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by thadk 6y ago
This can be used in an ObservableHQ notebook as demonstrated here: https://observablehq.com/@thadk/rough-notation-example
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by thadk 6y ago
thanks! Longtime user of nvAlt and I never noticed that.
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by thadk 6y ago
I read this back in the day, added some tool which bugged me every 30 minutes and remember enjoying it. Not sure how I didn't carry it forward onto my subsequent computer, but have definitely pondered re-instituting over the years. Tha
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by thadk 6y ago
I'm curious when Apple had anticipated this switch. Why deprecate 32-bit in Catalina? Do their 64-bit APIs help them emulate x86 apps more easily?
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by thadk 6y ago
I dug through the source code and extracted the JSON files and converted them to a tabular/CSV format for use outside. https://observablehq.com/@thadk/facebook-covid-survey-data-f... If you're one of the cre
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by thadk 6y ago
Many of the numbers have denominators in the underlying data: https://observablehq.com/@thadk/facebook-covid-survey-data-f...
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by thadk 7y ago
The ENIAC credit seems to be further complicated by the tube based code-breakers that came out 3-4 years before on a top-secret basis, only in the last few decades documented publicly: https://daytoncodebreakers.org/brief&#x
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by thadk 7y ago
Some of the classic articles from the Kuro5hin website mentioned are available at https://web.archive.org/web/20061124151022/http://ko4ting.ma... If you need any particular ones not available on http:&#
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What I told nuclear regulators about quantum computers(medium.com)
3 points by thadk 8y ago|0 comments
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by thadk 8y ago
I'm now curious what typical examples of course titles would be in the "Philosophy of Science" area outside the US though? Here is an example of Cognitive Science's preferred way of thinking about AI: https://
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by thadk 8y ago
Cognitive science warns away from a heavy dependence on behavioralist/probabilistic approaches in many cases. That CogSci special requirement seems to be more reasonable one aimed to guide thinking about past AI and philosophical strug
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by thadk 8y ago
The alternative to switch back is: https://maps.google.com/?force=webgl
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by thadk 8y ago
The area around the hinge on the 2011-2015 Era Macbook was plastic. It seems like they wanted to do away with that, a major mechanical break point, which meant removing travel distance from the keys so the screen could close more directly.
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by thadk 8y ago
Varieties of Capitalism literature does a pretty good job describing what compromises may be happening here: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~phall/VofCIntro.pdf When I was first introduced to this concept, someone p
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by thadk 8y ago
Here is a paper explaining the essentials of how 45+ years of Causal Inference applies to ML: http://www.nber.org/chapters/c14009.pdf In this podcast by the same author, it explains the potential of sharing lessons fro
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by thadk 9y ago
See this investigative article from last week which lays out at least 8 or 10 people who figured out how to rig the lottery for certain types of games: http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/lotto-winners..
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by thadk 9y ago
The aspect the article did not raise was that according to the recent Kaggle survey, a majority of people practicing in data science work have graduate degrees (57.4%). This will likely drive a new interest amongst Americans. https:/&
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by thadk 9y ago
They missed `withstanding` in this classic https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/07/25/how-i-met-my-w...
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by thadk 9y ago
Why are we 10 years into Kindle's evolution and the renderer still does not draw pages exactly the same way every time you load the same page (paginating forward vs. paginating backward, at the same font size)? I have to expect that th
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by thadk 9y ago
I haven't looked into this carefully but I believe the UK does this already in R: https://twitter.com/Rbloggers/status/846887304379744259
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by thadk 9y ago
Wherein Google realizes it needs AirDrop for its self driving cars too.
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by thadk 9y ago
FYI, This "Better History" extension in Chrome has a history of selling browser history since it was sold by its developer: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/better-history/obc... They frequ
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by thadk 9y ago
Does anyone have details on the AIKit & Apple CNN for AMD graphics cards? This was previously the exclusive territory of Nvidia and this week, Apple promised expanding that for the other half of discrete graphics cards. Will there be Py
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by thadk 10y ago
This chapter of Calestous Juma's new book on pushbacks around innovations has a fascinating chapter about how coffee and coffeehouses were like a kind of social media product that got banned and unbanned from its introduction in the 15
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by thadk 10y ago
I got my 15" MBP 2016 as one of the first as well. An important caveat when setting up your system is not to clone 10.12.1 from another system and expect no hiccups. I used an app called SuperDuper but this probably applies to CarbonCo
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by thadk 10y ago
Is Apple including GPUs in all versions of the 15" now because of any future move around software development, augmented reality and VR? Is there really a GPU-4gb guideline on Oculus or is it mostly to do with the power of the cards. I
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by thadk 10y ago
Or, in Chrome, use the Console.download() snippet: https://bgrins.github.io/devtools-snippets/#console-save / https://github.com/bgrins/devtools-snippets/tree/master/snip...
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by thadk 12y ago
In the public health space, these SIM applications on programmable SIM cards (pass-through sandwiched with parallel carrier SIM cards) are very useful for data collection: See Medic Mobile and http://vimeo.com/45532467 ht
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Estimating and Predicting Epidemic Behavior for the West African Ebola Outbreak(grantbrown.github.io)
57 points by thadk 12y ago|18 comments
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by thadk 12y ago
This doesn't involve the quantified self component but: CoconutBattery Online ( http://online.coconut-flavour.com/ ) has massively aggregated Coconut Battery data ("over 150,000" data points) from the last five

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