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by tfm 11y ago
The Last Week Tonight videos on Youtube seem to get embargoed outwith the US, but their Facebook videos don't (no login required). https://www.facebook.com/LastWeekTonight/videos/858905877571...
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by tfm 11y ago
The "length of the pendulum" (for the purposes of calculating its period) is specifically the distance between the the pivot and the pendulum's centre of mass. Adding coins to the pendulum moves the centre of mass ever so sli
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by tfm 11y ago
It's certainly difficult to imagine projects that operate on a timescale beyond a single human lifetime, but it got civilisation this far!
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by tfm 11y ago
Good question about the precision; we only hear little snippets about hitting virtual windows in space within 100km or so. New Horizons is running a MIPS-1 R3000 processor[0], that has double-precision floating point available but presumab
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by tfm 13y ago
To clarify, seizing of "inactive" funds already occurs -- the change next week shortens the timeframe from 7 years inactivity to 3 years. The money can be subsequently reclaimed through tedious paperwork. This is pretty standard stuff inter
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by tfm 13y ago
[OT] Woah, takes me back to the bad old days of a.r.k https://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.kibology/search... The nounal usage "Legos" just wasn't one I heard until I was exposed to this Internet. Correct en_AU usage is to deploy
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by tfm 13y ago
That's beautiful! Just needs a couple more references to Invisible Russians and there's a Sveriges Riksbank prize with speakeasy's name on it.
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by tfm 14y ago
Well, we can take as a lower bound for information/energy equivalence as the k.T.ln(2) from Landauer's principle[1], and mass-energy equivalence as e = m.c^2; there would presumably be some inefficiency in converting energy to fuck-energy (
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by tfm 14y ago
"Reality has a well-known liberal bias" I guess that implicit in the article is the assumption that this self-selection effect hasn't changed much in the last 4-8 years. The author is careful to stick with like-to-like comparisons. If on th
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by tfm 14y ago
It is good to hear this, I had my doubts but no experience anywhere near MRI reading. Looking at those colourful tubes, it is not in the least bit obvious how much of it is pure modelling and how much is cleaned-up scanner output. "New sca
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by tfm 14y ago
The limited connectivity is very interesting -- my experience with artificial neural nets is pretty limited, but are there many well-studied ANN models that have a similar structure to this? The spatial restrictions are so simple that it s
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by tfm 14y ago
To be fair, it's hard to know how much of that sluggishness is the app itself and how much is just a video-encoding artefact. Certainly the API has some interesting inclusions -- Facebook and analytics built-in.
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by tfm 14y ago
But then at the end he kept mis-speaking as to whether there were five Directors-General or six. Maybe they're at 5.9 sigma after all!
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by tfm 14y ago
99designs did well from early investment from Atlassian, but their big recent VC dollaridoos came from ... Silicon Valley. Continuing the Australia/99 theme, we might observe that 99dresses was almost thumped into oblivion (due partially to
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by tfm 14y ago
I don't entirely trust these particular Google Trends figures as they show a minuscule amount of USA-based traffic. Regardless, though, of the particular instance, or indeed the reality -- the problem for any would-be head-to-head of this t
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by tfm 14y ago
> different way than promised Once the originally-planned $20k had been exceeded, Inman suggested that he would find some more charities that might benefit from the cash. This thought was abandoned shortly after Carreon cried foul abou
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by tfm 14y ago
Hey, jinx! When I heard "US based company", I thought "Telstra". Optus would have saved a few million going with the cheaper crappier solution from some other bargain offshore location. I'm not happy that the user data munging being outsou
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by tfm 14y ago
I was under the impression that CUDA is pretty much an nvidia-specific proposition. This is a great shame because it seems there is a bit more activation energy required for opencl projects (AMD's BLAS is great but I don't see it being use
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by tfm 14y ago
It's a genuinely interesting read, even if it does lean on the Astonishing Particular Items Of Proof trope more than a little heavily, but the moment it got to the words "in my opinion, the answer is ..." my eyes glazeth over and skim mode
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by tfm 14y ago
> And, of course, emailing or establishing contact first is > pretty much never a bad thing. Well, as long as one follows > through with what they say they're going to do. There's the implicit engineering problem right there! Yo
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by tfm 15y ago
I thought I was the only one! (sob) I've tried folding, so many times, but it just seems like I'm fighting against it. I don't know that it's the shape of the code that's being hidden that spoils it, maybe I'm just a bottom-up kinda guy. M
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by tfm 15y ago
Fine line to walk, isn't it? Taking ownership of your code would seem to be pretty closely related to taking pride in your work, and the motivations that entails. Having worked with and for $BIG_COMPANIES I would have to agree with your o
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by tfm 15y ago
Aw dang, I missed Pi Day again! Stupid timezone. I guess tau will be getting my support this year ...
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by tfm 15y ago
I like this analysis better! For bonus points, why would this generation be any more risk averse than previous generations? Managing risk is a learned behaviour, and we've kinda got our recession on... may be they were paying attention. H
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by tfm 15y ago
North Dakota may have problems housing the itinerant Nevadans once they arrive, too. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/21/us/21ndakota.html It seems likely that people will move / have moved interstate to take advantage of the job availabil
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by tfm 15y ago
> Having only human generated content in Google+ adds a certain quality to it. Very good point. There is a slightly weird aspect though to the divide between the personal posts being poured into G+, and the purely algorithmic results b
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by tfm 15y ago
An interesting read is an interesting read, there are occasionally nuggets of gold even on the most poorly designed slideshow ad trap. I like to imagine that the "inverted pyramid" technique frontloads the best stuff on the landing page an
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by tfm 15y ago
sed deserves a lot of love, I still prefer it for a lot of command-line munging, greps everywhere, bit of awk thrown in. That despite the fact that (say) perl -pe might do a more comprehensive or efficient job as basically a drop-in replac
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by tfm 15y ago
I find this a really interesting area. As a programmer rather than a gamer I'd tended to have this background awareness of GPUs getting more and more powerful, and saw all the Amazing GPU Stunts for {SETI,Folding,..}@home or Crack Your Neig