Notices tagged with q, page 3
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I #want a #T-shirt that says "Love the fucking baby yourself, you goddamn robot": http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/robotandbaby/robotandbaby.html #robot #baby #jmc #mccarthy #q
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"Mystery clung to each impending image as it took shape, the camera conjuring up pictures of what was right before one’s eyes, right before one’s eyes. The miracle of photography, which Polaroids instantly exposed, never lost its primitive magic. And what resulted, as so many sentimentalists today lament, was a memory coming into focus on a small rectangle of film." !polaroid #q http://status.hackerposse.com/url/6456
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#q "Having a skill and being unafraid can look surprisingly similar." https://waterpigs.co.uk/notes/4Y5Adb/
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Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the #probability of success is not almost one, it is damn near zero. - David Ellis !q !science
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#q "The absurdity is that the hack is at all necessary…. In a sane legal climate, the TV station would be thrilled that Aero wants to help them reach the dead pockets in their area at no cost to them and any suggestion that such helpful people… might owe them a fee would be laughed out of court." http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3608601&cid=43345809 !copyright
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#q "This may be the biggest #legal controversy to engulf the #mathematical constant #pi since that time in #1897 when the Indiana legislature tried to declare it equal to 3.2" http://www.wired.com/2014/05/pi-takedown/
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#q "30% of the code in our new release was written by kids" #lp2014
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#q Walter Bender "I have 2 modest goals for kids: I want them to learn to write, and I want them to learn to write code. And the first thing we do is take away their keyboards?"
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#q "like 30% of the Internet speaks English as their native language. We shouldn't just exclude the other 70%." #lp2014.
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Do you love that being from the #Q Continuum that much that you post this 3x in 3 mins? ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_%28Star_Trek%29 cc @question
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#q #paulgraham "the stated purpose of #Powerpoint is to present ideas. Its real role is to overcome people's fear of public speaking. It allows you to give an impressive-looking talk about nothing, and it causes the audience to sit in a dark room looking at slides, instead of a bright one looking at you." http://www.paulgraham.com/hiring.html
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#q: “The worst part is that #Gmail will display the attached message (Content-Type: message/rfc822) as long as the #MIME header has "Content-Disposition: inline" and not "Content-Disposition: attachment"” http://status.hackerposse.com/url/5223 #WTF #FFS
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OMG this perfectly sets up for (but doesn't actually get into) the big problem I had with #college: #q "And then, in your late teens... The brain is basically saying I'm here to learn about adulthood. Show me what I need to know." http://www.npr.org/2013/09/06/211722893/is-30-really-the-new-20
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#q Temple Grandin: "You see, people get locked into it verbally. I'm a visual thinker so I don't see the words. I see the kids." http://www.wbur.org/npr/255744345/can-autism-be-an-asset
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#Ebert's review of "Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey": #q "You begin with interest, and then you pass through the stages of curiosity, fascination and disbelief, until in the last 20 minutes, you arrive at a state of dumbfounded wonder. It is the kind of movie that requires a musical score only the Theremin possibly could supply." !theremin http://status.hackerposse.com/url/5153
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#q "#Monotremes are mammalian, even if what they have is a kind of free demo version of mammalianism…" http://eyeteeth.livejournal.com/51466.html
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#q "the best thing computer #programming #education teaches people is when they should hire a programmer" http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4742023&cid=46134665
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Terrifying: #q "we don't put more emphasis on reproducibility in Software Carpentry… because scientists don't care" http://status.hackerposse.com/url/4953 !science
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#q “These #words are the obvious Latin-based antonyms for "optimal" and "optimise", but for some reason they do not appear in most English dictionaries, although "pessimise" is listed in the OED.” http://status.hackerposse.com/url/4882
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#q "Telling someone who trusts you that you're giving them #medicine, when you know you’re not, because you want their money, isn’t just #lying—it’s like an #example you’d make up if you had to illustrate for a child why lying is wrong." http://m.xkcd.com/971/ #xkcd
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