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Turing believed in fairy tales. Gödel believed in ghosts.

This was also at the start of the cold war, where the US suspected that the USSR was funding millions to ESP research.

One of the most publicized projects was the Stargate Project: Even though a statistically significant effect has been observed in the laboratory, it remains unclear whether the existence of a paranormal phenomenon, remote viewing, has been demonstrated.

I think Turing was closer to the machine learning camp than the statistics camp. On that note I'll quote a competitor in the MLSP 2014 Schizophrenia Detection Challenge:

To the people that are going to write papers for this one...

What really strikes me is the fact that stats fail really hard in this problem. I have a couple of 2-variable combinations that score around 0.87 on training set with logistic regression and a couple of 3-variable combinations with training AUC 0.9 (ish). All results were "statistically significant" at 0.001 (not even 0.01) . I have tried the same selections with SAS, SPSS, R and scikit (with regularization) . All results are consistent (and similar) with all packages, yet again they scored around 0.5 (random) in public and private leaderboard. This makes me think about all the PhDs' thesis and medical science papers I've seen being carried out on mickey mouse sets , claiming statistical significance gives credibility to their findings ... Is machine learning more reliable than stats? I say, if you can't predict it consistently on a hold out set, then you got nothing whatever the t,F,Chi-sq distributions say. KazAnova - https://www.kaggle.com/users/111640/kazanova
This is useful, because the official links to the VimHelp format FAQ have gone dead:

http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/

You're taken to a Geocities dead page where you are rickrolled.

(For those who don't know what that is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickrolling)
I've enjoyed thinking about the following:

It must be almost impossible to time travel back in time. But it could be possible, given unlimited time. Thus, given that at some point in the unlimited future, time travel would occur, how can we increase the chances now of being visited by these future time travellers?
Why are there so many accidents in our "reset button" lab?

But seriously, the problem with this is that it assumes that the only resolution to the CTC is that the AI generator tries another program.
Flagged for exaggerated headline, only demonstrated in mice now, which react differently to many stimulants.
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Ayn Rand was hardly a populist, and Libertarianism is not a populist ideology.
Let's assume for a moment that RFC6725 is implemented in pacemakers or artificial organs. How long after death would/should these devices remain active? could we use Mobile ipv6 to communicate with the recently-departed loved ones to send final well-wishes?
If you were going to violate their license you just wouldn't pay for it at all. It's free for academic and noncommercial use and you can download the complete library right from their site.

Corporate environments tend to have tools to manage seat-based licensing and smaller companies only have a handful of developers anyway. Typically the number of developers who need to be working with a specific tool is known when you start the project you're buying a license for and upgrading your license isn't exactly tough. I convinced my boss to buy our department a 5 seat license for Highcharts (without support) after doing a pretty exhaustive search for free alternatives with all the features we need and it has been great so far.
Average karma is based off the average karma of your past n submissions and comments. It is not an average of all submissions.

It also doesn't mean anything.
The reviewer holds and interacts with the device exactly as he would if it were a flat screen.

So -- apart from showing off the curved-screen tech -- I wonder what the point is.
So this article seems to point to a neurodegenerative effect of Methylphenidate. I would caution against drawing conclusions from this study as of yet. MP has been used for decades and there does not seem to be a clinically evident effect of this sort.

In order to derive clinical recommendations (like "stop taking ritalin") the potential damage has to be higher than that of all the "side effects" of ADHD, for example violence, depression and social problems. Which currently does not seem to be the case...
Distributed object storage

Filesystem: ExpanDrive :)
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For my current employer I landed on the job during their regression test sprint.

Just running through the tests and communicating a lot with testers and developers helped me understand how the app (ought to) behave.
I've tried several times, and it has never stuck. But other people have clearly had different results.
The propaganda about the poor's lack of access to health care is also overstated for various political reasons.

Note the difference between "overstated" and "false", and I'll even more explicitly say that that isn't proof that everything's hunky dory and nothing needs to be changed. But it's hardly like it's paradise for the poor in Europe and in the US you're just left out on your own... it's way more nuanced than that. (Everybody's books have to balance.)
If you had a program that generated a random number, and somehow send a hash of said number to the past to be used as a salt to generate itself. Would the new random number be truly random?
While you're here, can I just thank you for Quasar/Pulsar? Amazing piece of engineering work, every language deserves a threading library like that.
Called it:
http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/1xy2aq/why_not_elimi...

Here's the 3D HMD I created for my Galaxy S4: https://i.imgur.com/eCxH4co.jpg

I spent about $15 on that. $5 for lenses off of ebay, $5 for strap, and $5 for 3d model.

