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> What a nice surprise to see my project turn up here Same!

Looks like they have a LaTeX macro or something that's putting a newline after every instance of the word CogPrime in the intro, and a space after each in the main text. It's actua…

I've just started at a place that uses a lot of Tcl for embedded scripting and customisation, and I've never used it before so this was very handy. That said, the document needs wo…

The big question for me is, can this paper be produced cheaply enough to be more effective per dollar than whatever our current best intervention for clean water is? My totally uni…

Looks like a very promising concept, at least from a technical perspective. I don't rate its chances of success all that highly, since it needs a lot of buy-in before it gets enoug…

Regarding storage, I've read some interesting things about the potential of electric vehicles here. If every car were electric, that's a massive array of large efficient batteries …

To be clear, you're singling out a specific algorithm and offering a 1000USD, even money bet that it will be used by the winner?

Security, and backups .

> we voted for this Not really. Claire Perry was elected as Conservative Member of Parliament for the constituency of Devizes in Wiltshire. Devizes has elected a Conservative candi…

Well, gold does have actual value for its industrial and aesthetic applications.

If you have a reader, download the ebook from https://github.com/joshleitzel/rawthought . I read it not long ago, and it's one of the most interesting books I've ever read.

> I would be a bit worried to eat one that cost over 10x less and the seller was still able to make a profit. A lot of supermarkets, at least in the UK, sell various basic foodstuf…

> This premise assumes we understand, with no uncertainty, how the human body functions and utilizes nutrients. It really doesn't. Whatever knowledge we do have can be applied, wit…

As an Englishman I must say that it really does bother me when people attempt to write or talk in the manner they imagine an English gentleman might. It always feels quite stilted,…

I'm almost certain that you cannot 3D print functioning LEGO bricks. Considering they're plastic, those things are manufactured to extremely fine tolerances.

By the way, Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One is great fun, and you should read it.

Funny how things can come full-circle > "On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in raw mode, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the control…

I think Aaron Swartz hit the nail on the head with his "What Does Google Mean by “Evil”?" blog post[1]: > "They specifically name three: showing irrelevant ads, using pop-ups or ot…

For reference, there are places where this kind of MEDC recreational wood-burning is illegal, and it is easily enforceable without causing other problems. For example (I'm not sure…

> to refer to UX... tropes (what word would you use here? Motif? Probably 'pattern', I guess. I agree, I think it's a very practical new usage which doesn't introduce much ambiguit…

Seems to me that this app doesn't use any advanced android features, so requiring android 4.0 is needlessly excluding a lot of potential customers. Edit: Almost 60% of android user…

Right. There are at least two different types of 'smarter'. Thinking speed is one dimension on which a mind can scale, but not the only one. A moderately competent chess player may…

Right. I've said this before, and I'll say it again. Do not take advice from Sherlock Homes , because he is fictional and thus can be no smarter than his creator, a man who quite l…

I don't think anyone is claiming that, just that it is a good introduction to the principles.