Duplicating the first half of the sample fake paper after the end of the footnotes makes it go from inauthentic (17%) all the way up to 91% authentic. It seems to be looking for long-range n-gram repetition, but it doesn't have a ceiling on frequency or length or the repeated text.
It shouldn't be hard to compare the distribution of n-gram recurrence rates (or distances between recurrences) to the observed distribution for actual papers. Something like a KL divergence would capture deviations in either direction.
If they're actually doing this from their congressional IP addresses, perhaps it would violate some rules on misuse of government property for political purposes? Especially if they're changing opponents' entries instead of just their own.
Is it possible to run Wine in 64-bit mode on an Athlon64?
Last time I tried to do that I wasted hours trying to get around compile errors (missing processor-specific assembly), and never found a way to get it running. Do I have to boot in 32-bit emulation mode and use the normal binaries?
Oh well. Shouldn't be too hard to change the plot around so vigilante gamers kill "Jack Thompson" instead of people in the industry. He suggested the format so he shouldn't be able to claim it's damaging to him.
Turkish shepherds look at dead sheep in the town of Gevas, near the city of Van, eastern Turkey, Thursday, July 7, 2005. First one sheep jumped to its death. Then stunned Turkish shepherds, who had left the herd to graze while they had breakfast, watched as nearly 1,500 others followed, each leaping off the same cliff, according to the Turkish media reported on Friday July 8, 2005. In the end, 450 dead animals lay on top of one another in a billowy white pile. Those who jumped later were saved as the pile got higher.
Yahoo link
Not only that, but be careful what you mod as insightful. Could using mod points to indicate you approve of a comment be used as evidence that the poster's views are representative of your own?
Perhaps in the brave new world, the *AA will subpoena server logs to find out who agreed with the AC who said intellectual property isn't really property at all.
As annoying as adware is, this is a great ruling because it's a step toward protecting the right to modify sites' content on the client side generally. For example there are Greasemonkyey scripts that do similar things, such as post B&N prices next to Amazon ones. Content providers would love to ban anything that modifies the way pages are shown, so I think we're obligated to side with the adware vendor on this one. How they got the adware on people's computers is another matter entirely.
Author of "The Nature of Mathematical Modeling"
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Fab
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I was ready to discount this as the typical futurist hype until I remembered where I recognized his name from.
Dr. Gershenfeld is the author of The Nature of Mathematical Modeling, one of the best technical books I own on any topic. It's definitely worth a look if you want a concise overview of simulation, estimation, and machine learning algorithms.
You might be interested in this article from the New Yorker, about the effect recording has had on the way classical music is performed. The gist of the article is that before classical musicians could hear recording of themselves and of interpretations from other countries, there was a lot more regional variability, and a lot less emphasis on perfection. Now that studio performances can be digitally tweaked or spliced together, the emphasis on perfection is even greater.
Edward Elgar's recordings of his Second Symphony and Cello Concerto, from 1927 and 1928, respectively, are practically explosive in impact, destroying all stereotypes of the composer as a staid Victorian gentleman. No modern orchestra would dare to play as the Londoners played for Elgar: phrases precipitously step over one another, tempos constantly change underfoot, rough attacks punch the clean surface. The biographical evidence suggests that this borderline-chaotic style of performance was exactly what Elgar wanted. "All sorts of things which other conductors carefully foster, he seems to leave to take their chance," a critic observed. Modern recordings of Elgar are so different in sound and spirit that they seem to document a different kind of music altogether.
Piracetam (and variants like Aniracetam) were pleasant for me. I'm not sure if they really boost IQ or anything similar, but they do give the impression that they help both focus and creativity. Not by an incredible amount, but worth trying.
Hydergine is another along the same lines, but I could only take half a pill without upsetting my stomach. It's supposed to work well with Piracetam, and that's consistent with my experience.
Modifinil was awful. It recreated the experience of insomnia even when I hadn't been up very long. It certainly didn't make me feel like I didn't need sleep, just like I couldn't sleep.
Lian-li makes some nice atx cases. The one I have, the pc-v1000, looks a lot like a g5 with the drilled aluminum front. Zalman makes an absurdly expensive (~$1400) aluminum case indended for fanless cooling. Most of the decent-looking cases I came across were flat and designed for home theater applications.