Here's my solution for 6DOF: https://i.imgur.com/Gfl3ERY.jpg

I took a PS3 eye cam and cut out the IR filter and replaced it with a sheet of floppy disk to block visible light. Then I went to radio shack and bought 3 IR leds, 30OMH resistors and power supply. I'm using tridef 3D to render SBS 3D w/ oculus plugin to distort screen to accommodate lens curvature. I'm using splashtop/kainy to stream to phone. I'm using facetracknoir/FreePie to do the head tracking.
The PHP script[1] is just a simple proxy to pass the SVG content to a well-regarded Apache Batik toolkit which then does the actual SVG->PNG conversion. I suspect PHP was chosen because of it is more readily available than any other backend tech among Highcharts clients.

Flot is a canvas-based library, so it can rely on modern browsers to rasterize canvas drawings to an image within the browser. Rasterizing SVG into an image directly within the browser is technically possible, but not supported across a wide range of browsers, so sending the SVG to the backend for conversion is a valid and very common technique.

[1] https://github.com/highslide-software/highcharts.com/blob/ma...
Well no, for quite a few inventions, the first creation is a toy and the important inventions and actual progress are those that make it cheap enough.

The first cars didn't change the world. The first cheap cars did - Ford deserves more credit than Benz's Patentwagen.

The invention of lightbulbs at early 19th century wasn't a significant progress and didn't solve any significant problems - the cheap lightbulbs that came a generation later, involving Edison among others, did that.

Making stuff possible is just a tiny part of the total solution - making it cheap is what matters. If "solutions already exist" but aren't affordable, then those are not solutions - those are unsuccessful attempts at solving the real problem; and the world is still waiting for a proper solution of doing X in a way that scales efficiently and becomes affordable.
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I'd say you shouldn't pollute your controller with too much non-UI specific logic - oftentimes, it's worth splitting off some controller logic that is heavy into a service to test it in a more managable fashion & confine the messiness away from the controller.
You seem to have not understood what I said. I did not say time travel would replicate anything.

You would simply be transferred to the past, without any connection to the outcome of that past.

I.e. Let's say that you are transferred back in the 50s and you go kill your father before you were born. Then nothing will happen, there would be no paradox, you will continue to exist in that universe.
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Other way around. Right now, every tesla sold sells for MSRP. If independent dealerships could purchase at wholesale prices, they'd be able to undercut tesla by selling for less than MSRP.
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Not sure that needs a visual to understand, although it would be interesting to to see how you would present it, in my mind it's just another form of bottle-neck. In essence:

The lead bus has to stop for longer to pick up waiting passengers than the following bus. The less time the following bus has to stop, the closer it gets to the bus in front, so the less time for new passengers to accumulate. And so on down the chain.
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I switch between a Macbook Pro and a Windows ultrabook (long story) and the keys are spaced slightly different on both. After couple days of finger-confusion, my hands just adjust to them easily. The mind/body is amazing that way.
Are there any similar types of research being done for Modafinil? I've recently been prescribed a "therapeutic" dose of Ritalin (I reacted severely to the lowest regular dose of Concerta) but have not started taking it. I'm wondering if this is as bad as it sounds as my technical reading comprehension skills are not that astute.

I was using modafinil before with some success. The only problem was that my sleep patterns were all over the map and getting regular good sleep was becoming difficult.
Things like Battery Life, use during exams and the keyboard/button layout might be an issue, though. That and the fact that most high-school classes probably use TI calculators rather than R.
You should also try to make sure your project has tests, is clean, commented, and easy to read. :)
Where...? Doesn't sound very trustworthy to me...
I like to imagine that time travel is chancy, and the 'time tunnel' collapses each time a paradox is imminent.
I made the switch to DDG a couple of months ago, as I like their search results page (long listing, not short pages like Google), but after repeatedly being frustrated by not finding the results I need (and surprised each time I hit Google only to find the results right at the top), I switched back to Google yesterday. DDG as awesome as they are, simply are not Google. :(
DDG lets you use bang to indicate where you want to search. For example adding !g will send the search to Google. I use DDG for searching and in cases where I don't like the results and think Google could do better add the !g. That way you get the best of both worlds.

