murrayh

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by murrayh 5y ago
I was a test subject for someone's PHD on this. AFAIR it was about identifying the part of the brain that is responsible for aborting actions. Like if you decide to pickup a pan, and then notice the handle is hot, some people can'
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by murrayh 6y ago
This is the paradox of tolerance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance Each of Chicago Review's two choices (to publish, or not to publish) will generate disapproval. My personal view is that deplatf
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by murrayh 7y ago
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by murrayh 12y ago
My understanding is that the motor pulls the card in using random speeds which vary as the card is getting sucked in (start sucking, slow, fast, slow, fast, etc, fully sucked in). The machine knows how to account for the variance, but the s
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by murrayh 12y ago
Oh man, I feel for you. If you want to and are legally able, you can send the sample work to me and I will review it for you. (I am firmly settled in a different country -- zero chance of application plagiarism).
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by murrayh 12y ago
Isn't that exactly what a nap is? Does your awareness reduce? It's hard to notice a change in awareness. Sometimes I notice a transition from haziness to attention when a sound draws my attention. My understanding is that the hazi
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by murrayh 13y ago
It is worth noting that the unintelligible accent issue is context dependent. A native English speaker can be the person with an unintelligible accent, and that person may need to work on their communication skills in order to have influenc
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by murrayh 16y ago
Interesting. Could a better-than-O(n) parallelisable tuple space be implemented with something like skip lists?
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by murrayh 16y ago
I still don't understand. What makes the XML version better than the JSON version? Why is creating XML like that a good solution, while creating JSON like that is not?
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by murrayh 16y ago
How about this? <Foo1 name="foo1"> <Bar1 name="bar1"/> </Foo1> <Foo2 name="foo2"> <Bar2 name="bar2"/> </Foo2> [["Foo1", {"name" : "foo1"}, [ ["B
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by murrayh 16y ago
Heh, just what I need, a new toy to play with! I spent a few hours looking into Ragel over the weekend, and, honestly, I can't envisage how a html5 parser mostly written in Ragel would look. But I'm going to give it a crack.
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by murrayh 16y ago
Just for kicks, I am going to try and implement these two algorithms using using the State Machine Compiler ( http://smc.sourceforge.net/ ). I expect that my "code" will be much less than 10,000 lines, although I don't really know how long
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by murrayh 16y ago
Melbourne, Australia (not really able to move). I have over 4 years experience developing commercial win32 C++ software. I like to read programming books like "Programming Erlang", "On Lisp" and "Real World Haskell". I would love to help de
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by murrayh 16y ago
You can prevent caching optimisations by declaring a variable 'volatile' ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volatile_variable ).
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by murrayh 17y ago
The differences aren't invented. I see them every day within my own family. My Dad literally argues with himself out loud. I used to think he was arguing with me, but he's not, because now I just remain silent and the argument still happens
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by murrayh 17y ago
Sorry, I should have explained myself. The literal interpretation of the challenge is a paradox. The contradiction is that a secret is no longer a secret once revealed (hence my comment). I don't think that is what you were trying to convey
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by murrayh 17y ago
I see a flaw in your challenge...
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by murrayh 17y ago
Maybe after World War 3 the new global government will search through the 25 year old database and exterminate all past and present believers of <some religion>. (Yes, I know, plain text emails to hotmail/gmail recipients would prob
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by murrayh 17y ago
How long is the survey?
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by murrayh 17y ago
If you brake really hard, you're probably going to decelerate at around 7 m/s2. 25 MPH / 7 m/s2 ~= 1.6 seconds. If you get caught running a redlight, you went through the intersection > 0.5 seconds after the light turned red, which is a
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by murrayh 17y ago
My Dad uses bing.com, because that's the default. My Dad often clicks on ads. I think the Google OS is just a way to make google.com the default for people like my Dad.
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by murrayh 17y ago
Each bid is an independent gamble - one bid buys you one chance of winning. Many bids increase your chance of winning, but do not guarantee it (bidding wars can be infinite).
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by murrayh 17y ago
No one likes to break a website, but... given the options of breaking the website's Javascript features, or letting NoScript perpetually undermine the Easylist2 filter, there wasn't much choice for Easylist2. Easylist2 has nothing to apolog
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by murrayh 17y ago
Yes, I agree that fixing ABP would have been a much better solution to the problem. At the same time though, NoScript specifically targeted ABP, so it shouldn't be that much of a surprise that ABP specifically targeted NoScript (through Eas
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by murrayh 17y ago
NoScript has for a long time automatically changed the users default choice from: "block all Google Ads" to "block all Google Ads except NoScript ones". And, the feeling I get from that blog post is that the NoScript author still considers
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by murrayh 17y ago
That was most likely the end result of the Easy List update war. Had the NoScript author not entered into such a battle, only the Ads would have been blocked.
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by murrayh 17y ago
Billboard space in our universe is unlimited (in the same sense as ad space on the Internet is unlimited) as well. Not all locations are equal, and hence there will be competition for the best locations.
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by murrayh 18y ago
I was trying to demonstrate that while the conclusion (use AI because they lose cheaper than it costs to get humans to lose) is not false, it is far too broad to be of any use. I can draw that same conclusion for any tool that humans have u
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by murrayh 18y ago
We need calculators because it's cheaper than keeping a human with you at all times to calculate sums for you. That sounds pretty silly, right?
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by murrayh 18y ago
Our knowledge of physics is uncertain, but it is not inaccurate. Perhaps absolute truth is unattainable, but we can achieve enough truth that it becomes practically equivalent to absolute truth. I haven't read any of Rand's arguments, so it

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