waldrews

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   by waldrews 10y ago

   Isn't that the premise of a song by Rush?
2. 242.▲
   by waldrews 10y ago

   I do - because audiobooks. Streaming (or even downloaded) video is less convenient, but still possible.
3. 243.▲
   by waldrews 10y ago

   Anybody remember what happened to Lone Star? 3 episodes, not 3 seasons, for a critical and cult favorite.
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   by waldrews 10y ago

   Are we going to get a Longgermancompoundword to describe this form of envy?
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   by waldrews 10y ago

   Well, if he did more interest/better skills in practical experimental/engineering type applications, that might have had some, well, unfortunate political consequences later on in life...
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   by waldrews 10y ago

   Hmm... would it be feasible to parse existing C code into an AST with an existing compiler front-end, and generate this kind of Lisp?
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   by waldrews 10y ago

   Cixin Liu's The Dark Forest has the alien enemy ship solve the traveling salesman problem for a moderate n in real time as a way of demonstrating the aliens' superior level of science. That must upset the original poster almost a
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   by waldrews 11y ago

   I just wish some notetaking program besides OneNote had the feature that inserts the source URL when you paste text from the browser. Some Firefox extensions will add the URL when you're copying, but I haven't seen that on Chrome
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   Ask HN: Basic corporate presence website?

   1 points by waldrews 11y ago|3 comments
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    by waldrews 11y ago

    Doesn't (lambda (x) (+ x 1)) capture +? You could evaluate (lambda (x) (+ x 1)) in a scope of, say, (let ((+ *)) (lambda (x) (+ x 1))) - in some lisps.
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    by waldrews 11y ago

    No haggis?
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    by waldrews 11y ago

    http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/ apparently covers all of the above.
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    by waldrews 11y ago

    I see lots of intro-to-Python tutorials. Is there a recommended "best practices" guide - e.g. virtualenvs, project organization and directory structures, advanced debugging, packaging and deployment?
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    by waldrews 12y ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenylketonuria is a real and serious genetic condition. It's why diets sodas have a mandatory "Phenylketonurics: Contains phenylalanine." label. As to the other "gener
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    by waldrews 12y ago

    Yeah, I'm talking about the different populations thing to illustrate an extreme example about the 'luck' concept. It's not directly related to the study. Not sure I understand the % biomass issue. The tissues you&#x27
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    by waldrews 12y ago

    Oy vey. Statistician/statistical geneticist here. The second article is too harsh on the first. The point is subtle and hard to express: carcinogens set the odds, but importance of the part of the risk due to "biological luck,&
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    by waldrews 13y ago

    Apparently, Shareefa featuring Ludacris: http://rapgenius.com/Shareefa-i-need-a-boss-lyrics
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    Ask HN: LogMeIn alternatives

    1 points by waldrews 13y ago|2 comments
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    by waldrews 13y ago

    Try the YouTube version.
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    by waldrews 13y ago

    I'm surprised this isn't more popular. I have not just music but audiobooks, podcasts, videos (mostly for listening and occasional glancing) and classes, on my several water-sealed devices. It's a pain to keep up internet c
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    by waldrews 13y ago

    “Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius”. - Gibbon
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    Ask HN: Best (up to date) comprehensive Django tutorial?

    6 points by waldrews 13y ago|5 comments
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    by waldrews 13y ago

    Elephants can swim. Like, really well.
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    by waldrews 14y ago

    Would love to find the citation for that one...
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    by waldrews 14y ago

    Statistician here. Saying nothing about the substance of the argument or whether their data source appropriately classifies what counts as this kind of crime, the methodology is on the right track but not optimal. Of course binning the eve
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    Ask HN: State of Streaming Media

    1 points by waldrews 14y ago|0 comments
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    (Audiobook now available) The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator(audible.com)

    1 points by waldrews 14y ago|0 comments
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    "Not within a thousand years would man ever fly." - Wilbur Wright(wright-brothers.org)

    6 points by waldrews 14y ago|0 comments
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    by waldrews 14y ago

    Variance of sum equals sum of variances is not sufficient for pairwise uncorrelated for more than 2 random variables. Simplest counterargument is any Cov(A,B)=-Cov(B,C)!=0 for three variables. Closest results I can think of to the "iff" t
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    by waldrews 14y ago

    Yahoo social reader on Facebook? Just say no.