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by untangle 8y ago
> For most employees that are minority shareholders, dilution is a side-effect calculation in the realm of academic trivia. Dilution is not a purposeful strategy in this situation. No, your logic would only hold for a public company with
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by untangle 8y ago
> All — most, anyway — of the bad effects of Facebook are emergent features of the system that they built for the good effects; that system itself, and its messy interactions with billions of people out in the real world, creates the bad
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by untangle 8y ago
I'm most familiar with Dyalog APL so my comments are based on that. I believe that Dyalog has about 100 primitives. (But APL's relatively challenging semantics are somewhat offset but truly simple syntax.) As in most language lear
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by untangle 8y ago
A Programming Language (APL) started life as a mathematical notation. As such, it is the closest thing that I have encountered for expressing algorithms as code. It is the embodiment of "freeing the hidden algorithm." Fifty exampl
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by untangle 8y ago
Ah, if newLISP had only dispensed with the "new" and "lisp" in its name, it might be viewed in an entirely different vein. Alas, it did not and thus nearly committed language seppuku. As to the language itself, as a casu
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I tried Soylent. It’s everything that’s wrong with modern life(theguardian.com)
9 points by untangle 8y ago|3 comments
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by untangle 8y ago
If you'd like to know how this comes about, point your fav search tool at "web content filter" (WCF). A WCF can be implemented anywhere along the chain from web site (content) to browser. Most commonly, it is a part of a DNS
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by untangle 8y ago
> ...a technical means -- decentralization -- quickly becomes an ethical stance... As in blockchain?
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by untangle 8y ago
After scanning the cached article, I'd say that the content is quite good but not unique. Since the site is slammed, interested hackers can peruse these sites for insight: (1) https://www.tonymacx86.com/ (has hw sugg
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Texpander – Text Expander for Linux (2017)(leehblue.com)
3 points by untangle 8y ago|0 comments
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Vision of a next-gen p2p filesharing system [2017](tlmc.eu)
2 points by untangle 8y ago|0 comments
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by untangle 8y ago
Dual-port start at $18 on amzn ($35 for Intel)? But single-port will do ($12). The add pfSense, Untangle, etc. to complete the solution.
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by untangle 8y ago
Yes, the AmpliFi line is excellent on the wireless side. I use a MictoTik wired router in conjunction with the AmpliFi to provide add'l features and security. Works well.
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by untangle 8y ago
OK, maybe ACLU stumbled a bit by using a low (?) 80% confidence threshold. But I wonder how much over-fitting occurs at the AMZN-recommended 99%? Is a 99% fit scalable? What's the false-negative rate? I'm not satisfied that either
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by untangle 8y ago
> If you consider "fundamentalist" a rude adjective How about no adjective?
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CeramicSpeed’s Driven Concept Might Become the Most Efficient Bicycle Drivetrain(bicycling.com)
95 points by untangle 8y ago|113 comments
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by untangle 8y ago
> they asked for my passport or id card This is often for tax reasons -- specifically, whether VAT can be waived.
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by untangle 8y ago
Well, with respect, this is an undeniable win for Troy. I think that the parent comment was questioning how big a win it is for The Rest of Us.
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by untangle 8y ago
> makes it really hard to tell if you're buying something "shipped and sold by Amazon" Not really, the filters on the left are your friend: 1. Check ELIGIBLE FOR PRIME 2. Select Seller=Amazon 3. If in doubt about the ratin
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by untangle 8y ago
> The iPad Pro is the future of Apple. Maybe it's more accurate to say that iOS is the (present and) future of Apple. All arrows seem to point in this direction. It's a mobile, run-anywhere world that Apple sees as the future.
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by untangle 8y ago
Until I read this article, I thought that the all-optical adaptive cruise control system of my BMW i3 was clearly inferior to modern radar-based gear. I now see at least one use case -- stationary objects -- where the i3 setup has an edge.
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J is Readable(alexshroyer.com)
2 points by untangle 8y ago|0 comments
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by untangle 8y ago
Remember the Palm Pilot? Drawing the ASCII-ish symbols in the little box? While I did memorize the strokes, I never found the process efficient. I don't think that drawing APL runes would be any better -- certainly not better than the
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by untangle 8y ago
Neat little tribute article. APL will not be reborn. If that was going to happen, this century's embrace of analytics and linear-algebra-rich machine learning would have propelled the upswell. It didn't and it won't. Why? It&
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by untangle 8y ago
I recently sold a company that was in an ostensibly similar position. The information on this deal is incomplete, but here are my thoughts. Given how lean they were running, they probably broke the covenants on their loan(s). This would mak
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by untangle 8y ago
Management consulting nonsense. Here's the author's pitch: The value of AI is in "cheaper prediction." So economic value capture occurs by looking for prediction problems in your business and unleashing AI on those. The
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by untangle 8y ago
Agreed. These Harryhausen-like creatures are every bit as menacing as the Kraken. I naively failed to realize the deadly complexity (genius) of the HIV virus. Well done piece.
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by untangle 8y ago
>how does one determine what the characters mean? Download (free) Dyalog APL. Mouse-over any character in the editor and a mini-man page pops up. Or use this cheat sheet: http://docs.dyalog.com/16.0/ReferenceCard.pdf
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by untangle 8y ago
For those wishing to learn this mysterious language, Dyalog has an excellent online tutorial at: https://tutorial.dyalog.com/ Using this tool, I was "thinking APL" (at a novice level) in a couple of days. Dyalog a
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by untangle 8y ago
> APL mode in emacs, typing these things in is pretty easy...iota is just `.i`, rho is `.r`, etc. ...and iota is just `i and rho is `r in the Dyalog editor. So non-emacs folks can play too.

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