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by sago 12y ago
To verify a method scientifically, one must compare it to something with the same structure but different content. To verify a tablet, one compares it to another tablet without the purported active ingredient, to verify traditional acupress
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by sago 12y ago
> nor is mindfullness a quack method unverified by science What specific benefits had mindfulness been verified to provide, in comparison to placebo meditation? I'd be very grateful for any references to peer-reviewed study.
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by sago 12y ago
I write my books (5 published so far through Elsevier and others) in Markdown. It seems the OP uses markdown too. I wondered how he did footnotes in plain text, he just uses a markdown-style syntax. It is an excellent approach with benefits
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by sago 12y ago
A good reference. My take home is that every single version that is possible to do in old style formatting is longer in new style formatting. Even more so if the old-style formatting were written without the extraneous 1-ples. '%
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by sago 12y ago
GIL is a bogeyman, particularly from folks who've never deployed large python codebases, so I was fully expecting downvotes. Unpopular opinions attract them. Though it would be more gratifying to see downvotes along with people's
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by sago 12y ago
GIL seems to me to be only a niche problem in reality. But it is a bit of a storm in a powerpoint (i.e. people see it on a list of features of python and panic. Even though, as the article says, Javascript has much more constrained single-t
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by sago 12y ago
Your second solution depends on interpreting the "Albert knows Bernard doesn't know" to mean that Bernard told (or otherwise signalled to) Albert that he doesn't know, rather than Albert deducing that Bernard couldn&#x
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by sago 12y ago
Except that the April data is out now, and it dropped to 14, so 'about to sneak into the top 10' seems a bit premature, in hindsight.
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by sago 12y ago
Rather than disagreeing, it might be helpful if you suggest a few complete (but simple) application tutorials written in F#. I'd be interested in that too.
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by sago 12y ago
You're making me feel very dumb. Because several of these seem to be the opposite of what I've observed. Testing with a mock object implies that the mock object can generate all the required output that the real object can generat
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by sago 12y ago
Why is it implicit ? The point is that it is much more explicit . And use of SL doesn't create a dependency that isn't there otherwise. The dependency will be there anyway, because bits of code do depend on one another. The poin
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by sago 12y ago
> "Global variables" is really language specific terminology for global data. Strange, I thought it was terminology for global variables. > What I mean by "globals" in the scope of testing is "side-effects&quo
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by sago 12y ago
I agree, the Balsamiq-style sketching is cliche now, and isn't very well implemented in this case. A clean wireframe that doesn't pretend it was handdrawn, and good typography, would be much better. I couldn't use this as is,
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by sago 12y ago
I see this argument pop up from time to time and it confuses me. It's almost as if someone read "global variables are evil" and understood it to mean "global data is evil". Singletons aren't global variables. N
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by sago 12y ago
I agree. Normal distribution, arrived at via the central limit theorem, assume that the underlying distributions are independent. They may well approximate independence most of the time, but when extreme events happen, the distributions are
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by sago 12y ago
Wait, what? So tuition has gone up by 350%, but subsidies have decreased by less than 20% per TE student, at the same time that the number of academic staff has stayed roughly the same. The only linked study says that tuition increases were
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by sago 12y ago
Does anyone know what the requirements are, and how one would go about making or buying intentionally counterfeit money? Money that one has no intention of trying to pass off, for stage, filmmaking or live-roleplaying, or similar. I seem to
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by sago 12y ago
Right, which just further proves my point. If you think I or the OP would argue anything else, then you're falling into precisely the trap I identified.
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by sago 12y ago
You don't get to Carnegie Hall as a violinist by playing like a robot. It's amusing in these conversations how quickly some people go from "say no to drugery and busy work" to "but its essential for discipline!&quot
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by sago 12y ago
Creating marketing materials first clarifies a bunch of important things around your business: who your audience is, what your model is, how are you going to reach them. It also gets you speaking your customer's language early. All goo
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by sago 12y ago
Right, don't do this, for the reasons given. You can, however, do the high-cost hash on the client, then do a low-cost hash comparison of the result on the server. So you do a cheap SHA256 hash comparison on the server, but because the
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by sago 12y ago
All the evidence we have points to the conclusion that the mind is embodied. There are no unembodied mental phenomenon reported or observed, nor can (you seem to conclude) there be such a report. So I repeat, to the extent it is possible to
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by sago 12y ago
Ugh, I hate reporting about evolutionary biology. This isn't an egregious example, but the 'it challenges the idea that complexity increases over time', 'it calls into question the origin of the brain', 'forces
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by sago 12y ago
Lots of noise, and very little signal. For every interesting announcement from a friend, I had to wade through weeks of "What NATO country are you most like?" results, past their expiry memes, political grandstanding, videos of pu
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by sago 12y ago
I think we have answered, to the extent it is possible to answer, the question of whether there is an afterlife. And the related question of whether our minds are independent of our bodies. The typical responses of educated religious folks
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by sago 12y ago
I am not saying that you are fooling yourself, but The mirror image is that we aren't fooling ourselves, we've just been able to rise above our heavy inculturation to such fear. An inculturation that you're still stuck in.
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by sago 12y ago
Leaving aside the implication that I'm either in denial, or not a functioning member of society... And leaving aside that the link doesn't quite say either, from what I can see... I agree that having no fear of oblivion is unusual
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by sago 12y ago
I know this is getting OT, so apologies. And thank you for the second paragraph. But I'm interested in the first. To me it doesn't seem like I will cease to be, in any meaningful way. To cease to have something is to have it at so
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by sago 12y ago
To be fair, in Soylent Green you died by opting for assisted suicide in an environment with good food, beautiful views and classical music. I'll go with that over a lot of other options. I'll swap the environment for home, and b
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by sago 12y ago
It doesn't frighten me. It won't go dark forever. Just as there was no 13.5bn years of darkness before I was born. There will be no qualia of time. I think attitudes are changing. The campaign to be able to determine how and when

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