stewbrew

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by stewbrew 6y ago
VR headset: how would this be different from what vuzix offers today?
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by stewbrew 6y ago
Oh come on. Anyway, the sun doesn't shine at night. In the winter, the situation is difficult too. You need storage but you don't necessarily have to move the storage across countries.
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by stewbrew 6y ago
When there is wind or sun, it's not entirely impossible to produce hydrogen on site - within limits of course. Then the question is what kind of energy storage is more cost efficient on the long run.
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by stewbrew 6y ago
Okay you convinced me to stick with my assessment of ruby. I regret every single time I have chosen to write something in ruby. I guess this release won't change that if nobody uses these features.
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by stewbrew 6y ago
Dynamic typing never was in the interest of the human developer but in the interest of the lazy language designer. This release looks interesting. Let's see how type annotations work out in real life and if people use them.
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by stewbrew 6y ago
Only the English voters decided to leave. The UK will become more fragile because of this.
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by stewbrew 6y ago
This actually looks like a language I would like to use. Datalog like constraints were surprising. The current state of JVM interoperability makes it clear though this is a research project. Could this be ported to other "hosting"
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by stewbrew 6y ago
Well, afaik it isn't really a pipe but syntactic sugar. A pipe streams data from one output stream to an input stream. This rewrites the code as if the input were passed as an argument.
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by stewbrew 6y ago
Nobody forces you to drink your milkshake at that restaurant. You can go someplace else. You cannot easily go someplace else to install software on your iOS phone. On Android, you could but this makes the phone more insecure. There is no re
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by stewbrew 6y ago
Interesting that Apple/Google don't get sued for this. (I assume other stores like Amazon demand a similar amount.) It obviously is a result of a monopoly and the lack of competition of software stores. I'd assume the price t
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by stewbrew 6y ago
I was hoping for a way to write R extensions in Haskell - similar to rcpp. Oh well.
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by stewbrew 6y ago
If that were true, nobody would use pens. I write differently with pens and everything is fine.
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by stewbrew 6y ago
I really wonder whether this is a US thing. Don't they separate waste? Don't they recycle their trash? To me, some of the other comments (that were posted a few hours earlier) read as if they were from the 1990s.
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by stewbrew 6y ago
Doesn't it depend on what kind of plastic you use? You know there are many kind of "plastics". People who talk about recycling "plastics" while not distinguishing between different kind of "plastics" make
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by stewbrew 6y ago
Some books and newspapers are printed on 100% recycled paper. If recycled paper is only used for pizza boxes in the US, that's a US thing.
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by stewbrew 6y ago
That's why some bet on ammoniac.
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by stewbrew 6y ago
Hernan demonstrates how to put this to work in epidemiology. Quite interesting. Pearl's work should be seen in context though as a effort to create reasoning machines (AI), i.e., in automating reasoning.
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by stewbrew 6y ago
Balance is the wrong word. you might want to check first who was AG's doctor father. Surprise, it was Rubin.
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by stewbrew 6y ago
There is a Springer "Journal of Computational Social Science". That could be a source of inspiration. CS/ML in Social Sciences gets interesting where a great amount of routine data is generated -- i.e. areas close to public a
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by stewbrew 6y ago
Oh the joys of stock markets. Nvidia makes around 3B a year (profit), they have 10B cash. IIRC Arm isn't really a cash cow. How can they afford such a deal? There market capitalization is 330B - for whatever reason people are willing t
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by stewbrew 6y ago
The "social sciences" include a lot. Wrt Sociology, I'd say one problem is the overemphasis on quantitative methods - they try to be as serious as the big boys. The best sociological research I've read was qualitative th
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by stewbrew 6y ago
Thanks for the reference. Interesting twist.
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by stewbrew 6y ago
The even harder problem is to understand that those physical terms are a temporary consens among conscious beings-not some absolute truth. You cannot think physics as if you were not a human.
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by stewbrew 6y ago
The article is saying that there is an experience/phenomenon of "the breakfast" that cannot be explained by an analysis of its constituents. The whole (the breakfast) is more/something else than the sum of its parts. Con
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by stewbrew 6y ago
Not on consciousness but on the contemporary scientific treatment thereof.
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by stewbrew 6y ago
Maybe universities should teach satire as a form of a scientific investigation. I first wanted to write that it should be acknowledged as a proper form of inquiry at least in philosophy. After further consideration, I'd say it should b
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by stewbrew 6y ago
I use the "Save as ePub" addon or simply "Print to file". I save the files in a directory with all the thematic subdirectories in place and then run a script to distribute the file to several places. With earlier version
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by stewbrew 6y ago
As an alternative, there is also Save Page WE which works well for me. It takes some time to save a page but I cannot remember a delay when opening the resulting HTML. I personally save pages as plain text though so that I can use grep etc.
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by stewbrew 6y ago
Separate ruby header files with type information? Seriously? What's the rational behind that? Is it just to make clear that the ruby interpreter doesn't really care about the type information and doesn't use it to improve the
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by stewbrew 6y ago
The first cons pair is passed by value though, not by reference.

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