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by rspeer 9y ago
You could possibly give to Cornell Fund for the Library [1] and tell them it's for arXiV. (Don't know if this is true for Cornell, but my own alma mater will accept and confirm arbitrary earmarks, even on small donations. It encou
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by rspeer 9y ago
Yes. For example, they've said that you could use a blockchain to keep track of book borrowing in a book club, where people expect to use the blockchain to get books and not to get rich. I do think this is pretty reasonable, but it sou
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by rspeer 9y ago
> I would love to see what deductions this blogger takes and see if he complies with the "spirit" of tax law. It's likely that he takes exactly one, the standard deduction, as most people do.
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by rspeer 9y ago
That seems orthogonal to what I asked. ALttP has player-made mods (randomizers) too. Let's put it this way. At this moment on Twitch, there are: - 4 people playing Warcraft 3 (any mod) - 0 people playing Half-Life 1 (any mod) - 1 perso
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by rspeer 9y ago
And do people play those games anymore? I'm not asking about their sequels and follow-ups, like DotA 2. People still enjoy The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past (1991) today when many more good Zelda games exist. But it appears to me
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by rspeer 9y ago
I'm going to say this is probably state of the art among methods that learn from scratch from a corpus of text. I say "probably" because they skipped most of the usual word-similarity evaluations, only using RW. The RW result
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by rspeer 9y ago
It's better to have the right explicit features in your model than implicit ones. It's just harder to know how to make those features, and to know that they're right, which is part of the appeal of implicit features.
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by rspeer 9y ago
However, remember not to take a 99-year-old book literally as a style guide. Strunk & White contains some timeless advice. Most (but not all) of the habits it identifies as bad writing are still considered bad. But for positive exampl
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by rspeer 9y ago
Moving out of London during the Blitz was a way to avoid death.
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by rspeer 9y ago
If there were a market for bad analogies for cryptocurrency, it would be inflationary.
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by rspeer 9y ago
Not to mention that they're frequently away from home.
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by rspeer 9y ago
It's not Latin or Greek, it's specifically designed technical terminology.
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by rspeer 9y ago
I read this on mobile and got a still image and a progress spinner, with no way to scroll.
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by rspeer 9y ago
When they lose 75% of the money they invested in Bitcoin, they can keep doing the same math and be happy about their "25% gain".
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by rspeer 9y ago
You must have missed the part about "the world as it exists" and "fast development" and pretty much the entire point of the post you're replying to. Haskell remains impractical for many use cases, it is not used muc
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by rspeer 9y ago
I see what David Gerard is saying, it's just that having a map is very different from having to find the optimal solution to TSP on that map. We look at maps all the time and don't solve TSP on them.
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by rspeer 9y ago
I am not a bitcoin fan but I can't imagine anything like this would be affected by the NP-hardness of the traveling salesman problem. It's not like the system breaks if someone finds a way that a payment could have been routed fas
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by rspeer 9y ago
The US government considers bitcoin a commodity. You will not find examples of them considering it a currency.
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by rspeer 9y ago
If it's supported, then they should update json5.org, which says "TODO: Unicode characters and escape sequences aren’t yet supported in this implementation."
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by rspeer 9y ago
The fact that it has no support for Unicode at all -- neither literal nor escaped -- is just tragic.
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by rspeer 9y ago
Wait. What does the Long Now Foundation have to do with supporting authoritarianism? Or how do you get from "big, bold, and challenging ideas" to authoritarianism?
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by rspeer 9y ago
Why would you judge someone by the beliefs they're "statistically likely" to have?
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by rspeer 9y ago
This is uncomfortable if you're Sam Altman, but it's possible we have to allow people to say disparaging things about Sam Altman.
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by rspeer 9y ago
> I would support both Python 2 and Python 3. Nah. They can spare a lot of pain and confusion by not having two different Pythons with different sets of libraries in Excel, and they have this opportunity because they don't have to
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by rspeer 9y ago
I know. I'm pointing out that the Portuguese non-neutral mobile carrier is no different than our US non-neutral mobile carriers.
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by rspeer 9y ago
Why don't you consider T-Mobile's "Binge On" plan to be a violation of net neutrality? I recall it being something like: Netflix data is free, other data is $10/GB. It seems exactly the same as that widely-quoted Po
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by rspeer 9y ago
The US doesn't allow people to play in unregulated lotteries. Those are super illegal. In fact the only lottery you can usually play in is one specifically run by the state you're in, which has made an exception to the law for i
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by rspeer 9y ago
Well, of course, and tmux is another thing that makes PuTTY janky. I'd rather not dumb down my tmux layout to something that PuTTY's terminal emulator can understand, when Git Bash running its bundled ssh handles it just fine.
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by rspeer 9y ago
Well, it wouldn't help much with the topic of this article. Maybe cryptographically verifying that a porn video happened is someone's fetish, but I don't think most people involved in the production or consumption of porn w
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by rspeer 9y ago
I'm sorry, I thought you were trying to convince people who support UBI. The context is that people want to redistribute wealth. "But it redistributes my wealth!" is the least compelling possible argument against that.

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