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by rrmm 13y ago
A better-ish system has already been made. The post mostly excoriates pay journals for implying that open access journals enable fraud and poor papers and pay journals prevent those sorts of papers. The arsenic-dna paper is used as a coun
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by rrmm 13y ago
Didn't see the exact place in the video, but perhaps you are talking about the nozzle stiffening ring? http://www.spacex.com/news/2013/02/09/falcon-9-flight-1-pict... has a still of it happening o
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by rrmm 13y ago
hah! I did this to people too. I ended up popping the keycaps of the arrows off the keyboard and taping over the hole.
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by rrmm 13y ago
The devs seem like they're on some sort of holy war to purify the gui. The problem is that interface design (like anything else) is about trade-offs. GNOME needs some folks that have been through this cycle and understand it.
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by rrmm 13y ago
Doesn't the combinatorial approach which allows you to directly calculate the probabilities of each bin show why it takes that particular shape?
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by rrmm 13y ago
Central Limit Theorem? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Limit_Theorem The sum of die rolls shows a good example of why you get the bell shape: there are more ways (combinations) with which to sum up to the center values than the extre
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by rrmm 13y ago
normal, binomial, poisson, uniform, exponential
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by rrmm 14y ago
The interesting thing is that more of the anomalous results are coming from astronomical observations and in general non-collider experiments. Colliders have been really successful where they can be applied and have given a consistent footi
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by rrmm 14y ago
The machine learning community has been pushing for open access for quite awhile. In 2001, the 40 editors of Machine Learning (some of whom I was quite proud to know), resigned to start the JMLR with this letter: http://www.sigir.org/for
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by rrmm 14y ago
I can understand your frustration. Given the ready supply of programmers who want to make games, the games industry seems to take advantage of programers to a degree that other places don't and can't. That said, I'm not sure that your sugg
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by rrmm 14y ago
I don't understand. What practical effect does its devaluation have? In whose eyes does it devalue? Are you worried it's going to cause your salary to decrease?
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by rrmm 14y ago
Indeed. Today's kids may or may not be screwed, but I don't think CR's chart implies what the article's author infers from it. Starting the article off with post-apocalyptic imagery seems to be the wrong tone to make any constructive stat
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by rrmm 14y ago
I love the economy of lisp implementations in dynamic languages. It's especially nice because you don't have to worry about the memory management. On the otherhand, I've been interested in doing a lisp in low memory environments (uC's, etc
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by rrmm 14y ago
The garbage netbook market hit a sweetspot for me. I haven't had a real laptop since I got rid of my iBook G4. I also like the fact that I don't have to care if my laptop gets lost or stolen. I look forward to less power-hungry complete-s
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by rrmm 14y ago
I'm still looking for a good project for this year :<. Currently, I'm just going through Project Euler for amusement.
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by rrmm 14y ago
It'll automatically try to burn gas when it gets too old. http://ask.cars.com/2011/07/will-the-volts-gasoline-stay-fre...
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by rrmm 14y ago
I won't fault you for your optimism: technological advancement thrives on it.
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by rrmm 14y ago
I read Norman's book for an HCI grad class. I would definitely second the recommendation.
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by rrmm 14y ago
I agree concerning it just being a tech demo. On the other hand, with the tech I've watched, and that I've been involved with, the market application is fairly close to the academic conception. Figuring out a feasible use case often comes
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by rrmm 14y ago
I don't blame the tech. I'm just anticipating all the ways this is probably going to be used and am annoyed at those developers in advance. :D
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by rrmm 14y ago
I always have a kind of negative reaction to these sorts of interfaces. What I tend to see in this demo is how to make a doorknob unintuitive, how to make music player functionality undiscoverable, how to accidentally lock yourself out, how
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by rrmm 14y ago
Does anyone have some examples of resumes they've used successfully; or from the hiring side, resumes that stood out to them? Anyone A/B testing their resumes?
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by rrmm 14y ago
Yeah, it was more of a joke. (There's always bit-serial designs or 1-bit architectures...).
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by rrmm 14y ago
It's a really outstanding project. Thanks for sharing it with everyone. Regarding configuration memory, could you have the arduino read out from a serial flash? They're pretty easy to bit bang or control over SPI, and you can get a 64Mb p
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by rrmm 14y ago
I use APC. Perhaps their finish is thicker than others, or maybe I'm just high. I usually get enough solder to wick up to a 0805 resistor to produce a reasonable fillet. I then give it a good tug with a pair of tweezers to make sure every
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by rrmm 14y ago
Check out Jeri Ellsworth's homebrow NMOS transistor for some real fun. Just get your bare silicon wafer from E-bay and have at it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_znRopGtbE
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by rrmm 14y ago
I understand; I'm just back-seating anyway. Where did you get the boards done? Also, do you have any idea how fast the counter you made can go?
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by rrmm 14y ago
Superneat project. Now someone needs to synthesize a CPU and build a big enough discrete fpga to run it (very slowly) on. A few comments for those playing at home: 1) Use less solder. When you get boards done at the pcb house, they usual
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by rrmm 14y ago
7400 logic is fairly cheap. the biggest cost was probably getting the boards made.
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by rrmm 14y ago
I was actually planning on doing something like this for fun. In my case, the numbers would be generated from a random function and wouldn't mean anything. YMMV.

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