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by te_platt 9y ago
Hardly. You still need: 1. An in depth understanding of Physics, History, Literature, and Philosophy. You can just make up whatever you want in Economics, Sociology, and Bitcoins as fits your political leanings. 2. Learn to resist weapons g
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by te_platt 9y ago
On top of that I think hardly anyone has a good idea of what net neutrality is or what specific actions would be affected. Should an ISP be allowed to throttle or block data from a competing service? Should an ISP be allowed to throttle or
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by te_platt 9y ago
Very fun! It reminds me of teaching my son to play tic-tac-toe. He started in the top-left, I went center, he went top-center, I blocked top-right, he went in between top-left and top-center and quickly claimed victory. I gave him that o
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by te_platt 9y ago
I'm always curious when Gauss turns up in the solution to a math problem. Wikipedia has a section on the algorithm here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computus#Gauss_algorithm The same article also explains why i
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Let This Video Take You Through the Evolution of Sim Racing(roadandtrack.com)
1 points by te_platt 9y ago|0 comments
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by te_platt 10y ago
From http://wordsmith.org/anagram/hof.html Clint Eastwood = Old West Action Madam Curie = Radium came It's good fun to go find anagrams of friends and family. One of my nephew's comes out Alpaca Tits. He&#x
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by te_platt 10y ago
I've heard that many times but I wonder if it's true. The article cites studies but I didn't bother to check the studies themselves. It cites some contemporary anecdotes but I didn't bother to check if they were accurat
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by te_platt 10y ago
So I had the page translated to English. I think the jokes might be funnier in Russian. Still there is something funny in knowing there is a joke in there ... somewhere.
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by te_platt 10y ago
I sure miss the good old days where if you read it on the internet you KNEW it was true...
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by te_platt 10y ago
It's pretty painful. I love using Xamarin and don't often need to use a native library but when it comes up it is the worst part of the Xamarin experience. There is a tool to help the process on Ios ,objective sharpie, but it&#x
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by te_platt 10y ago
Surprising may be a bit subjective. I know that I am all too often surprised by my opponent - and not in a good way. This may be a good way to study what kind of patterns have interesting weaknesses.
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by te_platt 10y ago
I cut cable tv 5 years ago after being a heavy user my whole life. The strangest part was transitioning from watching what was on to choosing what to watch. At first I thought it would be obviously better but it was uncomfortable for a whi
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by te_platt 10y ago
I'm doing some research into handwriting recognition. In particular transcribing older documents. Do you see a way of applying your work here in that direction?
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by te_platt 10y ago
Funny, but I've been in design meetings at least twice as silly as that.
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by te_platt 10y ago
Hmmm... When I posted this the only other comment was "yes". I thought we could just vote this out to determine what the "correct" answer should be.
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by te_platt 10y ago
no
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by te_platt 10y ago
Get Xamarin. You can start doing OS X apps with C# right away. They have a lot of tutorials on their website.
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by te_platt 10y ago
I started converting some c# code to f# as a learning exercise about a month ago. After a few fits and starts, something clicked and I am amazed at how much I like it. I have been following the articles on "F# for fun and profit&quot
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by te_platt 10y ago
I'm reminded of an old story about a man trying to fill a job for driving a stage coach. He asks each applicant how close they can drive to the edge of a cliff without going over. The first few applicants brag about being able to rig
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by te_platt 10y ago
Maybe, but not on purpose. Nasa goes to great lengths to sterilize probes going to Mars. http://mars.nasa.gov/mer/technology/is_planetary_protection....
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by te_platt 10y ago
I've been looking forward to this for while now but my first reaction is that I don't think I need a new laptop. And I really wanted a new laptop. It looks nice, the last model looks nice too. The touch bar looks like it could b
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Design of a hyperstable 60-subunit protein icosahedron(nature.com)
42 points by te_platt 10y ago|13 comments
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by te_platt 10y ago
Well, once again my intuition completely fails in a probability problem. My thinking was the more rolls you make the more uniform your distribution of the number showing becomes. In the limiting case as number of rolls -> infinity you
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The Case for the Ugly Duckling: Why the World Needs UX Designers(linkedin.com)
2 points by te_platt 10y ago|0 comments
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by te_platt 10y ago
I agree that we should use caution in setting up solar panels. That said the ecosystem in most of northern Chile is dirt. Not sagebrush or cactus with a few insects, or dormant seeds waiting for the next rain. Just dirt, sometimes rocks.
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by te_platt 10y ago
I think your reference to the NRA is a bit misleading in this case. The NRA had similar concerns as people who repair and sell used pianos. That is there is a large existing inventory of guns and pianos that use ivory. A total ban would
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by te_platt 10y ago
Oh... Fins not Finns. The story makes more sense now.
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Three Gears Are Possible – Numberphile(youtube.com)
5 points by te_platt 10y ago|1 comments
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by te_platt 10y ago
This reminds me of the book "The Perfect Wrong Note". The book is focused on learning to play music but the principles it teaches apply to learning just about anything. The core message to not be afraid of mistakes during practic
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by te_platt 10y ago
When first watching the video I thought the frames were some kind of combination of Mandelbrot Set images with the Hubble telescope image of the Eagle nebula pillars. From wikipedia - https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/image

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