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Decimal mark(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by tfm 9y ago|0 comments
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by tfm 9y ago
Is that the actual URL? Seems to be missing /s Marginally related: on cs.CL the other day was "Punny Captions: Witty Wordplay in Image Descriptions"[0]. A mashup of these two projects would bring us that much closer to the dr
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by tfm 9y ago
The idea is to reduce the amount of redundant copying of characters: you end up doing a few more concatenations in the outer loop, but the concatenations in the inner loop are of short strings. Importantly, if you remove the restriction of
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by tfm 9y ago
Yes, but with the caveat that you'll be running interpreted .py using a cross-compiled Python executable, rather than Python compiled to Android bytecode. Kivy itself (the project that spawned p4a) is a full cross-platform library for
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by tfm 9y ago
Fortunately the domain name is rather less ambiguous and primed me for the weak pun. I'm ... glad(?) that the wordplay survived the marketeering sessions and civil service vetting. BTW: dodecahedron is the solid object, dodecagon is th
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by tfm 10y ago
The bit that really stood out for me: """ He was never once bored. He wasn’t sure, he said, that he even understood the concept of boredom. """ Almost seems (too? as a consequence?) that he was lacking a type o
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Into the woods: how one man survived alone in the wilderness for 27 years(theguardian.com)
16 points by tfm 10y ago|3 comments
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by tfm 10y ago
> This is why I think the ability to ask good questions is a better indication of understanding and intelligence than the ability to generate answers. Certainly! Synthesis rather than reformatting (or, more commonly, regurgitation). Anal
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by tfm 10y ago
If we're limiting ourselves to deductive reasoning, then yes – the facts as stated do not give enough information to deduce that Greg must be white. If instead we use abductive inference, we might seek the simplest and most likely expl
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by tfm 10y ago
In this particular case it could be argued that Google's unofficial "don't be evil" motto explicitly framed this as a moral issue. Tongue-in-cheek, to be sure, but certainly an appeal to happy squishy emotions. That said
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by tfm 10y ago
Lena handled it very gracefully. She gives a very quick synopsis of what her part of the talk would have been around the 41 minute mark. The whole presentation was plagued by gremlins; the substance begins with Sönke Iversen's part of
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by tfm 10y ago
Inasmuch as there is blame to be apportioned in this case, it's due to JavaScript / ECMAScript having broad definitions of acceptable variable names, and (arguably[0]) the fact that browser JS implementations will generally accept
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by tfm 10y ago
Alas, there's no guarantee that the order of key/value pairs within an object will be preserved (not even within JS anymore!). But that's okay, we can always reformat the ordered data as an array or write a custom parser ...
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by tfm 10y ago
Perhaps it was determined by trial and error! Or maybe the earlier oven iterations happened to get lucky. We don't know that embedding a flyscreen on the door of the food chamber was necessarily the look that people would have gone for
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by tfm 10y ago
Official local datum is GDA94, which is usually within about a metre of WGS84. /me pats pocket protector I think the idea here though is that the underlying terrain has scooted around a bit in the last twenty years, so a new datum woul
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by tfm 10y ago
It's a bug that's lost its foot in the door. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12188144
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by tfm 10y ago
I'd certainly agree that someone who went to the effort of setting up a system for spoofing (even if it was just downloading an extra app) is, in some sense, more motivated than a very casual player. I don't think though that Nian
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by tfm 10y ago
Probably good to regard these first few weeks (months?) of Pokémadness as an "open beta" period, before the security measures get turned on. We can look at Niantic's previous project, Ingress, for a roadmap. The two major cat
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Generative Model Using Random Weights for Deep Image Representation(arxiv.org)
2 points by tfm 10y ago|0 comments
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by tfm 10y ago
Cancer is a very broad church. There have been a lot of lifestyle changes over the last twenty years, very difficult to specify control groups ....
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by tfm 10y ago
It takes real skill to walk in a straight line, even with a compass. The best navigator I know taught me the trick of lining up good landmarks and concentrating on those, head straight for them, then choose another, but by crikey it takes e
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by tfm 10y ago
Well, you'll need water, which generally finds itself at lower ground .... Are folks not taught stuff about lighting smokey fires to attract attention, or would there have been local factors that prevented it in this case?
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by tfm 10y ago
At CDG airport a few weeks ago we encountered a straightforward process I'd not seen before – items going through the screening are associated with your boarding pass. It had no significant effect on the speed of the procedure, and it
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by tfm 10y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7961385 Top comment starts "While Gregg shorthand is great for English, its not much use for anything technical", which was a timely intervention to stop m
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by tfm 10y ago
Related article: St Petersburg State University took out first place in that particular competition, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University took second. Teams from St Petersburg won the previous two years, also. http://www.prnewswire.
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by tfm 10y ago
Fairly warned be thee, this is a Jonathan Franzen essay, so it's not everyone's cup of tea, but if you like lengthy light prose peppered with his usual shout-outs to degenerative diseases you're in luck. Franzen went on a lux
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by tfm 10y ago
RIAA may not be involved in this particular tilt. Having radios everywhere is obviously always in the radio industry's best interests. Back in 2010 the music industry got involved because they were trying to wring extra performance rig
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by tfm 10y ago
It was not so very long ago that the National Association of Broadcasters and the RIAA were lobbying Congress for the inclusion of said FM chips [0] (or [1] if you want the tldr version). NAB is involved [2] in this latest heroic campaign f
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by tfm 10y ago
It's short for "pork barrelling", which refers to public money that is allocated by government to projects in specific areas to sweeten the local voters. Typical examples might be the announcement of new roads or sporting fac
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by tfm 10y ago
From a logical standpoint, standardising language certainly works as an idea, but humans are not so logical! The history of language is that of languages merging and diverging. It kinda depends a lot on who you want to talk to at any given

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