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by veddox 10y ago
Thank you for pointing this out! I come from biology, and yes, you almost never get your model to fit the data as well as a physicist would with his - because there are just way too many factors involved! (In fact I would probably treat too
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by veddox 10y ago
The EU has put a regulation in place that as of 2020, all published research that funded by it must be open access ( https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/27/eu-mandates-open-access-fo... ).
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by veddox 10y ago
I'm sorry but I really cannot see where you get this bizarre interpretation of the article from. Global warming isn't mentioned anywhere in here! ("Climate change" gets exactly one mention, between two commas, and othe
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by veddox 10y ago
Yes, yes, yes - these are the things we ought to be talking about! In academia, in government, in society! Great to see these problems summarized here, usually one only sees an article on one of the seven. It gives me hope that we have st
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by veddox 10y ago
True - and as the OP doesn't want to go into research, a few years out of date won't matter. (After all, it's not like there's been any major breakthrough in biology in the past ten years.)
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by veddox 10y ago
Oh wow, I didn't know that - which models/series specifically?
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by veddox 10y ago
That's the standard introductory book we use at university. (Introductory meaning that most of it will see you through to your bachelor degree.) I find it a very good book with clear explanations and well-designed graphics. A nearly eq
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by veddox 10y ago
1) I like to think of myself as a hacker, because as tnecniv says, in many ways it's really an attitude. 2) I don't self-describe as a hacker in public however, because as znpy says, it's a title that other people ought to gi
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by veddox 10y ago
"Mr Penumbra's 24 hour bookstore" - Robin Sloan (a brilliant mix of history, mystery, humour and technology) "The Cuckoo's Egg" - Clifford Stoll (it really is as good as they always say ;-) ) "Winnie the P
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by veddox 10y ago
I taught myself CL with Touretzky, can recommend it.
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by veddox 10y ago
Scheme is probably the "purest" Lisp around, but unfortunately is not very big (it's more of a learning language than a production one). Personally I would recommend Common Lisp: it's one of the older dialects, has a sol
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by veddox 10y ago
Having been on the receiving end of charitable laptop donations (working at a school in the Third World), I fully understand and sympathize with this 5-year-rule. You wouldn't believe what kind of crappy old laptops get donated - absol
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by veddox 10y ago
whistle didn't realize it took that much to becoming a military pilot! Having read it, I very much doubt any of the gamers I know would get further than the first few steps...
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by veddox 10y ago
I did a few Arch installs two years ago to try it out. I loved the experience, it really did teach me tons and gave me a beautifully minimalistic system with me in control - and yet I ended up going back to Ubuntu. I found that I valued the
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by veddox 10y ago
I wasn't aware of lparallel and cl-cuda, thank you for pointing those out! The only threading I knew of was the implementation-specific kind, which makes for some portability headaches. (Especially as I personally use CLISP instead of
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by veddox 10y ago
I love writing Lisp, it feels not so much like coding but like writing poetry... Unfortunately, it has lots of problems with interpreter interoperability, lack of threading, etc. (unless I simply haven't found the solution to my proble
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by veddox 10y ago
Scheme is probably the most beautiful language I know, but, alas, of limited practical value :-(
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by veddox 10y ago
Shame! I've done courses on both Udacity and Coursera in the past. Not very many, but they did shape me and taught me stuff I either couldn't have learned any other way or could not have learnt as well. I understand that they are
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by veddox 10y ago
Yeah, it did suck when a course you wanted wasn't available any time soon, but I have to say their model did make sense. I took part in a timed/dated course (however you want to call it) and it did actually give one something appr
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by veddox 10y ago
First of all: kudos for starting a project based on books! (I love books and anything to do with them, we need more of this...) How I find my next book to read? Mostly chance. For example, I regularly visit local bookshops for a browse, and
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by veddox 10y ago
I love that system! :-) > Assuming books are even a thing then Well, they have been "a thing" for close on 2000 years, so I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for them to disappear in the next 50 ;-)
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by veddox 10y ago
I'd second that, I'd like to know what the site actually does ...
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by veddox 10y ago
Using KeePass to encrypt passwords, DuckDuckGo as a search engine, and basically avoiding anything to do with Google as much as I can (such as changing away from my Gmail account). I've tried encrypted emails with PGP and a homebrew en
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by veddox 10y ago
Why do you want to know?
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by veddox 10y ago
Sounds like good reasoning. What older models would you recommend?
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by veddox 10y ago
Thanks for the advice about the used Thinkpads! The only thing I'm concerned about with those is battery life. How easy/cheap is it to replace a battery on a used X220?
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Experiences with the Thinkpad 13?
6 points by veddox 10y ago|13 comments
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by veddox 10y ago
Replace "intellectual assets" with "computing assets" and you're probably right. The basic idea behind current cryptography is to make the breaking/decoding without a key so expensive as to be practically impos
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by veddox 10y ago
Does the university offer any events within your field of interest open to you as a high school pupil? If so: attend! Once you're there, you can try to talk to one of the professors. (Hint: if you know in advance who is likely to be th
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by veddox 11y ago
Writing a novel - a bit of a change from writing code ;-)

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