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by troymc 12y ago
The Bayes Model is certainly a nice way to combine old and new information in an optimal sort of way. But is it really a good model of what goes on inside the brain? Where? How? It seems too clean, too pat, too optimal. Biology is messy.
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by troymc 12y ago
You're right, that's different, but it can also be foiled, at least in theory: you just have your cellphone add some time delay before responding. The delay could be different for each cell tower. I realize that's a big ask (
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by troymc 12y ago
If the operating system provides an API for the actual/measured location, why can't that API just be changed to provide a fake location instead? It could be a user setting: location services - use fake location? yes/no
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by troymc 12y ago
From my point of view, Google still is an ecosystem of applications: Search, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Maps, Google Docs, YouTube, Google Analytics, Google AdSense, Blogger, Google+, etc. In fact, if you want a complete list, just ge
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by troymc 12y ago
The "best thing to buy" depends on who you are, what you need and want, obviously. Wasn't there a website where you could 1) say what you're looking to get, 2) answer a few questions, and 3) get one or two solid recommen
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by troymc 12y ago
A smartphone is a telephone, maps, address book, games, music player, ebook reader, web browser, GPS, microphone, pedometer, barometer, and more. This thing is a cup.
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by troymc 12y ago
Some of the OEIS sequences originated with Project Euler problems, so this strategy is closer to cheating than you might think.
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by troymc 12y ago
There has been a general increase in human height, in developed countries, for many decades. Some references: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130902101714.ht... http://www.cdc.gov&#x2F
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by troymc 12y ago
And then there's the Board of Overlords. Or The Council of Sauron. http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/File:The_Council_of_Sauro...
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by troymc 12y ago
The trajectory designer was Bob Farquhar. He's been involved with the space program since the late 1950s. An amazing guy. Here's his recently-published memoir: http://outskirtspress.com/webpage.php?ISBN=97814327592
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by troymc 12y ago
"We didn't get the answer we wanted." "Then reduce the sample size!"
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by troymc 12y ago
I've noticed a phenomenon happening quietly on Wikipedia: articles are being copied to Wikia and then removed from Wikipedia. For example, there's an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation titled "Unfriendly Skies". O
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by troymc 12y ago
Uber wants to expand into logistics. "The new service [UberRUSH] signals the company's expansion beyond local transportation and into the much larger world of urban logistics. And it's a savvy play for several reasons: The sa
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by troymc 12y ago
I know Servo is currently a research project, but maybe Mozilla's plan is to get a process sandbox from it? "... The [Servo] engine processes will use the operating system sandboxing facilities to restrict access to system resourc
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by troymc 12y ago
I figured someone who speaks X and wants to begin learning English would use an X-English / English-X dictionary. English has a vast vocabulary full of similar words, each having subtle differences and nuances. How is one to decide whi
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by troymc 12y ago
To be fair, the algorithm changed.
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by troymc 12y ago
It is an interesting idea, but there are other ways, probably easier, to get the positrons. For example, some radioisotopes emit positrons as part of their natural radioactive decay process. See: http://arstechnica.com/scien
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by troymc 12y ago
The idea is to store the positrons, and positrons aren't light.
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by troymc 12y ago
Google Goggles, the Android app, is still in the Google Play Store. The latest update came out in November 2013. Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... P.S. Looking at the above URL,
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by troymc 12y ago
It took me over 20 seconds to get through that. 20 seconds of parallax = 20 parsecs That's even more than the Kessel Run.
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Pig Beach (article on Wikipedia)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by troymc 12y ago
You're reasoning by analogy, but the analogy between CORBA and OpenStack is flawed. CORBA is mainly a standard. A standard only succeeds if most people adopt it. OpenStack is mainly a set of open source software. Users can pick and cho
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by troymc 12y ago
Or better yet, is there a webapp that lets us ask questions and post answers for others?
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by troymc 12y ago
Some businesses say, "If you find a competitor with a lower price for the same item, we'll sell it to you for N% less." I suppose that's one way to get away with such language. Also, "affordable" is a weasel wo
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by troymc 12y ago
Iribe also said that Valve is working with them on the (MMO) software, but they have nothing to announce yet. Valve already has many of the pieces. For example, independent 3D artists can make virtual goods for games like Dota 2. If the goo
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by troymc 12y ago
The article does have analysis of competitors, including W.W. Grainger and Cardinal Health. Did you read it?
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by troymc 12y ago
Note that the failure was in a new-ish, recently-deployed air traffic control system named ERAM (En Route Automation Modernization), and its backup system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERAM
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by troymc 12y ago
Maybe a more accurate name would be Sphinx Online. http://sphinx-doc.org/ NoTex is a misleading name: if you want to use it and have math in your document, you must use TeX (or LaTeX).
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by troymc 12y ago
Definitely not the world's "first". Others include: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PubChem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChemSpider
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by troymc 13y ago
Ah yes, the days when "Internet" books for the general public had sections about Gopher, Veronica, Email, HTML, FTP, Archie, Telnet, WAIS…

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