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by nothis 8y ago
Anything with probability and randomness tends to break my brain but I find it fascinating. If I interpret the 200-years-late solution correctly, it relied to a large part on trial and error (like one "trick" is to focus on adjace
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by nothis 8y ago
The smaller the site (and the newer) the easier it is to comply. Don’t amass mountains of ad data and you’re fine.
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by nothis 8y ago
I’d happily pay.
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by nothis 8y ago
They nailed the look tbh. Sarcasm at its finest.
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by nothis 8y ago
But general purpose education isn’t „the real world“. I think the opposite argument is often made to justify teaching theory when it doesn’t seem to have many real world applications.
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by nothis 8y ago
Now that you mention it, this super advanced AI project sounds like a failure of software standardization rather than a triumph of technology, lol.
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by nothis 8y ago
Yea, that would have stumped me, expecting a trick/trap. What if my birthday is tomorrow? By the time my teacher checks it, it's wrong. "Your birth year" would have prevented that. This is a problem I have with certain p
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by nothis 8y ago
The curves of false-acceptance vs false-rejection rates usually overlap, even in their optimum. I do not envy a billion-user-level website like Twitter having to deal with this. Automation is probably still better than trying to do this man
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by nothis 8y ago
And, as the article says, in Japan! There has been some fair criticism of the Japanese games market lacking in innovation compared to the West. Their indie scene is pitiful, AAA games stuck in 90s mechanics with fairly boring use of moder
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by nothis 8y ago
Is this a way for the EFF or something, to attack patent-trolls effectively? It seems too good to be true from the descriptions in this thread.
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by nothis 9y ago
Good engineering is robust and efficient. Requiring Javascript to display simple, static text is not good engineering.
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by nothis 9y ago
"JS disabled" is just the consequent, tech-y angle to not requiring JS to display every damn text box. I get JS to load things like simple menu-pop-ups or expanding an image, but it's so infused in the new reddit layout, you
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by nothis 9y ago
I'm with you on the JS stuff, the redesign screams "I want to be an app!" so desperately, I'm seriously considering leaving after a good 8 years on the site as well. Everything has that Javascript-delay on it, like it ta
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by nothis 9y ago
Does any of this translate to still images? How much better would it be compared to, say, a JPG? I assume somewhat better but it would have to be magnitudes to take over.
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by nothis 9y ago
There's a point where "everyone for themselves!" doesn't quite cut it. The most obvious example is probably fraud. You could argue everyone must check whether a deal they get involved with is legit and accept the risks o
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by nothis 9y ago
What exactly is this, and why is it dated 2 days from now?
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by nothis 9y ago
They’re forced to delete the data as well aren’t they? Or is that just in the EU?
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by nothis 9y ago
>laughable Yea, so "laughable" that people are not constantly paranoid and super informed about how the information industry works. /s It's not people's fault that facebook is abusing their data. That's so
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by nothis 9y ago
So I thought people were exaggerating but something I recently found that is weird is the time slider not progressing for music/podcasts playing while on the lock screen. I thought it’s just when you play something out of Safari but
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by nothis 9y ago
> Japan has a pretty long history of autocratic rulership.. So has all of Europe, though.
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by nothis 9y ago
Interesting way to look at how inequality grows and IMO totally logical. It's scary as fuck, especially since China is on the verge of becoming very powerful on an international level.
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by nothis 9y ago
"Only you can prevent overclocking fires!" Nicely written. Seems like the intended headline was "why it's bad to overclock", though!
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by nothis 9y ago
It always saddens me how mathematicians seem to look down on “intuition”. Maybe higher math as a full-time job is just hard work and stubborn precision but for me, an intuitive, visual look is probably getting me closer to understanding tha
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by nothis 9y ago
You know, it's gotta be said that Google just shitting all over copyright just because they're big isn't ideal, either. They should be honest about their motivations, though.
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by nothis 9y ago
>Super Mario World Okay, with some script... >Here is a video, where a human (not a script!) creates a playable Flappy Bird clone this way. Wait, what?!
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by nothis 9y ago
Hasn’t this been discussed to death? Since most algorithms are more or less pure math, there’s mostly only one way to do things efficiently. You also get quasi-standards that are copyrighted, which is not healthy for competition. Also MPEG2
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by nothis 9y ago
Honestly, how many of those can someone juggle a day? I'd struggle with two yet still more show up every year. It's not big in the US, I heard, but for me it's 90% WhatsApp. MySpace used to be huge, then facebook came along.
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by nothis 9y ago
Not a bad start.
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by nothis 9y ago
It's super fun but I can't think of many real-world uses. Maybe in subtle, element-wise stretching and reshaping as part of more complex editing? Squeezing images is a huge no-no in any graphic design, and while content-aware resi
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by nothis 9y ago
It's more the fact that they hold a quasi-monopoly AND have severe interface flaws that are now "standard". If it was just one of the two, I think people would be more forgiving (see Adobe Photoshop/InDesign, which, whil

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