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by downer 19y ago
If a supercomputer can simulate a model, what would it take to simulate a supermodel ? 'Cuz that would be "handy" for me ...
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by downer 19y ago
I don't know what effect neurotransmitter precursors have on endogenous production, which is why that information would be useful so we can better judge their safety. The steroid example was to point out that there could be substantial rep
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by downer 19y ago
DUDE TEH INTARWEB JAVA SCRIPTS WERE PUT THARE BY BILL GATES FOR FREE JUST TAKE EM
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by downer 19y ago
Wow. I wish the U.S. were a Christian nation then. School half-days were a rare reprieve... those lucky kids get 'em all the time! I aPERUve.
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by downer 19y ago
Great, now I'll get 50,000 "Reduce Your Size" spams a day instead. Hmm, those could actually be useful...
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by downer 19y ago
You know you're thinking it.
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by downer 19y ago
12.5m users is pretty impressive considering what they're up against. Facebook is vulnerable. The obvious way to hijack is to pull a Facebook on Facebook itself -- ask for your FB password and then copy out all your information, and msg al
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by downer 19y ago
"Plan B (R) is not a substitute for routine birth control. It's important to remember that Plan B (R) does not protect you from HIV infection (the virus that causes AIDS) or any other sexually transmitted disease (STD)."
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by downer 19y ago
http://programming.reddit.com/info/updn/comments/
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by downer 19y ago
8-year-olds should write my code.
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by downer 19y ago
There's a converter for 2.x to 3.x. Or you can transition code by hand -- there are some differences in some places. Breaking backward compatibility just means not everything is guaranteed to work the same -- it does NOT mean that
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by downer 19y ago
Freedom? Oh oh, Million dollar idea: Time travel buddy movie with Einstein and William Wallace. Call it Brainheart. (Million dollar, as in the revenue. I.e. a complete flop.)
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by downer 19y ago
And even then, sometimes you still need Steve Jobs.
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by downer 19y ago
Yeah, Chuck Norris.
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by downer 19y ago
"Markram believes that with the state of technology today, it is possible to build an entire rat's neocortex, which is the next phase of the Blue Brain project, due to begin next year. From there, it's cats, then monkeys and finally, a hum
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Simulating Neocortical Column Of Rat Brain - IBM Blue Gene/L Supercomputer(guardian.co.uk)
7 points by downer 19y ago|6 comments
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by downer 19y ago
> Since I have a really terrible memory, I would jump on a memory drug in an instant. I also have a terrible.... umm... what's it called... Oh, look, a pony!
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by downer 19y ago
GIYF. "Dimethylaminoethanol is related to choline and is a biochemical precursor to the neurotransmitter acetylcholine" (ACh). "In the central nervous system, ACh has a variety of effects as a neuromodulator, e.g. for plasticity and excita
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by downer 19y ago
Django -- Django Reinhardt Drupal -- RuPaul?
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by downer 19y ago
In the sense that every human is one of the 7 billion best...
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by downer 19y ago
> Why do you need to maintain control? Greed? Paranoia? The idea is too complex for others to understand? (note: none of these are good reasons ;) ) Note that maintaining control is different from hoarding all the money. The peop
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by downer 19y ago
This is a very silly article. Storage gets progressively cheaper. If it costs 2^18 dollars to store it today, it'll cost $2^17 to recopy it next year, $2^16 the year after that, and so forth. Basically, if it costs N dollars today, it wil
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by downer 19y ago
Except you're storing data produced by yesteryear's computers with today's storage when you copy. Once a film is in the can it's static. Today wins.
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by downer 19y ago
That's with historical proprietary formats.
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by downer 19y ago
> "... we were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp." I've never understood that mindset. Java is about the opposite direction from Lisp.
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by downer 19y ago
2.x versions will be around for a looong time. It's not like suddenly everyone is going to switch to 3.0.
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by downer 19y ago
And my mind didn't even buy the list dinner first.
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by downer 19y ago
Only if Photoshop works live, in person.
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by downer 19y ago
Hmm. You could be a competitor. I recommend using PHP and Java.
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by downer 19y ago
Leave it to a Java programmer to extol the virtues of shell scripting. Java's really that bad, is it?

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