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by pav3l 14y ago
Ok, here goes my highly controversial sweeping generalization: men suck at multitasking, women are actually much better at it . My source? Just years of active observation. I'd be very interested to see any actual research on the subject.
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by pav3l 14y ago
The biggest reason BASIC was popular to teach back in the day, is because it is very simple. You are allowed to use GOTO statements which will make (bad) programming a whole lot easier for absolute beginners. On the other hand Python is a w
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Gays Against Nudity(slate.com)
3 points by pav3l 14y ago|1 comments
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Eye tracking: The eyes have it(economist.com)
6 points by pav3l 14y ago|0 comments
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by pav3l 14y ago
The thing about statistics is that it can be different depending on who measures it. According to StatCounter[1] Chrome's share has been rising from 34.21% to 35.72% in the last 3 months. [1] http://gs.statcounter.com/
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Talmud and Turing Test(blogs.law.harvard.edu)
2 points by pav3l 14y ago|0 comments
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Why is public nudity illegal?(slate.com)
2 points by pav3l 14y ago|0 comments
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by pav3l 14y ago
http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2019784835_apmlsyri...
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by pav3l 14y ago
It doesn't work that way. If the U.S. government condones cybercrime, it cannot allow an NGO to engage in it towards a country that you have diplomatic relations with. I agree with "Kill that noise right now" comment above.
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by pav3l 14y ago
You can do that?
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by pav3l 14y ago
Geeks tend to come in two forms - libertarians and equality oriented. Current GOP doesn't really appeal to either.
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by pav3l 14y ago
I have a very active hotmail account and it's actually amazing at filtering out spam.
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by pav3l 14y ago
A solid JS library for statistical computing is definitely long overdue. After skimming through it, JStat seems to only show some trivial examples, and it doesn't seem to be designed for being extended. What I would really like to see som
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by pav3l 14y ago
Pretty neat. A suggestion: instead of having straight white lines connecting the nodes (cities), why not add color that will change (say from blue to red), parameterizing time, so the trajectory is clear. Also it could be more visually plea
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Bringing Hidden Healthcare Data Into the Open (wired.com)
1 points by pav3l 14y ago|0 comments
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by pav3l 14y ago
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1211594,00....
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by pav3l 14y ago
Thanks for sharing! Hope you won't get in trouble for your post.
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by pav3l 14y ago
I don't even know what's worse - their "proprietary encryption algorithm" or the fact that they used Python for a critical piece of distributed software that you don't want to be reverse-engineered!
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by pav3l 14y ago
Can someone explain how he got a hold of the decrypted .mov files that he compared the encrypted ones with? It's not very clear to me from the post, and I'm not familiar with Leaping Brain. Either way.. wow... XOR encryption with just such
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by pav3l 14y ago
This is just a wiki page, not an official announcement.
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by pav3l 14y ago
>Randomization is not the way to select a population who by definition are outliers. How should the study have been conducted? It is not obvious to me why selecting a random sample is not representative.
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by pav3l 14y ago
Not sure what they achieved. Tomorrow the same people will register another 132 domain names and continue operating as usual.
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Google Search For “Foolproof Suffocation” Found On Casey Anthony’s Computer(techcrunch.com)
1 points by pav3l 14y ago|0 comments
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by pav3l 14y ago
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/119969/javascript-chart-l...
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School maths is failing children – a US and Australian perspective(theconversation.edu.au)
2 points by pav3l 14y ago|0 comments
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by pav3l 14y ago
They just don't allow any searches that contain "godaddy" in the string, including GoDaddyIsAwesome.com
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by pav3l 14y ago
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628916.000-computers... EDIT: These are the Google Scholar profiles of the two scientists mentioned in the article: http://scholar.google.ca/citations?sortby=pubdate&hl=en&... http://scholar.
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by pav3l 14y ago
Try the print version http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/140681-computer-ai-succes...
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by pav3l 14y ago
In grade school i was taught that ln is always base e , and lg is always base 10 . log has to always come with a subscript, otherwise it's meaningless on it's own. In "real life" though, everyone seems to be using log and knows what it m
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by pav3l 14y ago
The original title ("Computer AI successfully identifies why abstract art evokes human emotion") is a bit misleading, particularly the " why " part.

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