As for peripherals, I don't think you'd actually want a metal mouse or keyboard in the long run. Logitech makes a nice looking high-end wireless keyboard with detachable number pad for about $200, and I like the way their mx700 mouse looks.
I worked on a feature like this once
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Google Suggest
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I worked on this sort of thing, but not interactive, for a different search engine company. The biggest problem is removing the offensive content. The worst one I remember was linking "summer camps" and "concentration camps".
Google seems to have filtered the obvious porn words, but you always miss a few. "cam" maps to "camel toe" in a few variants, and "nig" has unfortunate results too.
I filed bugs against 1.5 beta and rc, but I'm still getting segfaults under heavy load on amd64, apparently related to an internal thread that runs when memory gets low.
For everyone complaining that the license isn't free, this is an example of why it's still a good thing.
Does anyone know of a way to get two X servers on different machines to behave like one dual-headed machine?
I used to have a dual headed setup at work and liked being able to have 4 large emacs windows with different source files. At home, I have two side-by-side linux boxes and I can get a similar effect with the emacs command make-frame-on-display, but then I have to use the other machine's keyboard and mouse to control those windows. Is there any way to forward X events so the remote server will treat them as local, i.e. so if the mouse goes off the right edge of my main screen, it will appear on the other display? I looked into it a few months back and couldn't find anything obvious.
(T)he International Standards Organization (ISO) and the International
Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) designated Oct. 14 as World
Standards Day to recognize those volunteers who have worked hard to
define international standards... The United States celebrated World
Standards Day on Oct. 11; Finland celebrated on Oct. 13; and Italy
celebrated on Oct. 18. -- Open Systems Today, 10/31/94
This is equivalent to a 10-second Civic. It's only impressive because of the limitations of the base equipment. There are much faster systems to be had for less hassle and greater reliability.
I bought an Athlon64 3200+ system in June and I'm quite happy with it as a server, but there are a few issues. There doesn't seem to be any way to run Wine on 64 bit chips, or at least the compilation fails for lack of support for low level locking operations. Also, the dual library setup (/lib and/lib64) creates problems for some projects that use older build systems. I also made the mistake of getting an ATI graphics card, and they don't have 64-bit drivers, and the Mandrake ones are too buggy to run UT2004.
You misread the page, those all have 20 faces total. Unless you were kidding.
"An icosahedron is a not-necessarily regular 20-faced polyhedron. Examples include the regular icosahedron, Jessen's orthogonal icosahedron, rhombic icosahedron, 18-sided prism, 19-sided pyramid, or 10-sided dipyramid."
I was hoping to solve them all, bu it's getting late and no one will see the post if I wait too much longer:
Solve this cryptic equation, realizing of course that values for M and E could be interchanged. No leading zeroes are allowed. WWWDOT - GOOGLE = DOTCOM
777589 - 188103 = 589486
What's the next line? 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1
3 1 2 2 1 1 (run length encoding)
How many different ways can you color an icosahedron with one of three colors on each face?
3 if you read this pedantically. Or 3^20. No one said it was regular.
It's 2pm on a sunny Sunday afternoon in the Bay Area. You're minutes from the Pacific Ocean, redwood forest hiking trails and world class cultural attractions. What do you do?
Wonder what happened to all the traffic.
What will be the next great improvement in search technology?
When they stop indexing blogs.
Consider a function which, for a given whole number n, returns the number of ones required when writing out all numbers between 0 and n. For example, f(13) = 6. Notice that f(1) = 1. What is the next largest n such that f(n) = n?
10,000,000,002 (10^(n+1) has n/10+1 1s, as each digit is a 1 1/10th the time)
'Tis known in refined company, that choosing K things out of N can be done in ways as many as choosing N minus K from N: I pick K, you the remaining. Find though a cooler bijection, where you show a knack uncanny, of making your choises contain all K of mine. Oh, for pedantry: let K be no more than half N.
I'm not sure what this means. My attempt at parsing it is: find x such that n-k choose x equals n choose k. That has no solution. Consider 6 choose 2 for n and k.
