boxein

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by boxein 14y ago
Thumbprint scanners are inaccurate unless you get into the high-end range. If there is a commodity fingerprint scanner for that many students, they could install a single button and get equivalent data.
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by boxein 14y ago
These lack the subtlety of the koans they are attempting to emulate. It's more like Aesop's Code than Codeless Code.
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by boxein 14y ago
Isn't this already what a SIMD processor does? Or is it supposed to be like a SIMD hiding in a SISD processor?
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by boxein 14y ago
BUT if we had consistent poor performance for some vendor in a certain category, we could infer that their offerings for that category will also be poor in the future.
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by boxein 14y ago
If you are willing to accept language as one of the calligrapher's tools I think you will find his workshop to be equally cluttered.
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by boxein 14y ago
It's not as extreme as that--consider just the case where you want to share things with work friends that might not appeal to college friends. You're not acting different; you'd show the college friends if any of them asked, but you know th
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by boxein 14y ago
I saw an on-going project recently that was attempting just that. They were using texts from the web to infer relationships from recognizable patterns. Like (the head of X, Y) implies X is an organization, Y is a person, and Y is the leader
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by boxein 14y ago
I get poor search results daily, and half of them get "incorrected". "Did you mean UIView?" No, Google, I am working on OSX. I actually did mean NSView, that's an actual thing.
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by boxein 14y ago
Actually Cyc is panned pretty hard as a complete waste of a perfectly intelligent researcher's time.
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by boxein 14y ago
There's explicit provision in the law allowing for people without a pilot's license to fly an experimental aircraft. I'm sure you can still get in massive trouble for flying through the upside-down layercake above airports, but it's not fla
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by boxein 14y ago
Yeah, the author seemed to argue "because the situation I was in while doing a job I was passionate about was unlivable, therefore pursuing any job you are passionate about will make you less happy than working some regular 9-to-5." Logical
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by boxein 14y ago
I use this method also
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by boxein 14y ago
> My point is that your only means to do that is to use government force, i.e., laws. You are mistaken.
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by boxein 14y ago
I'd like this too
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by boxein 14y ago
This is my understanding as well. I hope someone who knows definitively comes along.
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by boxein 14y ago
The bloom filter could be used in a similar way, you have X hash functions used and Y total bits, so for a bloom filter with Z bits set you anticipate N unique items were hashed. Probably not as good as the HyperLogLog in terms of memory sp
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by boxein 14y ago
They probably didn't get anyone who uses a Gmail address as primary, which is what they asked for.
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by boxein 14y ago
What does "add-relation" do, in terms of what happens on the machine? Do different charms need to be coded with explicit relation types? Like could I simply switch postgres for mysql in your example and have it work, or does mediawiki speci
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by boxein 14y ago
No, it will motivate developers to create add-ons that cost $2 each. In general, your argument about a subset of products is reasonable. In a drawing app when you have to buy individual brushes it's scummy.
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by boxein 14y ago
Why not have a lite / pay to get everything version, then?
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by boxein 14y ago
> (Granted, Google's complicit to the carrier's requests here too -- however, I'm still perfectly able to install anything I want on my phone.) This is not a valid argument for the average Android user, since they would have to root the
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by boxein 14y ago
$2 per tool? This is not a free app, this is a bait-and-switch. Just charge $15 for the app, guys.
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by boxein 15y ago
What if you had written that as the response to the second question. "I understand you are curious, but that is all I will say about it," would have made it clearer and been far less pompous than "no really, trust me."
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by boxein 15y ago
The patent system is broken, but at least this time it is a company that deserves litigation instead of some poor indie app dev. IMO Facebook is pretty high up on the list of companies with horrible policies, it's bittersweet to see such st