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I have an old laptop (seems to be from the mid-00s) donated from a friend that I installed Arch Linux on and have constantly on and plugged into my network. It runs an ssh server and I can log into it anywhere remotely. It comes in handy for running scripts, downloading torrents/files when I'm out or I run cronjobs to do certain things at certain times.
The name of the project means "ugly" in Finnish. I wouldn't sweat it though, no one cares. Just thought I'd let you know since it's mildly humorous.
I have an old laptop in SA. Could you link to details of the programme?
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Besides giving it away- use it a backup, personal repository, remote server for times you don't want to carry a laptop with you...?
In Salford, we had a regeneration project that replaced all the rundown terraced housing, from Salford's industrial era, with high rises.

Due to the collapse of industry round here, deprivation and crime shot through the roof (to the point Latvia recommended its citizens not visit this city in particular).

The high rises have become synonymous with that crime and deprivation. No one wants them at their back yard because of who typically lives in them, not because of the aesthetics.

In fact, they have recently had a makeover and now look great. Unfortunately, the same people still live there.
> This strikes me as a bad idea, because data-frames are better thought of as a collection of columns

The dataframe is a collection of records then len operator tells you how big the dataset you're dealing with. You also have len(df.columns) and df.shape

> Second, the apply method seems totally redundant

df.water_year refers to a column. You can certainly use the syntax you wrote, provided you crafted a function that manipulate a column in some way. E.g. if you had a function that returns the first 2 elements of what was given, passing a column to that function would return a view into that column with only the first 2 rows. Passing the same function into apply would process every element in the (string) column and return the first 2 letters, finally returning a brand new column where each row is the first 2 letters of the corresponding row of the input.

Both of these behaviours make perfect sense if you think about them in terms of expected Python and Numpy which Pandas is built on.
Though it must be said that the latter are cranks who are impossible to take seriously if you look into their claims - basically an MBA who went off the rail with conspiracy theories...
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Whilst this project is looking for funding, that's not what I found interesting about this. It's the fact that the simulation itself allows players to programme their own ships systems; which has all sorts of implications for customisation, sharing etc.
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This doesn't really fix the problem, it just creates another social media site to annoy users with tracking. The social reprecussions (read: echo chambers) of social media aren't something exclusive to Facebook or the other potential facebooks out there, or any social media site. The social elements of social media (only positive responses to content, integrated shares across the web or browser share plugins) are what cause the problem - you stop thinking about what you're actually doing and just act instinctually - this is what's so problematic about a lot of social media; you're not encouraged to really think or discuss, just interact before you have a chance to change your mind. This is reinforced every time you get a like or a response as well.

The social media space doesn't do well with multiple environments as they're non-compatible by nature; that is, Facebook doesn't want to facilitate your G+ experience, they want you to share on Facebook. Before social media, myspace didn't want you on...whatever else was out there, they wanted you on myspace. It's the same issue that used to happen with "what chat do you guys use?" when meeting new friends. Back in the day you'd have to have an AIM, YIM, and MSN account at a minimum, and then IRC or ICQ for a few one-offs. Now it's what apps you use on your phone, or do you wanna use Skype, Hangouts, or Messenger/Facetime, and so on. Switching was always a pain because it'd mean making a trade-off on what you want to run, when, and what accounts you want to keep up. When it comes to social media, the gambit is bigger, since you have more to transfer and more to lose out on if you switch services and no one else follows.

The point I'm trying to make is that the elements of social media are based upon the invasiveness and omnipresence of it - switching is disincentivized due to the difficulty of switching and the fact that often it's just the users who make up the medium, not the aspects of the medium itself. A decentralized privacy conscious medium would be great, but it's useless if no one uses it. And there's just not a lot of reason to switch to such a thing, especially since facebook et.al. shadow profile you even if you don't use them; they still get their marketing money whether or not you log in, they still get your data, they still get everything.
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Some fluffy paragraphs about linear writing.

Fewer fluffy paragraphs about non-linear writing.

Leading question: Can you relate to this?

Convenient link to the author's product, which is, you guessed it, a non-linear writing application.

