srean

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by srean 16y ago
Then you should'nt have gone public with it in the first place, until those issues had been resolved. I hope I am not being unreasonably critical. Regardless of the fact whether it was legal or not, things like these just leave a bad aftert
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by srean 16y ago
Fully agreed +1
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by srean 16y ago
By that logic one can justify any form of plagiarism cant one ? I am more concerned about helping yourself to the brand without permission than about using the code as its on git. It just reinforces the stereotype that Indian software scene
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by srean 16y ago
Is it only me who finds "Ask Prateek" tad conceited ? I am none too comfortable with the idea of helping oneself to someone else's work/brand unless it was expressly opened for that purpose. But then imitation may be the sincerest form of f
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by srean 16y ago
Statistical reasoning and Bayesian in particular, is frequently misunderstood in spite of its simplicity. It is also preferred that Bayes be spelled in caps. Just for arguments sake, let us assume that an Arab lookalike is more likely to bl
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by srean 16y ago
Why wouldnt I ? Predictably enough, it seems the downvotes have started ringing in.
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by srean 16y ago
Despite the overwhelming possibility of being downvoted it needs mention that the Israeli model as practiced may not be that good an example for US to follow. It has been documented by several respected human rights organizations and UN
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by srean 16y ago
Like many who have commented here I am a big time Arch linux fan. However if setting up X seems something that you do not want to deal with, you can give Chakra linux a try. Its based on Arch so you get a lean set up. But the installer does
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by srean 16y ago
Much as horrific that war crimes are, time to time it is perhaps important to remind ourselves that history is written by the victorious. Case in point the United State's human experiments on syphilis, radioactivity,forced malnutrition etc
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by srean 16y ago
http://xkcd.com/541/ for the context
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by srean 16y ago
I am a serial tab abuser. Its my lazy Instapaper. As bad as that sounds on its own, I often would not close firefox, in fear of restarting it later and fire a cascade of page loads. After a few days FF would have grabbed a major chunk of my
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by srean 16y ago
Infinite dimensional analysis is essentially functional analysis. A crude analogy is that a function is an infinite dimensional vector [...f(0),f(0+epsilon),...] so on. Although extremely interesting in its own right, this approach however
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by srean 16y ago
+1 We find similar things intriguing http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1848275 :) Though this might seem esoteric, this phenomena has practical applications. In the vector space model of information retrieval, documents are modeled as p
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by srean 16y ago
Related to this is the amusing phenomenon of concentration of measure. Take a ball of dimension d and distribute points uniformly at random by area. Take any patch with an area that is half of the total. A hemisphere is a valid choice. Cons
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by srean 16y ago
It all depends on the definition of "solved". I doubt whether the same standards of "solved" were applied to computers as well as to the bees. If one is willing to relax the standards, TSP isnt that hard to solve on computers either. One su
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by srean 16y ago
Now if only I could build a CM-5 clone for my home.
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by srean 16y ago
You may give http://www.plre.org/ or http://www.cdiggins.com/search/ a try to see if it helps. From the second link: "(PLRE.org) is a custom search engine created using the Google co-op service. The PLRE is designed primarily for resear
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by srean 16y ago
Apart from your first sentence, I completely agree with everything you said. My disagreement with your first is a partial one. What you describe is an ideal almost mythical free market. In such a market your arguments would hold true, if
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by srean 16y ago
Your comment seems to make the case that markets are competitive whereas governments are monopolistic. I feel reluctant to buy into that without an authoritative statistical study. My experience, though anecdotal, does not lean in that dire
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by srean 16y ago
Isnt that a Fresnel lens ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresnel_lens They have been around for a while. I remember some plastic ones come free with books that have very fine print. So was the novelty of it all putting them on eye glasses