technoguyrob

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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Will I ever be able to buy a 10Ghz CPU? Someone please comfort me.
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Maybe that's why the brain decided to go with parallel processing...
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
I like "Start on Monday, Have a Date By Sunday" better. It sounds more pleasing to the tongue (since it rhymes). The phrase they use now is semantically nice, but not as stylistically pleasing.
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
In this instance, the author is irrelevant. This would have been more aptly titled "2008 Election FAQ (by Peter Norvig)".
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Some other fun ones: Your search - "sarah palin" - did not match any documents. Makes me anxious that she is a vice presidential contender. Top result for "iraq war" is a historical note on the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988). Top result for "m
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
this could go on forever
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
I don't know why the second-top one has so many votes, it's completely wrong. var x = 1; var y = 3; var list = [0,1,2]; x in list; //true y in list; //false 1 in list; //true y in [3,4,5]; //true That last expressi
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Translation: "It's me."
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Not what I was expecting. Here's some beautiful (and more technical) explanations about mathematical topics that consider the motivation behind them, and are thus very natural summaries: http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/mathsindex.html
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
The toad's brain controlled it's tongue at the threshold of being able to statistically distinguish signal from noise. Aha! A new spam filter!
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Spore is out!? Alright, see you guys in a week.
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Not if you have silicon neurons that can process information a hundred times faster (since they use electromagnetic signals, not chemical agents, to pass information)! ;-) But I beg the question... EDIT: I sort of disagree with you. I'm in
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
So don't wait for the singularity - it's not coming. Work on upgrading humanity, not computers. One of Kurzweil's really strong points was to treat "AI" as a very loose term. That is, it could for example mean replacing every human neuron
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
If the singularity mind was bigger than us, but of the same nature, we would be able to compute it with pencil and paper, or in a computer, and to analyze it to see how it works (very slowly, as a Turing machine). My impression is that we
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
We see inventions like this every few weeks that have the potential to "completely revolutionize" a field (e.g., long-life batteries, 3D printers, etc.). The notable examples of ones that have come into fruition that I can think of are drin
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Woah! I had no idea about the "application" feature of Chrome! That is so simple, yet so ingenious! Try this: Go to Gmail, then when it's loaded, in the top right in Chrome go to Page -> Create App Shortcut and choose a location (say th
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Notice Chrome is slower in the first test because of the AJAX declarations. But honestly, who is going to be worried about the speed of AJAX declarations? Look at this comparison: Chrome: Array object 131 Date object 30 Error handling 7
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
But that's perfectly valid. We have just considered that set, so obviously it's not an element of itself. I think maybe what you meant to say is after that: "Now consider an arbitrary element in this set." That would present a problem. Of c
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
I wonder if someone from a society where brick and wood is the "dull" office norm (it looks like it certainly could be) would welcome "cloth-covered cube walls" as refreshing.
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
I dare say very few of the Digg population would understand this joke. Personally, I haven't laughed at an XKCD this much in a while.
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
This sounds eerily similar to Chronotron: http://scarybuggames.com/2008/05/chronotron/
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Thanks, Dr. Paul. No, but really, I agree with you. However, this might still be a step in that direction, as less tax money for the government to spend means less spending.
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Why?
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
http://streamfile.com lets you "stream" a file like a movie, so you don't have to wait for an upload to finish. Just zip up the 5GB into 3 packs (browsers won't let you upload more than 2GB), and stream it. Then let it stream until the ot
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
If you want to get more hands-on familiar with these, I used to be an administrator at hackthissite.org. It's a site that has hacking "missions" which let you try to get in the shoes of the cracker. It was very helpful for me in learning ab
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
I'm going to try to grab some porn-related domains (I don't think I have to give examples), sell them to pornographers, and donate whatever I get to charity (except the $40 investment).
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
I have not dug into the code, but how does this work for IE? Firebug tells me it uses the canvas tag which makes sense, but in IE6 that tag is not supported but the code still works. Is it inline images of the form <img>[Bitmap
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
They are really nice colors, though. Wow. The whole thing is. This is the kind of stuff I'd expect to see on a carefully crafted magazine cover, not generated on-the-fly with a script.
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Is there anyone who reads this that has a valid argument in dissent of gerontology? I'm curious, as I know several people (all religious) who take offense at things like this because it's "unnatural." I haven't heard any solid argument, yet
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
The author's name is pretty inconspicuous (randomhack), but if it was like mine, it would be tied to a bunch of other online websites with the same name/identity. Maybe he doesn't want that to be indexed on Google. There could be a variety

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