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dazmax··on Ravens score just as high as big-brained chimps on cognitive tests
It's interesting that this story sounds far-fetched but if you told it about a chimp no one would bat an eye.

I think we can accept how intelligent chimps are more easily because we can understand their body language and facial expressions. Even dolphins and dogs are more relatable.

dazmax··on Andy Weir, Author of the Martian, Shares Details About His Next Novel
But they also don't ask why she chose a male protagonist.
dazmax··on 52-hertz whale
Mentioned in the article: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lonelywhale/help-us-fin...
dazmax··on Google Unveils Neural Network to Determine the Location of Almost Any Image
It's a great game, but a little misleading to use as a proof of concept since presumably they trained it with google streetview data.
dazmax··on Beartooth
Except people prefer to text these days.
dazmax··on Feds Raid Hoverboard Booth at CES
Onewheel is Future Motion's product, not the Chinese company. The kickstarter was in Jan 2014 so that's how long a copycat would have had.
dazmax··on Microsoft buys Talko, another Ray Ozzie company
A bit sad because I thought Talko had some great ideas. I hope some are picked up by Slack or Telegram as well as getting worked into Skype.
dazmax··on Post-human mathematics
If the rules are that you have to use a human body, good luck computer.

Considering what our brains were designed for, you could make the argument that chess is just as unfairly biased in a computer's favor as controlling a human body in a boxing match is in the human brain's favor.

dazmax··on The Space Doctor’s Big Idea
It wouldn't be fun at all if he didn't have to call him "the space doctor".
dazmax··on Patronizing Passwords
What if it's in a "secure element" whose hardware and firmware make it provably incapable of divulging the private key?
dazmax··on Paternal stress in mice given to offspring via RNA packed into sperm
Pre-paternity leave
dazmax··on Ruby gaining a safe navigation operator: '.?'
The main problem I've seen with Objective-C is due to the fact that nil has truthiness, so this code is dangerous:

    if (input.isInvalid()) {
      reject()
    } else {
      accept()
    }
If input is accidentally nil, it's an invisible bug.

The other main complaint is when you have a long string of methods unexpectedly turn out nil at the end, it's a pain to figure out which one it was.

dazmax··on The adblocking revolution is months away
The Facebook Instant Articles thing is in a good position for this. Move content to special-purpose browsers controlled by the company serving the ads.
dazmax··on Toki Pona: a human language with 120 words
You're talking about light mixing. The red/blue/yellow color wheel is based on pigment mixing: green + blue = cyan, red + blue = magenta
dazmax··on Ex-Googler says she exposed company-wide pay inequality with spreadsheet
She specifically says that she only told friends about the bonuses being withheld
dazmax··on Linkmoji – Turn any link into Emoji
That combo has been used as a homonym for "piece of shit".

See http://🍕💩.ws/💩📦🐱🍅👊🐌

dazmax··on The man with 1,000 klein bottles under his house [video]
It's a joke. It has an inside as much as any bottle does, but the only point of a Klein Bottle is the topological form so they're using topological language to talk about it.
dazmax··on Nantucket: an accidental limerick detector
I think the rhyme definition is wrong. To me a rhyme has to be have the same phonemes from the coda of the last accented syllable to the end of the line.
dazmax··on 210 Zappos employees – 14% of the staff – take buyouts after CEO ultimatum
If so it might be what he wanted. There was speculation that the buyout was a way to get rid of managers without having to fire them.
dazmax··on x*sin(y)
The search doesn't actually find pages with x * sin(y), though. Even on verbatim mode the best it does is x = sin(y).
dazmax··on Game of Thrones leak and watermark: a stupid tracking system
In this case there's someone else who paid for you not to be able to stream it: Apple.

HBO Now is Apple TV exclusive for 3 months.

dazmax··on Michigan Micro Mote – World's Smallest Computer
What if you put a receiving antenna in every power outlet, light switch, and light fixture – then you could use these throughout the building.
dazmax··on I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA
He didn't say it was advice on how to become a huge company, he said it was how to _maybe_ become a huge company. They're going for high returns on successes, not high chance of success.
dazmax··on Jet.com’s Valuation Nears $600M Before Launch
Good question, let me cuil it.
dazmax··on The Reddit Front Page Is Not a Meritocracy
That's what I thought at first too, but the data makes it clear that it isn't just based on votes weighted by subscriber count either.
dazmax··on LastPass command-line interface tool
Just a PSA for mac users: Keychain Access.app has a command line interface: `security` . I use a special keychain for some of my TrueCrypt passwords, so I can mount them all with the same password via the command line via `security find-generic-password`
dazmax··on Mothers’ brains show similar responses to her baby and her dog
I wouldn't say floppy ears and mottled fur are baby-like.
dazmax··on Hjson, the Human JSON
But if you start leaving commas out of your JSON, it's no longer valid YAML.
dazmax··on Hjson, the Human JSON
Think of this as an alternative to YAML for people who deal with a lot of JSON and don't want to always be switching back and forth between JSON and YAML (or toml or edn or whatever) with all the cognitive friction that can cause.

They just want to be able to write sloppy JSON and have code handle all the strict requirements of real JSON.

dazmax··on Reddit
http://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit

"A subreddit for really great, insightful articles, reddiquette, reading before voting and the hope to generate intelligent discussion on the topics of these articles."

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