Helianthus16

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by Helianthus16 15y ago
And I'm sure it would be an interesting read. However, I feel I should also point out that what makes this article interesting isn't that this technology is out of date, it is that it is a glimpse into a time when we didn't have computing
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by Helianthus16 15y ago
You missed the point. You're comfortable enough with your equal status to openly deflate their status, _because_ you both know it doesn't mean anything. Fair trade/permission giving: later they can tease you and lower your status. Then re
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by Helianthus16 15y ago
The fact that _he_ believes it is important which shoulder he touches produces enough an effect that one can be fooled into thinking the touches have the power instead of the belief.
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by Helianthus16 15y ago
The problem is that sort of video doesn't show the failures, so we have no idea how real the success rate is.
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by Helianthus16 15y ago
It's that "as if" that is a little bit hand-wavy. Fitting/overfitting is insidious in that it corrupts both the procedure and the data. I'm not saying that's exactly what happened here, but I am saying that it's a _hunch_ that human brains
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by Helianthus16 15y ago
On the other hand, it's a little flaky that they set a parameter to try to get human-like response times. Statistical fitting. We built it to hit this number, we're surprised when it does! Cool calculation process, though.
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by Helianthus16 15y ago
I don't know why my instinct is to anthropomorphize them, but somehow they're goddamned _cute_. Look! Robots playing ping pong! A robot dog might be in my future :/
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by Helianthus16 15y ago
You just 'sucked the life' out of this thread and proved forensic's point about 'chronically negative people.' :( Also, in a topic like this where we're examining differences between cultures, it's pretty implicit that we're speaking gener
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by Helianthus16 15y ago
No offense, thinking about it is fun, but we're not exactly accountants; and we're definitely not accountants with access to Groupon's numbers. It "seems crazy" isn't exactly a critical argument.
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by Helianthus16 15y ago
"Techcrunch speculates on revenue numbers, gets caught." Am I reading this right?
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by Helianthus16 15y ago
There is no sense in my mind that a cook is not an engineer of the kitchen. Engineering is just using quantities, directions, and properties to effect a result.
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by Helianthus16 15y ago
Yes, but (so the argument goes) they were a legal violation, sanctioned by the U.N. or whatever prototype of the U.N. existed at the time.
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by Helianthus16 15y ago
>I sort of wonder how atheists process someone like him believing in God. Cognitive dissonance. I kid, I kid: but I see too many atheists happy to deride a viewpoint with that pop-psychology term as a means of writing it off. Qualifyin
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by Helianthus16 15y ago
If a country's honor as a concept is ludicrous, why should a country bother to be moral? Surely you can see that honor and morality are closely tied concepts, such that a country's moral actions define its honor. In what respect can someon
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
My point is that you must treat intrusions as an inevitability when trying to counteract intrusion. And anyone who builds a sandcastle should be aware of the ocean. The kid's breaking into this account is embarrassing. Just because we can
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
You're right, we're not using the same definition. That doesn't mean I don't have a point.
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
You're judging a point by the way it was made rather than its ultimate goal? I mean, I'm all for praising gymnastics, but if we're trying for truth here shouldn't endgame be valued over execution?
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
From the perspective of security protection, intrusions are an act of nature. You should be no more surprised at an especially strong wave than you are at an exceptionally immature child.
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
Those social mechanisms are a part of culture. I find it hard to conceive a definition of culture that does not include the systems of negative consequences that a society enforces.
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
I am curious about your opinion of this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2351266 It seems to me that both jokes are in the same vein: referencing a satirical husband-wife power stereotype. But no one is complaining about the
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
>"Why don't Japanese loot? Because it's not in their culture. How is that culture defined? An absence of looting." immediately followed by: >A better explanation may be structural factors: a robust system of laws that reinforce hone
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
alternatively, a way to accurately measure their accounting week by week?
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
>I agree absolutely, but did this hugely complex system really perform admirably in the case of the tsunami? Yes. I'm beating a dead horse at this point, but once again, your terminology indicates you're not grasping the problem. Ther
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
This post as a whole is not a comprehensive discussion of the quake. It is explicitly about the media distortion of the event. If your point is valid it remains off-topic. Additionally, your language indicates you're still not grasping th
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
More can always be done. Confining your reaction to the emotional is uninformative and exactly the sort of panic that our media creates and is creating about this event. If you can't slip smoothly from being sad about the death and destruc
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
I dunno, I think it's kinda funny. It's the sort of jab that points out that the kind of person who bluntly asserts raising kids is stupid is happier boozing at status joints and pursuing endless 'city glamor'.
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
As someone who both 1) checks the comments to see if I should click a link I think might be dodgy, and 2) thinks a lot of links look dodgy, including this one at first, let me give a hearty recommendation to this article. Well worth readin
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
There is an intellectual purity that is maintained through anonymity. I don't have to be consistent with my previous posts or any future posts I might want to make. I don't have to worry about what people will think of me. Heck, I don't
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
I would go so far as always. Power tries to hold onto power.
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
marginal improvement is still improvement. we could just chill out and accept that microsoft has the right to promote its product and we have the right not to put the banner on our sites.

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