This is just an advertisement.
Is it networked? Just wondering about the possibility of time-drift
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If you're an American to whom general-audience American television doesn't make complete sense, and who misses many of the cultural references, then I'm quite relieved that I have a different interpretation.

I've seen a fair amount of British TV, and I'm fairly comfortable with the idioms and vocabulary differences. Less so than American TV, but I think that's fair, since I'm not immersed in the culture.

I've seen much less Australian TV, but a lot of the slang was utterly unfamiliar to me, in what I have seen. I'm sure that if I watched more, it would become more familiar.

I don't understand what is so controversial about the idea that other places use the language slightly differently, and it can take some time to become accustomed to the differences.
I think it makes perfect since to have an internal team that can help flesh out the details of a project and give an estimate of cost to develop in house. Not a conflict at all.
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> These manufacturers do not exist solely to make money for Microsoft.

These manufacturers do primarily exist to make money for Microsoft. Their margins are stupidly low, sometimes even negative, and yet Microsoft always enjoys very, very healthy margins on Windows itself.

If the industry stopped racing to the bottom they'd be fine. Until then they need the Microsoft marketing money they get to survive.
> Now as to whether people actually want this, I don't think they do.

They do. Surely you've seen statuses to the effect of "any one of my friends who supports [belief] can just go and unfriend me so I don't have to unfriend you". Certainly I have friends who are so stridently in support of things I think are unethical/illogical/foolish that I've unfollowed them because their posts make my head hurt. If it weren't for the bubble there'd be a lot more of that.
It is actually! I've got an absolutely ancient PCMCIA wifi card that only supports 802.11b, but that's enough to connect to wifi and sync with NTP servers. Without it, the time drift is really bad, about 5-10 minutes/month.
Yes, but based on discussions I have had with Americans here there is apparently a deductible so that at least not all of your income is taxed.
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Wouldn't it technically be an adblocker-blocker-blocker?
Perhaps long texts will be read in a Romanized form (Pinyin) and characters will be reserved for use in concise international symbologies, much like Japan's ongoing use of kanji?

In Japanese, the Kanji are used basically everywhere (and when you are writing, sometimes you wish there were a kanji for a word, so you wouldn't have to write out all the letters. Of course, it's not as bad when you can type it).
The AI effect is a real thing, but this is taking it to extreme. I think it's worth distinguishing "artificial general intelligence", AI that is general and can do everything a human can, from "weak" AI. "Weak AI" may or may not be progress towards AGI, but we certainly haven't had AGI for thousands of years.
Sure if your column data is completely independent and you don't need more than one column at a time in a given algorithm, it is natural to iterate over columns instead of rows. However if you need multiple columns (or data properties) at each iteration, which is more likely the case in my experience, then you end up iterating over the rows.
I learned that recently and also thought it was pretty amusing. Cheers. :}
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I don't think that is true, just from observing the difference between humans. Really intelligent mathematicians can do work that a weaker mathematician would never accomplish if they spent their whole life on it. And the average person could probably not even understand it given years.

There seem to be vast differences in ability between humans, despite all of us having 99.99% the same DNA and same brain structure. Who knows how far beyond humans a superintelligent AI could be.

>AI would have to build its own, which we won't let it (at least initially) or steal ours in which having ability to see just a bit farther in the future doesn't help that much with.

Who says we need to let it? It just needs to be better than the best human hackers, and it will be able to compromise a huge amount of our infrastructure in a short time. Possibly without us noticing. Even intelligent groups of humans have been able to achieve terrifying things like stuxnet.

Then if all else fails, it can just persuade people. It's smarter than the best human sociopaths and politicians after all. And it could bribe people by earning vast amounts of money on the stock market, or other areas where it has a comparative advantage over humans. That would buy it a huge amount of power to start building independent infrastructure.

But the scariest outcome is that it doesn't bother with robot armies at all. If it's so intelligent, it could design working nanotech. The only reason we don't have it is because it's so hard to engineer. So much complexity and moving parts, is very hard for humans to wrap their brains around.

Human brains weren't evolved to be engineers after all, it's a lucky coincidence we are capable of it at all. An AI brain optimized for this task should far exceed humans. The same way chess computers far exceed human chessmasters.
Enduramce athletes go just bellow lactic threshold most of the time. The body is OK to go above threshold, but only for a limited time. The key is to correctly time usage of that above-threshold capability.

