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by svantana 12y ago
I don't understand why it's presented as such a mystery? The average color obviously exists, and if I had guessed it would be a reddish/yellowish gray (due to the ubiquity of incandescent lighting, the non-UV-reflecting prope
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by svantana 12y ago
How is this overhype? If anything I feel it's a pretty mundane system they're describing - some sentence parsing along with various database lookups. They seem to stear pretty clear of AGI hardness.
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by svantana 12y ago
Well surely the entire bicycle frame could be used as an antenna? Then the electronics could fit deep inside the frame, which would make it quite difficult to disable. A problem would be how to power the device though.
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by svantana 12y ago
Nice, I especially appreciate the "cheat answer" to the Gardner Puzzle at the bottom of the page. I have found that kind of meta-reasoning about questions quite useful, on exams and in games like Trivial Pursuit, for example.
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by svantana 12y ago
I think the point is that typical bro-behavior is anti-diversity, which I think is true, what with phrases like "that's gay!" etc etc.
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by svantana 12y ago
> It is very selfish to bring children into the world [...] Would you say there are any unselfish reasons for having kids? I believe poor and rich folks do it for the same reasons, although the circumstances are different.
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by svantana 12y ago
It seems their goal is to make a full-fledged DAW in the browser, but they are not there yet (and far from it from what I can tell). How they would be able to fund all that for $2k is beyond me. That said, it's a really clever idea to
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by svantana 12y ago
Particularly the "12.5% for the top 1%" is ridiculous and obviously too low for any modern, capital-intensive, non-socialist society. The FT should know this from their Economics 101, but it seems their main objective here was to
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by svantana 12y ago
The killer feature of ABP is: no Youtube ads. Is there any other way to achieve that?
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by svantana 12y ago
JAK is actually misleading in their marketing, in reality you pay a "loan fee" which corresponds to 3-4.5%/year, which goes to salaries etc. The only real advantage to a "normal" bank is that this rate isn't (d
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by svantana 13y ago
> It seems unlikely that the seller of a stolen device will be willing to allow you to check the serial number against a database. Well if they are reluctant then you know it's stolen, so that's not a problem.
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by svantana 13y ago
It's probably hard to tell in most specific cases, but it can be argued that some inventions were just ready to happen (e.g. the telephone and it's race to the patent office) while others may have taken decades longer if the right
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by svantana 13y ago
You can try it yourself, just open firebug/Chrome Developer Tools and edit the body CSS. Don't rely on others to do for you what you can just as easily do yourself.
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by svantana 13y ago
The author makes some valid points, but he seems indifferent to the most important question: why program computers at all? He doesn't seem to enjoy it much (although that may be more of a sarcastic tone). I think we need more devs who
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by svantana 13y ago
While I appreciate the effort, I think this primer is lacking what most other shader tutorials also lack: any information on how to actually do something useful. Shaders are used because they are faster than the cpu. So why isn't every
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by svantana 13y ago
Obviously, lock safety tend to go hand in hand with other forms of safety. My experience is that houses and apartments in the US seem relatively easy to break into. Here in Stockholm (Sweden), I've never ever seen an apartment door tha
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by svantana 13y ago
Did you read the same article as me? From what I could gather, it's more of a challenge in robotics. Nothing seemed to indicate that the speech should be machine generated. Rather it's a matter of making a robot charismatic/i
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by svantana 13y ago
Yes, I'm taking the bait. I'm sorry but this reeks of rationalization. Let's just have a look at some of your assertions: - we don't understand how nutrition affects the body. True, but there are societies that are veget
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by svantana 13y ago
Good post, I just have a little problem with one advice: the "keep at it until you finish it" part. A lot of times, I set my mind to finishing something before goind home. It often ends up with me scratching my head until midnight
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by svantana 13y ago
That this advice even needs to be said is telling of the startup culture. There seems to be alot of people attracted by the allure of billion dollar exits, or whatever motivates people to build stuff for "other people". Personally
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by svantana 13y ago
What a great game! I would love to see a leaderboard -- contrary to most casual games, high scores in this game would really impress me.
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by svantana 13y ago
True, but VLC actually applies soft limiting when set to above 100%, so that hard clipping never occurs. I use this feature alot, it's great for taking down the usually thunderous sound effects in hollywood movies a few notches, while
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by svantana 13y ago
That's exactly the point (of the article - although it may in some weird sense also be the point of the game)
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by svantana 13y ago
Coincidentally, Lawrenceville Plasma Physics recently announced that they would look to crowdfunding for financing their fusion reactor. I find it both sad and hopeful that one of the most promising projects for solving humanity's ener
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by svantana 13y ago
Cute! It's pretty much the same as the Cassius app from a few years back ( https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/cassius-i-3-u-so/id399394777 ), but syncing to external audio instead. A nontrivial extension, but
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by svantana 13y ago
Do you think it could be fake - i.e. a bunch of bots trading back and forth to generate interest? If so, that's a very clever way of bootstrapping to critical-mass popularity. That reminds me of a story of a new york nightclub that pre
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by svantana 13y ago
Note that one of the benchmarks take 5 ms in c -- if that's all you're trying to compute, why care about speed at all? And of course JIT will be a huge penalty on that time scale. There are a bunch of benchmarks on the front page
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by svantana 13y ago
This funny/true infographic about iPad marketing vs usage comes to mind: http://thedoghousediaries.com/5608
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by svantana 13y ago
If you're on a mac, XCode has a really nice feature: using the Assistant Editor (press the "bowtie icon"), you can get (dis-)assembly parallell to your source code and step through it with the debugger. A really convenient wa
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by svantana 13y ago
Graphic designers, yes. But music and 3D is mostly Windows in my experience. Because how are you gonna fit a high end graphics card or audio interface into your mac? (and don't tell me about firewire please)

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