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by ttctciyf 12y ago
> effectively nobody ever buys anything by clicking on a web ad I know I never did - at least for banner ads and other CPM advertising, but I'm not so sure it applies to the CPA sector. My impression (no pun intended!) is that secto
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
The authors have previously made some bold claims! http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/WScie12/Content/a...
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
As one of those people, allow me to help you understand. A lot of websites are much quicker to load with NoScript active in my experience. It's quite an eye opener going somewhere like The Guardian's website, or Salon, and seeing
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
So tl;dr is: google employ people who can't distinguish between a hyperlink and a redirect to enforce their adWords policy?
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> [Agency is] built into the brain's fabric and architecture. Because even neurons have agency It seems like a borderline category mistake to claim that because the components of some system have property P then that system is someh
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
A few thoughts, if you're interested.. I think a "start again" button might be nice - since the most critical choice is the first square, undoing a square at a time can seem a bit lacking by the time you hit level 30 :) Seems
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
Some interesting stuff, such as > You do not need to be a hard-core dualist to imagine that subjective experience might not be amenable to mathematical law (difficult to argue but worth considering, from my POV) The presentation of the a
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
What's with the unreachable squares bottom left and right in level 23. Misdirection?
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
Seems the personal (cost-free) edition now includes all engine features[1], including native plugins. That's changed since 4.6, I think. Though the license mentions some "metrics collection" in the free version, as well as th
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Unity 5 released(unity3d.com)
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For some developers, source access must be a huge deal over Unity free version - if you want to roll your own entity system or do a native plug... WAIT! unity 5 is now out, including all features in the unity engine for free (including nati
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So, unlike God[1], the Universe's circumference is everywhere, and its center nowhere? :) [1] http://bottlerocketscience.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/book-of-xx...
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Wow, thanks a lot for the detail! That is quite a bit more practical than I imagined.
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> program isomorphism in general is basically the halting problem. How far does this go? On the face of it, for some system to determine whether program X halts period could be different from finding whether program X halts, given that s
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
> I'm not sure of gTLDs can resolve directly to a host as second level domains can I'm pretty sure that "ping pt." used to work in the late 90's - though you had to supply the trailing dot.
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
MediaLibraryKit and MobileVLCKit links on the ios page ( http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ios.html ) seem to be broken - not that I have any need for them, but thought you might like to know.
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
Please do it and end the madness! You are assured at least one vote, and if you win I will relish the effect strict enforcement of your policy will have on the insanity[1] that is the London property market.[2] [1] When Eric Schmidt is havi
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
Not sure if you're already aware, but "bit rot" is an ambiguous term nowadays. The original definition[1] refers jokingly to bits "rotting" as an (obviously false if taken literally) explanation of why software that
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
I think (think!) that in view of "people trade them for other currencies every day on open markets?" it's pretty clear what's meant is "exchange value"[1], though since "value" can be taken a few diff
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> we'd gradually become slaves to the ruling class which would happily exploit us without us noticing or willing to do anything about it. Thank goodness that never happened!
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
Thanks (and other repliers) for the links. I've some reading to do..
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I was a bit taken aback to read that P/NP equality would imply we could compute: "What is the shortest program that in a small amount of time will output the complete works of Shakespeare." since I thought it was proven that
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
As an adjunct to this, if large numbers interest you there's a really excellent and long-standing set of pages about them at http://www.mrob.com/pub/math/largenum.html which has some fascinating incidental de
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
> it tackles a much smaller issue [than AI as an existential threat]: ... will our AI be a little Pinnochio wanting to be human? I think this is an ungenerous read of the film - indeed one of the things I took away from it was the psycho
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Why and how does consciousness seem the way it seems? [pdf](open-mind.net)
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Almost any piece of writing more permanent than a shopping list is enhanced by the addition of a date. For all the reasons cited by the OP I'd like to endorse the idea. And don't make it half-date either. It's even more infur
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Hiring the right psychopath(blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk)
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I had this, too, but then when I got to it, I thought the punchline was when the service object was revealed as potentially just a wrapper for a call to a microservice under its hood, and the ensuing warning about 'network partition&#x
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I read Rokeach's book a good few years ago, and found it more interesting for the incidental detail than for the larger narrative or for drawing conclusions from. As the article notes, as a "scientific" experiment, the method
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
(in case it changes, the current title given on HN for this is "Confirmation that the UK is a police state") From wikipedia: "A police state is a state in which the government exercises rigid and repressive controls over the

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