robertskmiles

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by robertskmiles 5y ago
> What a nice surprise to see my project turn up here Same!
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by robertskmiles 11y ago
Looks like they have a LaTeX macro or something that's putting a newline after every instance of the word CogPrime in the intro, and a space after each in the main text. It's actually kind of distracting to read. I think the xspac
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by robertskmiles 11y ago
I've just started at a place that uses a lot of Tcl for embedded scripting and customisation, and I've never used it before so this was very handy. That said, the document needs work - the syntax highlighting got very confused at
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by robertskmiles 11y ago
The big question for me is, can this paper be produced cheaply enough to be more effective per dollar than whatever our current best intervention for clean water is? My totally uninformed speculation is they're in with a shot if they c
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by robertskmiles 13y ago
Looks like a very promising concept, at least from a technical perspective. I don't rate its chances of success all that highly, since it needs a lot of buy-in before it gets enough network effects, but it's nice to see someone ge
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by robertskmiles 13y ago
Regarding storage, I've read some interesting things about the potential of electric vehicles here. If every car were electric, that's a massive array of large efficient batteries connected to the grid. If utility companies charge
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by robertskmiles 13y ago
To be clear, you're singling out a specific algorithm and offering a 1000USD, even money bet that it will be used by the winner?
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by robertskmiles 13y ago
Security, and backups .
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by robertskmiles 13y ago
> we voted for this Not really. Claire Perry was elected as Conservative Member of Parliament for the constituency of Devizes in Wiltshire. Devizes has elected a Conservative candidate in every single election since 1924, so running for
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by robertskmiles 13y ago
Well, gold does have actual value for its industrial and aesthetic applications.
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by robertskmiles 13y ago
If you have a reader, download the ebook from https://github.com/joshleitzel/rawthought . I read it not long ago, and it's one of the most interesting books I've ever read.
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by robertskmiles 13y ago
> I would be a bit worried to eat one that cost over 10x less and the seller was still able to make a profit. A lot of supermarkets, at least in the UK, sell various basic foodstuffs as loss leaders[1], so they are making a significant
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by robertskmiles 13y ago
> This premise assumes we understand, with no uncertainty, how the human body functions and utilizes nutrients. It really doesn't. Whatever knowledge we do have can be applied, with whatever degree of certainty we have, and that is like
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by robertskmiles 13y ago
As an Englishman I must say that it really does bother me when people attempt to write or talk in the manner they imagine an English gentleman might. It always feels quite stilted, particularly in the not-quite-correct usage of unnecessaril
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by robertskmiles 13y ago
I'm almost certain that you cannot 3D print functioning LEGO bricks. Considering they're plastic, those things are manufactured to extremely fine tolerances.
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by robertskmiles 13y ago
By the way, Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One is great fun, and you should read it.
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by robertskmiles 13y ago
Funny how things can come full-circle > "On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in raw mode, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the control and meta keys on both sides of the keyboard. This was v
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
I think Aaron Swartz hit the nail on the head with his "What Does Google Mean by “Evil”?" blog post[1]: > "They specifically name three: showing irrelevant ads, using pop-ups or other annoying gimmicks, and selling off actual search res
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
For reference, there are places where this kind of MEDC recreational wood-burning is illegal, and it is easily enforceable without causing other problems. For example (I'm not sure of the specifics), but wood-burning is illegal in built-up
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
> to refer to UX... tropes (what word would you use here? Motif? Probably 'pattern', I guess. I agree, I think it's a very practical new usage which doesn't introduce much ambiguity elsewhere, so I'm all for it.
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
Seems to me that this app doesn't use any advanced android features, so requiring android 4.0 is needlessly excluding a lot of potential customers. Edit: Almost 60% of android users, in fact. [1] [1]: http://developer.android.com/about/das
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
Right. There are at least two different types of 'smarter'. Thinking speed is one dimension on which a mind can scale, but not the only one. A moderately competent chess player may play at grand-master level if given centuries of dedicated
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
Right. I've said this before, and I'll say it again. Do not take advice from Sherlock Homes , because he is fictional and thus can be no smarter than his creator, a man who quite literally believed in fairies , and could not be persuade
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
I don't think anyone is claiming that, just that it is a good introduction to the principles.
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
Reminds me very strongly of a simpler (and in my opinion more elegant) notation that I have been using for a long time: http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/collaboration_made_simple_wi...
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
A human explorer probably wouldn't have seen it though; it's really tiny. The reason this was seen at all is that the high resolution images are being looked over by a large number of people on Earth. NASA themselves didn't even spot it. (H
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
"Fox News Publishes Crap" is not really news.
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
Cambridge rules have a number of places 'Out of Bounds', for "reasons of sanity and safety", which includes all lecture theatres. I think that's a good rule, since lectures don't get disrupted and you can pay attention, knowing you're safe.
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
It seems that Amazon's Kindle ebook reader doesn't support the epub format. It would probably be a good idea to include another ebook format as well, like mobipocket.
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
Huh, I wrote a little tool to keep track of my own command line snippets ages ago, also called `cheat`. I guess that's the natural name for it.

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