I've found that for regular searches with good obvious results then DDG does just fine. When the combination of words matter then it doesn't do as well, giving more generic results than the specifics you were after.
I'm curious if the NSA data center and Google Fiber being planned for Provo, UT (of all the wasted places...) is coincidental.
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Some recipes are more sensitive than others. Also, they seem to just be feeling their way through with no real way to compare their results with the originals.
As far as I can tell, we have culturally decided that all is fair if you are working for a company. Things that are clearly criminal if done on your own time are seen as just clever manipulation of contracts if you are working for a company. I can't understand it either, but it seems that simply prosecuting illegal acts evenly would fix most of the problems that people currently complain about as flaws in "capitalism".
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I know with Android you can, but can you develop for I devices without a license? I understand you're talking government licenses, and that one could jailbreak an iDevice, but can you develop legally without an Apple license?
"Nevertheless, this work supports studies [51], [57], [58], [59] that demonstrate that drugs shown to increase the levels of dopamine in the synaptic cleft can contribute to degenerative changes in the basal ganglia."
I considered saying the same thing about bash, but its really missing a big portion of what made BASIC exciting on those machines. That is the ability to draw graphics. Some of the other scripting languages with Tk linking might count though.

Frankly, I'm convinced javascript is the modern equivalent to BASIC. It is even complete with some horrible brain rotting syntax. But, it does provide both an easy barrier to entry (everyone has a web browser), the ability to show your results to others, and the fact that it remains in source form allows beginners to examine how something was achieved.
> While I'm steadfastly rooting for this to happen, I also fear that whatever replaces it will be much worse.

You realize that when the next Reign of Terror happens, it's us on the chopping block, right? The real elite will be on the first chartered flight to Hong Kong or Singapore or some similarly authoritarian place. Meanwhile, militarized San Francisco natives will start burning Google Shuttles.
There's a good episode of Software Engineering Radio on this topic, as well:

Episode 148: Software Archaeology with Dave Thomas
http://www.se-radio.net/2009/11/episode-148-software-archaeo...
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You can use a time machine as a very good space drive.

"All" you do is jump back / forwards in time repeatedly so that gravity pulls you in the direction you want to go. (In actuality: good luck plotting a flight path)

Want to get to 20% of the speed of light? Sit in freefall near Jupiter for 5 weeks (assuming 20m/s/s acceleration), jumping forward / backward in time as appropriate to stay in roughly the same spot relative to Jupiter.
Google's statistics http://www.statisticbrain.com/google-searches/

DDG is a drop in the bucket.
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Out of curiosity, did you make use of the g! keyword to cause a search to use Google instead? That was what made the transition easy for me. My search then consists of doing an initial search, and if the results look poor at first glance, toss a g! in front and see if it's better.
>those are nearly ideal places to locate data centers that are survivable

Yes, because we sure as hell wouldn't want all these these billions of records on random innocent U.S. citizens to die along with us in a nuclear blast, would we?
Disappointed the article didn't discuss the pros/cons of earth-based telescopes versus space based. Why build earth based telescopes when you have the atmosphere in the way?
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It's a neat idea in that I like seeing new uses of displays, and new ways to interface with them. Problem is, I think this would be rather annoying to use as a lefty, and others seems to agree [1].

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/3/6101571/the-galaxy-note-edg...
>>There's an interesting correlation between immigrants and entrepreneurship (old-school building a profitable business entrepreneurship, not SV-type scaling an unprofitable business entrepreneurship). My take on this (utterly my own opinion) is that immigrants are less likely to get jobs, so more likely to start their own businesses.

As an immigrant, I think it's more that we're more comfortable with taking risks (leaving one's home country and emigrating anywhere is a huge risk, after all), so we don't have a big problem with abandoning steady paychecks and diving (back) into a sea of uncertainty.
There is a clear link between minimum wage and unemployment.

We already have a bunch of automation technologies where machines and software can do a better job than a low-wage person can, simply the people currently are cheaper even at USA minimum wage.

Once the minimum wage rises above that cost (or the tech drops in price), those jobs will be gone for good.
Erlang on the JVM as anything more than a toy is fundamentally misunderstanding Erlang -- which basically reinforces the article's central thesis. The article mentions the need for lightweight concurrency support to be baked into the platform -- the Erlang VM is the epitome of this. Idiomatic Erlang spawns a large number of isolated, concurrent processes, and lets them crash when things go wrong, with supervision trees to recover and restart processing. If a single JVM thread crashes, the whole VM goes. Additionally, you also lose secondary benefits such as per-process heaps/GC, etc. These things are impossible to cleanly graft on to the JVM.
I don't understand; how do I buy a link on BuzzFeed?

