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by ricree 18y ago
To be fair, though, people are aware of this issue and working against it. For example, there's the Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine ( http://www.jnrbm.com/ ), which provides an avenue to publish these sorts of negative results.
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by ricree 18y ago
I'm especially going to miss local and regional coverage if newspapers go away. I think that the internet does a better job with national and international news, but I rely almost entirely on newspapers for local coverage. In the Chicago
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by ricree 18y ago
The wikipedia article seemed to indicate that these sorts of systems don't see much use outside of limited fields in medicine. Do you know why that is? It seems to me that the problem should be very similar to that faced by those 20 quest
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by ricree 18y ago
I wonder how useful the algorithms used in those online 20 questions games such as 20q.net or akinator.com would be for diagnosing these sorts of rare diseases. The 20 questions games seem to be able to guess even extremely obscure objects
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by ricree 18y ago
It probably isn't as simple as that, but in this case the downside of failure was nothing more than wasted time while the upside was a possible insight into a disease that had eluded diagnosis. What is more troubling to me is the part of th
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by ricree 18y ago
I tend to look at it as an economic lubricant. It makes things run smoother, and as complexity increases things would break down if it wasn't there, but at the end of the day it is there to enable the parts of society that produce valuable
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by ricree 18y ago
It's been a while since I read Demon Haunted World, but I'm pretty sure that the Dragon wasn't even supposed to specifically be a metaphor for God. Instead, it was supposed to be a metaphor for all supernatural claims. In particular, Saga
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by ricree 18y ago
I don't necessarily disagree with him about this, but I do take issue with his disdain of academic or hobbyist projects. The internet is increasingly providing free access to very large and very interesting data sets, and so of course we're
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by ricree 18y ago
I think that this is one of those areas that would be greatly improved by starting students with assembly. It's fairly easy to grasp what each statement does in a small instruction set like MIPS since there aren't these sorts of preconceiv
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by ricree 18y ago
What happens in the case of forks? If I decide to fork some open source software under this license, make a bunch of changes and start selling it under this license, what do I owe the original authors? Now how about if the changes were mi
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by ricree 18y ago
Not only that. It was able to get the Black Hat guy from xkcd. It also got Minsc (Baldur's Gate) and Conan the Barbarian. It took two tries to get Andrew Jackson (guessed George Washington the first time around), but got it after about 10
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by ricree 18y ago
It may be just a speech, but that acceptance address was one heck of a way to start things off. Despite a strong (though very much appreciated) message of hope, he was very clear on the magnitude of the problem and the effort it was going
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by ricree 18y ago
America is also rather unexpected. http://www.gpeters.com/color/color-schemes.php?search_term=A...
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by ricree 18y ago
This is the part that really starts to scare me. We keep seeing record or near record swings, and it's starting to look like we'll get at least one per week. Bad downturns happen, and there is plenty of reason to expect that we can recove
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by ricree 18y ago
I may be a bit biased here, but University of Illinois's ACM chapter puts on a fairly good conference every year, and posts the videos online. http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2008/
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by ricree 18y ago
I'm another huge fan of OpenID, but after being the only one arguing for it the last couple of times it came up, I've gotten sick of speaking up for it. Personally, I would love it if almost every site out there would let me log in with an
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by ricree 18y ago
Another obvious but useful site is http://www.erlang.org/doc I especially tend to spend a lot of time on the pages at http://www.erlang.org/doc/man
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by ricree 18y ago
Why is typing something like maximusklein.gmail.com and logging in with google more complicated than maximusklein@gmail.com. People keep saying over and over again that open ID is too hard for average users, but I just don't see any evidenc
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by ricree 18y ago
In all seriousness, though, what's the part that's such a stumbling block here (at least for anyone who is already computer literate enough to go through a normal user account creation)? I really fail to see why "now create an account you
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by ricree 18y ago
Am I missing something with the whole "OpenID is hard" thing? As far as I've used it, OpenID has pretty much consisted of going through a fairly normal registration with the open ID provider, getting a login name url, and then just using t
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by ricree 18y ago
If nothing else, the reading material is interesting and a large portion of it is available online and linked to on their readings page ( http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/History/21H-001Fall-2007/Readings/... ).
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by ricree 18y ago
As I understand it, most of the people involved weren't working on the site full time.
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by ricree 18y ago
So how do Itunes and Amazon fit in with this author's viewpoint. To broadly paint all online music stores into one of three categories without once mentioning the largest and most successful certainly casts some doubt on his opinion.
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by ricree 18y ago
I disagree that it isn't currently broken. I can't think of how many sites I've completely passed up on because I didn't feel like going through yet another registration form and having to create another username and password. Ever since
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by ricree 18y ago
Like others have said, Cuil's failure was a huge PR push, not the release. I'm sure that they did actually get a ton of useful feedback from it that they can use to improve their service. In this case, though, it came at the cost of being
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by ricree 18y ago
True, but in the context of "Jealous of Windows users and their Google Chrome?" it is certainly misleading.
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by ricree 18y ago
It's possible, but since this only occurs if the hash matches one of the sites on google's malware list, it shouldn't happen all that often.
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by ricree 18y ago
If the folks who wrote this article wanted to be taken even a little bit seriously, they should have spent at least a little time addressing the prevailing belief that eye position evolves as a trade off between depth perception and a wide
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by ricree 18y ago
>My plan B for them would be to change store format entirely. Build a nice home theatre that can sit 20 people and have showings of new releases. The catch is they use equipment that is in the $1000-$5000 price range, and it's a great e
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by ricree 18y ago
Innovation and practicality are not the same things . Placing innovation before freedom is just as much a philosophical decision as the reverse. Innovation is great for delivering new and better products, but it doesn't help much for allow

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