zaphos

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by zaphos 11mo ago
"just a matter of adding more 9s" is a wild place to use a "just" ...
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by zaphos 1y ago
The article you linked indicates the reason for him not finishing is specifically that he didn't like his game design, which seems orthogonal to coding practices. He appears to have shipped middleware projects for RAD, and other contra
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by zaphos 3y ago
They're just saying they won't encourage news/politics, not that they'll police them off: > "Politics and hard news are inevitably going to show up on Threads - they have on Instagram as well to some extent - but
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by zaphos 7y ago
Yes, I also saw it and a bunch of people are reporting the same problem on this chrome support thread: https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/28641527?hl=en
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by zaphos 8y ago
The article does not advocate tuning out the results; it is advocating awareness of the results and careful consideration of how to proceed. See the detailing of options at the end of the second case study: >> "As with Tia, Tame
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by zaphos 8y ago
This type being ... something like PCA? It's up to the user how much to actually reduce the dimensionality. The pixel analogy is bad, but to use it anyway -- you get to choose how many pixels you keep. You could keep literally all of
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by zaphos 9y ago
This experiment just sounds like "what if fraud were not fraud"
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by zaphos 9y ago
Oh, okay ... but everyone having perfect information AND fraud being possible to get away with are fundamentally contradictory assumptions; fraud is based on exploiting some people not having perfect information.
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by zaphos 9y ago
Even if it's relatively easy to not get caught, you can't be sure exactly how easy it is, and the downside is catastrophic. So no, I don't think every entity in your thought experiment would be committing fraud. Only ones t
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by zaphos 9y ago
Niantic's Ingress kind of demo'd an early approach to this idea of pedestrians doing map data collection -- http://simplify360.com/blog/ingress-how-google-is-gamifying-... Quote: > The game is always promp
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by zaphos 9y ago
Yes, you're right -- Diablo did a lot for the ARPG genre, but if you enjoy digging through the history of games there is a ton of interesting ARPG stuff from at least the 1980s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action
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by zaphos 9y ago
Check the dictionary -- "login" is also used as a verb: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/login?s=t With a usage note that some people dislike it: > And yet, this gluing together of terms like login, logon,
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by zaphos 9y ago
> (since you could learn most of it just by reading or watching videos) I think this misunderstands how most people learn -- people generally learn much more effectively by "active learning," aka actually trying to do the thing
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by zaphos 9y ago
They added a note at the end clarifying that they have flush to zero mode enabled. quote from the article: "EDIT: This blogpost assumes that we enable flush to zero (FTZ) which treats denormal numbers as zeros. It’d be interesting to s
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by zaphos 9y ago
How close are they to having fixed price, for you, after the recent price cuts?
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by zaphos 9y ago
People often talk about using MOSS for this: https://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/moss/
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by zaphos 9y ago
The article is about UK Universities. Stanford is not broke. http://facts.stanford.edu/administration/finances
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by zaphos 9y ago
They give an indirect nod to friends play-testing in the "Time" section: > "Friends around us were saying “it’s too difficult” right to our faces, but amidst our nonstop-no-days-or-time-off working, we were too dull to let
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by zaphos 9y ago
I made a similar thing but for 3D Voronoi diagrams http://jimmyland.github.io/voro/
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by zaphos 9y ago
This kind of thinking works out if you personally value your time at an hourly rate, and consider the whole commute time as lost and unpaid. For example, say you value your time at ~$50/hr, and the train costs $8/day, and there ar
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by zaphos 10y ago
I had no idea what Gopher was and looked it up to understand; this article was helpful: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/11/the-web-may-have...
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by zaphos 10y ago
(Of course not, but) amusingly there is a published paper claiming that engineers have more boys. Andrew Gelman wrote a blog post about it: http://andrewgelman.com/2006/04/28/amusing_example/
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by zaphos 10y ago
Interesting link! I wasn't aware of anyone paying for peer review when I was in academia. It appears from the linked examples that it's still rare and relatively small dollar amounts, so indeed not a job. I love the example of t
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by zaphos 10y ago
No one's job is to peer review for established journals. Peer review is unpaid.
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by zaphos 10y ago
JSON has JSON Schema, with similar features and some similar editor integrations; see: http://json-schema.org
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by zaphos 11y ago
Reportedly a mixture of automated systems, user reports, and manual work by facebook employees. See the 'How Fake Names are Flagged and Targeted' section of this article: http://lifehacker.com/how-to-use-a-fake-nam
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by zaphos 11y ago
The NYT response said that Olson said it was not true: "But [Olson] said he was never confronted with allegations of personally fraudulent conduct or falsifying records, nor did he admit to that." "If there were criminal char
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by zaphos 11y ago
fwiw, the NYT response points out that the quote from Dina does not contradict the reporting. * NYT response: https://medium.com/@NYTimesComm/dean-baquet-responds-to-jay-...