psyklic

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by psyklic 17y ago
Maybe classic around these parts, but it depends on the startup ...
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by psyklic 17y ago
I can attest that it is very easy to identify who is gay on Facebook, even if their profile does not say so. If you have a lot of gay friends, then Facebook tells you how many mutual friends you have with new people. If you know the mutual
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by psyklic 17y ago
It required me to enter a name and email so I didn't bother voting.
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by psyklic 17y ago
I found the original article insightful, but this journalist's rebuttals also bring up interesting points. - "Does content affect price?" It seems the journalist and PG define "price" differently -- is it the price to the consumer or to the
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by psyklic 17y ago
What do you mean by "loss" of Fireworks? It is still sold by Adobe as part of CS 4.
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by psyklic 17y ago
What you describe sounds like the US as well ... the power of Mint is in consolidating all of your accounts.
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by psyklic 17y ago
Finance is important, but Facebook is such an essential networking tool, professionally and personally, that I completely disagree with you. Facebook solves a multitude of "real problems" -- just because some people "waste time" on it does
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by psyklic 17y ago
In some grad schools you're assigned projects, but at others you need to continually figure out even what problems need to be solved and which avenues of attack would likely yield the best results. This is much like what startups do, and in
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by psyklic 17y ago
Yes, but you can also say that most people become experts at whatever their specific job is.
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by psyklic 17y ago
The problem with your question is -- no one can agree on a precise definition of 'consciousness'. If you mean: "Can we get a machine that can act just as a human acts?", then I believe that yes we can.
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by psyklic 17y ago
Meaning ... they do?
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by psyklic 17y ago
>> What I wonder the most about is why they don't try to bring a command line interface to firefox See http://labs.mozilla.com/ubiquity/
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by psyklic 17y ago
Not my idea of great coding music, but I listen to http://ipartyradio.com/ (top 40/club mixes/strong beat)
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by psyklic 17y ago
"the day before last Saturday" doesn't work
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by psyklic 17y ago
This assumes that message length is an important factor ... which I bet it isn't (excluding ultra-short and ultra-long messages). How about you correlate reply with more relevant things like canned message/attractive photo/cool profile/etc.
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by psyklic 17y ago
A minor quibble. He claims that "no-elses" are prone to side-effects and "error-prone junk". However, "no-elses" are in my opinion as flagrant a crime as "no-braces" following if statements (which appears to be his style). The author says t
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by psyklic 17y ago
Thank you. Personally, I appreciate it when friends let me know if I sound different than I intend. Merely replying or not does not come across as paranoid/confrontational -- it's the content that counts.
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by psyklic 17y ago
Your first post was completely off track, so I downvoted you. The original article is about being an academic (typically a professor) vs. going into industry -- that means, we're talking about PhD students. (1) First, you say that education
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by psyklic 17y ago
Here is what seems to have happened: Note that whenever the answer is not accurate, Google uses scientific notation. For example, 1e15 + 30 = 1.0 × 10^15. We accept this as true because Google only claims it is true to two sig figs. However
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by psyklic 17y ago
When politics get involved it gets ugly. Special interest groups always try to confuse the public over results which would have otherwise been accepted by the scientific community. This causes the public to form opinions on things which are
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by psyklic 17y ago
The author seems to be confused. Scientists do try to validate their models (even the sniper author, via correlation). They do understand that their model must predict the future ... however, in some fields (like preventing sniper attacks
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by psyklic 17y ago
I highly doubt it would ever pass a medical ethics review board, and these are necessary for the FDA to approve it for commercial sale. They look at whether the pros outweigh the potential cons. If the only pro is "fun", this is unlikely to
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by psyklic 17y ago
The problem with drugs are their side effects. It's not ethical to allow human experiments when the only positive of a drug is "it's fun."
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by psyklic 17y ago
Good point; however, the basic construction of airplanes has remained the same since 1967. Software, unfortunately, changes constantly. Software engineers have become very talented at what does stay constant (just as aerospace engineers hav
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by psyklic 17y ago
The author's notion of "experimenting" is "debugging". I'd rather have someone write it correctly the first time than have to debug it; however, knowing how to debug well is also essential.
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by psyklic 17y ago
1. All three were unfortunately suicides, confirmed later (though not always through official press release). 2. They are likely statistically significant -- the average rate seems to be about 2-3 per 20000 students per year. Caltech is onl
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http://data.gov/
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by psyklic 17y ago
I don't go to Starbucks because of their Wi-Fi. Most places I can just walk in and start using it, but with Starbucks I need to maintain a cash card and register it online, then after that it has a time limit. It sounds simple to do, but it
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by psyklic 17y ago
I'm not entirely impressed by the end product -- the "custom logo" looks like a generic logo that Publisher might generate. The main problem I see is that the resume is not easily OCR'd, and the text still looks like the boring text of a n
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by psyklic 17y ago
On the other hand, in college it is MUCH easier to date and meet people than in the real world once you start a job or company.

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