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by shatnersbassoon 6y ago
Classical Page is an email notification service for classical music concerts. You add the works and composers you want to hear, and Classical Page will email you when it's going to be played in your city. I made it because I got frustr
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by shatnersbassoon 6y ago
It's not irrelevant though. I know someone who is 39, perfectly healthy and nearly died. He now has long covid. I'm sure all of the people under fifty who died would have loved to have had the vaccine.
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by shatnersbassoon 6y ago
100% this. Anonymised features remove any hint of lateral thinking that is the essence of science, and just focuses on the pure numbers. This is dangerous. One of my data scientists once ran up a $2000 bill on training a CNN on what was ess
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by shatnersbassoon 6y ago
Yes - humans do it abductively, which isn't rigorous but serves our purpose most of the time. You can't trust a self driving system with abduction though - it's the style of reasoning that gave us rain dances and homeopathy.
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by shatnersbassoon 6y ago
I'm sure there was a philosopher who said that his deepest wish was to know just one cause. Been trying to find out who said it for ages with no luck, so maybe I'll just attribute it to myself.
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by shatnersbassoon 6y ago
> Researchers at the US Crisis Monitor analyzed over 10,600 nationwide protests between May 24 (the day before George Floyd was killed by police) and Aug. 22, and found that nearly 95 percent were peaceful [1] so >500 riots then?
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by shatnersbassoon 6y ago
If he can't get cars to drive around a city autonomously, who is going to let him drive electrodes around their brain using automation? Brain implant surgery is incredibly invasive and risky even with brain surgeons.
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by shatnersbassoon 7y ago
IANAL but my understanding is that while practically speaking the war is lost for SNES, corporations have to be seen to be defending their IP (particularly game characters in Nintendo's case) otherwise they run the risk of it becoming
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by shatnersbassoon 7y ago
>>> King James was a protestant ruling about 70 years later I think it was people's doubts about his protestantism that led him to commission the bible - James' mother was Mary Queen of Scots, a catholic who was executed
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by shatnersbassoon 7y ago
Not having heard of them doesn't mean they don't exist.
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by shatnersbassoon 7y ago
When it happened to me it was a "reputable" high-impact neuroscience journal, not Cross-stitch Monthly.
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by shatnersbassoon 7y ago
This is certainly what used to happen - my experience was from 2007 so they might not be getting away with it any more.
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by shatnersbassoon 7y ago
Bear in mind that a lot of papers are initially rejected by journals simply because the journals want another $99 submission fee.
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by shatnersbassoon 7y ago
Exactly. "other VMs"? The whole point of Docker is that it's not a VM...
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by shatnersbassoon 7y ago
It's not only wasting energy that the wind turbines could be generating. Power grids also have to maintain reserve and contingency so that if the wind suddenly dies everywhere (unlikely, but possible) they can more or less immediately
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by shatnersbassoon 8y ago
This is the magical thinking explanation. What is much more plausible is that they have such enormous datasets that they are able to train machine learning models to predict interests of people on the basis of any number of online behaviors
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by shatnersbassoon 8y ago
There already is a road there. That’s the whole point. It’s one of the busiest in SW England and it is only ~200m away from the monument. The whole area (I.e. the “view”) is a protected historic landscape and it is blighted by the road. The
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by shatnersbassoon 8y ago
Obligatory mention that he spent 10 years writing a 1000+ page book of nonsense called A New Kind of Science that was basically about how great he is and how everyone else is an idiot: http://bactra.org/reviews/wolfram
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by shatnersbassoon 8y ago
Would you rather live under a boat on Elephant Island for an Antarctic winter or take part in the battle of the Somme? they happened at the same time.
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by shatnersbassoon 8y ago
Having seen what a Phantom 4 did to my thumb at idle, on the ground, I can tell you that it would absolutely fricasée a bird of prey while flying. The tips of the props are going >200kmh. The bird would have to take the drone all the way
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by shatnersbassoon 8y ago
This is more a business issue than a tech issue. There are two dominant RTI systems providers in England (where my bus knowledge comes from), and only a few more in the world. If they start providing an open data feed of real time location
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by shatnersbassoon 8y ago
This is not true. Stalin was responsible for the deaths of 3 million children in the famine of 1934 alone. There were around 6-7 million deaths in the famines of the early 30s. Then there were the purges of the late 30s. Stalin was about to
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by shatnersbassoon 8y ago
How is "good design is timeless" helpful advice? Jones, make me something timeless, or your ass is fired
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by shatnersbassoon 8y ago
Yeah, this is a major misconception. Designers often forget how quickly people can get used to complex things, if they're using them day-in, day-out. Simple is bad design if it gets in the way of virtuosity.