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by robertskmiles 14y ago
I saw the headline and immediately said to myself "I bet that server's already dead."
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrooculography
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
The Sokal Affair? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
You're right about heuristics, but the relevant wiki page for bias is really "Cognitive Bias"[1] rather than "Statistical Bias". Also Holmes is not a good example of a rationalist; his main ability comes from being a fictional protagonist.
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
This is true. The easiest way to make this clear to someone is to ask them to define 'value', and note that they can't do so without either a) talking in terms of people and their subjective beliefs or b) relying on words that are just syno
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How To Beat Procrastination by Doing Nothing(blog.robertskmiles.com)
3 points by robertskmiles 14y ago|1 comments
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
The key problem seems to be `check_output` in the `subprocess` module.
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
This is very interesting and I think needs to be more widely known. There is a general perception of Bitcoin as simply a currency useful to criminals. The idea that it is capable of useful things that regular currency can't do helps to legi
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
And yet when I go to amazon.co.uk or amazon.com they aren't advertising the new version as available for purchase. One thing Apple gets right is that you can buy a new product as soon as it's announced.
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
Agreed entirely. To make the metaphor accurate, the chef would then have to sue someone else who was making mayonnaise by a similar recipe.
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
Why did you decide not to leave it open?
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
Depending on what you do, the 'productivity tax' is often temporary. It can take a while to find out what tools you like best and get them set up just how you like them.
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
That situation would completely lock out any new innovators from entering the market, since they would need (a) enough money up-front and (b) the explicit permission of most if not all leading patent holders. The major companies would effec
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
Except my Samsung Galaxy S II is lighter and thinner than an iPhone 4, with the same camera, a bigger screen, twice the RAM, and more of the features I want. And I can develop for it myself without having to go through a middle-man. Origina
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
I really think that this could work. It reminds me of a "Web of Trust" system, where you have a few known trustworthy individuals, and the reputation propagates out from them.
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
Most countries don't make such a big deal of talking about freedom and liberty and democracy etc. Most countries don't call themselves 'the land of the free'.
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
I was wondering what kind of security they have on the upgrade system. Presumably the software packages are signed. No hacker on Earth wouldn't like to be able to say they'd cracked a system on Mars. But then I thought, "Who actually has th
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
'Normal', not 'old'. The relevant stat for 'normal' is install base, or frequency of use.
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
Where you make factual claims, cite your sources.
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
I decided a while ago to stop reading Wired, after some ridiculous piece of hack journalism I can't even remember now. This makes me want to stop reading Wired again, but I can't do it twice. This is like Sony all over again. I've been boyc
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
Fun with jp2a and the images from the Curiosity rover. You can act like you're intercepting the signal or something.
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
I do basically the same thing. In fact I have 'ls -cr' automatically run after every cd. The problem with aliases of course is that you end up typing them on other people's systems and looking foolish. Still, I use 'lcr' for 'ls -cr', 'll'
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
I think the "IFTTT is aimed at non-developers" argument is just dumb. Add a webhook channel, and people who don't know what webhooks are will just ignore it, the same way they ignore all the other channels for things they don't use. Noone i
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
I love that they felt the need for ed to have a "quiet mode". "Well, it's terse, but let's see if we can't make it laconic"
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
My Algorithms lecturer called it the "equivils" symbol, as in "like equals but meaning exactly equivalent to". I thought that was a standard name until I tried to use it around someone from a different university. I had to google it to prov
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
The 'set and forget' aspect of this is appealing. I've sometimes wondered if you could automate the whole thing, including option generation. If you can define good enough mutation functions you could have your features literally evolve ove
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
> more likely is its aliased to "ls --color=auto" or similar which will work normally. My ls (which I haven't much reconfigured) behaves very differently depending on whether it's outputting to a shell or a pipe or redirect. Not just co
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
Right, that's a pretty accurate clarification of my position. The implicit assumption in question 4 is that people will be unwilling to apply the label 'racist' to a position they believe to be true. Here I get to quote Paul Graham[1]: " In
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
This is really a rationality test, not an intelligence test. And I 'failed', because I answered Yes to question 4. By the common usage of the word 'racist', John Derbyshire is pretty clearly a racist. Though that of course has no bearing on
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
s/intimidate/inspire/g

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