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by sesqu 16y ago
I've never understood how people can read that fast. Cryptonomicon is 918 pages; you read it at maybe 30 seconds a page. I've been reading for a long time (though I didn't get into books until my late teens), and I still read English at abo
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by sesqu 16y ago
Internet consumption isn't, at present, very active; it's voluminous. There's so ridiculously much to consume, I find I'm growing impatient merely because I must demand density to get through the mass. This is a problem for me, since I'm no
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by sesqu 16y ago
> the hallmark of any truly socialist government is that it spends too much money on unproductive investments -- because they evaluate investment on things other So your means of identification of socialist government is that you don'
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by sesqu 16y ago
I've pretty much always felt that there should be no central authority. I don't know much about the actual protocols in use, but it's my understanding that they're single-signer. What I would prefer is a multiple-signer system. Each resourc
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by sesqu 16y ago
You mean like this thing in CSS3? http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/#resolution For an example of viewport CSS, take a look at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1377241
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by sesqu 16y ago
I think this is it. As you grow, you need something like n/c management, where n is the production workforce and c is maybe 3. That's not too bad of itself, but it comes with a command chain somewhere between log c and c. Everything slows d
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by sesqu 16y ago
So you're looking for an algorithm that produces the optimal result heuristically, without making any false moves, instead of using the convenient lookup table that God has available to him? Sounds very NP to me.
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by sesqu 16y ago
Not so. The only stipulation was that you must be able to guess a number in any range (which is not possible in practice). It doesn't matter that the probability of picking any particular number will be 0, as long as the probability of pick
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by sesqu 16y ago
I've got to agree here. The short form is great for those ubiquitous "set if null" pieces of code, but you wouldn't want to use one for a complex conditional. The advantage comes in when you recognize the intent from the way it's formulated
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by sesqu 16y ago
Uhh... When I came home and saw the second plane hit on TV, it took about 10 seconds before I and most of my friends were on IRC, on a moderated channel that got realtime news relays. Actually, there were several such channels, since they h
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by sesqu 16y ago
1 + 1 > 1 * 1
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by sesqu 16y ago
Farm subsidies are a serious inefficiency, yes. But I can't help feeling that getting rid of them would be worse, because they're there partly for the same reason many other inefficiencies exist: risk mitigation. Nobody wants to put all the
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by sesqu 16y ago
I must have been born an expert, then. It's taken a lot of learning for me to answer with "try this", rather than "tell me more about your problem and the parameters of an acceptable solution". Incidentally, I'm currently doing some researc
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by sesqu 16y ago
I don't think I've ever been an expert in anything where being an expert is somehow worthwhile. That said, I'd say you're an expert when you know what the bad parts are, why they're wrong, and why they're there anyway.
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by sesqu 16y ago
You're right, I did have the wrong scale, and should have realized. I believe this plot to be correct. Black is binomial, red is normal, both for the difference in conversion rates. http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/6691/binnormdifflikeli
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by sesqu 16y ago
Noprocrast caught out my attempt to edit. The normal variance is too large . Here's the plot. Black for discretized(n=1000) binomial likelihood, red for normal approximation. The effect is clear, but a t-test won't show it. I'm not familia
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by sesqu 16y ago
Ah, right. I spent a while drawing up a proper plot of the likelihood of the difference and the normal approximation of the difference, and saw that the normal had too small a variance. The effect is still pretty credible in the OP, though.
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by sesqu 16y ago
I don't see the problem. The total is very nearly normally distributed by the central limit theorem, is it not?
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by sesqu 16y ago
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20100124
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by sesqu 16y ago
Back in shop class, I build a cabinet with an electronic lock. I had the presence of mind to include a hidden bypass wire and link for an external power source, but years later when I needed to open the cabinet, the electronics didn't work.
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by sesqu 16y ago
I used to do such reading and commenting in the evenings. Never really had much problem with wondering if they've answered to me now , since I had a list of things to read and then I'd get sleepy and not comment on anything more. Sometimes
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by sesqu 16y ago
Possibly related: Apparently, India is somewhat perplexed by a resurgence of spirituality among the highly educated. No real effect in rural areas, but the heavy earners are becoming uncharacteristically religious.
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by sesqu 16y ago
Not quite that massive. With 3 degrees of freedom it's impossible to say for precise (see simpson's paradox), but according to the numbers, europe's industrial robots = americas's*0.09 + asia-pacific's*0.51 + africa's*41.66 europe's m
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by sesqu 16y ago
Yes and no. It's a sensible way to represent very large pictures, and many interesting graphs are unreasonably large. Large interactive graphs can also strain an interactive viewer more than seadragon, result in incosistent views, and requi
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by sesqu 16y ago
No. The length property of an array returns the index of the last value, plus one. Objects are the associative arrays, but they do not have a length. Arrays are numerically indexed, but if a keystring is a base-10 integer, it will g
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by sesqu 16y ago
True enough. When I was a kid there was rotten.com, and I never felt threatened by it (unlike, say, stilemedia, which I immediately considered culturally fetid). The great thing about the internet is that you are in control, and so there'
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by sesqu 16y ago
If the motions are truly irrelevant, then yes, they would disappear. But they could disappear as a function of the number of trials, so anything that still persists after 50 trials would take a long time to get rid of. It is general a hard
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by sesqu 16y ago
I vaguely remember an article from around the time RFID passports were a hot issue, in which researchers used multiple capturing devices and were able to square the reading distance. I don't know whether that was specific to the distance th
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by sesqu 16y ago
According to my manpage, C is for compression and 2 is for SSH2. You'd need to use -o to set the compression level, and then you'd probably also want to make sure compression actually helps (manpage warns against it). Similarly, -n is descr
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by sesqu 16y ago
Then the best I can come up with on no notice is 2 ↑^(4 ↑^(6 ↑^(8↑^(9↑10)) 7) 5) 3. That would be trivial to increase substantially by using some other notation for the hyperoperation, but I'm going with the presumably most familiar one. I'

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