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by powrtoch 15y ago
While we're here, any word on the supposed proof of the Collatz Conjecture that came up a couple months ago? I haven't been able to find anything about how it's holding up since.
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by powrtoch 15y ago
They also skip right over the sponsored link.
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by powrtoch 15y ago
This just seems like a matter of preference to me. It works on iOS pretty much just like it works on a desktop. It may be that some iOS users would prefer the native UI, but you could say the same for some desktop users (particularly keyboa
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by powrtoch 15y ago
>information the users provided years ago Just curious, but what in particular? Their profile page, logs of forum conversations? And how does he/she generate the guesses? It seems like optimally you'd have some kind of tool which constr
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by powrtoch 15y ago
Has there been any study about whether standing desks are actually any better? I can easily imagine that sitting motionless for 6 hours and standing motionless for 6 hours have virtually the same effect on the body. That is, let's not be so
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by powrtoch 15y ago
Have they? The website doesn't seem to show any actual evidence of efficacy, or indeed any data whatsoever.
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by powrtoch 15y ago
As far as I know, It's not known whether this is a causal relationship. It's possible that art that uses the golden ratio tends to be viewed as beautiful because of some magical aesthetic property of the GR, and that artists create art usin
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by powrtoch 15y ago
Doesn't seem to work in Opera, and the attempt to open a new window just opens a new tab (which of course, is the same size as the rest of the tabs).
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by powrtoch 15y ago
I imagine that even if the RIAA demanded this info, Apple would have no choice but to defend it vehemently in court. The PR backlash you'd get from backstabbing the vast majority of your paying customers cannot be overstated. And when I
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by powrtoch 15y ago
I'm curious to see how well the iTunes Match feature works. Naturally it will have to use audio fingerprinting rather than just trusting user-supplied metadata. The catch is that this technology is probably based on Lala (who Apple bought o
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by powrtoch 15y ago
I think the meaning was that Windows is a malware ghetto compared to Mac. More akin to a Doctor noticing that 95% of his patients are blondes and declaring that blondes tend to get sick more. The significance of this is offset by the base r
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by powrtoch 15y ago
Just looking at this make me physically uncomfortable.
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by powrtoch 15y ago
I've come to adore mine. The mice, though, are still rubbish.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
This is cool and all, but are there any uses for it?
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by powrtoch 16y ago
The point is that while Watson is a big step forward in language processing and information retrieval, it's unfair to conclude that he does these things as well as the best humans. Jeopardy isn't a particularly good test of these abilities
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by powrtoch 16y ago
The first two rules of Apple are that you talk about Apple. Constantly.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Come to think of it, I probably could have chosen a better example, as Firefox is open source...
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Seems like this would be about as informative as looking at the assembly code for Firefox.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I don't suppose they had any original recipe Coca-Cola to test it against? It's hardly surprising that it would taste different since modern coke uses a different recipe.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
"Watson can’t adjust its answers to what the other players say and so it simply answers with whatever comes up as its top answer." This is false, in fact they specifically mentioned Watson learning from the answers of the other players. In
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Anybody know whether this will be live or if it's pre-taped like most jeopardy episdoes?
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Too bad profits don't have that failsafe.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I will be shocked if Google buys out this cesspool. Unless they need a project to assign to engineers who've misbehaved.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Here's what I'm not clear on: why did we scrap the whole Ogg Theora thing in favor of WebM at all? Isn't Ogg actually unencumbered by lawsuit-fodder?
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by powrtoch 16y ago
That sounds all well and good, but in terms of cost vs. benefit, it's way easier to make a good application by stealing the years of hard work of the industry leaders than it is to reinvent everything and try to come up with your own clev
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Sure, but if it's the default in whatever app/browser you're using, you might not bother switching to Google as long as it gets decent results.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
It seems like this article makes it clear that it's not really a necessity . FWIW, I've been redirected to mobile sites on several occasions just because my desktop browser is Opera. Not that this can't be taken care of with a little caref
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Software can be proven correct, but if you want to do anything useful with a computer system, you need more than just an OS kernel. Even if the kernel itself is "perfect", that doesn't stop vulnerabilities from appearing in the upper levels
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by powrtoch 16y ago
"They managed to build an elegant, scalable, closed system. Google is attempting to do something with a completely different approach." Surprised he didn't want to clarify that...
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by powrtoch 16y ago
When facebook makes me sad, it's usually because I've just read a jaw-droppingly ignorant politcal tirade from someone I went to high school with. Active use of the "Hide from news feed" option makes facebook a much happier place.

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