What number comes next in the sequence: 10, 9, 60, 90, 70, 66, ? A) 96 (Largest number that has n letters in its name)
Knight's resistors isn't 0, btw. Consider it without any resistors except the four around the voltage source, with the rest shorted. It's obviously not zero, all current passes through one of those resistors.
...on the computer software industry, it should have robust barriers to entry.
Re:So what locks ARE good?!?
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Steel Bolt Hacking
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Medeco is the most widespread "good" lock. They use a "2-dimensional" scheme where the pins have to be rotated to the right angle in addition to being at the right height. The key bumps are beveled, as are the pins, and unless they match, a sidebar can't slide in to release the cylinder.
Another (which I own) is Mul-T-Lock, which uses 5 sets of two concentric pins, and a horizontal (actually just flat) instead of a vertical keyway. One locksmith I talked to said he'd once managed to pick a Medeco after playing with it for about ten hours in his office, but it's basically not a risk.
That said, the real value of these locks isn't pick-resistance, since almost no one picks locks anyway. The real benefit is that they have features to resist drilling, longer bolts, anti-sawing bolts, and so forth. They also have keys that can't be duplicated except with special equipment, and then only by licensed dealers who will require you to provide the id card that came with the lock. So the valet won't be able to make a copy of your house keys at the corner hardware store.
In general, people only pick locks if they don't want you to know they've broken in.
In the course of looking into pick-resistant locks about a year ago, I came across thesehigh-end padlocks from Sargent and Greenleaf. Prices: $1282 and $283. No, that is not a typo.
From the description: Designed to meet stringent US Government specifications:
30 minute protection against expert manipulation
30 minute protection against radiographic attack
10 minute protection against surreptitious entry attack
Does anyone know what they mean by "radiographic attack"? I haven't been able to turn anything up on the web. I imagine that the three-letter-agencies have access to some much higher tech tools than the usual spring steel lock picks we're talking about here. Perhaps there's more room for geek approaches to lock picking than anyone expected.
Slashdot Mirror
Duplicating the first half of the sample fake paper after the end of the footnotes makes it go from inauthentic (17%) all the way up to 91% authentic. It seems to be looking for long-range n-gram repetition, but it doesn't have a ceiling on frequency or length or the repeated text.
It shouldn't be hard to compare the distribution of n-gram recurrence rates (or distances between recurrences) to the observed distribution for actual papers. Something like a KL divergence would capture deviations in either direction.
If they're actually doing this from their congressional IP addresses, perhaps it would violate some rules on misuse of government property for political purposes? Especially if they're changing opponents' entries instead of just their own.
Is it possible to run Wine in 64-bit mode on an Athlon64?
Last time I tried to do that I wasted hours trying to get around compile errors (missing processor-specific assembly), and never found a way to get it running. Do I have to boot in 32-bit emulation mode and use the normal binaries?
Oh well. Shouldn't be too hard to change the plot around so vigilante gamers kill "Jack Thompson" instead of people in the industry. He suggested the format so he shouldn't be able to claim it's damaging to him.
Finally, an explanation for those John 3:16 signs.
Turkish shepherds look at dead sheep in the town of Gevas, near the city of Van, eastern Turkey, Thursday, July 7, 2005. First one sheep jumped to its death. Then stunned Turkish shepherds, who had left the herd to graze while they had breakfast, watched as nearly 1,500 others followed, each leaping off the same cliff, according to the Turkish media reported on Friday July 8, 2005. In the end, 450 dead animals lay on top of one another in a billowy white pile. Those who jumped later were saved as the pile got higher.
Yahoo link
Not only that, but be careful what you mod as insightful. Could using mod points to indicate you approve of a comment be used as evidence that the poster's views are representative of your own?
Perhaps in the brave new world, the *AA will subpoena server logs to find out who agreed with the AC who said intellectual property isn't really property at all.
As annoying as adware is, this is a great ruling because it's a step toward protecting the right to modify sites' content on the client side generally. For example there are Greasemonkyey scripts that do similar things, such as post B&N prices next to Amazon ones. Content providers would love to ban anything that modifies the way pages are shown, so I think we're obligated to side with the adware vendor on this one. How they got the adware on people's computers is another matter entirely.
