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by obfuscate 14y ago
And it's a shame that postulating genetic group selection is so attractive, since ISTM that this is a very plausible case of group selection of memes about male and female tasks.
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by obfuscate 14y ago
There's a huge difference between molecule-scale quantum chemical phenomena (as in photosynthesis) and quantum computation. Finding the former in the brain would be very cool, but it wouldn't be terribly surprising or revolutionize cognitiv
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by obfuscate 15y ago
It's simple semantics with confusing behavior.
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by obfuscate 15y ago
The inconsistency is because, in the generator-expression case, the calls to f() are being interleaved with the iterations of the generator (so the closed-over variable has the 'correct' value when f() is called). If you change this by runn
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by obfuscate 15y ago
I've done this using select.
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by obfuscate 15y ago
Er, RDS is (a) SQL (b) backed by EBS.
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by obfuscate 15y ago
`lsof' is a nice front-end to this particular usage of /proc, and also works on other Unixes (/proc is, I think, a Linux innovation, and absent at least on OS X).
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by obfuscate 15y ago
It requires neither.
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by obfuscate 15y ago
> That the US's implementation of this law is heavily lopsided in favor of the patent trolls doesn't change the fact that patents incentivize innovation. (Whether they're effective or not is another debate.) Moving the goalposts.
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by obfuscate 15y ago
You can't sever a word from its connotations just by pointing out exceptions.
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by obfuscate 15y ago
Mountain View, CA: Quixey (dev/QA/UX, full-time or intern) http://www.quixey.com/about , http://www.quixey.com/jobs Quixey is a small startup (private beta, immediately pre-launch) building a search engine for apps across all platforms (
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by obfuscate 15y ago
Many instance types have 2 or 4 virtual disks (presumably on different physical disks).
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by obfuscate 15y ago
> calculate its Total Cost of Downtime (which probably isn't very complex for many companies) Not complex even factoring in reputational damage?
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by obfuscate 15y ago
Not sure what you had in mind by "large", but instance storage goes up to 1.7TB: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/
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by obfuscate 15y ago
I think which physical data center "us-east-1a" etc. corresponds to differs from user to user, to load-balance given that people will probably be more likely to use 1a than the other zones.
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by obfuscate 15y ago
> Why are people's identities so tied to spinning metal vs flash storage? In this case, probably because the original article was needlessly confrontational.
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by obfuscate 16y ago
Were both in the same availability zone?
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by obfuscate 16y ago
For a data set in the mere tens to hundreds of GB (in MongoDB, if anyone's curious), is there any reason I shouldn't conclude from this that I should use instance storage only (with multi-AZ replication and backups to S3, both of which I wo
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by obfuscate 16y ago
Well, they can assign reported history of drug use correctly. Do they do anything similar to correct for lying, or just label their data as "self-reports of drug use"?
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by obfuscate 16y ago
It seems obvious that both motivations are often present.
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by obfuscate 16y ago
> But you can ignore all of that if you put them all in a big bucket called "meta-contrarianism" and write their views off. I don't see the article doing this, though it could certainly be used that way ( http://lesswrong.com/lw/he/know
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by obfuscate 16y ago
Integer factorization is also in BQP due to Shor, no?
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by obfuscate 16y ago
Selective (private/charter/magnet) high schools. Otherwise, yeah.
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by obfuscate 16y ago
> D) This is trivially, factually incorrect. A 3GHz P4 is cheaper today (in absolute or relative terms) than it was when it was brand new. A Core 2 Duo will give you better performance/dollar than a P4 (which was better than a P3, whic
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by obfuscate 16y ago
> While processing power has grown exponentially the cost of fabricating that technology has continued to increase faster than world GDP. Note that "Singularity" doesn't always refer to exponential growth ( http://yudkowsky.net/singul
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by obfuscate 16y ago
> There are any number of threats to our species far more urgent and reality-based than xenocide by a weakly godlike post-singularity AI. Is this belief based on your familiarity with and assessment of the best(1) arguments(2) for and
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by obfuscate 16y ago
> Humans don't follow a 24 hour feeding schedule, as it happens. Regardless, I would think that instability of results under seemingly minor variations in conditions for rats suggests we should drastically reduce our confidence in any g
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by obfuscate 17y ago
"Now I have another very important point to make. Errors in base pairing, also known as mutations- are usually very very good. Why? Because 1/3 of errors are bad, 1/3 do absolutely nothing, and 1/3 are good and provide benefits. That means
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by obfuscate 17y ago
"an inexplicably moronic hit app" Tip: Empathy is easier if you don't describe the people you're trying to empathize with using negative-affect terms.
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by obfuscate 17y ago
"I'm perfectly capable of inserting all the necessary disclaimers, but I left them out for readability." If enough people are distracted by their annoyance at un-disclaimed overgeneralizations, you haven't actually increased readability.

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