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by skolor 17y ago
You know, I was playing with a couple scripts (mainly Markov chain implementation), that used Craigslist as a source for data. I got a good ways into it, and got a working model (I could generate text based on the handful of inputs I had se
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by skolor 17y ago
Simple things like this seem to be the most effective. This is particularly interesting, because it forces students to check what they (as a class) find most difficult, in order to find what they missed. From my experience, there seem to be
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by skolor 17y ago
If you define them that way, yes. If instead you define them as: Delete files in the application's working directory, read files from the application's working directory or public areas, contact websites, read keyboard when this applicatio
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by skolor 17y ago
And you can't even say "Any 'good' application is only going to do certain sorts of actions. We'll scan those and if the application does something else, stop it". UAC in Windows 7 and Vista went a long way to making this better, at least i
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by skolor 17y ago
Since I started using more advanced search features regularly I have gotten significantly better results. Things like +"my search term", -free, -download, -cracked tend to heavily limit the spamming of results, and if I want something speci
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by skolor 17y ago
I'm not quite sure what exactly it is you would want from them. http://www.google.com/search?q=mashed+potatos has a list of recipes for the query. Seems like exactly what you would respond to the question "What do you know about mashed po
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by skolor 17y ago
They hide the answers to visitors who weren't referred by Google. As long as referrer=google.com, they'll give you the answer.
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by skolor 17y ago
That would be true, except (in theory) the purpose of spamming isn't to put links out on websites, its to put links out on at least tangentially related sites, so that you can game the search algorithms better. That means it doesn't matter
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by skolor 17y ago
I doubt "kids" signing up for AOL are a large reason for the low score. The credit score is from people who wanted to check their score, and I would guess that the number of people <18 who tried to check it is almost negligible. On the
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by skolor 17y ago
Think of the potentially cool sites that were ruined by a poor launch day performance. The Google/Monopoly mashup of a few months ago is the best example I can think of recently. They launched, the servers crashed and burned from the load,
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by skolor 17y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the cell phone is going to be using about the same power when its plugged in and fully charged as it does when it is unplugged. The difference is only that the power is coming from the outlet, rather than the ba
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by skolor 17y ago
Most of the responses seemed to focus on the cost aspect of purchasing the widget. I was trying to imply that there was a significant amount of time investment to go out and find someone who made it before you could even buy it from them. I
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by skolor 17y ago
You're right: what you do outside of work isn't your employer's business. However, I would not hire a programmer who will not program at home. That's not to say I would expect them to be contributing to so Open Source project, or to be runn
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by skolor 17y ago
This may be me, but I can't see any company needing a website that costs "tens of thousands of dollars or more" not being better off hiring someone for in house work. At the rates people are talking about in this thread, say a $15,000 websi
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by skolor 17y ago
I can't seeing this be effective in any other situation. My understanding is that the bandwidth to and from the GPU is the big bottleneck. Once its on the card, the processing is fast, but getting things into the GPU memory is the bottlenec
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by skolor 17y ago
I remember hearing about this, and was hoping for the price to be about half what it is. This is a great opportunity for physical books, but it won't be all that feasible until the cost for the on-demand books are significantly cheaper.
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by skolor 17y ago
I did a brief search for related materials, and the first thing I found was: The contribution of influence and selection to adolescent peer group homogeneity: The case of adolescent cigarette smoking, Source: Journal of personality and s
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by skolor 17y ago
I was not trying to downplay the submit, I was saying the infographic was an interesting way to display, it, one I hadn't seen before.
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by skolor 17y ago
I do not think my statement, and the supplied link are contrary at all. Any individual needs people of similar intellectual curiosity and capability, which is what your link entails, basically saying that you need to actively seek out those
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by skolor 17y ago
Not necessarily. It would take ~10-15 minutes of straight work to get this (more for your first few tries), so you can't really open a lock in a public place this way. On the other hand, it means you can pick up locks that the owner doesn't
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by skolor 17y ago
I've seen several of these now, but I like the way the information is presented here, usually its just a straight block of text, which is hard to read.
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by skolor 17y ago
As someone who struggled with schooling for quite a while, this story strikes somewhat close to home. Even the "advanced" courses had little to offer, I either already knew it, or it was trivially easy for me to deduce or learn. I did, howe
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by skolor 17y ago
I cannot emphasize this enough. While phishing is definitely a threat, calling it "hacking" creates a massive problem. Imagine, for example, if grand theft auto was referred to as identity theft. If they become synonymous in the public mind
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by skolor 17y ago
I've seen these guys come up a few times over the years, and I think what they're doing is amazing. When I watched that video, I didn't just think "Wow, this is something cool" it was more of "I want to be involved with this". Working on th
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by skolor 17y ago
I see it something like: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Plot[%28Sqrt[Pi]+Erf[3x... ]. At first, you can use it and get something done, but it isn't useful. As you learn more, it becomes slightly more useful, but not much, until it hi
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by skolor 17y ago
I believe the reason it comes up so often is because the depth of the software. I'm just starting, but from what I have been told there is a ton of things to learn, and its hard to know where to go after the first tutorial or two.
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by skolor 17y ago
I've never associated a "steep learning curve" with the time it takes to learn, more that there is quite a bit of knowledge that is needed to have a baseline proficiency in it. I suppose that would put Usefulness/proficiency on the Y-axis a
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by skolor 17y ago
Kind of. Having lived for the past two years now on the low end of the income spectrum, eating well is definitely more expensive than eating for the least possible. White bread is cheaper than Whole Wheat. Low fat meats are always more expe
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by skolor 17y ago
I disagree. Frequently the articles which don't have any comments are the ones that either only apply to a niche field or that don't have any particular stance. The only example currently on the front page is something about pubsubhubbub (s
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by skolor 17y ago
I know its a little off topic, but every time I hear it mentioned I want to say something about it: Rather than complain about the typos or inaccuracies on Wikipedia, fix them. I've had an account registered for a couple of years, and might

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