yes. the macbook air design patent story surprised me. i think it's probably legitimate as a design patent, but really it should have been granted 4-5 years ago and expired at least 2-3 years ago. these lifetimes are silly.
there's a joke about this. a rabbi and a protestant minister are taking a cab from an ecumenical conference and get into a terrible accident; they are both knocked unconscious and are hospitalized, but eventually recover. afterward, they are talking to each other and each realizes that the other had an out-of-body experience. the minister speaks first, and says that he thinks he accidentally saw the jewish heaven, which was a huge city in which, although everyone was materially comfortable, there was no end of noise; argument; and complaining, which everyone nonetheless seemed to enjoy. the rabbi is interested and says that he must have gotten the protestant heaven, an endless street of white picket fences and perfectly manicured lawns. now, the minister is a bit taken aback, but goes on to ask what the people were like. the rabbi replies, "what people?"
the point being, protestants are pretty solipsistic.
that's a shame, but in line with the stereotypes of english food i suppose.
by the way, i've only read about and seen pictures of beef wellington, but it seems to me to be the culinary equivalent of an orgy, and would be, in and of itself, a total redemption of british cuisine. am i wrong here?
you probably know this, but it's worth telling slashdot that mdma was once used in psychotherapy for more-or-less exactly this reason, until some enterprising assholes spoiled the party by selling it on the street. nonetheless, very limited clinical trials continue even today and support the pharmaceutical use of mdma for ptsd among other disorders.
taking what you say as true, i must admit that i'm impressed that you managed to navigate today's system on your own and come out, not only not worse for wear, but improved. congratulations.
yeah, it's really safe to get scheduled substances posted to you. (yes, you can use a private carrier but i've heard that that's even worse.)
sure there are various tricks to make the shipping safer, but for plain old pot, i think you'd be crazy not to just go with a trusted neighborhood supplier. pot dealers aren't exactly dangerous people, and they have zero incentive to turn on you (law doesn't go after the demand end very much).
silk road is for the weird stuff, but yeah if you're a basement-dwelling maladjust who can't bring himself to talk to anyone, i guess you can use it for pot too. just, please, think about the logistics for two minutes, and for the love of god, don't give your home as a shipping address...
no, but looking at it contrariwise: unless merit is significantly curtailed in minorities, doesn't it simply maximize the pool of potential talent to extend protection to them?
at the very least, i think it's up to you to define "weakling" and "weak-mindedness." in any sufficiently advanced society, there will be a diverse selection of "strengths" which are useful in various niches.
yeah i know what a real focus group is, but it's a reasonable metonymic usage imho. welcome to today's internet, where you're never more than a statistic, unless someone actually notices you, in which case god help you.
medium rare: well, it's also what i'd personally recommend to someone... it's a good starting point. imho anything more than medium is a waste of decent steak, so medium-rare is in the middle of acceptable. personally, i go for rare at most if i'm at a good place (which is none-too-often, sadly), or if i'm cooking.
you mean google maps isn't even good for driving? i'm in nyc, and only the major streets are labeled unless you zoom in to near-uselessness. even if the gps can't figure out that i'm moving at 2mph, you'd think they'd have and default to a pedestrian-mode in manhattan.
i don't know what the fuck a "double-blind" focus group is, since the user is clearly not blind to the design (this is the entire point).
and the reason why this is "like" a focus group, is that it is a focus group. all the information is coming from humans; it's just being used in a not-completely-idiotic way.
"Because the approach is rooted in machine learning, it continuously updates advertising decisions based on real-time signals from a marketer’s customer base. That feedback loop allows us to improve advertising performance over time."
white noise is uniform. analogously to light, pink noise scales as 1/frequency, i.e. weighted toward lower frequencies ("red") on a log-log scale. blue noise has more of the higher frequencies.
oh, it's good for a lot of things, i just meant that i wouldn't go there for "nice" food and drink, although it's gotten better in terms of some staple ingredients.
if you were fucking over 0.0000005 of your population already to no significant protest, why would anyone care if you are now fucking over 0.00000125 of your population?
any statistical system should serve only as a first alert; and any positive found thereby should be carefully evaluated by more thorough and human measures.
aye, and i regret not being more adventurous while i was there... however, i have a fondness for french blue cheeses (e.g. raw milk bleu d'auvergne, and saint agur); are there domestic blue cheeses besides maytag? my understanding is that we don't. please prove me wrong.
it always amuses me when foreigners judge america by our lowest common denominator crap. you know, the stuff that's only available here due to our sprawling machine of industry which europeans apparently have a fetish for, since they can't seem to get over it when sublimating their envy through these pathetic insults.
