12ren

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by 12ren 18y ago
Very helpful, as I always get a cold when I start to exercise again, and end up giving it away. Also, colds being a phenomenally successful disease, I wonder if not impairing the mobility of its victims is part of the reason? http://www.te
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by 12ren 18y ago
linked TED talk: "Can we domesticate germs?" http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/paul_ewald_asks_can_we_do... I think there's no reason for infections to be harmful. Why not an infection that benefits the host? Some do, for examples the ba
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by 12ren 18y ago
In the aftermath of a wave of criticism, his company collapsed. One breast cancer charity that parted ways with Mr. Pallotta began producing its own fund-raising walks, but the net sum raised by those walks for breast cancer research plumm
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by 12ren 18y ago
Crows "finding" money is problematic, as it might not be "lost"... intelligence (evolution, flow of water, etc) has a way of finding the shortest path. It seems tricky to specify the goal clearly, so the crows are trained to find only "lost
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by 12ren 18y ago
An editor is more like a "toy" than a "game" ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=407816 ), because it lacks goals. This “toy” should be the core mechanic of the game minus any goals or decisions. There is no win or lose state, just a fun
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by 12ren 18y ago
True, especially for the many people who make one attempt, fail, and stop. Though if you look at people who make several attempts, and who learn something from each, I think the probability of success fast approaches 1. I think that in pr
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by 12ren 18y ago
Interesting. It also happens with people newly infatuated with OO, esp design patterns . I think this is a natural phase of learning - when you first grasp a new concept, you use it everywhere; later, you use it where appropriate. Maybe th
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by 12ren 18y ago
interesting linked article about Oxytocin, a hormone and neurotransmitter: http://www.reuniting.info/science/oxytocin_health_bonding
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by 12ren 18y ago
thanks, but Hulu says "not available in your country" :( oddly enough, the colbert report's own site is happy to share it worldwide: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/21198... It's a similar idea, but the charm of it
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by 12ren 18y ago
Adam Savage is a very funny guy, and a true geek. That didn't come across for me on mythbusters. "You can only clean up a messy room by picking up one thing at a time, you can't think about the totality."
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by 12ren 18y ago
It's the planned spontaneity that makes the "Anyway." slide work. His setup and delivery of this line is so enthusiastic, natural, sincere that it couldn't be planned... yet there's the slide. Cute theatrical technique. Here's an idea: trea
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by 12ren 18y ago
There's an issue of need satiation. Once a need is met, further improvements can't be absorbed. Like water when you aren't thirsty, it doesn't matter. Hardware helps performance - but this only matters when more performance is needed. For e
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by 12ren 18y ago
Examples of successful Strong DSL (ie. standalone) are James Gosling's project for satellite control (I think it was), which he did so that users could make their own changes without bothering him (I doubt details are online - he mentioned
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by 12ren 18y ago
I got exactly the same impression from my compilers class, especially for parsing - it's a bunch of techniques, which vary in their applicability. I still have that opinion, after years of research and commercial work using parsing. Althoug
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by 12ren 18y ago
Abstracting (too much), it's violated expectations - like broken promises, people really don't like it. Taking a tangential step, computer automation is similar when it purports to be able to help you, but doesn't understand you well enou