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by lliiffee 6y ago
On a related note, I had a very early account (probably one of the first 1000 on the site). Years later reddit said they lost some laptop with account info, and so they reset all the passwords. My account was from before there was email. My
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by lliiffee 6y ago
I was surprised to learn recently that there is a cheap and easy to take action that will reduce your exposure to air pollution while driving: Replace your passenger-compartment air filter with a HEPA filter! Most cars made in the last 15 y
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In Defense of Meyers Briggs(dynomight.home.blog)
3 points by lliiffee 6y ago|0 comments
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by lliiffee 6y ago
I was a little apprehensive, but decided to try this. I called my representative as well as both senators. In all cases (3:30pm on a thursday) I just got a voicemail. I left a short message in each case. Nothing could be easier.
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by lliiffee 7y ago
Would you mind elaborating? I'd love to hear more.
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by lliiffee 8y ago
Honest question: what if those self-driving cars have multiple people in them? With 4 people you quadruple the throughput, and this seems technically achievable with technology. Minivans and the like go further. I certainly haven't run
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by lliiffee 8y ago
Some feedback -- this looks great! I'd love to have some kind of (la)tex support.
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by lliiffee 8y ago
I sympathize, but do keep in mind that it would be very difficult to teach all the math at the same time. Imagine trying to run a course in French on analytic philosophy. If your students didn't know much French coming in, you'd b
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by lliiffee 9y ago
Just a reminder, I'm still eagerly awaiting this-- I check your site everyday! :)
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by lliiffee 9y ago
Any way you could make this available outside the Mac App store? Apple seems to have decided I did something horrible and unforgivable by moving to a different country after creating an account, thus making it impossible for me to use the s
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by lliiffee 9y ago
To be a little optimistic, it does seem to me that the ESTA system (where an electronic check is done for visitors looking to use the visa waiver program before they travel) has greatly reduced these types of situations. However, ESTA is on
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by lliiffee 9y ago
To build on fny's answer, there is one school of statistics (Bayesian statistics) where there basically is a "right" way to do analysis for any problem, provided you make the necessary assumptions (likelihood and prior) corre
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by lliiffee 9y ago
I'm sure they would! But there's a pretty strong argument it's a step in the right direction. Actually, this link makes a more modest proposal that papers should report likelihoods rather than p-values. This avoids reported
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by lliiffee 9y ago
For those who might not realize how amazing this is, take a look at how you can do these things manually: https://tminka.github.io/papers/matrix/minka-matrix.pdf
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Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983(twitter.com)
3 points by lliiffee 9y ago|0 comments
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by lliiffee 9y ago
Could you give more details about how you combined these? I'm aware of both of these tools, but wasn't sure how they could be used together. At the moment I heavily use mosh which is pretty much perfect aside from the fact that it
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by lliiffee 9y ago
I believe that LLVM 6 has finally introduced this, e.g. see http://llvm.org/docs/Vectorizers.html#vectorization-of-funct...
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by lliiffee 9y ago
Would you mind sharing which tablet you bought? I had the idea this still wasn't practical!
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by lliiffee 9y ago
I think you're making the argument that with more guns, countries tend to have fewer gun deaths per gun. This makes sense, casually. However, I doubt that anyone cares about the number of gun murders per gun, but rather the total numbe
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by lliiffee 9y ago
The project cost £1.66m. With a total of 83 residents, that's about $25,000 per person. It would be interesting to compare this to the total investment needed for a typical non-renewable power infrastructure. This doesn't seem out
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by lliiffee 10y ago
Can anyone explain the logic behind having lots of small batteries, rather than the power company buying a Big Battery and offering this as a service? Two reasons occur to me: 1. Situations off the grid or with unreliable power (eg blackout
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by lliiffee 10y ago
They prevent that by hosting it somewhere that no one can find it's associated with you. Not saying that's ethical, but it does prevent immediate harm to your brand, unless people somehow remembered on clicking the link when they
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by lliiffee 10y ago
Note that the machines have many tolerances that can be set to trade-off theft vs. annoyance of the customer. (E.g. the product weight when placed in the bagging area.) The machines can we way less annoying when they are set to be more trus
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by lliiffee 10y ago
It's a massive book, but it really is very entertaining as well. Give the first chapter a go, and if you're totally sucked in and laughing, you might be just glad that the book is as big as it is. If you aren't enjoying it on
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by lliiffee 10y ago
Would you mind sharing any more details about the attempted blackmail?
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by lliiffee 10y ago
That's a good point, but it also seems strongly correlated with those that run ad/privacy blockers. (Even with such a blocker, perhaps the data collected is still valuable, though?) My instinct is that by selling an ad and trackin
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by lliiffee 10y ago
I definitely see your point! I guess there is a place for algorithms at any point on the easy/good trade-off.
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by lliiffee 10y ago
You could periodically delete the wasted space. I think that if you, say, delete the wasted space when it is equal to the used space, you still still have O(1) amortized time.
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by lliiffee 10y ago
Taxis are craaaazily expensive in Japan. (The quality of service is high though, which perhaps you were referring to.)
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by lliiffee 10y ago
It seems unlikely-- in order to be true, computer science majors would need to actually have higher income with degrees from less competitive schools.

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