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by zeteo 16y ago
"our wooden computer can simulate what an electric cable does." Theoretically, yes, but I still think that using C for all your programming needs is closer to the degree of difficulty of "using only a hammer for all your woodwork" rather th
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by zeteo 16y ago
"C is not like a hammer, C is like wood. [...] Knowing all about the subtle details of working with wood isn't especially portable to working with cables that carry electricity or layers of carbon fibre or blocks of solid aluminum." All met
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by zeteo 16y ago
"I mean, say a field accepts results alpha < 0.05." And then there are fields like climate science, where "very high confidence" means 10% probability of being wrong: http://ipccinfo.com/
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by zeteo 16y ago
"...unlocked the NASA Explorer Badge..." And so our space program takes yet another small step towards being replaced by wishful thinking. NASA is scrapping one real exploration program after another, while using precious orbital payloads t
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by zeteo 16y ago
Any idea how this deals with the DOM?
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by zeteo 16y ago
If you read the article to the end, it says that it wasn't the piracy that led to increased sales. The decisive part was the author engaging with the 4chan community and earning their respect.
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by zeteo 16y ago
"if it had happened twice the newcomer would have been called 'food' at a stage too early to get much further up the ladder" I'm sorry, but this doesn't make any sense. Just being called "food" is not a sufficient reason for extinction. In
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by zeteo 16y ago
You've made a statement that a certain quantity is far larger than zero, so you do incur a burden of proof for that statement. p * n > 0 doesn't imply p * n >> 0, not even for large values of n (and "approaching infini
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by zeteo 16y ago
"Chance of life forming from non life * age of the universe * number of stars * the chance a star has an earth like planet, is far from zero" You have no proof for this, and things can well be the other way round. Let n = age of the unive
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by zeteo 16y ago
"Why not just type, say, www.bing.com into the URL field?" Because four keystrokes and a click are often quicker than twelve keystrokes.
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by zeteo 16y ago
More detail on the winning bot Overmind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWtpTu9gB20&feature=playe... They had a team of 13 Berkeley AI researchers working on this bot.
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by zeteo 16y ago
Goliaths alone? I don't think so. Any player with good micro (and we're talking bots here) will keep dancing out the damaged mutas, since Goliaths can't follow to kill. You should at least throw a couple of Valks into the mix. A bot could a
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by zeteo 16y ago
The winning bot's strategy seems a bit one-sided (mutalisk-heavy). I guess no bots were good enough to build real counters to that? Looking at the videos, everyone is trying to kill mutalisk with Goliaths, which is not exactly the strongest
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by zeteo 16y ago
I guess duty is a hard concept to sell. It's much tougher to persuade you that you have the duty to do something, than it is to, say, teach you a catchy song or a spectacular legend. It helps a lot to be able to say "the all-seeing god has
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by zeteo 16y ago
"religions which incorporate ideals about large families will tend to spread, but the same can be said about non-religious cultural memes." The only such meme that ever had success comparable to religion was nationalism, but it self-destruc
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by zeteo 16y ago
Indeed. What a lot of these population-rate-below-replacement analyses are missing is that the dynamics vary significantly among population sub-groups. And one variable that is consistently associated with large families is strength of reli
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by zeteo 16y ago
"When you’re given a reading assignment, for example, you can estimate, within 10 – 20 minutes, how long it will take you to complete." As long as it's not a scientific paper...
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by zeteo 16y ago
Yes, a story can have a message, but "Babbage" is a person, not a story. "This story's message" has a different agent from "Jim's message". Jim is always the _author_ in the second meaning. "Babbage's message" made the title shorter, but al
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by zeteo 16y ago
"Message" implies an actual quote from the man. "Example" would be more appropriate in this context.
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by zeteo 16y ago
FP fanboys will laugh so hard at this. The proper way to deal with duplication, as described in this article, is of course to use functors. With a general method_missing(), your compiler will not even catch spelling errors anymore.
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by zeteo 16y ago
As far as I can tell, there is a wide variety in people's interpretation of Sharia. In practice Sharia's introduction has been recently associated with very harsh punishments (amputation, stoning): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharia#Conte
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by zeteo 16y ago
I agree with you that the speed should be much reduced in inclement weather. Other significant hazards can't be predicted as easily: drivers veering into the opposite lane; moose; debris on the road; people running red lights, etc. In all o
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by zeteo 16y ago
Except for the part about the kinetic energy, your overall argument is poorly supported and seems fatally flawed. "...accidents happen when the variability of speed is greatest. http://sense.bc.ca/disc/disc-09.htm " There is nothing in th
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by zeteo 16y ago
I don't know about the other remedies, but there is some good evidence in favor of zinc combating the common cold: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15496046?dopt=Abstract Note, however, that zinc is only effective if taken at the onset
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by zeteo 16y ago
The assumption is actually that you'd prefer to spend extra time driving than to correspondingly lower your life expectancy.
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by zeteo 16y ago
The title is a bit misleading. I think most people would interpret it as "get a month-long friendship for $25" (some sort of AwesomeReminder Gold). But, according to the article, only membership for the site is $25/month. "Friends" that you
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by zeteo 16y ago
This reminds me of a scene in "All Quiet on the Western Front", where the young recruits are told by a veteran to sharpen their shovels' edges and use them instead of bayonets. The strike he preferred was, IIRC, between the neck and the sho
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by zeteo 16y ago
Yes they do. Aragorn is of the purest race of Westernesse, and his special abilities are in good part based on this. The subjects of prince Imrahil are sadly mixed in race, although the prince himself is of rather pure breed, etc. It's not
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by zeteo 16y ago
It may also be possible that the future will hold us responsible for something that we are very proud of today. I recently re-read "The Lord of the Rings" and was surprised at the racist / eugenic undertones, which unfortunately date the bo
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by zeteo 16y ago
Well, the link you're giving says (at the bottom) "Gliese 581 g may be tidally locked to its parent star Gliese 581" So it's not known for certain.

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