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by dribnet 11y ago
sorry - s.trokes.org was just a clone of bl.ocks.org with syntax highlight support for clojure. I've updated the links to blocks and the examples are working again.
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by dribnet 11y ago
I don't think you read the article - the metals were the direct result of fertilizer which would not be allowed in organic farming. The catch is that the fertilizer (coal ash) was used to grow corn and soybean animal feed (which cows c
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by dribnet 11y ago
If you've ever wondered why newlines are sometimes CR and other times CR+LF, I think Gary is part of that answer.
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by dribnet 11y ago
Around 2012 there was an edit but the first two lines were accidently removed - both the <HTML> and <HEAD> tags are now missing but later closed. This can be confirmed with internet archive. [1] vs [2] [1] http://web.
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Google patents word2vec(freepatentsonline.com)
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Why Are Eight Bits Enough for Deep Neural Networks?(petewarden.com)
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by dribnet 11y ago
That one dates from 4/2013. This one found via a recent merge-request is current to 9/2014. https://github.com/Sydcul/WhatsAPI/
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by dribnet 11y ago
Certainly you've heard a government official frame an issue he didn't like as "bad for the economy"? In the US, it's basically the first page in the playbook for both sides of the aisle because very few issues are a
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by dribnet 11y ago
GDP is like measuring calories burned without any other context. Expenditure is a means, not an end. As engineers I think we are aware of the danger of optimizing around the wrong fitness function. The GDP is used as shorthand for "the
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by dribnet 11y ago
Article fails to mention: the eyes of the squid and octopus are very similar to ours in overall structure, but are not "wired backwards". So it seems that any explanation of why backwards is actually "vision-enhancing" i
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A Recurrent Neural Network Based Alternative to Convolutional Networks(arxiv.org)
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Why I'm disappointed in React Native(reefpoints.dockyard.com)
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by dribnet 12y ago
Some context for this code can be found here [1] in Lammers' great book. Gates specifically says that "not a line of code went out that I didn't look over" for the BASIC 6502 product. At the time (1986) he said he consid
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Hardcore cascalog: dynamic queries(samritchie.io)
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by dribnet 12y ago
It's my understanding that - because of obscure constants in the git codebase - it's a bad idea to use dates before Sat, 03 Mar 1973 09:46:40 GMT because the usable git epoch is 1970 + 100000000s. More details available here: htt
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by dribnet 12y ago
Note that in the US, protections are broad and being funny doesn't matter. Legal precedent clearly states that "First Amendment protections do not apply only to those who speak clearly, whose jokes are funny, and whose parodies su
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by dribnet 12y ago
"There would be few fossil traces of these lost siblings of the Earth." Our moon is a pretty obvious reminder of Earth's lost sibling Theia. http://www.astronomy.com/news/2014/06/new-isotopic-ev
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by dribnet 12y ago
Interesting editorial decision by Jeremy to submit this today and "The Fallacy of Tiny Modules" a few weeks ago. I recommend reading both. http://hueniverse.com/2014/05/30/the-fallacy-of-tiny-modules
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by dribnet 12y ago
Yes, this was on the radar then as Y2k was still fresh in everyone's memory. [1] "S1B coming" http://tech.slashdot.org/story/01/04/17/1915221/the-quickly-... [2] "Any Billennium
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by dribnet 13y ago
"Elsewhere in northern California, a major earthquake along the subduction zone between Cape Mendocino and Vancouver Island—a region known to geologists and seismologists as Cascadia and which the Working Group gave a 10% chance of rup
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by dribnet 13y ago
Nice idea, but for me this 5 line mac-specific shell script had two errors. Did anyone actually try this? Here's a version that worked for me #!/bin/sh cd ~ curl -L --insecure https://www.atom.io/api
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by dribnet 13y ago
tl;dr: jobs: let's not hire each other's employees anymore, m-kay? colligan (Palm CEO): thanks steve, but no thanks. jobs: have you seen our patents and pile of cash, ed? you're entering a world of pain.
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by dribnet 13y ago
I find the factor theory much more plausible for 4000 years ago than the finger tip theory. Why are there 24 beers in a case? Because 2 * 3 * 4 and the geometry of efficient packing. This would have been as true then as now.
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by dribnet 13y ago
This was an interesting talk. My own interpretation was that PHP's strengths were claimed to be: 1) State => because endpoints have no persistent state 2) Concurrency => because there is no concurrency model 3) Transparency =>
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by dribnet 13y ago
Pleased to see Rich Hickey also supporting this. http://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/222990/activities
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by dribnet 13y ago
I'm glad you are familiar with industrial farming as many people are not aware of how food gets to our supermarkets. However, even in the kindest of farm environments (which, incidentally I have visited first hand) I personally find mi
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by dribnet 13y ago
Is there anything wrong with force feeding a cow corn which makes them sick, injecting them with antibiotics so that doesn't kill them, impregnating them so that they produce milk, separating them from their calf at birth (who most lik
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by dribnet 13y ago
> there's no way to grab the line number of a caller in JS But this is easily fixed by converting the function call to a macro, right? Oh wait - this isn't a ClojureScript library... so nevermind.
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by dribnet 13y ago
HN circa 1813: s/animals/slaves/g This is not meant to defend cruel people, I just want to raise a few points about slave owners. While I have only been to small plantations, I have definitely seen what some people would consider slave crue
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by dribnet 13y ago
Or Ballblazer?

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