"You a mail server run Postfix using do?"
I was ready to discount this as the typical futurist hype until I remembered where I recognized his name from.
Dr. Gershenfeld is the author of The Nature of Mathematical Modeling, one of the best technical books I own on any topic. It's definitely worth a look if you want a concise overview of simulation, estimation, and machine learning algorithms.
You might be interested in this article from the New Yorker, about the effect recording has had on the way classical music is performed. The gist of the article is that before classical musicians could hear recording of themselves and of interpretations from other countries, there was a lot more regional variability, and a lot less emphasis on perfection. Now that studio performances can be digitally tweaked or spliced together, the emphasis on perfection is even greater.
Edward Elgar's recordings of his Second Symphony and Cello Concerto, from 1927 and 1928, respectively, are practically explosive in impact, destroying all stereotypes of the composer as a staid Victorian gentleman. No modern orchestra would dare to play as the Londoners played for Elgar: phrases precipitously step over one another, tempos constantly change underfoot, rough attacks punch the clean surface. The biographical evidence suggests that this borderline-chaotic style of performance was exactly what Elgar wanted. "All sorts of things which other conductors carefully foster, he seems to leave to take their chance," a critic observed. Modern recordings of Elgar are so different in sound and spirit that they seem to document a different kind of music altogether.
Piracetam (and variants like Aniracetam) were pleasant for me. I'm not sure if they really boost IQ or anything similar, but they do give the impression that they help both focus and creativity. Not by an incredible amount, but worth trying.
Hydergine is another along the same lines, but I could only take half a pill without upsetting my stomach. It's supposed to work well with Piracetam, and that's consistent with my experience.
Modifinil was awful. It recreated the experience of insomnia even when I hadn't been up very long. It certainly didn't make me feel like I didn't need sleep, just like I couldn't sleep.
Lian-li makes some nice atx cases. The one I have, the pc-v1000, looks a lot like a g5 with the drilled aluminum front. Zalman makes an absurdly expensive (~$1400) aluminum case indended for fanless cooling. Most of the decent-looking cases I came across were flat and designed for home theater applications.
As for peripherals, I don't think you'd actually want a metal mouse or keyboard in the long run. Logitech makes a nice looking high-end wireless keyboard with detachable number pad for about $200, and I like the way their mx700 mouse looks.
I worked on this sort of thing, but not interactive, for a different search engine company. The biggest problem is removing the offensive content. The worst one I remember was linking "summer camps" and "concentration camps".
Google seems to have filtered the obvious porn words, but you always miss a few. "cam" maps to "camel toe" in a few variants, and "nig" has unfortunate results too.
I filed bugs against 1.5 beta and rc, but I'm still getting segfaults under heavy load on amd64, apparently related to an internal thread that runs when memory gets low.
For everyone complaining that the license isn't free, this is an example of why it's still a good thing.
Does anyone know of a way to get two X servers on different machines to behave like one dual-headed machine?
I used to have a dual headed setup at work and liked being able to have 4 large emacs windows with different source files. At home, I have two side-by-side linux boxes and I can get a similar effect with the emacs command make-frame-on-display, but then I have to use the other machine's keyboard and mouse to control those windows. Is there any way to forward X events so the remote server will treat them as local, i.e. so if the mouse goes off the right edge of my main screen, it will appear on the other display? I looked into it a few months back and couldn't find anything obvious.
(T)he International Standards Organization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) designated Oct. 14 as World Standards Day to recognize those volunteers who have worked hard to define international standards ... The United States celebrated World
Standards Day on Oct. 11; Finland celebrated on Oct. 13; and Italy
celebrated on Oct. 18. -- Open Systems Today, 10/31/94
This is equivalent to a 10-second Civic. It's only impressive because of the limitations of the base equipment. There are much faster systems to be had for less hassle and greater reliability.
