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by spin 11y ago
Yes. The worm c.elegans has 302 neurons, connected in a specific way. From the article: "For almost 30 years, the list of connections between individual neurons has been known. Despite the low number of neurons, its neuronal networks
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by spin 11y ago
I feel the same way (that ethernet is a perfectly good way of moving data around), so I created this a while back as a side project: https://github.com/mfassler/eFirmata Basically, I wanted USB, but I wanted much
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by spin 11y ago
I am reminded of the story behind the cover art for the soundtrack to "The Social Network": http://www.rob-sheridan.com/TSN/
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by spin 11y ago
I've often thought about this, but came to the opposite conclusion: a laptop is the smallest thing you can trust. The keyboard sends data to the CPU. The CPU sends data to the screen. The CPU does encryption and talks to the networ
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by spin 11y ago
I mean using these things over the Internet. People play games over the Internet and use VoIP over the Internet. I think these are great technologies, and I don't want to cripple them by forcing them onto TCP.
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by spin 11y ago
Many real-time applications can tolerate some packet loss, and if packets arrive out-of-order there's no benefit to re-sending them. I'm thinking of real-time games and VoIP, for example. TCP is a bad fit for these use cases.
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by spin 11y ago
I know a lot of programmers who shiver at the thought of managing their own servers... I used to be a sysadmin; now I'm a programmer. I love to host my own webservers and the like. But email? That's just a never-ending uphill
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by spin 11y ago
I really like the book "Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning" by Christopher Bishop. It's packed full of all the latest-and-greatest algorithms. WRT your question, an interesting "feature" of that book is that
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by spin 11y ago
Isn't that the basic purpose of Tor?
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by spin 11y ago
The "DQN" (Deep Q Network) stuff from Google DeepMind has states. (And actions that transition from state to state.) This comes from Reinforcement Learning theory. (The Q-Learner from Reinforcement Learning is the "Q"
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by spin 11y ago
> ...even as he acknowledged that the documents leaked by Edward J. Snowden, the former intelligence contractor, "showed there was a difference in view between what we were doing and what people perceived us as doing." That one
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by spin 13y ago
"as the NSA grows in both size and power..." Do you consider this to be a foregone conclusion? Is this not something to be resisted or reversed?
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by spin 13y ago
A low GPA can keep you out of a good grad school. (A low GPA can keep you out of officer school, if he wants to join the military as an officer.) 5 or 10 years down the road, yeah, it doesn't matter. But for his very next step after
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by spin 13y ago
Don't ever lie. Lying to a cop is a crime. (and/or it could get you into worse trouble later on...) But, like the parent-poster said: tell a simple, boring story. (You think that you're out to have fun on this exciting
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by spin 13y ago
You can't have actual oversight of your employees if they are actively lying to you. Therefore, you should fire employees that lie to you.
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by spin 13y ago
(replying to my own post...) I'm remembering back to the L.A. riots, after the Rodney King beating. I'm a white guy, and I was watching the riots on TV in high school. I wasn't sure what to make of it at the time. Maybe th
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by spin 13y ago
Over the past several years, this has been bothering me more and more, too. If it's "we did this horrible thing, but made some money" or "we did this horrible thing, and locked up some terrible bad guy", then at lea
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by spin 13y ago
Personally, I don't read that much into it. I see it as: some geek is proud of this technical accomplishment (in an a-moral way). Perhaps he/she even gets a kick about "getting away with something naughty"... (I do fi
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Show HN: Oscilloscope over UDP using an mbed(efirmata.net)
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by spin 13y ago
We could just put all the books in one, big room, just aisles and aisle of shelves, everything numbered sequentially. We could even build a library as one long hallway -- one single line of books. But we choose to divide our buildings up i
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by spin 13y ago
I'm starting to think that the reason we keep building tree-like data structures is because that's how our minds work. We can intuitively grasp hierarchies of categories (a tree structure), with the occasional exception (a symlin
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by spin 13y ago
Haha. And I use Linux -- and I usually leave SELinux turned on... so my OS is infested with NSA-written software. (I do think about this sometimes... I guess I just hope that "with enough eyes, all bugs are shallow". I hope.
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by spin 13y ago
If he broke the rules of his visa, then deport him. Stick him on a plane and send him home. (Perhaps refuse him entry in the future, if that's what the law says...) In western democracies, we have this notion of "the punishment
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by spin 13y ago
Getting a warrant to search one person's inbox seems pretty reasonable to me. (Seems pretty analogous to searching one person's rented storage space.) Forcing Lavabit to hand over everything seems like searching all storage loc
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by spin 13y ago
To all the nay-sayers (sibling to this comment here), I just want to say: I thought the talk (er, slide show) was very, very interesting. I didn't even notice anything special about the slide-show. It worked for me. ("worked&qu
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by spin 13y ago
I'm just speculating here... but I think it could be done PC-to-PC up to 100mbit. IIRC, there's a "link" signal that normally exists -- you'll have to configure both cards to ignore the link signal. (Which, I supp
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by spin 13y ago
I have another explanation: If you have more kids, you don't have time to watch after them all as much.
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by spin 13y ago
If you're living alone on a desert island, there's one job available: scavenging for food. It doesn't matter if you're a genius mathematician or something, your job is to search for food. If you're in a town full
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by spin 13y ago
I'm baffled. One the one hand, the NSA wants their employees to "uphold and defend the constitution". On the other hand, they want their employees to keep secrets. (... It is possible for these two things to not be in confl
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by spin 13y ago
"...those that do [show creativity and original thinking], will do so regardless of reward or risk." I disagree. I think that there will be some people who will be creative no matter what. There will some people who won't b

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