rortian

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by rortian 16y ago
Haha, thanks for that. I'd like more about the person, but I appreciate the rational of his ridiculous tv persona.
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by rortian 16y ago
No, but I am curious, what is this guy like in person?
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by rortian 16y ago
Thanks.
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by rortian 16y ago
Thanks for the data point. Did the square roots render over the quantities. I'll have to check browsers, but Opera was a no go and Chrome is okay but not great.
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by rortian 16y ago
This might be nice, but from what I can tell it does seem to work very well: http://www.scribd.com/doc/21569338/Formulas-for-the-MFE-Exam At least before, people could read this.
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by rortian 16y ago
I guess you don't understand proper subset. He was implying that all pedophiles are gay (or that all gay people are pedophiles which I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that he wasn't saying that).
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by rortian 16y ago
It is not okay to imply that homosexuality and pedophilia are the same thing.
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by rortian 16y ago
Well said. I think the biggest break he's ever had was Steve Job's endorsing one of Gruber's posts as Apple reasoning.
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by rortian 16y ago
I don't know if it is. It's pretty shocking to me how different these subjects can be. And the grass is always green on the other side. >Allegedly unrealistic assumptions about rationality and information are gleefully (and sometimes un
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by rortian 16y ago
That there is a field called Innovation Economics basically proves my point. As it states in the linked it is fact quite different from standard economic theory. You state in another post that English is your second language. When you say '
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by rortian 16y ago
Yeah, I'm with you. Unfortunately people like to take economic theorems off the shelf without looking at some of the assumptions.
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by rortian 16y ago
>Changes in institutions/networks/interconnectedness etc. as described in the Beinhocker book is innovation according to the economic textbook definition. Innovation is hardly considered in economics at all. As is alluded to in the essa
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by rortian 16y ago
Some interesting stuff in there but it's a bit scatterbrained and too obsessed with coming back to libertarian dogma. There is a line of argument that says that most growth comes from innovation. While some of it surely does, I think interc
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by rortian 16y ago
Nah, unfortunately that algorithm does not magically make bitmaps scale. The image example they gave is grossly misleading. It works well on certain types of sparse information in Fourier space.
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by rortian 16y ago
Yeah, nothing there or in related articles disputes the assertion that they invented PageRank. Sure, they did it in a community that was developing similar ideas, but they built and developed it.
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by rortian 16y ago
I'd be interested to know, but somehow I seriously doubt there were librarians taking eigenvalues of citation networks.
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by rortian 16y ago
>Google was based on a couple of brilliant ideas (Page rank, text-only ads, massive parallel implementation on cheap hardware) but none of those ideas were original with Larry or Sergey. Wow. I didn't think someone would claim that Page
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by rortian 16y ago
Yeah with the added constraint that it was a pension that the Dad retired with.
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by rortian 16y ago
Thanks a lot for the ideas. I'll have to do some benchmarking, but I doubt that javascript will be able to do this any faster. Each dot can take quite a few flops to get calculated. I would like to prototype a NaCl viewer though. I need to
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Ask HN: Please review my web app(map.pseudopattern.com)
2 points by rortian 16y ago|2 comments
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by rortian 16y ago
Cool, I'm working a math one when it goes it will be posted at: blog.pseudopattern.com Alright technical details. I used GWT for the front end. Mainly because I like working in an IDE, and because I don't have to worry about browser quirks
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by rortian 16y ago
Happy to oblige. However, technical could mean: 1. Implementation details 2. Math details Let me know 1, 2 or both and I'll fill you in.
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Ask HN: Please check out my web app
7 points by rortian 16y ago|4 comments
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by rortian 16y ago
Well then Microsoft must be kicking serious ass in the space too because they have spent a lot more. I am super skeptical of any company that spends a lot of money to break into an area that isn't in their 'core competency'. Apple has show
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by rortian 16y ago
I'd just be interested in knowing what sort of bias would it have. How would the government like new science to look? Would it be at all productive to fake experiments? The government has its issues, but funding science is a great thing. Su
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by rortian 16y ago
>Of course federal funding distorts science. How could it not? It's naive to think otherwise. Politics pervades all the other areas of government spending. Are you saying that scientists and their funders are somehow superior to everyon
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by rortian 16y ago
Probably right. However, the post outed his as an ideological opponent of government action (with a little fatalism thrown in). This would place him firmly in the denier camp according to the original article.
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by rortian 16y ago
LOL? Yes, virtually all basic research is federally funded. Does it distort science? Nutrition is not at all easy to do as science because doing research with humans is not considered ethical by society. I think it's something we need to ad
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by rortian 16y ago
It's sad that this is being up-voted as it is incredibly misleading and a conspiracy theory to boot: >#1 mainly intended to achieve a long-standing but tactically-shifting goal of governments to control capital No, global warming is not
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Cows are Sexier than Tensors(masonporter.blogspot.com)
19 points by rortian 16y ago|2 comments

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