I bought an Athlon64 3200+ system in June and I'm quite happy with it as a server, but there are a few issues. There doesn't seem to be any way to run Wine on 64 bit chips, or at least the compilation fails for lack of support for low level locking operations. Also, the dual library setup (/lib and /lib64) creates problems for some projects that use older build systems. I also made the mistake of getting an ATI graphics card, and they don't have 64-bit drivers, and the Mandrake ones are too buggy to run UT2004.
"Ten googol" (10^101) would be larger than "one googol" (10^100) with 9 letters, so they messed it up.
You misread the page, those all have 20 faces total. Unless you were kidding.
"An icosahedron is a not-necessarily regular 20-faced polyhedron. Examples include the regular icosahedron, Jessen's orthogonal icosahedron, rhombic icosahedron, 18-sided prism, 19-sided pyramid, or 10-sided dipyramid."
I was hoping to solve them all, bu it's getting late and no one will see the post if I wait too much longer:
Solve this cryptic equation, realizing of course that values for M and E could be interchanged. No leading zeroes are allowed.
WWWDOT - GOOGLE = DOTCOM
777589 - 188103 = 589486
What's the next line?
1
1 1
2 1
1 2 1 1
1 1 1 2 2 1
3 1 2 2 1 1 (run length encoding)
How many different ways can you color an icosahedron with one of three colors on each face?
3 if you read this pedantically. Or 3^20. No one said it was regular.
It's 2pm on a sunny Sunday afternoon in the Bay Area. You're minutes from the Pacific Ocean, redwood forest hiking trails and world class cultural attractions. What do you do?
Wonder what happened to all the traffic.
What will be the next great improvement in search technology?
When they stop indexing blogs.
Consider a function which, for a given whole number n, returns the number of ones required when writing out all numbers between 0 and n. For example, f(13) = 6. Notice that f(1) = 1. What is the next largest n such that f(n) = n?
10,000,000,002
(10^(n+1) has n/10+1 1s, as each digit is a 1 1/10th the time)
'Tis known in refined company, that choosing K things out of N can be done in ways as many as choosing N minus K from N: I pick K, you the remaining. Find though a cooler bijection, where you show a knack uncanny, of making your choises contain all K of mine. Oh, for pedantry: let K be no more than half N.
I'm not sure what this means. My attempt at parsing it is: find x
such that n-k choose x equals n choose k. That has no solution.
Consider 6 choose 2 for n and k.
What number comes next in the sequence: 10, 9, 60, 90, 70, 66, ?
A) 96
(Largest number that has n letters in its name)
Knight's resistors isn't 0, btw. Consider it without any resistors except the four around the voltage source, with the rest shorted. It's obviously not zero, all current passes through one of those resistors.
...on the computer software industry, it should have robust barriers to entry.
Medeco is the most widespread "good" lock. They use a "2-dimensional" scheme where the pins have to be rotated to the right angle in addition to being at the right height. The key bumps are beveled, as are the pins, and unless they match, a sidebar can't slide in to release the cylinder.
Another (which I own) is Mul-T-Lock, which uses 5 sets of two concentric pins, and a horizontal (actually just flat) instead of a vertical keyway. One locksmith I talked to said he'd once managed to pick a Medeco after playing with it for about ten hours in his office, but it's basically not a risk.
That said, the real value of these locks isn't pick-resistance, since almost no one picks locks anyway. The real benefit is that they have features to resist drilling, longer bolts, anti-sawing bolts, and so forth. They also have keys that can't be duplicated except with special equipment, and then only by licensed dealers who will require you to provide the id card that came with the lock. So the valet won't be able to make a copy of your house keys at the corner hardware store.
In general, people only pick locks if they don't want you to know they've broken in.
In the course of looking into pick-resistant locks about a year ago, I came across these high-end padlocks from Sargent and Greenleaf. Prices: $1282 and $283. No, that is not a typo.
From the description:
Designed to meet stringent US Government specifications:
30 minute protection against expert manipulation
30 minute protection against radiographic attack
10 minute protection against surreptitious entry attack
Does anyone know what they mean by "radiographic attack"? I haven't been able to turn anything up on the web. I imagine that the three-letter-agencies have access to some much higher tech tools than the usual spring steel lock picks we're talking about here. Perhaps there's more room for geek approaches to lock picking than anyone expected.