I race MTB. Both quick races and long, 100 miles or even 24h solo events. In a quick <3h race, I just go all-out and stay above threshold most of the time. But I try to time my above-threshold usage in long races. In one of the 24h races, the course had a single climb. I was riding everything but that climb bellow threshold. It would have been very hard to stay bellow threshold on it. While it was just a couple minutes effort above threshold.
Fascinating story and provides a window to how modern scientific methods/world-view were constructed during the industrial revolution.
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I thing this issue is completely orthogonal to freedom. If anything, facebook has taken from you the freedom of looking at different political views. Recently I noticed that, even tough I have friends in facebook with opposing political opinions to mine, as I don't usually click in their postings, facebook doesn't show me their posts, it just spams me with political propaganda aligned with my view that an algorithm has decided that I have an slightly higher chance of clicking.

I seriously fail to see how my freedom became empowered through this process, last time I checked, facebook doesn't has an optional "Don't show me anything that would make me even slighly upset"
The application I have inherited was written by an agency in Sweden, (where I assume devs are paid a fair bit more than Barcelona). By your reasoning it should be better written than if someone from here had written it. It's not.
I also use Pandas for some of my data analysis and I found that it took me a long time to learn how to use it. Unlike numpy, I just couldn't remember how to do things and had to keep looking things up. Maybe this is just because Pandas has a lot of functionality. But I might waste half an hour trying to write one line of code although that line would do most of my analysis.
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> resort to going back to their 3rd world countries of origin when serious dental work is needed

They also probably wouldn't have to spend money on hotels and have their family to help them with everything, so it's even cheaper

I guess a lot of people are scared to do this because they can't evaluate quality/get good referrals, and of course you're going to get the "low cost clinics" as well as the high level ones.

But in the end the quality of care in 3rd world countries is usually good, especially in major centers
Pick any scientific paper at random. No other language other than English has the terms and concepts required to write the paper - you can’t translate most scientific papers into another language since the complete set of terms and concepts don’t exist in any other languages.

It is not that you can’t write scientific papers in other languages (many are written in other languages), just that we have settled on English as the language of science. The vast majority of new scientific papers are written in English and hence every new concept within them can’t be expressed in any other language since there are no corresponding vocabulary to map the new concept onto. You can of course make up a new term in an another language if you want, but in this is not done for the many new concepts since it is more productive to just work within English.

Of course there are some papers that are written in a foreign language and which contain new concepts. These papers can’t be translated into English without inventing new terms in English. The whole untranslatability issue is purely a numbers game where the papers in English only vastly outnumber those in any other language and hence most of the novel concepts are in English alone.
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> but I don't think Luca Pacoli or double-entry books are mentioned in most history books so probably not

They did in mine - important factor for the wealth of the Medicis and the northern Italian city states around the 14th/15th century as well as the Hansa league later on. Though I went to school in a European country so YMMV.
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It's a positive feedback loop, constantly reinforcing itself. There's an interesting video on this[1]. The gist of it is such: Nothing gets people sharing an idea like anger and fear. And the clickbait "journalists" know it.

Yes, there's a lot of reasonable people, but most of them are part of the problem because they don't have the time or motivation to do the research. They see something like "Why Donald Clinton is the next Hitler and must be stopped at all cost" and just share it without even thinking about the other side of it.

Can we fix it at all? I'm not sure. The best you can do is distance yourself from the crazy people in "your" camp, encourage your "allies" to give the "enemy" view point a fair consideration and hope for the best.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
> Do you honestly believe the world is better off with this, than if facebook did something else?

Obviously the world is better off without insane political nonsense. Just like it's better off, obviously, without gambling or alcohol, and a whole lot of other stuff... I wish these things could be dealt away with somehow.

I'm trying to avoid the normative question of whether it's good or bad. The people who are most vociferously arguing it's bad are the institutions (like Vice) that stand to lose economically from changes in the Newsfeed recommender.

