dlan1000

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by dlan1000 4y ago
Hmm. Like the idea but the name... I get it, but if you say it fast, it sounds like famine.
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by dlan1000 4y ago
I just discovered where Luke Holder lives.
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by dlan1000 11y ago
What I found more interesting than Pachter's analysis of the specific failings of the Barzel-Barabási paper is the more general implications for our scientific process. I have two parallel trains of thought: 1) We all know that we hav
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by dlan1000 11y ago
I believe you are thinking of the retarded potential http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retarded_potential
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by dlan1000 14y ago
I'd amend this to "tell me about an academic publication that you've been a major contributing author". Depending on the field and circumstances first author doesn't mean the same thing.
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by dlan1000 14y ago
Which part exactly are you contesting?
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by dlan1000 15y ago
The basic technology for this has been around for years (e.g., the logitech digipen), though I think this latest iteration is the first to add pressure sensitivity. I've always wanted one of these (back when I was getting my physics PhD, I
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by dlan1000 15y ago
I suppose it's easy to assert that a site is immune to ES when it's in its infancy-- the argument made here is that HN's niche hardcore basis protects it, but the same argument could have been made for reddit 5 years ago, a case which they
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by dlan1000 15y ago
As oft-cited as it is and as much as I hate to resort to it, I think Robert Frost said it better: "Two paths diverged in a yellow wood..."
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by dlan1000 15y ago
Sorry, so the argument is: other research costs are expensive in some fields, thereby high spending is prestigious, thereby access to publications ought to be expensive so that fields that lack more direct expenses can seem comparable ? Th
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by dlan1000 15y ago
may be minor compared to other use, but I bet it accounts for a fair proportion of the time to page render.
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by dlan1000 15y ago
Sure the relative lost efficiency from that extra 20kb may be
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by dlan1000 15y ago
The advantages and disadvantages the author cites seem more pertinent to his own idiosyncratic preferences than to more general features one might look for when doing interactive data analysis. They also seem easy to address. For exampl
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by dlan1000 15y ago
Topological properties of an individual (such as network degree or betweeness centrality) are not necessarily predictive of influence. The author acknowledge this and suggests observation of peer response to messages sent by FB on behalf o
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by dlan1000 15y ago
Beyond managing your identity/s, the most compelling notion this brings to my mind is that sites should reduce transmission of redundant data: You specify the structure once then only the data is transmitted (what someone else referred to a