xerophtye

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by xerophtye 12y ago
>high-end journals solicit multiple reviews. It is sometimes possible to fool many (but not all) of the experts. I thought this was a debated point. Don't a lot of people assert that the prestigious high end journals don't real
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by xerophtye 12y ago
Great work man :D will try it out when i get home
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by xerophtye 12y ago
Hey, why the downvote? It wasn't just a witty remark, i was serious. I find it rather fascinating that in the case of pets, both parties mutually form a method of communication. And this method isn't exactly part of either species
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by xerophtye 12y ago
>But they do share one thing besides the oppression of women. Have you guessed it yet? Yep, they use islam as an excuse to justify their actions , but I am guessing what you want to say is: Islam is bad. It's the only religion&#x2F
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by xerophtye 12y ago
> Dolphins are not (so far as we know) actively trying to teach us their language. Exactly. Cats actively try to teach us their language and you can ask any cat owner, he or she would be very fluent in their cat's language.
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Oracle wins copyright ruling against Google over Android(dawn.com)
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by xerophtye 12y ago
Anyone else here clicked the link thinking of Anki Drive? (anki.com)
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by xerophtye 12y ago
uhhh... isn't that their app? (the company is same)
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by xerophtye 12y ago
I don't understand the downvotes, it actually is a little annoying on the eyes in FF
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by xerophtye 12y ago
I remember when one of my cousins was hospitalized, we gave him a Mortal Kombat move list Booklet as a "Get well soon" gift :D Back in the day, figuring out all the moves in a fighting was a meta-game on its own.
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by xerophtye 12y ago
As someone pointed out, perhaps the example wasn't thought out well enough. So why go into the details of that, and skip the underlying point? That maybe the system WILL come up with a bad plan and execute it? Or are you saying: "
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by xerophtye 12y ago
Hey, the first thing that crossed my mind when i opened this post was "why the hell are we even discussing this? Don't these people realize what sort of computational improbability it is at this point?" So yes, this very disc
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by xerophtye 12y ago
I share a similar view that this all seems too far fetched. That somehow we'll make a race of super-smart machines that will take over the world. But, there are certain scenarios that are actually rather plausible if we give too much c
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by xerophtye 12y ago
While i really like your point about "lack of motivation", here's how i think an "evil AI" scenario might play out: You design a super system that has access to a shit ton of data and it can interface with pretty mu
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by xerophtye 12y ago
Now i may be wrong, in which case, do enlighten me. But hasn't Box been playing the corporate game for quite some time? And Dropbox was just beginning to step into that market, no? So wouldn't that make Box the big guy, and Dropbo
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by xerophtye 12y ago
>Separate address and search bars is old-fashioned. As a user, I don't want to have to make this distinction, and it's hard to imagine most users-on-street wouldn't find this confusing umm... I don't know if this work
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by xerophtye 12y ago
why doesn't this have more upvotes? this was EPIC :D
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by xerophtye 12y ago
the sideway scorlling seems like the only worthwhile addition to me, other than that, i kinda like the feel of physical buttons and scroll wheel under my fingertips
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by xerophtye 12y ago
I am guessing its configurable (like inverted camera in games) So, that should end this debate right now. Btw, two finger scrolling on trackpads is usually opposite of what works on the phone too, and people have no trouble with that either
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by xerophtye 12y ago
well yes, most of us tap instead of clicking. question is, how would it differentiate a "tap" from a "keypress" if trackpad and keyboard are in the same place?
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by xerophtye 12y ago
I always wanted this to exist. But ofcouse, never had the hardware skills to make one. I have the same feeling as you about the IR thing. makes me if they are only BETWEEN keys, wouldn't the make the sensing in accurate? My HP laptop&#
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by xerophtye 12y ago
In my country, a lot of places use the National ID card (NIC) as a means of security. For example at a lot of office buildings or at "extra-secure" neighbourhoods (especially where military personnel live), they ask you to leave
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by xerophtye 12y ago
So each govt body seems to have it's own persona of you. While I understand that this in some way supports privacy against the govt, but it just makes me wonder how they handle certain issues. off the top of my head: Aren't your p
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by xerophtye 12y ago
Finally someone who chose to explain things instead of just bombing down votes. Thank you for taking the time to explain that. And I'll just take solace in this (apparently) Scottish Proverb: "He who asks is a fool for a moment. H
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by xerophtye 12y ago
Yep, FB and twitter doesn't need your national ID card number to know more about you than your spouse does
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by xerophtye 12y ago
I thought it was easier to replicate handwritten signatures than digital ones, no?
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by xerophtye 12y ago
Since I don't really understand the local sentiment of the Irish and the British, I gotta ask, do the people think it's a good think that there isn't a central Primary Key to link all of their records together?
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by xerophtye 12y ago
Wow. Down votes for not knowing that...
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by xerophtye 12y ago
I thought i covered Ireland under UK when I asked if it wasn't part of EU EDIT: oh not all of Ireland is in UK. I honestly didn't know about "Republic of Ireland" being a standalone country
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by xerophtye 12y ago
So the govt really doesn't have records about every citizen? (or you just don't have a physical Card against that record?)

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