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by sesqu 12y ago
> Skype is a standalone application where the only account you need is a Skype one, which is free, and isn't tied to any personal information other than an e-mail address. When Microsoft bought Skype, I seem to recall them requiring
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by sesqu 12y ago
I've only ever encountered pre-tests on Udacity. For what it's worth, my experience of them was entirely negative. That said, I've encountered several variations on the theme that lead me to believe there is a wider "thi
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by sesqu 12y ago
It is unusual. 8-10 AM is normal, depending on grade and curriculum. 7:30 is probably due to the climate or the logistics in Quatar (the school is located in an education zone, after all).
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by sesqu 12y ago
It's individual choice, though higher education institutes do have entrance exams that can occasionally be waived by high grades.
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by sesqu 12y ago
The idea is that you find what you measure. Standardised tests are highly informative, but should be kept to a minimum to avoid warping the process. Incidentally, one of the major criticisms leveled against PISA is regarding the inconsisten
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by sesqu 12y ago
Note that the batteries do not store 350 W/kg, but 350 Wh/kg. That means the majority of weight is batteries, since you need 1 kg/kW for the day but 1 kg/kW + 12 h * 1 kg / 350 Wh for the night, giving a total of 36
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by sesqu 12y ago
Sure sucks for the real estate agents who don't network with baristas, though.
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by sesqu 12y ago
The policy was dropped 7 weeks ago.
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by sesqu 12y ago
Prior and subsequent to reading the book, I suggest you read some of the critique the book has recieved, as the topic is quite anecdotal.
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by sesqu 12y ago
> I am not sure machine learning industry will not turn out like this I am certain it will. The machine learning field is already rife with best practices, general-use algorithms, software solutions and tutorials.
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by sesqu 12y ago
> It's not about the past state. It's that their present state is always reduced back to that previous state. It's a fucking name. If a person can't live with the fact that they used to be called something else, they
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by sesqu 12y ago
While a single entity can have multiple identifiers, one is usually canonical in a communication environment. For example, we say "Istanbul was founded in the 7th century BC" when speaking of the present-day city, But we say &quot
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by sesqu 12y ago
Yes, that's why I now have approximately 4 youtube accounts.
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by sesqu 12y ago
I get an error stating that I can't use my Youtube account, I have to use my Gmail account. When I do that, it automatically creates another Youtube account for me. Or something like that. I've given up on understanding their acco
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by sesqu 12y ago
Yes, one week's notice.
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by sesqu 12y ago
Sure, if you don't mind cutting out 30% of your audience.
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by sesqu 12y ago
ReCaptcha does do some collusion detection, and I assume they do it well, since it has not publicly been stated to be a problem area.
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by sesqu 12y ago
I believe they're just comments pulled in from google+ threads that mention the video in question, based on the logic that all comments on the video should be grouped. The problem is that people don't actually comment on videos on
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by sesqu 12y ago
To my mother Ayn Rand, and to God Not the same wording, but that's how I would write it, given the freedom.
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by sesqu 12y ago
See, I don't see that as a user. The bad comments sections used to be full of bad puns and arguments, but now they're just smaller and full of contentless "watch this" mentions. On channels where the comments used to be
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by sesqu 12y ago
Where do you use the fact that all the parameters are integers? I can only see the requirement for the one parameter you sum over.
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by sesqu 12y ago
I generally feel that zeroing the axis is never wrong, but yes, in this instance a (properly) cut axis would be better than correct. However, it should be apparent at a glance, and the presence of the other two graphs complicates things as
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by sesqu 12y ago
One could argue that the large difference in sample sizes (more than fivefold) justifies scale manipulation to bring the variances into line, but it doesn't appear to me that the author normalized on variance at all (the axis should be
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by sesqu 12y ago
You're right, of course. The reason for this is that digital entertainment is long-lived, cheap to produce and practically free to distribute, even moreso than film and literature. As the demand has increased, the supply has exploded,
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by sesqu 12y ago
The most common thing I struggle with as an accountless user is linking to tweets. It can take me a good while to find a link to a tweet I'm looking at. The second most common problem I have is finding a user, even if I know their hand
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by sesqu 12y ago
Can you explain what you mean with that? Surely an upscaled 16px image is more comparable to a crisp 16px image than a crisp 32px image is to a crisp 16px image, unless you want to argue that the 16px images are hand-crafted for crispness o
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by sesqu 12y ago
Personally, I prefer the taiwanese recycling symbol: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Recycle_symbol_Taiwan.svg
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by sesqu 12y ago
No one I knew cared about the ajax or the threaded inbox (sometimes considered anti-features). It was all about the gigabyte free space, with labels over folders a distant second.
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by sesqu 12y ago
That'd be Office Online, the document collaboration environment, not the full-featured executables.
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by sesqu 12y ago
I felt the exact opposite, that this was the first time the content overshadowed the flashiness. I read it on a relatively low-end machine, so it's possible the flashy stuff was just disabled, which in itself would be great.

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