Press F11 then refresh.
Reminds of screensavers I wrote in the 90s/early 2000s.
Very nice.
Readit Newsseanica commented on Realistic rain drops in JS maroslaw.github.io/rainyd... · Posted by u/vvnraman
Anyone care to explain why this is too good to be true? Because it's always too good to be true.
It sounds like an expensive drug habit to have.
To start with, imagine the withdrawal symptoms.
There seems to be a lot of scare mongering in that video which doesn't help put the point across.."franken-foods"...really? GM foods are and will continue to be a great leap forward in sustainable, scalable agriculture.
I still have no idea what the "TPP" thing is...when I look at the other sources I just get things like "you will be banned from being able to modify the save file on your game"...huh really? What if I only support indie developers and publishers who don't enforce arbitrary restrictions? Vote with your purse etc.
And then there are a lot of the "it could", "it might", "possibly"...reeks of the same politics where "death panels" and other bullcrap comes from...following the sources and reading the actual proposals it is much less sinister.
http://whytheheckshouldicareaboutthetpp.com/?f=10&q=6 - The words "unauthorized" should be in there...which has a much less powerful point.
Present a reasonable, scientifically backed argument...then maybe I will listen.
The Wikileaks Party does a good job of summarizing some of the agenda.
http://www.wikileaksparty.org.au/why-australians-should-be-w...
seanica commented on Show HN: Ditch Black Text to Read Faster, Easier BeeLineReader.com... · Posted by u/gnicholas
There's one problem I have with it.
This afternoon it triggered a migraine.
I just came back just now, just in case it was a co-incidence, and yep, it was not a co-incidence.
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seanica commented on The best interface is no interface cooper.com/journal/2012/0... · Posted by u/potomak
Can you explain why you think it's an inherent flaw in the design?
The way I look at it is, yes the software should keep a history of user behaviour and base its actions off that, but there must be feedback involved, either explicit or implicit. This way, if I gave some input to the system once but then never did so again, the likelyhood that one event should affect the future would diminish over time.
There could be trickiness around "Bubbles" (like a Search bubble, where it only recommends to you things it thinks you'd like, and never shows you other things). I think those are problematic and should be dealt with. But I don't think that means it's impossible to fix. It's just something that needs to be thought through. I don't have an answer for it right now but that doesn't mean there isn't an answer.
> It's just something that needs to be thought through.
Your statement is what I mean. "Thinking things through" should be done during design. Once you have built system, its much harder to compensate for design flaws.
Programming is not designing. Designing is not programming. Fixing bugs is not designing.
You have to design into the UI system a means for it to compensate for changes in user behavior. You don't want a system that takes many uses to train. At the same time you don't want a system that is trained by a single use. For me this is the crux of the problem.
The happy medium that automatically detects deviations from a user's 'normal' behavior _and_ takes the correct action is very hard to design, as it involves AI fuzzy logic.
seanica commented on The best interface is no interface cooper.com/journal/2012/0... · Posted by u/potomak
That could happen, but really that would be a "bug", not an inherent problem with the design. That would be the developer's job to fix.
I disagree that this would be a bug. It's a design flaw that cannot be corrected by fixing bugs.
It's analogous to security flaws. If there is a flaw in the design, no amount of bug fixing will make the system secure, unless that 'bug fixing' changes the design.
seanica commented on The best interface is no interface cooper.com/journal/2012/0... · Posted by u/potomak
One thing that mustn't be over-looked with interfaces that 'learn about your behavior' is they can lock into a 'local maxima' and can be difficult to retrain without resetting to factory defaults. - If your lifestyle changes, can the interface keep up?
ArXiv paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1847
This work attempts to draw out the presence of a simulation by looking for tiny violations of known/expected symmetries, which is always worth doing. We should note, however, that an excellent simulation could exactly cover its tracks, lest the underlying architecture cause unintended artifacts.
From a CS perspective, the simulation's developer might create unit tests that guarantee the preservation of symmetries.
A theorist who develops an experimental test that could prove we do not live in a simulation should be lauded. There are experimentalists (like me) just waiting for such guidance. John Bell's theorem [1] was/is a shining guidestar for physics.
> A theorist who develops an experimental test that could prove we do not live in a simulation should be lauded.
That sounds like they would be proving a negative, which is impossible to do.