snydly | 10 years ago | on: Facebook's “free internet” programme hits a roadblock in India
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snydly | 10 years ago | on: Why privacy is important, and having “nothing to hide” is irrelevant
> Potentially criminal groupls: everybody.
While this may be true, certain crimes are seen as worse than others. And, as un-PC as it may sound, certain demographics are many times more likely to commit certain crimes.
Homicide: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6227a1.htm
Also, some government monitoring can be "for your own good":
Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5704a1.htm
But, maybe the CDC is different than the NSA.
snydly | 10 years ago | on: Magic+
So wait... did I miss the part about what happens if they fail to do what I ask? What happens then?
"Finish my dissertation. Thanks."
snydly | 10 years ago | on: How I learned to stop worrying and love the cubicle
I never leave at 5pm, but I do normally wake up at 1pm... I hear this sort of schedule changes when you get a real job.
snydly | 10 years ago | on: LG made an 18-inch display you can roll up like a newspaper
I was thinking the opposite: wouldn't a very flexible display make for something that's very durable?
I'm imagining an ad for LG where Alex Rodriguez hits a big screen with a bat and it just flexes...
snydly | 10 years ago | on: Using D and std.ndslice as a Numpy Replacement
I just ran your column means benchmark. It is pretty impressive... maybe my C++ is trash. Never saw that much speedup with Arma. I'll try it out :)
snydly | 10 years ago | on: Why Age of Empires 2 is still growing
One of the greatest breakthroughs of my life was realizing that you only had to type "cheese steak jimmy's" once, then ctrl-c, then ctrl-v as much as you want. It was a great day.
snydly | 10 years ago | on: Using D and std.ndslice as a Numpy Replacement
Am I correct in thinking that this is only reasonable if you're already using D? The switching cost seems too high if you're python everything.
I tried the Armadillo C++ library a while ago (http://arma.sourceforge.net/). The speed up and time spend learning the syntax didn't seem worth it.
snydly | 10 years ago | on: What nobody told me about small farming: I can’t make a living
My great grandparents had a small farm in Massachusetts between the 30's-50's. They had 8 kids (free labor for ~20 years). They did well enough to send all their kids to college, but not much beyond that.
Something tells me you can do okay with a small farm if you're a poor German immigrant who fought in WWI because you're not expecting much anyway. Happy to not be starving. The woman in the article should've expected less from the beginning. They can chalk it up as a learning experience, I guess.
snydly | 10 years ago | on: Most commonly used statistical tests and implementation in R
> P-values should be used with strong caution.
FiveThirtyEight (and Scientific American, and others) did some pretty interesting articles about this recently if you haven't seen it:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/science-isnt-broken/
Just from personal experience, the use of p-values is really broken in biology/chemistry. The things I've heard principal investigators say...
snydly | 10 years ago | on: Android-x86 dev offers $50k for proof of contribution by Kickstarted ConsoleOS
Yeah sorry, yesterday I thought "hmm a talented sociopath could make several completely different lives.., it's the same guy!" But no, looking again, they look completely different.
snydly | 10 years ago | on: Android-x86 dev offers $50k for proof of contribution by Kickstarted ConsoleOS
I'm assuming this "Pricetopher" is the same guy?
http://pricetopher.com/
That's a bit disturbing.
snydly | 10 years ago | on: The “Chad” bug
Ohh, I didn't get it at first either. Thought of the country.
Best image to explain a hanging "chad": http://images1.fanpop.com/images/photos/1400000/Halloween-ho...
snydly | 10 years ago | on: Posture Affects Standing, and Not Just the Physical Kind
This is something that I wish the article would've focused on more, exercise. Simple things like going for a jog are underrated.
snydly | 10 years ago | on: A native Python IDE built for data science
I'd like to know this too... Comparison between PyCharm, Canopy, Spyder, Yhat, etc.
After using it for 10 minutes, it feels identical to RStudio. That's a good thing.
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