for anything whatsoever that you attach cultural importance to, america can do it better; you'll just never find it at the shitty supermarket or wal*mart, which any native, who isn't penniless or functionally retarded, knows to avoid.
except cheese. i don't know what's up with that, but i'm sure that if we wanted to, we could.
the security they want in this case isn't to keep people out; they have separate firewalls for that... it's to keep their employees and their data in.
i don't know how easy it is to lock-down windows, but i assume there are some industry standards for it. are there vendors of certified locked-down linux? that's what it would take. by definition, they can't trust their own IT to do it, after all.
if you happen to be on a mac, aquamacs does a pretty good job of mixing emacs-style keystrokes with the "normal" ones, cmd-Z, cmd-C, etc.; it also provides pull-down menus. but beyond that, it's still just as ugly, and even after many years i still get the vertigo whenever i have to go into the emacs preferences system.
aquamacs also comes with a lot of nice packages included.
one of the problems with emacs is that it just has way too many commands to fit reasonably in standard menus. aquamacs picks a decent subset but it's still limited.
although i gotta say, i find ctrl-_ to be pretty convenient, and i really like the undo stack.
yes, it can be brought down... by developing a new test. your desired test doesn't exist yet. the tests which do consistently better than this require a clinical lab and training. even if they could somehow sell the lab (it'd cost a lot), the user error rate would end up being much higher than 7%.
i do wonder how you figured out what error rate is good enough... i suspect that if this test achieved 1%, you'd want it to be 0.1%, and so on.
anyway, you're providing nothing but pure speculation. here is an apposite opposite: it's entirely likely that people will understand the uncertainty of this test, and that this itself will increase the general level of concern about hiv. people may say, "well, this test was very easy, but it says it's uncertain. maybe i should go to a clinic to be sure."
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yes. the macbook air design patent story surprised me. i think it's probably legitimate as a design patent, but really it should have been granted 4-5 years ago and expired at least 2-3 years ago. these lifetimes are silly.
there's a joke about this. a rabbi and a protestant minister are taking a cab from an ecumenical conference and get into a terrible accident; they are both knocked unconscious and are hospitalized, but eventually recover. afterward, they are talking to each other and each realizes that the other had an out-of-body experience. the minister speaks first, and says that he thinks he accidentally saw the jewish heaven, which was a huge city in which, although everyone was materially comfortable, there was no end of noise; argument; and complaining, which everyone nonetheless seemed to enjoy. the rabbi is interested and says that he must have gotten the protestant heaven, an endless street of white picket fences and perfectly manicured lawns. now, the minister is a bit taken aback, but goes on to ask what the people were like. the rabbi replies, "what people?"
the point being, protestants are pretty solipsistic.
shhhh. you're not supposed to notice that.
yeah, if you define manhattan to exclude everything above 125th, maybe.
that's a shame, but in line with the stereotypes of english food i suppose.
by the way, i've only read about and seen pictures of beef wellington, but it seems to me to be the culinary equivalent of an orgy, and would be, in and of itself, a total redemption of british cuisine. am i wrong here?
http://www.mikerayhawk.com/beholder.htm
you probably know this, but it's worth telling slashdot that mdma was once used in psychotherapy for more-or-less exactly this reason, until some enterprising assholes spoiled the party by selling it on the street. nonetheless, very limited clinical trials continue even today and support the pharmaceutical use of mdma for ptsd among other disorders.
taking what you say as true, i must admit that i'm impressed that you managed to navigate today's system on your own and come out, not only not worse for wear, but improved. congratulations.
yeah, it's really safe to get scheduled substances posted to you. (yes, you can use a private carrier but i've heard that that's even worse.)
sure there are various tricks to make the shipping safer, but for plain old pot, i think you'd be crazy not to just go with a trusted neighborhood supplier. pot dealers aren't exactly dangerous people, and they have zero incentive to turn on you (law doesn't go after the demand end very much).
silk road is for the weird stuff, but yeah if you're a basement-dwelling maladjust who can't bring himself to talk to anyone, i guess you can use it for pot too. just, please, think about the logistics for two minutes, and for the love of god, don't give your home as a shipping address...
no, but looking at it contrariwise: unless merit is significantly curtailed in minorities, doesn't it simply maximize the pool of potential talent to extend protection to them?
at the very least, i think it's up to you to define "weakling" and "weak-mindedness." in any sufficiently advanced society, there will be a diverse selection of "strengths" which are useful in various niches.
