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811.
by sesqu 16y ago
A slight complication to this solution is that the length of a year is not exactly divisible to seconds, or even of constant length. So counting seconds is fundamentally different from, though pretty close to, counting years.
812.
by sesqu 16y ago
Much more like Gattaca, in my opinion. Minority Report was about fate and crime, whereas Gattaca was about potential (and the implications for fate and crime).
813.
by sesqu 16y ago
I have a feeling that's a guy they met. Maybe a guide or speaker. Other common features were a man with a striped shirt, and possibly a woman who talked about her extramuros life. All of these have the same beard: http://ed.fnal.gov/projec
814.
by sesqu 16y ago
Switching when there is no effect is harmless, from the perspective of the product. It only hurts your takeaways, and if you're doing A/B, you're conceding that your previous takeaways weren't the final word anyway. Now, if switching is exp
815.
by sesqu 16y ago
There's this Firefox add-on, Badges on Favicon, that never got far off the ground: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8121
816.
by sesqu 16y ago
Amusingly, it doesn't work on actual frogs. People have tried, I think (though can't source).
817.
by sesqu 16y ago
somehow representing a surplus or deficit of electrons, neither of which is true. If an electric charge of -4e doesn't represent a surplus of 4 electrons, what does it represent? Surely not a deficit of 4 protons, since they are much hard
818.
by sesqu 16y ago
One of the biggest reservations I initially had about abstraction, when learning programming, was that I didn't consider performance a detail. As such, I didn't litter my code with objects or pure functions even when they made conceptual se
819.
by sesqu 16y ago
I don't know, bureaucrats operate in packs. A single Vogon might be all you need to set the wheels in motion, and indeed might be more effective than touching on several distributed Vogons.
820.
by sesqu 16y ago
And unregistered cookie-based accounts.
821.
by sesqu 16y ago
It doesn't hold for loads of things. 1 heap + 1 heap = 1 heap. 1 bunny + 1 bunny = 12 bunnies, depending on how fast you are with your observing. 1 dl of ethanol + 10 dl of water < 11 dl of diluted alcohol.
822.
by sesqu 16y ago
Your birthdate alone is something like 14 bits of information. I've never understood why some ask for it, and always tend to just make sure my age shows up as at least 18. And I would never put my zip code on anything purportedly anonymous.
823.
by sesqu 16y ago
This is implicit in having access to the (cumulative) key distribution. Still, the interpolation function can turn out to be pretty expensive, if your data isn't uniform 0-100.
824.
by sesqu 16y ago
After a bit of further thought, I realized that the triangular sectors aren't equilateral after just one iteration. The angles at the equator are 90°, and the polar angles are 180°/n - works when n=4. But then the four nested ones will be 3
825.
by sesqu 16y ago
That explains how he was able to label some squares as "R"eserved - I was wondering how he'd label areas smaller than his R.
826.
by sesqu 16y ago
No, that's just because P(X=x)*P(Y=y) = P(Z²=(x²+y²)). I think you could do a reasonable job by dividing first into two hemispheres, then into six(?) triangular sectors each, then recursively into four subsectors each. This would give log4(
827.
by sesqu 16y ago
This has always bothered me, as well. I don't like the solution the military grid reference system came up with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MGRSgridSouthPole.png I'd much prefer a solution that removed the square grid requirement a
828.
by sesqu 16y ago
How do you weigh the benefit of not killing unaware people against the benefit of not killing people? At least banana loaders know they're in some danger, and have probably analyzed the cost of that against the benefit of a larger pay.
829.
by sesqu 16y ago
Can they? The BED is radioaction from an ingested banana. I can tell 4 bananas eaten isn't very worrisome, but I've never really seen anyone go above it. I have very little understanding of the effects of eating 200 bananas, besides probabl
830.
by sesqu 16y ago
I don't agree with that. Yes, most people interpret the word "random" as "uniformly distributed" or "unpredictable", depending on context ("pick a number at random" vs. "some random glitch"), but statisticians and mathematicians interpret i
831.
by sesqu 16y ago
Exactly. 3d6 is already pretty close, and it just gets closer and closer to the gaussian as you increase the number of dice. And it's bounded, too, so you get minimum and maximum values.
832.
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833.
by sesqu 16y ago
to wit, "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
834.
by sesqu 16y ago
The problem with the standards is that getting copies costs actual money. If one really wants to start learning about databases, it can be very difficult to decide what to pay for. Implementation documentation, at least, is generally free.
835.
by sesqu 16y ago
It shows that China cares more about image than function. That suggests, to me, that they have more money to invest than time to vet applicants.
836.
by sesqu 16y ago
Were, I'd expect. I don't know when you were 21, but a lot has happened in hires, IT supply, outsourcing, and China in the past years. Such jobs might still be widely available, but I've heard several stories about early-2000 consulting job
837.
by sesqu 16y ago
The original was make that heap big enough to require multiple pages (about 8 MB, in this case You are arguing that it has to be 4 KB. timr is arguing it has to be big enough, and that it is 8 MB. The implication is that it is big enough
838.
by sesqu 16y ago
Here's Napoleon's cartographer's view of the Russian expedition, atop google maps: http://hci.stanford.edu/jheer/files/zoo/ex/maps/napoleon.htm... Wikipedia has the original: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Minard.pn..
839.
by sesqu 16y ago
Here's the alternate content, which I saw before allowing scripts: Once upon a time, in a land of sputtering dial-up connections, websites took ages to load. Folks yearned for the 100% mark. But as soon as that figure arrived, the beloved (
840.
by sesqu 16y ago
A comment on the article pointed out that since javascript execution is blocking, you can do that for synchronous javascript: scripts=document.elements.getElementByTagName('script') latest=scripts[scripts.length-1]

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