scroy

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by scroy 11y ago
School provides you with skills and credentials, and marks are just to measure a baseline of confidence and motivation. Performing well technically won't necessarily be enough to satisfy you, your peers, or your bosses. I think school
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by scroy 11y ago
To me it comes off as a kind of PSA for Vice's 20-something target audience. There's nothing really new to take away if you're generally familiar with the current understanding of how the brain develops, and if you've ex
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by scroy 12y ago
From what I've read, that wouldn't be relevant for an electric vehicle, since there is no transmission. Or that might only be for the Tesla.
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by scroy 12y ago
If it was working well, why stop when your SO arrived? Did she not, ah, agree about the lack of smell?
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by scroy 12y ago
I had to give it a couple tries, but it loaded
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by scroy 12y ago
I assume you mean to use Singapore as an example of where strict laws and reduced violence have had a positive effect on development? As opposed to India?
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by scroy 12y ago
All right I'm intrigued. What kind of coding were you doing under fire? Were the problems interesting in their own right or was the danger factor the biggest part of it? Was the work anywhere near the "principled reasons" cat
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by scroy 12y ago
The project is really impressive, you have some truly beautiful examples in the gallery. I see what you mean that user content creation doesn't seem easily accessible enough to hit Minecraft's level of self-marketing. But there is
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by scroy 12y ago
I believe he's talking about Voxel Quest [0], which was on HN some time ago. I see what he means, it has clearly been a big time investment. [0] http://www.voxelquest.com
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by scroy 12y ago
I think you mean primates?
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by scroy 12y ago
This something I've been curious about for a while now. I don't have a lot of experience, but I've worked on a farm and with a research team looking at agricultural water management. It seems like there is a lot of potential
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by scroy 12y ago
According to their rules, "screen time" is not equivalent to "using computer". It seems like a reasonable way to limit unproductive, pure-entertainment computer use. A parent with some common sense should be able to iden
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by scroy 12y ago
Not sure how complex your use case is, but I've found Pandas (on Python) to be just as powerful and much more performant than R for working with scientific data. It's built on Numpy so you can use Scipy's statistical function
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by scroy 12y ago
And since the post now links to Vimeo, here is the LtU link: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5054