mikedmiked

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by mikedmiked 11y ago
This is what I do. I actually made a bookmarklet with the following pasted into the URL, so you can do it in a single click: javascript:void(open(' https://archive.is/?run=1&url='+encodeURIComponent(document....
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by mikedmiked 11y ago
Forbes website shows a blank page if you are using adblockers or noscript or some other extensions. Open the link in an incognito window and it will work.
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by mikedmiked 11y ago
When you are learning C++ at that kind of speed its natural that you will have to lubricate yourself to reduce risk of injury
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by mikedmiked 11y ago
+1 for DataTau, I didn't know about that. http://www.datatau.com/ Check out this too: http://www.pyquantnews.com/
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by mikedmiked 11y ago
Less detail than I hoped but a lot of sources. Be wary of tCDS - no long term studies. Also 'no such thing as a free lunch' - see gwern : http://www.gwern.net/Drug%20heuristics Not included and should be: very bri
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by mikedmiked 11y ago
Looks great, thanks for this. Some of us are going to be putting our own on http://reddit.com/r/deepdream
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by mikedmiked 11y ago
Controls on speech were necessary for Singapore to move from a third world country to a first world one in just 30 years
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by mikedmiked 11y ago
The right wing news sources I read made it look bulletproof that she was manipulating things and would lose. I didn't even read the tech news as SV has a crazy liberal bias. Steve sailer had nailed a good analysis right from the start
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by mikedmiked 12y ago
> 1 in a million company with a 1000x return Sounds like a terrible expected ROI ;)
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by mikedmiked 13y ago
Thanks for all your insight here in this thread. I went through all this myself and haven't really been able to talk about it. Its reassuring to see others have been through the same. My psychopath convinced everyone I had psychosis wh
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by mikedmiked 14y ago
> created a loop in the comment tree; I caused an item to be its own grandchild. Ah, the online forum equivalent of going back in time to kill your grandfather.
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by mikedmiked 14y ago
> continue their trajectory Nice.
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by mikedmiked 14y ago
Its a type of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativist_fallacy
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by mikedmiked 14y ago
Finally somebody I can get behind; we need to get this guy into office. Does anyone know of any other examples of if-by-whiskey being used today? Is it useful for politicians or would it completely backfire, where any opposition would try t
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by mikedmiked 14y ago
Is it possible to stream from the glasses? If so then a criminal would be deincentivised to murder a witness wearing the glasses - as everything they have seen is already online. Of course it would take a few years of people getting shot by
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by mikedmiked 14y ago
Half the front page of today's The Times in the UK is a picture of Zuckerberg. Though I think it might be more to do with giving the paper a "we're down with tech" image.
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by mikedmiked 14y ago
The current top comment by Matt Mullen is being upvoted at a rate of about 3 votes/second! He appears to work at discus - did he use admin powers to comment on the article? edit: "Tom Cruise • a few seconds ago I paid you for this?! Thats n
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by mikedmiked 14y ago
Its numbing how you don't realise how much somebody on the other side of the world has affected your life until you find out until something tragic enough happens to them that it makes the news...
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by mikedmiked 14y ago
> I, for one, don't care Goddamnit, have some sensitivity, he only just died and many people on here know him personally. If this is a troll then why don't you go reevaluate your priorities in life? Take some magic mushrooms and think a
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by mikedmiked 14y ago
FYI: you can connect regular lego with duplo!
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by mikedmiked 14y ago
Even if the topic is not something you care about the techniques and methods gwern uses are not often talked about here and useful for a variety of text processing tasks. His methodical analysis and scientific rigor is always what I wish ot
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by mikedmiked 14y ago
No no no, 3 is yellow, didn't you get the memo? This is what it was for me when I was about 7 (no mental illness): 1- Red - Sharpness 2- Blue - Blunt/powerful 3- Yellow - Soft 4- Green 6- Orange 7- Purple 9- Black 11-19- Shiny/Metallic colo
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by mikedmiked 14y ago
> I have to buy clothes made for fat people and just deal with the extra room in the midsection. You should honestly consider learning some basic tailoring. I'm starting it myself - I buy 'vintage' clothes from charity shops and most w
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by mikedmiked 14y ago
> And he's the guy who calls the shots. When a child grows into a teenager it becomes harder to blame the father for their actions.
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by mikedmiked 14y ago
Just wanted to say thanks for this great post. I've not heard this viewpoint and now need to swot up on it. Glad there are optimists wrt the possible impending class divide.
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by mikedmiked 14y ago
We are at a stage now where its becoming easier to automate medium difficulty tasks (things like general office paper work - the lower-end white collar jobs) but we cant automate some 'easier' 'blue-collar' things like cleaning toilets and
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by mikedmiked 14y ago
> Who remembers when those people extracted the debug codes from the ROM that let you actually get the eggs, on the n64 version? I'm so glad somebody else remembers that. It was years after the game came out, and was perhaps just a side
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by mikedmiked 14y ago
Yes! I thought I would never find this again! Thank you so much!
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by mikedmiked 14y ago
How does prismatic actually use NLP for finding articles you like? Does it use sentiment analysis of reviews from people it thinks are similar to you? Btw I think "subreddits on steroids" is an incredible testimonial catchphrase - it would
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by mikedmiked 14y ago
Can you think of any good ways of finding these niches and things within them? How did your friend find his? I guess you need to make friends in 'hard' industries and talk to them a lot? There are also meetups for "unsexy startups" starting

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