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by pcc 3y ago
Fun little exercise: while reading above, see what happens when mentally substituting “magic” with “AI”, words like “enchantments” with “algorithms” and so on.
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by pcc 3y ago
Wondering if its perhaps two different subsets of people, with differing opinions that haven’t so much shifted, as that primarily just one’s been highly motivated to engage at a time? (In the same way that say surveys might draw disproport
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by pcc 3y ago
I don't feel as if there was so much of a dominant paradigm back in 1987, when RISC OS first came out, at least not outside of the US? I recall that period more as a melting pot of ideas and approaches from lots of manufacturers indepe
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by pcc 3y ago
I'm not advocating any side here, I'm simply relaying what is actually happening on the ground, because the prevailing opinion here seems to be getting shaped by a very selective cherry picking of ideas that don't represent t
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by pcc 3y ago
Seems like a lot of vitriol and misunderstanding in these comments, so a few thoughts as someone directly affected by the McDougall Creek fire. Imagine you run a business, doesn’t matter what kind. Prospects look up your service on, say, Go
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by pcc 3y ago
With acoustic instruments, sympathetic resonance can play a big role in the overall colour, because eg unplayed undamped strings also respond according to their harmonic likeness to the presence of other excited frequencies. For example, on
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by pcc 3y ago
IANAL but also there is a specific list of classes (categories) that have to be selected from when seeking to register a trademark, design mark etc and afaik protection then applies only within those categories. In this case they have appli
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by pcc 5y ago
Wondering if anyone on this thread who’s felt this way has been able to try out biphasic sleep and can report if it made a difference? The idea of a “second sleep” after an hour or so awake seems to be gaining prevalence in popular media a
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by pcc 5y ago
OT, but for months already, Googling for "ngn/k" also displays a totally non-sensical calculator result, with no apparent way to report, like: 1 Nigerian naira / Boltzmann constant = 1.75931815 × 10^20 m^-2 kg^-1 s^2 K U
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by pcc 6y ago
If memory serves that also involved an expired certificate
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by pcc 6y ago
As the parent of a violinist and a violist, I find the role of the teacher for aspects like holding the instrument, to be less like "teaching" and much more like "debugging". Kids grow, and every person's body is di
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by pcc 7y ago
Yes it's very much mechanically possible to use 2 pedals on the piano at the same time; it's not actually that uncommon. For organists, these days pipe organs are usually outfit with a sequencer that allows the organist to program
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by pcc 8y ago
Canadian customers paying in USD: I think it depends on the type of market and product. We've found competitive advantage in offering CAD pricing stability to our Canadian customers (B2B, both services and physical goods). SR&ED: W
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by pcc 8y ago
Hi pgg; fellow Canadian here, have been in somewhat similar position; feel free to reach out (email is in profile). Will this be a services business (e.g. consulting/work for hire) or selling of products/services? There are many f
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by pcc 8y ago
Wiener/LMS filter
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by pcc 8y ago
As a sidebar, the US has its own 'supply management'-style policies in place for markets like sugar, where Canada's access was limited to 0.1% of the market, pre-USMCA. [0] I wonder what will end having greater economic impac
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by pcc 12y ago
A significant factor, which is perhaps not brought up often enough, is the implicit assumption that everything is always going to be 100% linear. In the textbook case, more than 16 bits per sample might just seem to lower the noise floor.
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by pcc 13y ago
'Unschooling' is an educational method/philosophy. Rather than the conventional approach of defined courses / curricula, it encourages exploration of activities initiated by the children themselves, and learning through
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by pcc 14y ago
In principle anyone with eligible work can apply. Its even possible for unincorporated individuals to claim SR&ED on personal tax. I would recommend though that you go to one of the public info sessions held in your area, since there a
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by pcc 14y ago
CRA at their info sessions will tell you that they don't understand why more people don't just write their own claims. I think people looking at it from the outside, or for the first time, easily feel intimidated ("its the taxman!"). The re
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by pcc 14y ago
Its also worth noting that SR&ED (specifically the ED part which is typically applicable to startups), only cares that you are seeking, systematically and in the face of technical uncertainty, for technical advancement within your organ
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by pcc 14y ago
And also it can work out to a fair bit more than 20 - 35% -- especially if you can use the proxy method for overhead expenses.
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by pcc 14y ago
This has not been my experience at all, over the past few years. Go to an info session to find out exactly what CRA's eligibility rules are. It is not that difficult to apply. Generally I have found their attitude to be "the money is ther
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by pcc 14y ago
Disagree completely about (5) in the context of SR&ED in Canada. It is actually pretty easy -- you might spend a few days out of a whole year to pull it together, and get back back 2/3 of your R&D expenditure. Surprised that more s
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by pcc 14y ago
Really surprised by all the negative comments around (5) here. With SR&ED its possible to get back a substantial amount (like 2/3) of the money you invested into development. Another way of looking at it, is that it's like doing your d
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by pcc 14y ago
Yes generally you do. But you are only obligated to make source available to parties to whom you distribute the binaries you've built. Typically a web app that generates and serves html, would not be 'distributing' the derivative work, so
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by pcc 15y ago
He was talking about companies in general tweaking linux for their particular uses. Indeed, if you focus on the preceding bit about Google's in-house linux for their own servers, then there would be no distribution and arguably GPL2 could n
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by pcc 15y ago
If you copy or distribute the derivate work in either object code or executable form, you are obliged to make the source available. Arguably anyone who has a phone, has had a copy in executable form distributed to them, and can ask for the
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by pcc 15y ago
> Any computer program could be performed with pencil and paper, by getting a big file folder to simulate RAM, indexing it by numbers, and performing assembly instructions by hand with post-it notes as registers Indeed. But surely if t
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by pcc 15y ago
ianal, but would it not stand to reason that if the algorithmic method exists to incorporate/address computability specifically; then by implication the "human mind/pen&paper" criteria could only pass if performable under the same const

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