sbayless

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by sbayless 13y ago
>> 300,000 Canadians in the Bay Area... This represents nearly 10% of the entire population of Canada. Canada's population is ~33 million, so that would be about 1%, not 10%. Still a surprisingly big number, though.
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by sbayless 15y ago
Thats a good point. What if, instead of shutting down completely, wikipedia shuts down for just one day every week (say, each Monday). That way, people will continue using the site most of the time, instead of adapting by switching to some
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by sbayless 15y ago
Hmm, I don't actually think chebyshev applies (in a meaningful way) in this context. 3.5 sigmas refers to the probability of the observation being significant, not the average mass of the higgs. Or did I misunderstand what you meant? As an
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by sbayless 15y ago
Whenever I read these types of speculative predictions from the past, I always get the urge to chuckle at the things they inevitably missed, or the sillier predictions - but tempered by the ways we have failed to live up to their dreams. (A
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by sbayless 15y ago
Do you think you could you link to that bug? I just upgraded to 11.10, I don't have a /run directory, and I did have some boot problems that I worked around. (A google search didn't turn anything up.) Edit: My mistake, after rebooting, this
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by sbayless 15y ago
And Google news, docs, calendar. Not the Google search pages though, since key presses are intercepted by the search bar.
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by sbayless 15y ago
Babbage is the name of the blog: http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage From the description: "The blog takes its name from Charles Babbage" So I presume it refers to the author.
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by sbayless 15y ago
I second Diaspora; his vivid description of artificial intelligence is worth the read by itself. Egan's stuff divides evenly into near-future and distant future science fiction; the distant future stuff tends to be very abstract. His latest
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by sbayless 15y ago
I don't think the claim was that the 'ripoff' icon was literally copied from the original, just that the concept for the site - right down to the concept for the favicon - were copied. But I salute your sleuthing, none-the-less.
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by sbayless 15y ago
According to Wikipedia, he dropped out of graduate school at MIT.