toemetoch

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by toemetoch 14y ago
Coal is probably cheaper Keep in mind that there are different types of coal, and choice normally depends on what is locally available / cheapest in volume. IIRC there's a lot of dirty lignite (Braunkohle) in Germany.
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by toemetoch 14y ago
If he looks at his bat-signal is a synthetic immune system he'll be able to anticipate common pitfalls. I fear that in a few months/quarters the bat-signal will be gamed or beaten by a mechanism that could have easily be avoided. Meta-moder
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by toemetoch 14y ago
I'm guessing he meant lifetime, it's next to "lifestyle" on android's suggest list.
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by toemetoch 14y ago
A density plot would never have revealed the discrete grouping along the x-axis due to rounding. The density plot hides it, but if he started from density plots this might have gotten him into trouble (for example if he would group them in
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by toemetoch 14y ago
The single most annoying aspect in CSS (IMO) is class and id names, or better: keeping them predictable (we already used that one) and concise (that one should be named that ). I'd like to know if there's a simple "namespace convention" th
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by toemetoch 14y ago
I would like to suggest that he looks at how real immune systems [0] operate: layered, decentralized, innate and adaptive immunity, ... Some of these properties already conflict with the comments in this thread. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org
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by toemetoch 14y ago
You're welcome. We're talking about the collaborative work of countless human brains adding on to each other's work. Every bit of progress in humanity is the work of an individual, either working individually or in group. Collaboration st
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by toemetoch 14y ago
My dad used to work at a corp in the 80s that got most of their equipment from HP. As a budding nerd I once got hold of one of their catalogues - an inch thick and page after page of high-tech development kit: scopes, analysers, workstation
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by toemetoch 14y ago
For the 2012 contest, I assume that all friendship values remain the same as in previous years. Being in Europe, I'd say that the love for several countries has been in constant review over the past year. Just how and by how much will be
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by toemetoch 14y ago
Well played, sir.
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by toemetoch 14y ago
Always close your stuff before filling it. E.g. instead of typing ... switch (uint8_t bla){ case 0: stuff; ... ... and filling everything as you go along, first type the skeleton ... switch () {case: break; default: break;} ... and the
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by toemetoch 14y ago
You can check with Chrome, Ctrl+Shift+I, then Audits and reload/Run. A few years ago they started promoting best practices [0] and after following it + checking with Audit/pagespeed I got performance increases. Now it seems they abandoned t
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by toemetoch 14y ago
It was cancelled in 2010. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(microarchitecture)
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by toemetoch 14y ago
FWIW, if you're doing hobby projects or working on open-source software: when you get one of those CS related brain teasers start your answer with this if you get the opportunity: "Oh, I encountered something similar while working on <i
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by toemetoch 14y ago
On the x86 front I'm a bit pessimistic. In 2006, Intel promised 80-cores by 2012 but I haven't seen them anywhere yet [0]. [0] http://news.cnet.com/2100-1006_3-6119618.html (Disclaimer: don't know how the crowd here reacts to CNET article
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by toemetoch 14y ago
Something you're probably going to be interested in: Whole Brain Emulation. [0] Human intelligence is IMO something that is referred to in pop culture as "emergent behavior" [1]. Problem is that you risk building the electronic equivalent o
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by toemetoch 14y ago
I'm in HW development myself (mostly ARM µC with energy monitoring) and over the past few weeks started wondering whether one of my designs has in fact a fake controller. Pretty clueless to identify it as fake as it would destroy the protot
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Year-long probe: 1,800 cases of fake parts in US military aircraft(bbc.co.uk)
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by toemetoch 14y ago
There's actually an expo in Japan for Food Machinery and Technology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNSKMGurrPI
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by toemetoch 14y ago
If you have limited resources, go after data first and then algorithms. He could have used "GIGO" [0] to make it clearer. Anecdote: there are a few movies that completely muddy the statistics, e.g. Napoleon Dynamite [1]. More background [2]
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by toemetoch 14y ago
Thanks for the info. Account seems to be normal again, mental state is not.
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by toemetoch 14y ago
toemetoch, who is dead ... I'm not following. I can see my reply a few posts down. I accidentally hit submit twice, deleted one but the second one is still there. Edit: The same technique can be found in some 1-bit ADCs, I believe it's d
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by toemetoch 14y ago
You're right. I posted it because the Myspace<->FB comparison is often used and I wanted to illustrate the trends for something that grows/saturates/declines.
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by toemetoch 14y ago
Also worth mentioning: W3Schools since their user-base is mostly technical (web developers). http://w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
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by toemetoch 14y ago
FYI: difference between Chrome and Chromium: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Differen...
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by toemetoch 14y ago
Still thinking about how best to explain determinism vs. non-determinism Yep, that's a tough one. But before you think of how to explain it please consider how you're going to use that knowledge to explain that in a non-deterministic you
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by toemetoch 14y ago
I'm not sure whether innovation and growth is the key to success in this field. Looking at the trends it seems like there's a natural saturation point where you reach max penetration, followed by an exodus. I really doubt it's possible to k
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by toemetoch 14y ago
Mental note for a test at the office tomorrow: send an empty email entitled "video of people yawning" to folks in your line of vision.
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by toemetoch 14y ago
Barely read the title, saw the link to a video, pictured an image in my head of someone yawning and others copying ... had to yawn myself.
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by toemetoch 14y ago
Opera mini on Android I get an error in a red box: "Error binding 'function(){}' view ReferenceError: Undefined variable: localStorage"

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