wish i could tell you, but i have nothing to compare it to. in my experience, it's between one and six blocks off, with the median at two.
yeah i know what a real focus group is, but it's a reasonable metonymic usage imho. welcome to today's internet, where you're never more than a statistic, unless someone actually notices you, in which case god help you.
medium rare: well, it's also what i'd personally recommend to someone... it's a good starting point. imho anything more than medium is a waste of decent steak, so medium-rare is in the middle of acceptable. personally, i go for rare at most if i'm at a good place (which is none-too-often, sadly), or if i'm cooking.
you mean google maps isn't even good for driving? i'm in nyc, and only the major streets are labeled unless you zoom in to near-uselessness. even if the gps can't figure out that i'm moving at 2mph, you'd think they'd have and default to a pedestrian-mode in manhattan.
i don't know what the fuck a "double-blind" focus group is, since the user is clearly not blind to the design (this is the entire point).
and the reason why this is "like" a focus group, is that it is a focus group. all the information is coming from humans; it's just being used in a not-completely-idiotic way.
it's such an obvious idea it's surprising that no one has done this yet. oh, wait: http://m6d.com/about/about-us/
"Because the approach is rooted in machine learning, it continuously updates advertising decisions based on real-time signals from a marketer’s customer base. That feedback loop allows us to improve advertising performance over time."
white noise is uniform. analogously to light, pink noise scales as 1/frequency, i.e. weighted toward lower frequencies ("red") on a log-log scale. blue noise has more of the higher frequencies.
well, yeah, things are pretty dire here; can't argue with that. i didn't make up the rules. :-/
oh, it's good for a lot of things, i just meant that i wouldn't go there for "nice" food and drink, although it's gotten better in terms of some staple ingredients.
i agree about facebook, but BBSes had private messages, and something like fidonet was about as real as smtp email.
okay, but that is a problem regardless of whether the system works, right? if anything, it's more of a problem if the system works.
if you were fucking over 0.0000005 of your population already to no significant protest, why would anyone care if you are now fucking over 0.00000125 of your population?
any statistical system should serve only as a first alert; and any positive found thereby should be carefully evaluated by more thorough and human measures.
aye, and i regret not being more adventurous while i was there... however, i have a fondness for french blue cheeses (e.g. raw milk bleu d'auvergne, and saint agur); are there domestic blue cheeses besides maytag? my understanding is that we don't. please prove me wrong.
it always amuses me when foreigners judge america by our lowest common denominator crap. you know, the stuff that's only available here due to our sprawling machine of industry which europeans apparently have a fetish for, since they can't seem to get over it when sublimating their envy through these pathetic insults.
for anything whatsoever that you attach cultural importance to, america can do it better; you'll just never find it at the shitty supermarket or wal*mart, which any native, who isn't penniless or functionally retarded, knows to avoid.
except cheese. i don't know what's up with that, but i'm sure that if we wanted to, we could.
the security they want in this case isn't to keep people out; they have separate firewalls for that... it's to keep their employees and their data in.
i don't know how easy it is to lock-down windows, but i assume there are some industry standards for it. are there vendors of certified locked-down linux? that's what it would take. by definition, they can't trust their own IT to do it, after all.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ljobjlafonikaiipfkggjbhkghgicgoh
it's still ugly.
if you happen to be on a mac, aquamacs does a pretty good job of mixing emacs-style keystrokes with the "normal" ones, cmd-Z, cmd-C, etc.; it also provides pull-down menus. but beyond that, it's still just as ugly, and even after many years i still get the vertigo whenever i have to go into the emacs preferences system.
aquamacs also comes with a lot of nice packages included.
one of the problems with emacs is that it just has way too many commands to fit reasonably in standard menus. aquamacs picks a decent subset but it's still limited.
although i gotta say, i find ctrl-_ to be pretty convenient, and i really like the undo stack.
yes, it can be brought down... by developing a new test. your desired test doesn't exist yet. the tests which do consistently better than this require a clinical lab and training. even if they could somehow sell the lab (it'd cost a lot), the user error rate would end up being much higher than 7%.
i do wonder how you figured out what error rate is good enough... i suspect that if this test achieved 1%, you'd want it to be 0.1%, and so on.
anyway, you're providing nothing but pure speculation. here is an apposite opposite: it's entirely likely that people will understand the uncertainty of this test, and that this itself will increase the general level of concern about hiv. people may say, "well, this test was very easy, but it says it's uncertain. maybe i should go to a clinic to be sure."