saint-loup

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by saint-loup 12y ago
>>> I'm not thinking about it at all like a math problem The thing is, not even a mathematicien thinks always about math that way. In mathematics, one needd to distinguish between a phase of exploration, where you work along a
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The problem of Richard Feynman(galileospendulum.org)
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by saint-loup 12y ago
I may be blind, but you don't seem to inform the user that the addon is currently Chrome-only before he has suscribed. It's misleading.
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by saint-loup 12y ago
I think there's an important misconception about Victor's works and ideas. Augmenting human intellect is not only about visualization, it's about gathering and merging symbolic, interactive and visual representations in a sin
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by saint-loup 12y ago
The article doesn't mention the fact that most Apple mouse have terrible ergonomics, but it contains a great anecdote on serendipitous design: >> According to an interview by Cult of Mac with a former Apple ME, Abraham Farag, the
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by saint-loup 12y ago
To file in the list of unconventional computing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconventional_computing
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by saint-loup 12y ago
David Deutsch, coauthor of the paper, is not without credibility in the field of quantum computing, to say the least. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Deutsch It's obviously a speculative theory, but it's a
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Nest Recalls Its Smart Smoke And Carbon Monoxide Alarms(readwrite.com)
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by saint-loup 12y ago
Another example: even with standard browser settings and without that kind of plugin, I often get the annoying "we use cookies" warning mandated by European regulations, on the same website.
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Installing(xkcd.com)
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by saint-loup 12y ago
The non-retina 13" Macbook Pro seems less and less relevant.
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Google getting slapped big for dodging French tax collector(arstechnica.com)
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by saint-loup 13y ago
Yup, see for example: http://science.tumblr.com/post/13853183116/the-big-five-pers... Take note that the Big five, the other major personality typology, though more empirical, is not without problems either. http
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by saint-loup 13y ago
There's even a website collecting naming schemes. http://namingschemes.com/
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by saint-loup 13y ago
And yet, Neal Stephenson made an interesting distinction between "geeking out" and "vegging out": "To geek out on something means to immerse yourself in its details to an extent that is distinctly abnormal - and to
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by saint-loup 13y ago
"Induced demand, or latent demand, is the phenomenon that after supply increases, more of a good is consumed." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
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by saint-loup 13y ago
Google is publishing data on the quality of operators: https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=e9krd11m38onf_&... Besides, one nitpick: the Google News story was in Belgium, not in France.
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by saint-loup 13y ago
>> Week Eight: Quantum Logic (orthocomplemented lattices, projections, Gleason's Theorem, probability and logic). Naive question: wasn't quantum logic a somewhat failed endeavour and a thing of the past?
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by saint-loup 13y ago
I concur. His notebook is a wonder of great resources on many (many many) subjects, with often interesting comments. http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notabene/
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by saint-loup 13y ago
Because when I close the one tab left, Firefox closes itself. Thanks to the fast launch time, I don't bother to keeping one open.
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by saint-loup 13y ago
I use Windows at the office and my work doesn't need me to have 300 tabs open at once. So I keep lauching and closing Firefox. Start-up time matters, thanks.
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by saint-loup 13y ago
That's what the Gmail Labs is for: testing features before some of them being released to everyone.
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by saint-loup 14y ago
I'm sorry, but why would you put something like this in your CSS: text-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,.5); It makes the text blurred and jarring.
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by saint-loup 14y ago
I'm sorry, but this is terribly pedantic. The world isn't divided between deep experts of a technology and everyone else. Case in point: me, a moderately tech-savvy person. My main computer is a Mac and I'm a casual user of bash. I struggle
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by saint-loup 14y ago
It is. :)
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by saint-loup 14y ago
Hi, "Ratiocinator" is a nice name. Is "begriffs" a reference to the Begriffsschrift ?
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by saint-loup 14y ago
Same thing for Windows Phone. Obviously, it's on every marketing material from Microsoft, but I don't see it as the killer feature of the OS, especially on WP8. The tiles have three different sizes, can be pictures or not, can be animated
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by saint-loup 14y ago
Actually, Universal Principles of Design is a somewhat misleading title. I was excepting a book deeply theory-driven, with few principles derived from even fewer concepts, but it turned out to be a compilation of 210 notions loosely categor
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by saint-loup 14y ago
Very true. For another example of their half-hearted strategy, see the release of the Venue Pro, a device for Windows Phone 7 with a form factor really standing apart[1]. It got good press, shipped in few countries with confusing release da
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by saint-loup 14y ago
Gmail uses tables for the list of mails, which makes sense, but there are also tables for things like the logo. I'm not qualified to assess the work of the team behind Gmail, but it's curious notheless.

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