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drstrangevibes··on Bayes' Theorem Illustrated
lovely explanation , very clear!
drstrangevibes··on MIT launches free online 'fully automated' course
now the computers program the people
drstrangevibes··on What I've Learned About Smart People.
if correlation does not imply causation, then asking questions will not necessarily make you any smarter, no?
drstrangevibes··on Robotic Warfare Has Arrived – 30% of US Military Aircraft are Drones
i just hope that we advance so far in this field , so that eventually we have robots the exclusively fight and destroy other robots, the hope being that human casualties and destruction of human infrastructure is completely removed. Perhaps one day, we'll take robots out of the picture and fight wars virtually altogether!
drstrangevibes··on Eric Ries explains the 5 why's in three minutes
meh
drstrangevibes··on Yale Discovers a Fungus That Eats Plastic
yes because shit happens to be something that would occur naturally in that environment, whereas isolating some of the things that are in shit and spraying it on a field (chemical fertilizers) actually do harm in the long run.
drstrangevibes··on Yale Discovers a Fungus That Eats Plastic
the environment is a holistic function of living symbiotic relationships. Isolating an enzyme and spraying it on a field is about as environmentally friendly as covering a field in pus and saying its ok because it comes from nature.
drstrangevibes··on Yale Discovers a Fungus That Eats Plastic
the last paragraph is the most depressing part, just as weve found a sustainable ecological solution to problem of plastic, we learn that someone has commoditized it into a chemical solution, which no doubt has the accompanying legal patent absurdities,few if any positive environmental interactions and actually endangers a very special species due to corporate anti competative behaviour. Irony anyone?
drstrangevibes··on Why I'm a Pirate
A lot of the pro copyright guys dont know what the purpose of copyright IS. So before you argue please research what you are arguing in favour of. In short copyright originated with the statute of Anne 1709 to protect authors from the publishers profiting from their work, the statute main purpose was to promote learning by allowing creators to recoup the expensive cost of publishing a) the publishers are now ripping off creators, b) publishing is not longer expensive c) placing easily accessible SCIENCE papers under DRM prohibits learning
drstrangevibes··on Natural Language Processing with Python, free online
oooooh , this has just made my day!
drstrangevibes··on Garbage collection with Automatic Resource Management in Java 7
its nice but the issue for me is that it will be backwards compatible so the preJRE7 way of managing IO resources is also included , this means an even more bloated java api :-(
drstrangevibes··on The 14 year old boy from Malawi who taught himself to build windmills
100k raised for a film to raise awareness of his project, how much has been raised for the project exactly
drstrangevibes··on Dropping a Magnet Through a Copper Pipe
i wonder what would happen if you had strips of steel interlaced with copper , youd create a push-me pull-me effect i would expect.
drstrangevibes··on Idea: an open platform for generating custom legal contracts
making a contract is fine but how can you enforce effectivly against someone who breaches the contract, imho a effective system would be able to produce initial drafts of litigation documents based on the contractual clauses breached, otherwise people will just break the contracts willy-nilly and you'll be forced to enter litigation yourself, or take your computer generated documents to a lawyer
drstrangevibes··on The 57,000 Page Tax Return
possibly one of the best hacks of 2011
drstrangevibes··on Remarkable Trio of Young, African-American Chess Masters
no, that they are often portrayed that way, hence the word 'misrepresent'
drstrangevibes··on Remarkable Trio of Young, African-American Chess Masters
African American ⊂ African
drstrangevibes··on Remarkable Trio of Young, African-American Chess Masters
this is really encouraging. The image of African people usually vastly misrepresents their true potential. Great to see some positive news that casts some true light on the immense talents of these gifted people.
drstrangevibes··on A Letter from Goldman Sachs Concerning Occupy Wall Street
got to be fake,
drstrangevibes··on Am I burnt out? Or just not suited for this job?
its not burn out, if you still like developing, your subconscious has just realised before you have that you are wasting your time. Burnout is when you cant do fruitful things, and the remedy is simple. Step away from the computer, eat well get some fresh air and plenty of sleep. Works every time ;-)
drstrangevibes··on Watch other people code
er cant you just share your screen in skype?
drstrangevibes··on Algorithmic Trading is Not High Frequency Trading
I think the author is actually wrong on this algo trading is defined as programs taking the decision, how fast this happens determines whether it is high frequency. Computer aided execution is called smart order routing..... just saying :)
drstrangevibes··on Are jobs obsolete?
money is no longer necessary, our current economic systems dont work and do not reflect the abundance we create. I propose that everything is made free instead, everyone just take as much as they need.
drstrangevibes··on Do, as often as you can – it's that simple
What I am taking away from this is that he got his ass whooped on CS by his mum - everything else is irrelevant.
drstrangevibes··on When you're in a team that I lead, there are 3 things that I'd like to ask you
What...is your name? What...is your quest? What...is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
drstrangevibes··on Backbone.js and Django
his working demo takes you to his router, with the password prefilled. FAIL
drstrangevibes··on LulzSec supposedly claims its biggest coup yet: The entire UK 2011 Census
er... I dont think they care, its for the Lulz.... apparently :-\
drstrangevibes··on LulzSec supposedly claims its biggest coup yet: The entire UK 2011 Census
well its got to go in somehow, perhaps a facade that exposes only preparedstatements procs could have prevented this, but equally perhaps they exploited the facade, the transport mechanism to the facade, the db driver..... who knows, what is known is that theres a path, however narrow
drstrangevibes··on FUNcube Dongle: a software defined radio that runs from a USB port
think i spent too much loot on my usrp
drstrangevibes··on Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify
thats a helluva right hook for Google
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