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sixhobbits
7,545karma·1,281submissions·January 21, 2016
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I'm surprised he doesn't mention NoScript, Privacy Badger, etc. "Normal people" should be more concerned about about the highly detailed profiles that companies are building based …
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I haven't tried this yet, but based on similar challenges I've participated I'm surprised by the fact that your bot moves by calling an http endpoint. Considering the 1 second move limi…
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Really nice and easy to understand intro. Should have a [2011] tag.
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I don't remember 1998 too well, but I read the article formatted like this http://m.imgur.com/yWTv9Xz and I still find it preferable to the original.…
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Siyavula [0] is making big advances in this area for maths and science high school education in South Africa. Their intelligent practice platform uses machine learning to pick the 'best' exe…
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Berkeley did the maths for you: http://w.astro.berkeley.edu/~gmarcy/thermal/tpteacher/jokes/... (notice the word 'jokes' in the URL, but it's prett…
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"In experiments, volunteers who sniffed sweat samples from people experiencing certain feelings, such as fear or disgust, felt those emotions themselves. When volunteers smelled the odor of disgu…
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Some interesting ideas here. The full write-up of the 5 scenarios[0] is 120+ pages. People have explored some of these ideas through SciFi before, but having this done in an official report throws a d…
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An early stage PoC for a nicer way to read articles on the web. To add: * Remove more boilerplate such as "Subscribe to our newsletter" and other text that isn't part of the article. * …
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I'm surprised only one comment here mentions patents. IBM are filing patents as fast ever, and while they're trying to get into "the cloud" like everyone else, I get the impressio…
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Everyone who believes that correlation = causation eventually ends up dead.
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Derivco uses extremely underhand tactics to promote their image as a tech and game dev company that is pushing boundaries and building exciting things. Actually all they do is build small variants of …
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Are we using words like "thru" in titles now?