> the only way to get clicks... only way to properly do collaborative filtering

Facebook has probably had hundreds of highly educated and outside-the-box thinking people looking at the Newsfeed. Someone there has thought of and probably tried every approach to improve the quality of their recommendations using the metrics they are interested in. They probably thought of every possible metric to be interested in, and pathologically optimized the metrics they're interested in, long before advertising was the primary way they made money.

As an example, Facebook got rid of those automatic game posts. Those posted generated absolutely monumental levels of engagement and powered a huge economic engine (Zynga). Facebook got rid of them. Zynga was pissed, and while nobody cried a tear for them, you could certainly imagine some ViceVille.com talking about how bad it is for free to play Facebook game publishers that this automatic game posting thing went away.

Where are all the people talking about how getting rid of automatic game posts puts Facebook users into an entertainment bubble, cutting them off from a vast ecosystem of light entertainment? Some (really blowhard) people could seriously argue that. I don't mean to be a blowhard.

But if it just comes down to, 'Vice is cool, Zynga drools,' well then there's not much to talk about.
> tackle the 500 locks the NZ Police mandate you have on them

... Really? It's one lock and they make you bolt it to the floor so people can't just pick up the safe and go. You can get them for <$200.

> and shoot back I feasibly be sent to jail. I personally don't like that.

.. But you wouldn't. Because he was brandishing a knife.

> What if instead of a nasty gash I need a surgery that is not covered by your health care

It covers anything that hinders your livelihood. We fly people to other countries for experimental cancer treatments and to Australia that we don't have an available specialist to perform.

Our tax, if you're earning 100K is almost the same as yours. 33%. And we include all the healthcare and social assistance programs that comes with it. You pay what, 28% on federal income and 6-7% on state (for New Jersey)? In fact for 100K ours is less, and if you're earning a lot more - 33% is our TOP tax bracket.

In regards to your other post which I read:

> an unarmed populous is a completely ruled populous since the people have given up all hope of being in control of their own safety and government's actions.

Or the populace feels they have evolved past the point where physical violence is required for their own safety and government control. We don't believe we'll need to physically harm or protect ourselves from the government.

New Zealand is a very small country.

You know the saying that the world is 6 degrees separation from each other, ie you know someone who knows someone.. .. who knows someone who knows Obama. In New Zealand it's 2 degrees. For example; I know someone, who knows my prime minister. I actually know a few people who know him. Because of this I think, a lot of the population here feel a lot of politicians and people in power - no matter how out of touch with reality at times we believe they are, are somewhat still down to earth and will look after our self interests. And if we stop believing that, we vote them out of office (a bit like Australia does every so often).

I agree with you on banning based on the "looks" of a firearm. And I agree that there are a lot of people who could responsibly own any gun. There's also a lot of people who could responsibly own nuclear materials, butterfly knives and high powered lasers. And you can own those things.. With proper reason and licensing and registration to do so.

But you're focusing on such a small part of life. You're deciding a country isn't suitable for you because a certain firearm is prohibited in that country.

To me, that's nuts. And I can't even begin to see from your point of view. Even if it's about "the principle".

I'd love to chat with you over a beer. We've got such opposing views and I don't think either of us can see why the other thinks the way we do.
Expanding with an example... Really you just want to use the index itself. It represents (in theory) the amount you'd pay for a basket of goods.

So say, for example, the Index was at 240 in 1992, but today that same index is 360. So for £100 of 1992 money in today's terms you'd do:

360/240 * 100 = £150

Essentially you just want the ratio of prices for the basket of goods.
There are so many gems in this text :) For example:

> Designing software—or “writing code,” as people in the trade say
It is not that you can’t in principle express any concept in any other language, just that in most cases the vocabulary doesn’t exist in that language. In Newton’s time it was not possible to write most scientific papers in English as English lacked the required terms and concepts (everyone wrote in Latin).

For a whole series of historical reasons English has become the international language of science resulting in most new concepts only being expressible in English. We could of course change to a new language, but we would need to make up new terms to map all the existing concept onto in this new language. It might happen in the future, but right now there is no major effort to move science from English.
OK, I don't use Facebook. They nuked my account, because anonymous.

But can't you tell Facebook to show you everything that your friends post?