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by te_platt 15y ago
"leftist" and "anti-intellectual" as used here are just fighting words (just for emotional effect). I wouldn't read too much into them.
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by te_platt 15y ago
Then again, very often what seems absurd is a pretty sensible engineering tradeoff.
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Action and habit(lesswrong.com)
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by te_platt 15y ago
For me the most important part deliberate practice losing all embarrassment about making mistakes. Practice should give a chance stumble at the edge of your ability and take chances you wouldn't in a live performance. For more detail I hig
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by te_platt 15y ago
Speaking for myself, these stories show how the copyright system is broken. Especially with the ease of copying digital content. The interest for me is thinking of changes that could improve the system. At this point I don't support a comp
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by te_platt 15y ago
Most likely they "broadcast" the footage over the internet to a security company. There may be issues involving consent to record in your state that your apartment owners are trying to make sure they don't get in trouble over. If you are
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by te_platt 15y ago
Addressing the theory that Fischer was afraid to play again after becoming world champion Kasparov writes: "Brady’s dismissal of this theory misses the point: 'What everyone seemed to overlook was that at the board Bobby feared no one.' Yes
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by te_platt 15y ago
It seems like I had to as part of an interview once. Still, I have needed to write recursive functions many, many times and it's good to review some of what can go wrong.
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by te_platt 15y ago
The videos are just one part of the academy. There is a tree you progress through by passing off problems. Ten correct in a row marks you as proficient and you go to the next level. Every so often there is a review section with random pr
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by te_platt 15y ago
With my nine year old I said he needed to pass off one level before he could play his regular video games. He just took it from there. There is a concept of points for doing certain things. I didn't think much of it but he keeps track and
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by te_platt 15y ago
I agree except for "Has the potential". It is making an improvement right now. It is hard to describe how it feels to watch my 9 year old pop off months worth of school tedium in one morning, moving up through long division into simple al
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by te_platt 15y ago
Ah - Wild pig population explosion may spread disease. I had a different image in my head after reading the headline.
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WISE telescope images preliminary release(wise.ssl.berkeley.edu)
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Show HN: iceWS, an open source web socket server in c#/javascript
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by te_platt 16y ago
Having worked as a programmer on a couple of products for the medical industry I would suggest learning as much as possible about what is actually legal / bureaucratically acceptable to do with new technology. I have an anesthesiologist fri
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Google hiring autocompleters / spell checkers (YouTube)(youtube.com)
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by te_platt 16y ago
I have a nephew who has Asperger's Syndrome - severe. One of the things he loves to do is invent languages and list thousands of words as a dictionary and even write short stories with them. The image seems to have just a touch of the sam
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by te_platt 16y ago
Parallelism is recognizing the 5 guys should be able to dig a ditch close to 5 times as fast as 1. Concurrency is making sure everyone has a shovel and is digging in the right place.
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by te_platt 16y ago
I read through the article explaining how the numbers were calculated and the thyroid cancer is noted. The analysis provided could be disputed on methodology but at least there are references you can check if you want to improve upon it.
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by te_platt 16y ago
In this context it is worth noting the history of socialism among the Mormons based on that scripture. These days it's hard to find a group as opposed to what we consider socialism now but that wasn't always the case. Starting in the 1830
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by te_platt 16y ago
I found the responses linked in the article interesting as well: http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/fb36.html
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by te_platt 16y ago
From the article: 'Oxford mathematician E.C. Titchmarsh wrote that: "It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know."' I'm not much of a mathematician but I can at
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by te_platt 16y ago
I don't think he is trying to say mathematics is sufficient to be good at security, just that training in mathematics develops the right mindset for security. I have a degree in math and can see how my attitude changed as I progressed. Whe
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by te_platt 16y ago
Does anyone here know, given current frequency allocations, what the theoretical maximum connection speed is? That is, allowing for improvements in hardware, how fast is really fast on a cell phone?
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by te_platt 16y ago
Probably not that much. I would say it's like shaving your head to disguise your hair color. Most people don't have shaved heads but enough do that it wouldn't make you stand out too much.
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by te_platt 16y ago
I don't know just how accurate the 1 in 50 number is but it is pretty close to my observations. I worked on a fingerprint recognition system several years ago and collected many thousands of live fingerprints and processed hundreds of thou
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by te_platt 16y ago
That's a good example of how much you learn by teaching. To paraphrase Richard Feynman - That which I cannot teach I do not understand.
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by te_platt 16y ago
Funny how good your comment is if you are being sarcastic. But now I can't tell if it is sarcasm or not.
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Why we [the U.S.] give Egypt so many weapons [pdf](ricochet.com)
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by te_platt 16y ago
I admit to not taking my own idea here too seriously but still want to add a couple of points. There would only be inflation if the amount of money printed exceeded the production of new goods and services. Could congress control how much

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