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I love my little dual core X99 board with Xeon E5 2673 V3. It's not power efficient, but I just leave it in my basement for local Jupyter Notebook stuff. Much faster than everythin…

9 year old me got my first "hacking" experience out of this game. With the shareware version, you could not select the ultra tank that could shoot 3 bullets for a human, but you CO…

> I tried the same questions with my own account. I was surprised at how much it was able to synthesize that wasn't completely off-base. This makes it worse, no? I can't imagine th…

I used their RL book for a course I taught. It's beautifully written and freely available ( http://incompleteideas.net/book/the-book-2nd.html )! I kept getting distracted by the be…

Sorry, folks. This is what you get when the institutions fail to help the people they ostensibly were designed to help. There are more than 400 government agencies. No one even kno…

I don't think everyone should have bunch of kids. However, if you are in a good relationship and both like having kids, think about having 5 instead of 2. My personal experience of…

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I always thought the GW was short for George W. Bush. Not a popular figure when XP came out.

FYI, I posted this mainly for its description and illustration of the VHS format. The author of the video has very high quality explanations of technical and cultural details of in…

There's a truck exactly like that a block away from where I live in my rural town.

Seems pretty low for one of the most powerful people in the world.

True? How could it be anything but true. Twitter is a complex system that started when text messages were by and large SMS via a 10 number key pad on brick phones. While Elon has r…

She may be getting off relatively easy. If she happened to be in an embassy, it might have cost her an arm and a leg, and another arm and another leg...

They do have the Oculus store. It's not a competitor yet, but may be in 10 years.

Once in a while, I see a cluster of books in a Goodwill or Salvation Army that are very niche. Like, 20 books on flyfishing among 200 books. I bet the most interesting people to me…

> This is not dragnet mass surveillance of the kind more often associated with the National Security Agency. These are hacks, or “exploits,” designed for individual targets. Mhmm. …

My mother-in-law has severe eye problems and MS type symptoms. 16 years ago, I showed her how ctrl shift +/- could make her fonts huge. This one tip that is not obvious to most fol…

Why did people lose faith in the institutions? Because the institutions deserve it. Academic findings only have so much scope. It's nuanced and the news reporters, kindergarten tea…