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Spreadsheets for the mind(medium.com)
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A fool’s take on entropy, algorithms, gambling and mathematics(medium.com)
5 points by parksy 10y ago|0 comments
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by parksy 10y ago
The author's objection in this case is that this was just another question on a worksheet that was graded right or wrong then the class moved on to other things without further analysis or explanation. Not that the problem was impossi
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by parksy 11y ago
"I'm not sure why you'd bother over an existing solution like protocol buffers." For context, protocol buffers did not exist when GSL was devised in 1995 (3 years before google was founded). So in fact GSL _was_ the exi
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by parksy 11y ago
Not to mention my account managers and BDM's don't even know what a linux is.
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by parksy 11y ago
I'd love to see the result of rotoscoping with this technique. Looking at more examples, I'm not yet convinced this technique isn't straight-up magic: http://www.mrl.nyu.edu/projects/image-analogies/
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by parksy 11y ago
Genuine question, what better solution is there on the market at the moment? I like the idea of binary deltas and expansions if handled well, and I imagine a service that makes it easy for developers to distribute in this way would be a gol
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by parksy 11y ago
What benefit could that possibly have for humanity? /s
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by parksy 12y ago
The first thing a client will ask is "Can we have a minimum delay".
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by parksy 12y ago
Fair enough, with the hardware cost, would be a mistake to launch without all systems in check.
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by parksy 12y ago
As of right now there's a 28k sell wall on bitstamp which might be forcing prices down a tad. Looks like someone's trying to buy some coins on the cheap, but I'm no expert in these things. http://i.imgur.com/
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by parksy 12y ago
These days there are a number of audio synthesizers which do basically what you said, such as the Beepmap plugin that comes stock with FL Studio. Among the first to use the technique artistically, Aphex Twin famously drew his own face in th
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by parksy 13y ago
Facebook is a company whose revenue is entirely based on advertising spend. They pitch their network's services based on the fine level of control you can have over market segmentation - the more information Facebook has about people,
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by parksy 13y ago
How would the ovum develop and be nurtured? Sympathetic alien surrogates? Why not seed more simple lifeforms, such as genetically modified bacteria, upon hundreds of "candidate" planets so that by the time our generation ships ar
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by parksy 13y ago
I agree. In addition, with each year comes a new "super-duper-real-correct-semantic" way of doing it. That word semantic. It grates me. Everyone uses it to back their argument, then throws their hands up and "case closed&
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by parksy 13y ago
Also, why must we only use the bare minimum language to convey the point? We're not allowed to have fun with words and add some personality? Ok then, direct me to the grey overcoats and I'll join the single-file line of subjugat
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by parksy 13y ago
I've been part of a few meditation groups. You really have to find the right mix or it doesn't work well. I personally prefer alone-time meditation to introspect and sift through my inner concerns and arrange my emotional situati
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by parksy 13y ago
Popularity has no bearing on validity, that's a common logical fallacy.
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by parksy 13y ago
I've been on the free account for a while now, and when I received a surge of traffic they responded to 460,000 of the 500,000-ish HTTP requests and served 48gb of the 50 that were requested over the course of about 12 hours. My serve
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by parksy 13y ago
Having used a few map services and utility libraries, I prefer that we aim towards more modular and distributed territory with geospatial technologies. Monolithic engines are great for getting 80% of what your exact requirements are, then y
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by parksy 13y ago
I still think EXIF should be stripped by default on social sharing sites but there should definitely be an opt-in feature for informed users to invoke rationally.
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by parksy 13y ago
Yup, I just ran the tests again and the results are completely different and what difference there is is basically negligible.
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by parksy 13y ago
Someone already set up a jsperf test for this an hour or so ago, so I added my regex solution. http://jsperf.com/spacify/2 On my machine, I was surprised to see that the for loop is the fastest (Chrome + Crunchbang).
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by parksy 13y ago
Who is to say it isn't Wall Street traders pulling these stunts?
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by parksy 13y ago
Update: I have added history states meaning you can bookmark / share links to the thing you're currently zoomed in on and looking at. I'm off to bed now but if anyone has any requests or feedback feel free to keep posting - I
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by parksy 13y ago
Thanks! I just explained this viewer to someone who was unimpressed because they thought it was just a picture of some stars... The expression changed from boredom to astonishment pretty quickly. I'm just compiling the Carinae nebula
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by parksy 13y ago
I've added a link to galaxyzoo here: http://domitable.com/static/zoomers/sombrero.html (I also clicked through a few images while I was at it - doin' my bit :))
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by parksy 13y ago
I have to admit I took a dirty shortcut in triggering the "hint" transition. I've fixed it now - I think...
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by parksy 13y ago
That's actually a great idea, I love the whole zooniverse concept. Thanks for the input.
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by parksy 13y ago
Thanks for the feedback, that could be a bug. May I ask what browser you are using? I plan on doing some other large images in the future and would like to make sure the underlying platform is robust. I'd then like to add things like

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