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811.
by shasta 16y ago
Wow, since the author starts talking about "Omega" without introducing it as a concept of some ultimate language, I assumed he was talking about the Omega Programming Language (In fact, it looks like there are two: http://code.google.com/p
812.
by shasta 16y ago
I found the article to be weak, throughout. Shoddy analysis dressed up with citations of marginal importance. It starts by just asserting that the American dream is that America is a meritocracy. The section with with tables showing Amer
813.
by shasta 16y ago
I think fools can still regret. I'm changing it to "the magnificent and sharks" in the version I repeat.
814.
by shasta 16y ago
Scenario: First I had a problem Then I thought, "I know, I'll use BDD" Then I had two problems
815.
by shasta 16y ago
lol dogs lol
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by shasta 16y ago
> Possibly it's useless, but there's a bunch of stuff people thought would be useless, and they've given us micro-processors, SatNav, cryptography, error-correcting codes, and a million other things. You're missing part of the argument,
817.
by shasta 16y ago
Better title for this article: Apple Will Become the Most Valuable Company in America The "how" in this article boils down to "by being worth more than the other companies in America."
818.
by shasta 16y ago
Did they happen to mention that the position had become available as a result of your email?
819.
by shasta 16y ago
The term "idealized free-market theory" refers to the study of a mathematical model, much like "group theory" refers to the study of groups. It's not a falsible scientific theory that asserts that the model matches reality to any extent.
820.
by shasta 16y ago
I wonder if they're going to apply this filtering technology to their sponsored links. There are paying scammers, too.
821.
by shasta 16y ago
So I wasn't supposed to read the title as William Shatner?
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by shasta 16y ago
Yes, the other "stereotype threat" researchers (studying race effects) also gave oral exams, and I agree that this is very fishy. Why in the world would you do an "interactive" physics exam in this situation if you had any interest in obje
823.
by shasta 16y ago
Except Netflix had a minimum standard of performance. This reads to me that the best entry submitted before time expires gets the prize, regardless.
824.
by shasta 16y ago
If placing a bet increases the time remaining, then how does "sniping" work and what advantage does your bot give you?
825.
by shasta 16y ago
Reassuring to see that the UN doesn't predict any large discontinuities in that graph
826.
by shasta 16y ago
Well, you're right to question what the reduction in risk these scanners produce, but your first point is way off. The cost of terrorist attacks is hardly limited to death. Those planes and buildings aren't free. Not that cancer treatmen
827.
by shasta 16y ago
Just to be a contrarian, why are we always encouraging kids to think ridiculous things? Shouldn't we be encouraging our kids to think about interesting things? Beige furniture and giant cars woven out of spaghetti are both pretty boring t
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by shasta 16y ago
Here's an experiment you can try: write a program that renders a font to a high res grid, then refits vector data to that data, then publish a bunch of proprietary fonts redone using your program (documenting your approach carefully) and s
829.
by shasta 16y ago
The problem with this analysis is that it discounts the possibility of interactivity. There are many who cannot think through the logical steps needed to complete a task, but can watch a system stepping through a task, stop it when it seem
830.
by shasta 16y ago
Ya, online recreation would quickly be hampered by "no Martian HPB" game servers
831.
by shasta 16y ago
I'm not redefining anything. I'm asking whether you accept it to be possible that one day a flaw will be found in arithmetic, leading to a contradiction. An example might be proving that 17 is prime on the one hand, and then finding a fac
832.
by shasta 16y ago
(First, apologies for use of "opaque" which was needlessly inflammatory.) I've read "A critique of pure reason" some years ago, but honestly I found much of it to be rather dodgy. Take this: >We don't perceive natural numbers with the
833.
by shasta 16y ago
Yes, that's the story that working mathematicians use day to day, but glosses over the relevant question in this context - why do we believe in one set of axioms instead of another? Do you think it's possible that we'll find a factorization
834.
by shasta 16y ago
Money is always an object. Any idea roughly what these go for?
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by shasta 16y ago
Can you elaborate or provide a reference explaining your use of "built up" vs. "discovered down"? I don't understand what you mean, and those terms don't look google-able. > And, as long as the core axioms are valid, it will be consist
836.
by shasta 16y ago
Did that really help? On my screen, your paragraph is about 10 characters longer than his, and about twice as opaque. > Seventeen is prime, not because of any empirical evidence, but because it has to be prime under the definition of p
837.
by shasta 16y ago
> Is multiplication anything but shorthand for counting the number of blocks in an M by N rectangle? His point is that the notion of primality doesn't have anything to do with the properties of real blocks. Primality tables are not con
838.
by shasta 16y ago
And what do you do when a $50M sugar cube sized processor goes out? Replace it?
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by shasta 16y ago
Maybe if it was just playing heads up (1v1), but with technology where it is today, playing better than a group of good humans is apparently a hard problem.
840.
by shasta 16y ago
Your article is about actual cheating, not just automated "bot" play

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