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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Seems like there are two smaller galaxies in the bottom right. Does anybody know what those are?
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
At least regarding the Columbia and its tributaries, British Columbia is much further upstream away from the ocean, so the salmon impacts of building dams there are less. At least that's my understanding. Also, I expect their dams were
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
I think that has more to do with the diversion of water for irrigation. For example, the almost-total vanishing of the Aral Sea.
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
I find myself wondering if the type of inference required to make this claim could be automated. Given the right observations, couldn't dark matter be detected (or at least hypothesized) algorithmically? Couldn't this be used to c
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
#nbcfail https://twitter.com/search?q=%23nbcfail
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
"When the founding fathers, including Benjamin Franklin, scientist and inventor, wrote arguably the most important line in the Declaration of Independence—“We hold these truths to be self-evident”—they were asserting the fledgling nati
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Psychiatry's trouble is that it tries to treat emotional problems using drugs. That's also the entire point of psychiatry. It's in a crisis because "stabilizing" people by numbing their brains does nothing to help t
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
As I read this post, QUIC has been introduced at least partly to solve the problem of head-of-line blocking. Head-of-line blocking in turn has become a problem since the adoption of HTTP/2, formerly known as SPDY, which is the protocol
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
I actually had no idea there was a difference between number values and number objects. Definitely one of the more confusing areas of Javascript.
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Replication isn't enough. It's also necessary to know how many non-replications have occurred but got swept under the rug. It's not the existence of replications that matter---it's the rate of replication relative to num
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Couldn't much of the function of such a "platform" be automated? One of the main constraints that would guide selection of crates for this platform metapackage is that they must have compatible dependencies. So package A depe
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
The TeXLive of the Rust world? Could be helpful. But the small std probably implies a constantly revolving cast of "best practice" libraries that's hard to keep up with. I know in TeXLive there are no stability guarantees reg
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
... in the United States. They filed for a patent under the European patent regime, right?
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Read "The Linguistics Wars". It would give you a good idea of why there's such antipathy towards Chomsky.
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Recommended reading: "Crazy Like Us" by Ethan Watters. I'm not sure about the validity of this article, but the Watters book presents a fair amount of evidence that mental disorders are in many ways socially constructed by in
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
All the news reports I've seen connecting alcohol with cancer come from the UK. Maybe because they have a National Health Service that's trying to minimize national healthcare costs? Or maybe because their researchers are less beh
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
I really don't understand why they haven't stepped up with a Flash-to-HTML5 converter as part of the Flash/Animate application. It would ensure the continued relevance of those tools.
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
+1 for Boethius reference! I didn't know about his music work. Thanks for sharing.
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
No need for an independent island. That would be messy and require a political revolution, after all. Instead, just build a really, really, really big ship. Use solar arrays / wind turbines to generate electricity. Sensitive data resid
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
It all feels like a market signaling problem. When people are choosing majors and how far to go in school, they don't seem to have the right information. Lack of understanding of the marketability of different degrees surely harms the
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
My mom suffered from CFS for years, so this got my attention. My current best explanation for my mom's illness is, unfortunately, that it was in her head, given her many other mental and emotional problems. But could it be the other wa
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Just read that, and I think Sotomayor nailed it. I also thought it was too bad that Scalia wasn't part of the case---perhaps he could have turned the tide.
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Fighter jets feel like something that could be effectively tackled using genetic algorithms. Algorithms that get shot down are weeded out. Algorithms that shoot down enemies are promoted. Yeah?
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Lack of bounds check on the input was my first thought, too. Need to deal with NaN sanely, too, but usually that takes care of itself as it propagates through any operations.
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
It seems that every symbol imaginable will be used in running text eventually. At very least, for purposes of discussing the symbol itself!
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Digital marketing companies are moving to reduce or eliminate their dependence on cookies for identifying users, so unless they add some Tor-like functionality to this tool that makes you appear to be connecting from a different IP address,
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
AI has already gone through at least one prior boom and bust cycle. Expectations in this area have a tendency to get wildly inflated. Does AI mean general AI? Or just a cleverly applied machine learning algorithm? Seems wise to me to stay a
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
I'd imagine that homonyms are avoided by careful selection of the reference word lists.
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
I completely agree. Seems like the underlying technology wouldn't be that difficult to reimplement independently, or am I mistaken? Surely a few CS interns in Mongolia would be up for slapping together a vital national infrastructure p
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
I believe I may have commented on this before, but it's my opinion that artificial (especially electric) lighting is a cause of huge health and psychological problems. Not long ago the power was out in my neighborhood for about five ho

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