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by ronaldx 13y ago
Observation: The cars tend to optimize to get over a challenging hurdle (while it's being worked on, the cars converge to a single solution: which works well), but then are no longer general enough to get over later hurdles.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Ideally, encrypted data should be indistinguishable from random. I agree, this may not be true in practice. [Presumably, NSA is not collecting all sources of random data?]
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by ronaldx 13y ago
You can generalize my point: Pandora should be judged the same way as radio or the comparison is unfair. The methodology of arbitron says that if radio can be identified within audio range, you are deemed to be 'listening' to it.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I have to respectfully question some of your assumptions: Pandora has exactly one listener per track played? 1% of people listen to a popular radio station 24 hours a day?
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Are you upvoting because: - you think people should be more aware of the issue, or - you think that each of these links individually provide value to the readers here If the former, then please stop. We are aware: identifying valuable con
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by ronaldx 13y ago
At a very minimum, there are opportunity costs. I can make my robot work for myself, to build myself a palace, or I can make my robot work for you, to build you a simple home. A capitalist is only motivated to do the latter because they get
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Doubtful on the latter: most employed people spend more than 80% of their income and most employers would not be willing to increase their rate of pay by 25% (especially now, with salaries increasing below inflation). Although it's oft
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Yes, that's what everybody would like, I think. The article rightly points out that (in our present capitalist structure) this type of society exclusively benefits the robot-owners: why should my robot do heavy lifting for you ? The
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Variable speed limits are well implemented on UK motorways. One thing I find interesting is that, as a traveller, it's completely impossible to fathom what's going on. Because the signs are on in apparently free-flowing traffic, i
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Late merging makes more effective use of the car waiting area, at the expense of a faster flow.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
It's not evident that this is a more effective use of roadway, as the article hints at. The problem is the bottleneck point, where people are obligated to move into one lane. This is what causes delay - the faster you can get cars movi
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by ronaldx 13y ago
On the contrary: you have confused 'denomination' and 'denominated': http://www.thefreedictionary.com/denominated
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> "Not even good teachers, however, can see the plausible misinterpretations before they happen." Sure, they can. In my mind that's close to the definition of an expert teacher - experience and knowledge of misinterpretati
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by ronaldx 13y ago
With astigmatism, I can't comfortably read the current light-on-dark text. http://blog.tatham.oddie.com.au/2008/10/13/why-light-text-on... Light-on-dark can be more comfortable for long-term screen readi
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by ronaldx 13y ago
That's an anecdotal account, not a factual history. Besides, I can use it to make my point, e.g.: "our competitors, who at the time, in our opinion, were kind of exploiting the users" So, they are fully aware that they'r
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I disagree with this on the basis of "tragedy of the commons"[0] For every person acting in their self-interest, it's usually cheaper and more efficient for them to use their car. However, using their car has a cost of conges
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Funding through advertising is fallacious. As a case study: Transport for London have a very thorough advertising suite on buses and underground trains (and others). Advertising and rent contribute £179m revenue. Ticket sales contribute £35
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I agree with the parent commenter: the fact that "don't be evil" was adopted suggests strongly that there is a motivation to be evil that needed to be overcome (and that users could identify with). The company storytelling th
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Since GAs are analogue of biological natural selection/evolution, I will explore that a little: Evolution didn't build humans by starting with the problem of 'build a human' - it branches into solving various local niche
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by ronaldx 13y ago
You think so? I'm not very keen to work on an AI if there's proof of a quick win.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
if you use napkins then you can also move the boards around ;)
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by ronaldx 13y ago
It doesn't observe a win and for now you have to play against yourself, but: http://xoxo.gl/ultimate
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I made a quick HTML demo for playing through the game at http://xoxo.gl/ultimate
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I made this following the discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5898506
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Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe Demo(xoxo.gl)
2 points by ronaldx 13y ago|2 comments
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by ronaldx 13y ago
A new upstart has Hobson's choice between: - being price-fixed locally by Vodafone's pan-European wholesale prices and therefore being unable to compete effectively. or: - forbidding customers roaming coverage and therefore being
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Business Insider is one of few sites which won't load any content with strict script/third party blocking, agreed. Luckily, I don't generally find its content worth unblocking.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Yes: of course this benefits large, incumbent service providers. Smaller providers will find it difficult to compete now that they are obliged to offer the same level of service, at the same cost, to people travelling throughout the EU. Thi
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by ronaldx 13y ago
This was super-interesting, thanks! It would be nice to see the same information in a reference format (rather than a animated quiz), is that possible?
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by ronaldx 13y ago
The example given of Big Data use is that Netflix allegedly checking its user data to decide whether to buy House of Cards. It's not evident that such Big Data was useful in the way described. Anyway, the data described could easily be coll

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