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by rspeer 10y ago
Oh good, there's no financial barrier to being the kind of person who believes what unqualified journalists say about science, goes on fad diets, and says "I Fucking Love Science". That has shit-all to do with doing science
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by rspeer 10y ago
Then you were exceptionally unclear about it. What does Google News's science section have to do with anything? A newspaper's "science" section has little to do with real science.
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by rspeer 10y ago
...so if I used Google Allo, I would still need to also use Google Messenger for MMS conversations and Facebook Messenger for conversations with less-nerdy people. The only thing Allo seems to have going for it is that it's not another
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by rspeer 10y ago
The publications don't seem to want adequate data and descriptions. They want papers that have the traditional format and fit in 6-8 pages. Every paragraph you spend on practical details is one less paragraph you can spend on making
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by rspeer 10y ago
Does it work with MMS, like Hangouts usually doesn't?
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by rspeer 10y ago
I used Julia a bit in the same time span, and I was frustrated with the breakage, but I also saw a lot of things that clearly needed breaking changes. I'm glad they're happening. Until now, [a, b] meant "concatenate a and b i
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by rspeer 10y ago
Wait, how? It seems to me that it gives people an easy way to focus on one area of AI, saying "Guess we didn't need fundamental AI research after all".
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by rspeer 10y ago
Okay, yeah. I bristled at your suggestion that I should go learn temperament from Wikipedia, when I was making an effort to not bring up temperament to keep my reply focused. I thought you didn't understand harmony, you thought I didn&
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by rspeer 10y ago
A simplified explanation is not voodoo. Yes, he chose to list only the intervals in the major scale. Showing the intervals in the major and minor scale at the same time would have been very confusing. I understand now that you weren't
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by rspeer 10y ago
BTW, please read something like "Musimathics", it'll be better than trying to learn music theory from Wikipedia.
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by rspeer 10y ago
This is exactly what I'm telling you. Why are you being condescending to me about it? You're the one claiming that the semitones of the 12-tone scale are some sort of fundamental axiom. Why didn't you know where minor third
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by rspeer 10y ago
If you want a series of books that constitute "music theory for nerds" -- building up music theory from a solid foundation of acoustics, and math -- try "Musimathics" by Gareth Loy. It is a great read. It takes very litt
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by rspeer 10y ago
> Minor third is not a simple fraction - is that the reason to exclude it from the scale? The minor third is a 6:5 ratio. Does that change your mind? Where do your tones and semitones come from? You've just rejected the explanation
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by rspeer 10y ago
I'm concerned about something similar, where a lot of AI techniques seem to be rushing toward a local maximum: * AI researchers do things that get good results faster out of Nvidia cards * Nvidia makes their cards faster at the things
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by rspeer 10y ago
There have been much more coherent articles written on that phenomenon. Taleb's description is like a reverse horoscope: a bunch of vague generalities and irrelevant details that you're not supposed to identify with. You're s
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by rspeer 10y ago
This guy is peeved about politics and he has a new class of people he wants to blame for it. His description of this class of people is odd and improbable: some sort of foppish Englishmen who have contrived a way to vote for Hillary Clinton
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by rspeer 10y ago
Now you're claiming something different. hughperkins was using a "security mindset", and was implying that the site, due to lack of authentication, was being tricked into showing "George Soros" as a supporter becaus
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by rspeer 10y ago
This is not incredible or brilliant. This is a teenager trying to sound important.
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by rspeer 10y ago
There are three grocery stores within a 15-minute walk of my house. Two of them are next to the nearest subway stop; they add no more to my commute than walking through a parking lot would add to yours. The subway gets me to many useful pla
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by rspeer 10y ago
That's what Metafont was supposed to be, too. See, for example, http://www.antonvasetenkov.com/metafont-demo . But it seems that it ended up being used for a much more narrow purpose in the actual TeX stack that people
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by rspeer 10y ago
Donald Trump wants Edward Snowden executed, extrajudicially if necessary. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130624/17270323599/donal...
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by rspeer 10y ago
This isn't about signatures or authentication, the site says outright that those people are supporters.
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by rspeer 10y ago
> some sort of AI having access to all the content on internet Isn't this a description of any decent search engine?
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by rspeer 10y ago
Huh. I've gotten "vetted" by VRBO hosts. In fact I've usually had to try to negotiate with them over the phone as they suddenly jack up the price to twice what they advertised, or tell me that they made a mistake in the
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by rspeer 10y ago
Because GPU-accelerated learning is exciting, and most of the directions you find for setting it up don't work. (Judging from other replies, this post may be no different.) This probably has something to do with the fact that GPUs are
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by rspeer 10y ago
> The people that have a problem with Chomsky's ideas are authoritarian collectivists. Wow, this is the worst argument for a scientific theory I have heard in a long time.
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by rspeer 10y ago
I think that even an honest unemployed 22-year-old would not be willing and able to find a notary as part of the deal. When I was 18 and needed to get a letter notarized, it cost me $35.
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by rspeer 10y ago
I have never seen anyone with an Excel workflow that involves exporting to CSV that does not immediately mojibake every non-ASCII character. Yeah, I know there's a well-hidden option to export in tab-separated UTF-16. Nobody uses it. S
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by rspeer 10y ago
Okay, you're right. I didn't think of that kind of situation arising, and that's awesome.
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by rspeer 10y ago
This is a distinction in terminology that has no effect on gameplay.

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