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by req2 17y ago
This has been covered a few times already. Here's one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=819926
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by req2 17y ago
Lines are a special type of curve - a straight curve. This precise and simple mathematical definition precludes such confusion.
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by req2 17y ago
I believe the standard interpretation of 'lined up' is 'in a line', as in a 'straight curve', which disallows your otherwise ingenious foil.
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by req2 17y ago
The warden is not compelled to cooperate.
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by req2 17y ago
Providing a safe environment in which to learn how to recognize that you aren't performing at your best is wonderful; it's hard to simulate the other conditions that give suboptimal results, but lack of sleep gives a good cross-section of d
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by req2 17y ago
I've asked this question before, and though I haven't gotten to the point where I could direct you to the best place to start, it would probably be in one of these books: E.T. Jaynes, "Probability Theory: The Logic of Science" Judea Pearl,
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Gaming the System: How to Really Get Ahead in the Game Industry(gamasutra.com)
7 points by req2 17y ago|2 comments
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by req2 17y ago
http://www.pecimplants.com/ http://www.temporarytattoos.com/ http://www.extremewigs.com/hhbeard.htm It's not saying much to say that different signals are easier or harder to fake.
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by req2 17y ago
Rachel Maddow mentions Dana Milbank's quote, explaining how it is not what Obama said and how it came to be misattributed to him. She talks about other stuff, someone else talks about other stuff, and Pat Buchanan comes in reading Dana Milb
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by req2 17y ago
It may be because Pat Buchanan has such fine examples of articulation and argumentation as this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_byv2uQHEI Failure to update in light of evidence is most definitely an indicator against brilliance.
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by req2 17y ago
Signals don't need to be accurate, e.g., spoofed browser agents.
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by req2 17y ago
Private owners that don't conserve their resources quickly find themselves without resources to conserve; governments that don't conserve their resources get another chance. Many things get in the way of this simple statement being true.
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by req2 17y ago
On 49: http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/simplified
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by req2 17y ago
Robin Hanson has some citations in this post: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/05/econ-neglects-licensin...
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by req2 17y ago
Thanks to simple statistics (and the biological immortality old age endows), any given world's oldest person has an expected incumbency of about two years.
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by req2 17y ago
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_n4_v148/ai_17...
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by req2 17y ago
Cancer may simply have been an example of kind, rather than specific to the case at hand; however, I wouldn't disregard it as quickly as you do. The grandmother hypothesis [ http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/evolutions-secret-w... ]
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by req2 17y ago
What was your last magazine purchasing experience like? You might just not be part of the target demographic if you aren't one to flip through a magazine or a newspaper.
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by req2 17y ago
This would've been a much better initial post, though it still fails to address the merits of the system - more DRY, less required human toil, and (apparently) errors on incorrect command lines.
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by req2 17y ago
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
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by req2 17y ago
Do you care to address any of his points so as to be relevant to the article ostensibly being discussed here? He makes a fair argument to use his options, rather than Lamson's.
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by req2 17y ago
The N game has similar creations, but none approach this level of artistry. Mario seems like a good target for 'variant' games. http://kotaku.com/5161778/japanese-gamers-invent-new-way-to-... has been a favorite of mine.
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by req2 17y ago
Lamson's argument parsing is directly addressed at the top of this article.
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by req2 17y ago
My memory may have soured the process, but I'll mention the experience I had when I tried Visual C# Express. I opted for local documentation, but everything returned 'resource not found'. In program online documentation, as I recall, led to
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by req2 17y ago
Pointing out that there are but 31 people in the study could be considered helpful, but a basic familiarity with qualitative studies of anything that isn't a drug informs us that small sample sizes are pretty standard. Complaining about a s
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by req2 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample_size http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_power Please educate yourself, and return if and when you have something useful to say.
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by req2 17y ago
Somewhat related, on charity: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=800663
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by req2 17y ago
There's http://www.charitynavigator.org/ , and the arguments against: http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2007/11/charity-navigator%E2...
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by req2 17y ago
Supporting evidence: Homeopathy in 2005's list http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18524911.600-13-things...
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by req2 17y ago
http://lesswrong.com/lw/15a/a_note_on_hypotheticals/

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