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by ragle 7y ago
I wonder if I almost fell for this (or similar) in Pattaya, Thailand just a few days ago? [1] - https://abnb.me/eUIhQCkMe1 [2] - https://abnb.me/DvHRkqsMe1 At first, I thought maybe this was just a shady pr
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by ragle 7y ago
> AWS's hosted solution is poor What has been poor about it in your experience?
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by ragle 7y ago
It's confusing, because they refer to themselves as a potential competitor to S3 several times in the linked article, but I thought I read somewhere that conceptually what they're building is actually just the data persistence lay
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by ragle 9y ago
In figure 3, the edge between P0 and Q1 is labeled: "1-simplex (edge) P, R choose 0,2". Should that be "1-simplex (edge) P, Q choose 0,1"?
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by ragle 9y ago
Same here.
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by ragle 10y ago
Another phenomena that can creep up on well-traveled folks is "the curse of the traveller" (obviously not a technical term, but I've not heard another name for it). Essentially, you subconciously collect "likes" abo
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by ragle 10y ago
Ah, hate I missed this at the time of comment (got on a flight right after I posted and forgot to check back :/). What you're describing (moving complexity into the algorithm) _is_ an increase in Komogorov Complexity, though... so
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by ragle 10y ago
> If you know the structure of your data, you can easily do a better and faster job of compressing than a generic compression algorithm. I'd change this to: the ease of doing a better and faster job of compressing than a generic com
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by ragle 11y ago
Actually, this isn't the case. Your (mis)understanding (that meditation is spacing out and "not thinking") seems to be the common western one. In my experience, this is usually due to misunderstood ideas about practices like
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by ragle 12y ago
I had a quick look at your hiring process[1] (thank you for sharing this, btw). I have a few questions: * Are junior hires expected to be able to complete / pass all three challenges (pentesting, fuzzer, custom protocol analysis)? *
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by ragle 12y ago
I just finished my undergraduate senior project, which involved investigating whether or not the normalized compression distance[1][2] could be used to build a featureless clustering and classification system for Thai-language documents. An
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by ragle 12y ago
I think your circles analogy is good. To tie it in a bit tighter with OPs article, I would just add that if we could only perceive two dimensions, the inner circle would disappear as we "move the circle up and away from the 2d plane&qu
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by ragle 12y ago
Those that enjoyed this may also enjoy the film "Dimensions". A brief guide for the film that gives an overview: http://www.dimensions-math.org/Dim_tour_E.htm#guide Watch online (Deutsch, English, French, Spanish,
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by ragle 12y ago
I live in Thailand. The selection here is somewhat limited and phones are typically more expensive than phones in the states. I picked up a white Lenovo s820 [1][2] for ~$230 without a contract. I saw someone else mention in the thread that
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by ragle 13y ago
The developing world: http://www.cnet.com/news/with-firefox-os-mozilla-begins-the-...
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by ragle 13y ago
When I first came to Thailand, I was appalled when one of my friends told me the pistol nozzle (like we use in the US for doing dishes) next to every Thai toilet[1] was for spraying yourself after using the bathroom. This was disgusting to
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by ragle 13y ago
Thanks for spotting this and pointing it out. I'll take your word for it about Kurzweil. The wiki also says "a director" - good catch. Here's what google says about Norvig though: http://research.google.com&#x
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by ragle 13y ago
Seriously. These were precisely the first words out of my mouth as well. Worth pointing out that Ray Kurzweil[1] is the director of engineering at google, Peter Norvig[2] is the director of research, and they recently snatched up Geoffrey