Are No-Follow links still respected? Or does Google not care?
Well, to be fair, any time machine is probably fairly complex. The chances of the time machine being the thing that breaks the loop by breaking/etc is probably non-negligible.
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In case people have forgotten there are many similar DIY solutions based on this: https://cardboard.withgoogle.com/

I've got one and there's quite a few fun demos and small games in the Play Store that work with it.
Disability benefits are paid to spouses on death, in many cases, so, no, it can't be stated that way.
A quick read of the abstract indicates that loss of neurons only occurred in mice at the higher dose (10 mg/kg).

Typical doses of Ritalin in kids (6+ years old) is 5-10 mg per day in two doses.[1] 6 year old weigh about 20 kg (50th percentile) so each dose is ~0.25 mg/kg (5/20). Even if you double the dose, it's 0.50 mg/kg, below the 1 mg/kg where the study saw no neuron loss.

To get to 10 mg/kg, kids would have to take 200 mg in a single dose. I'm pretty sure the side effects would be utterly intolerable even at half of that dose.

It's probably worth following up, but I wouldn't be worried about this finding.

[1] http://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/methylphenidate-...
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Is there any sensor or combination of sensors in modern phones capable of doing this?

I suppose the obvious one is to use the front-facing camera and some external markers but that might be very CPU-intensive.
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Since I don't exactly encourage to buy links, I didn't include a step-by-step guide to buying links on BuzzFeed.

This was purely research (with interesting results, if I may say so) and I don't want to lead anyone down a path that might hurt her in the future.

All the links sold on that marketplace are Do-Follow links. For all I know, Google does not care about No-Follow links.
To be fair to Kahneman by 2012 he did come around and recognize that there were serious issues with "priming" research[0].

The chapter on priming in "Thinking Fast Thinking Slow" completely ruined the book for me. The very premise of the book is (paraphrased): "I will teach you to overcome bias and think rationally" and then here is an entire chapter that should make anyone with a critical eye strongly question the research. Even if one is ignorant of the issues these experiments have with reproducability the experiment design itself is terrible, and there seems to be no way to draw the wild conclusion that are drawn. Not to mention that if priming actually worked as claimed you would see it become a hotter topic among marketers than SEO. I fail to see how a world expert on cognitive bias can fail to question such an obvious fault in a topic that he covers in his own book.

[0] http://www.nature.com/news/nobel-laureate-challenges-psychol...
The problem is that children have developing brains, and this study doesn't take that into account.

Could the drug "stunt" neurological development over the extent of a childhood? Even in low dosages?

I wish we wouldn't medicate so much, especially in young children!
> One frustration I’ve had in recent discussions regarding controversial research is the seeming unwillingness of researchers to entertain the possibility that their published findings are just noise. Maybe not, maybe these are real effects being discovered, but you should at least consider the possibility that you’re chasing noise. Despite what Turing and Kahneman say, you can keep an open mind.

The other thing researchers do is look for effect X, fail to find it, but do find effect Y. They don't publish about X because journals aren't interested in null results. They do publish about Y because, well, money.

BBC Radio 4 did a reasonable programme about this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04f9r4k
The reason Google can give you good results is because of the tracking they do at tailoring the search results to you. DuckDuckGo doesn't do tracking like Google, so it's not going to be tailored to you.
Can you please explain "Meter Number?"
That sounds like a fair question but could equally be disingenuous.

Is the rate of lack of use of bank accounts ever likely to be public knowledge? There's zero incentive on the banks' side to publicise that kind of information.

If it's not publicly available then your question sounds quite loaded.
This type of degenerative side effect though might especially express itself later in life: making you much more likely to develop say dementia earlier than a normal human.

It's not like it would be an immediate side effect.

Often brain damage chronically over time is not immediately visible.
I do not think that there can be a Grandfather Paradox. If one goes back in time, he/she will simply be removed from the state of the universe as it is now and be added to the state of the universe at the target past date. He/she could then go on killing their father before they were born, but nothing will happen to them except not meeting with themselves as babies.
The plain text version is broken, but the html version is right under it.

I usually just go to vim.org, click through to documentation and then FAQ, so I never noticed until now. I'll figure out how we can get the broken link removed.
Very well said. I greatly respect you for what you are doing/have been doing. It's obvious from your comments that you are not just talking nice, but have been there.

I'm pretty sure no one has responded because no one knows how to respond to your bleak ending. Probably because it exposes our selfishness. I know I don't know what to say.

Do you have any further info about the work you and your brother are doing/have done?
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Isn't it the premise of the movie Primer?
...or a bunch of science in general.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04f9r4k
Why fight it? The problem is that you have cash in your name, and Square deals with payments. So there is possible confusion. Just change your marketed name, it will cost less than any other option you have. Unless your name is so critical to the success of your game that you can't change it, but I assume it's not.