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by stbullard 3mo ago
In addition to everything everyone else has said: their math is off by half (or 100%, depending on how you count), due to a structural error. (context: native English speaker, big reader, huge nerd, perfect SAT score) I got all 100 correct
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by stbullard 5mo ago
Also, I'd like to see the inverse of it: a model trained only on the last few weeks - or even minutes - of published information, or only on scientific papers published in the last year or two. Should present some interesting psychoses
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by stbullard 5mo ago
USER: What will the future hold for computers? TALKIE-1930: Computers in the future may be employed in offices where calculations are required to be made, and where the nature of the business does not demand a very high degree of knowledge.
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by stbullard 1y ago
Arrow shafts: $5-10 for a ~30”-long, high-precision high-modulus carbon tube.
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by stbullard 2y ago
Could they have crashed it because of security/safety concerns for President-elect Trump, who was there as a surprise guest, watching the launch with Elon? Per NYTimes: “It was pretty epic on Attempt 1,” Kate Tice, a senior quality eng
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by stbullard 2y ago
Misleading/clickbait “journalism”: * The FARS data is “normalized” by unpublished internal iSeeCars estimates of miles driven; the underlying “study” is a marketing blog post for their company. * FARS data distinguishes between driver
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by stbullard 3y ago
Nothing in this article gives any reason to believe that the voice on the other end of the phone was AI-generated. Occam’s razor suggests it was more likely a human pretending to be her daughter. I’m guessing after she realized that the voi
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by stbullard 4y ago
Lol. At SJC? Almost always a value-add. That said, what people are like once they’re out very much depends on the person. Think of it like the light and dark sides of the force: skill in rhetoric can just as easily be used to derail convers
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by stbullard 4y ago
True, but the name of the school predates the curriculum in question by more than a century; the school has for many years been in no way associated with any religion. (Likewise, at its founding in 1696, the college was called King William’
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by stbullard 4y ago
The College offers a Master’s degree in Eastern Classics, applying the same approach to a literary tradition which, while it intersects with and interacts with the Western tradition, easily also stands on its own: https://www.sjc
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by stbullard 4y ago
RE 3: as an SJC alum, I found my reading speed slowed drastically both during and after four years spent reading and discussing these books. I found myself thinking while reading more often, making more connections within and between work
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by stbullard 7y ago
I for one would love to see HN do a quarterly/yearly FOSS project donation drive. The more we can do to encourage the development, maintenance, and improvement of tools we all use and sometimes take for granted, the better!
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by stbullard 7y ago
How “hidden” the importance of proprioception is in a sport depends on the sport. In archery, improving proprioception (not strength or visual acuity) is the primary object of training.
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Ask HN: What technologies are you thankful for?
5 points by stbullard 7y ago|7 comments
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by stbullard 11y ago
As a non-YC founder living in SF, I'm really disappointed by this answer. Above, you mentioned a "bandaid" solution of increasing funding for YC founders to account for skyrocketing rent - but this only exacerbates the proble
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by stbullard 11y ago
/ checks date
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Tinder introduces verified profiles for celebrities and public figures(blog.gotinder.com)
2 points by stbullard 11y ago|0 comments
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by stbullard 11y ago
Wow! And XKCD has already updated his epic Landing live-comic: https://xkcd.com/1446/ (See http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1446:_Landing for the background)
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by stbullard 11y ago
For a brief overview of ideal arrow flexion, see http://archery.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/KNSU-...
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by stbullard 11y ago
The majority of Twitter's revenue comes from mobile ads, and app install ads are a major component of that major component. Knowing what apps you do or don't have installed allows them to better target app install ads, and I imagi
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by stbullard 12y ago
Nope - as I recall, it was a short film, around 15 minutes long.
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by stbullard 12y ago
There was a short film about just that premise recently - only the cosmonaut landed on a farm in the US, and is discovered by a father and son. Wish I could remember the name!
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by stbullard 12y ago
If anyone is as confused by the title as I was: googling "Bradbury Pomegranate" pulled up an interview[1] in which he explains the metaphor in the context of his writing: Weller: “Do you ever marvel at how much you’ve created?” (
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Twitter announces Flock dev conference world tour, global startup contest(thenextweb.com)
2 points by stbullard 12y ago|0 comments
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Apple announces 9/9 event with tagline “Wish we could say more”(loopinsight.com)
2 points by stbullard 12y ago|1 comments
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by stbullard 12y ago
They did: theirs is called Scumblr. Scum != Scrum.
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by stbullard 12y ago
Clickable: http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/08a2dg/vint-cerf-pt--1 Part 2: http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/x9hnxr/vint-cerf-pt--2
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by stbullard 13y ago
Sadly, it would appear Beverlin died just a few weeks after the publication of that article. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/floridatoday/obituary.aspx?... http://www.legacy.com/guestbook/dig
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by stbullard 13y ago
Unless your business is clothing; see http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_South_Butt
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by stbullard 13y ago
Not knowing Middleman, I initially read the title (currently "Three Middleman Hacks We’re Using On This Site") as "Three Man-in-the-Middle hacks We're Using on This Site. Risky click!

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