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I was a test subject for someone's PHD on this. AFAIR it was about identifying the part of the brain that is responsible for aborting actions. Like if you decide to pickup a pan, a…

This is the paradox of tolerance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance Each of Chicago Review's two choices (to publish, or not to publish) will generate disapproval.…

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My understanding is that the motor pulls the card in using random speeds which vary as the card is getting sucked in (start sucking, slow, fast, slow, fast, etc, fully sucked in). …

Oh man, I feel for you. If you want to and are legally able, you can send the sample work to me and I will review it for you. (I am firmly settled in a different country -- zero ch…

Isn't that exactly what a nap is? Does your awareness reduce? It's hard to notice a change in awareness. Sometimes I notice a transition from haziness to attention when a sound dra…

It is worth noting that the unintelligible accent issue is context dependent. A native English speaker can be the person with an unintelligible accent, and that person may need to …

Interesting. Could a better-than-O(n) parallelisable tuple space be implemented with something like skip lists?

I still don't understand. What makes the XML version better than the JSON version? Why is creating XML like that a good solution, while creating JSON like that is not?

How about this? [["Foo1", {"name" : "foo1"}, [ ["Bar1", {"name" : "bar1" }] ], ["Foo2", {"name" : "foo2"}, [ ["Bar2", {"name" : "bar2" }] ]] I personally wouldn't do this, but the …

Heh, just what I need, a new toy to play with! I spent a few hours looking into Ragel over the weekend, and, honestly, I can't envisage how a html5 parser mostly written in Ragel w…

Just for kicks, I am going to try and implement these two algorithms using using the State Machine Compiler ( http://smc.sourceforge.net/ ). I expect that my "code" will be much le…

Melbourne, Australia (not really able to move). I have over 4 years experience developing commercial win32 C++ software. I like to read programming books like "Programming Erlang",…

You can prevent caching optimisations by declaring a variable 'volatile' ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volatile_variable ).

The differences aren't invented. I see them every day within my own family. My Dad literally argues with himself out loud. I used to think he was arguing with me, but he's not, bec…

Sorry, I should have explained myself. The literal interpretation of the challenge is a paradox. The contradiction is that a secret is no longer a secret once revealed (hence my co…

I see a flaw in your challenge...

Maybe after World War 3 the new global government will search through the 25 year old database and exterminate all past and present believers of . (Yes, I know, plain text emails t…

How long is the survey?

If you brake really hard, you're probably going to decelerate at around 7 m/s2. 25 MPH / 7 m/s2 ~= 1.6 seconds. If you get caught running a redlight, you went through the intersect…

My Dad uses bing.com, because that's the default. My Dad often clicks on ads. I think the Google OS is just a way to make google.com the default for people like my Dad.

Each bid is an independent gamble - one bid buys you one chance of winning. Many bids increase your chance of winning, but do not guarantee it (bidding wars can be infinite).

No one likes to break a website, but... given the options of breaking the website's Javascript features, or letting NoScript perpetually undermine the Easylist2 filter, there wasn'…

Yes, I agree that fixing ABP would have been a much better solution to the problem. At the same time though, NoScript specifically targeted ABP, so it shouldn't be that much of a s…

NoScript has for a long time automatically changed the users default choice from: "block all Google Ads" to "block all Google Ads except NoScript ones". And, the feeling I get from…