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by spin 13y ago
I live in an apartment in Tokyo (not any near as cramped as these places, though). I've stayed at guest houses in Hong Kong and Tokyo. I love it. I don't miss living in a house at all. (I sure don't miss mowing the lawn o
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by spin 13y ago
Honestly, if I'm walking down the street and I see a cop, I tend to ... behave ... better. (Not that I go around looking for trouble or anything.) If there's a cop watching, it doesn't really matter to me whether or not he&
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by spin 13y ago
This is useful for trying to understand other people. You should always try to figure out how/why a person came to their particular worldview. But in a government "of the people, by the people, for the people", it is The Peo
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by spin 13y ago
I wonder, though, if perhaps a lot of "power decisions" are made at the margin. (I mean "making decisions at the margin" in the way that economists use the term. For example: I wish cheese was free. But, in real life,
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by spin 13y ago
From the article: "No one has willfully or knowingly disobeyed the law or tried to invade your civil liberties or privacies," he said. "There were no mistakes like that at all." ... then why did they lie about it to cong
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by spin 13y ago
mbed + ethernet is wonderful. If you need some firmware for such a thing, may I suggest my own github: https://github.com/mfassler/eFirmata The code is still a bit messy, but I'm still actively working on it
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by spin 13y ago
My programming consists of 99% Javascript, ie, manipulating Javascript objects. The data structures (ie objects) translate flawlessly into JSON (I just gotta remember the quotes around the keys, is all...). Switching my brain from Javascr
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by spin 13y ago
------- Quoting the parent: This turns into this beautiful JSON: [ "users": [ { "id": "abc", "phoneNos": [ { "type": "home", "value": "123456789" }, { "type": "work", "value": "321654987" } ] } ]
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by spin 13y ago
I don't want to start some kind of "XML vs JSON" holy war, but I really do prefer JSON over XML because of how compact and readable it is. I really don't see JSON as a passing trend, I see it as (almost) the most compact, succint way to exp
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by spin 13y ago
> "I am guilty of contributing to terrorism and the purposeful killing of innocent woman and children civilians?" How do you know this? Has he had a trial? Citation needed.
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by spin 13y ago
Proud to be an American.
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by spin 13y ago
FWIW -- the Wikipedia article on MBTI gives several links to several studies that argue that the MBTI isn't very useful...
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by spin 13y ago
I agree that it shouldn't be uncritically accepted. We need to measure, statistically, just how accurate it is, and for what. Sorry to nitpick, but: > every attribute but introversion seems pretty meaningless Every attribute is defined
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by spin 14y ago
"Myres Briggs was not based on science, but Jungian pseudo-science. It's since morphed from an interesting theory (which happened to be mostly incorrect) to a pop-culture superstition." Just because something starts from intuition, does not
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by spin 14y ago
I consider myself to be pretty introverted, but I find that, in purely social situations, I can get along rather well with extroverts so long they respect my quietness. When someone intelligent and funny likes to be in the spotlight, I'm u
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by spin 14y ago
Deep neural networks are now being developed for use in Google's speech recognition tools and Microsoft's. Microsoft claims a 30% increase in accuracy by using deep neural networks (developed in cooperation with Hinton's group at U Toronto
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by spin 14y ago
You can play with a Python version of this same algorithm (cd for rbm) here: https://github.com/Wizcorp/Eruditio (I wrote it... :-)
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by spin 14y ago
For the past few years, I've had this idea of creating some kind of hackerspace. The number one rule(s) would be: You must build something original. Or you must be learning how to build things. Software, hardware... whatever. If you do
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by spin 14y ago
This is just one anecdote here: I am a physics graduate of a state school. I thought my physics program was excellent. I have since studied some additional math from MIT's OpenCourseWare and some machine-learning classes from Coursera. I
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by spin 14y ago
I have to agree. You need to look at the quality of the people who like you vs hate you. There's plenty of haters on the Internet. As jrockway said (just a couple comments up): "If you do something, chances are someone hates you. Why? T
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by spin 14y ago
I don't see how that's relevant to my main point: Important People can purchase immunity. The laws simply don't apply to them. The telecoms broke the law, then purchased retroactive immunity after the fact.
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by spin 14y ago
> unsubstantiated hand waving about how the system is "bought." On December 16, 2005, The New York Times reported that the Bush administration was spying on American citizens without a warrant. Most of the major Telecoms were participa
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by spin 14y ago
But when HSBC helps Iranians launder money, that gets a free pass? You said "I'm not saying he deserves life in prison or anything..." that's exactly my point. Important People get a free pass. Low-level geeks get crushed under the full w
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by spin 14y ago
"...that one of these prosecutors would also take their life?" An eye for an eye. Being passive doesn't seem to bring any justice. If you invade Iraq based on flimsy (at best) evidence, there are no consequences. If you sit in an office i
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by spin 14y ago
I totally agree with this. Children play without self-consciousness. ie, they don't think about what other people think or what they're trying to accomplish. Children play for fun. This is where creativity starts.
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by spin 14y ago
From the article, some of his money comes from Youtube ads, which I don't think would exist if it weren't for traditional copyright laws. (ie, Youtube wouldn't be giving him a cut of the ad revenue if it weren't for copyright.) Still... Ku
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by spin 14y ago
By your rhetorical question ("Do they also control the media?") I assume that you're trying to paint sk5t as some kind of conspiracy nut. sk5t's comment was: "My perception is that Zionists are a very powerful special interest group." Whi
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by spin 14y ago
I have to agree with this. There's time and there's money. After graduating from college, I've taken a lot of time to re-learn math slowly . I've also studied a lot of neuroscience and machine learning on my own time. I also quit compu
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by spin 14y ago
This is a neat idea. I just rented an apartment in Tokyo. My Japanese is not that great, so when going through the lease, the realtor and I sat down with Google Translate* to go through all the legalese. We had the exact same sort of "wt
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by spin 14y ago
What you say makes me think about Nigeria, as well. Historically, most of their wealth has come from oil, and up until 1999, they were ruled over by a corrupt military. Consequently, it seems to me that Nigeria's "entrepreneurial" culture

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