 would break. It was inspired by this book. I wonder how you'd write a deep net with one?
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by musesum 5y ago
Dunno. The cost of mining approaches market price. The hypothesis is: will the inverse be true?
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by musesum 5y ago
Ironically, lowering the cost of mining may also lower the value of the asset.
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by musesum 5y ago
Interesting idea. Dividing England into 3m^2 blocks requires about 34 bits of address space. But, then again, given the propensity of surveillance, just say "hey, this is <your name here> coming home from work" -- should be
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by musesum 6y ago
I wrote a hypertext system in Turbo Pascal - this was before NCSA Mosaic. What sold me was that it was one of the first IDEs. A friend mentioned that, when the compiler found an error, it would bring up the editor and position you at the er
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by musesum 6y ago
A shift in perspective for BTC is underway, from transaction platform (Yellen on the Con side) to a trans-national asset class (Saylor & Musk on the Pro side). So, now the discussion is on the energy spent on mining: https://
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by musesum 9y ago
Live music exceeds the revenue of the top 2 music publishers, Universal and Sony, as per: http://variety.com/2017/music/features/live-nation-concert-b... [Addendum] For a perspective on independent musicians
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by musesum 9y ago
Some background: I developed a software binary sandbox, in the 90's; patent cited 500+ times ... mostly by developers of DRM. Now, I am working on an open source project. IMO, DRM extends a presumption of scarcity. Hunters share their
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by musesum 9y ago
And yet here we are. It appears that all roads lead to hacker news. > "Four Yorkshiremen" Zero computers? Ok, you win. This is a later version of our computer https://youtu.be/NtAF-WfWyGU To load the OS, you f
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by musesum 9y ago
I was lucky. Our high school system shared a DEC PDP-8. This was in 1974. Each year, Digital equipment would publish a manual. Some years were better than others. Somewhat like a vintage wine. The choice of languages for the PDP-8 were Basi
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by musesum 9y ago
> ... sucralose Funny how that information buried on the site. I've re-ordered a few times based on its (prominently featured) use of Isomaltulose, thinking that is where the sweetness came from. Some evidence that sucralose will sp
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by musesum 9y ago
For eduction I put down "Various" - that seemed to work.
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by musesum 9y ago
That was a joke. Some people would laugh. Others down vote.
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by musesum 9y ago
Maybe car tunnels are a gateway to terraforming small moons.
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by musesum 9y ago
So, LIDAR is best solution for an autonomous vehicle when it is not moving?
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by musesum 9y ago
Put obliquely: I suspect that Washington or California would have yielded better outcomes.
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by musesum 9y ago
A friend grew an engineering company in Oregon from 200 employees to > 1000 employees. He took the company public and is an industry standard. His reward: getting charged with not following the letter of the law. He spent most of his lif
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by musesum 9y ago
A friend sold a company to a Dot Com for stock at its peak. S/he factored the strike price. During the waiting period, the stock tanked. So, s/he got significantly more than what the stock was worth.
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by musesum 9y ago
I wonder if a variation of cut-and-choose would work? Choose your own timeframe. 5 years, 17 year, whatever makes sense to release the escrow. Lets say the USPTO uses Deep Learning to discover prior art and/or result disputes. A shorte
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by musesum 9y ago
> Would this drive to more or larger IP holding firms (One of the complaints of Trolls is they don't actually make anything)? Perhaps a variation on "Petition to Make Special" ?? We used this to expedite a patent applicati
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by musesum 9y ago
Modest proposal: put all patent license fees into a 17 year escrow. Fees returned if patent overturned. Publish a list of patent #'s and escrow amounts. Allow for class action suits to represent the licensees. Sever and nullify any cla
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by musesum 10y ago
User surly UX. Was going to book an impromptu multi-legged trip between San Francisco, Iowa and Arizona. American Airlines quoted a price, but the only available seats cost (around) $33 - $58 extra for each flight -- total was $200 extra. B
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by musesum 10y ago
I had the same attitude. What changed my mind were two documentaries: 1) Pandora's promise 2) Thorium remix
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by musesum 10y ago
My last company was a acquired by a company based in California. Under CA law, you are entitled to your own IP if done on your own equipment. So, I had a separate laptop. The employment agreement had a clause where you were to list all of t
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by musesum 10y ago
Yes, I noticed my friend using voiceover in situations that would normally warrant silent operation. White cane allows him some slack. Am attempting a universal product. So, a two part workaround: 1) use voiceover when headphones are connec
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by musesum 10y ago
I'm developing a productivity app on an Apple WatchOS3, using STT, TTS, and taptic engine. Turns out that applying the same limited interaction area on the iPhone eliminates the need for "reachability". How about you?
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by musesum 10y ago
A friend is blind. The iPhone+voiceover is his primary means of conducting business. We've often talked about UX. Here's what I've learned: Voiceover is currently an extra layer over a visual interface. So, it amplifies the g

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