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by 6ren 15y ago
In support: James Cameron's Challenger Deep dive (only the US Navy had before); and "only four entities have put a capsule into orbit and recovered it - US, China, Russia and Elon Musk."
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by 6ren 15y ago
iteration = trial-and-error = try-and-fail For me, the hard part is that an experiment can be a lot of work... all that effort, for NOTHING . :( Though Tesla has more geek cred these days, Edison also did some stuff. He said: ( http://en.w
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by 6ren 15y ago
more discussion on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/reo77/everythin... interview with author (about the talk): http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/SPLASH-2011-David-Ung... the project homepage: http://soft.vub.ac
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Everything You Know (about Parallel Programming) Is Wrong(splashcon.org)
70 points by 6ren 15y ago|38 comments
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by 6ren 15y ago
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few. This is because the expert has learned what is important. For example, the too-large zombie arm is irrelevant to gameplay. Of course, if you
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by 6ren 15y ago
I agree that some things are hard to come up with but easy in hindsight. A bit like NP-complete. An example is a work of art - a composition, a book (hard to write, easy to copy). But, like pg controversially suggested, maybe if it can't
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by 6ren 15y ago
Is there any particular reason this is happening first in Germany? Just chance? Is it because Germany has an electoral system that allows it? [but other nations also allow it] Or, that Germany is technically advanced, and so one of the fir
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by 6ren 15y ago
Yes, I found that too. It's convenient that up-arrow is context-specific. However, as a commenter on the blog said, the first suggestion avoids the "last logout wins" problem: shopt -s histappend
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by 6ren 15y ago
a mechanism for occam's razor, where the parsimoniousness of theory complexity is motivated by conserving actual resources.
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by 6ren 15y ago
The second comment made me think insight works as a side-effect of memory consolidation: transforming short-term memory to long-term involves linking it to existing memories. This may reveal two kinds of insights: 1, straightforward connect
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by 6ren 15y ago
The "new iPad" keynote highlighted that you could shoot, edit, view and upload HD movies, explicitly saying that this countered the conception of the iPad as for consuming. That is, provided you're producing movies (or probably other multim
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by 6ren 15y ago
I read Design Patterns. The reason it was difficult for me was because they introduced many entities at once, and I couldn't keep track. My solution was to draw a diagram of the entities and their relationships as they were mentioned, and t
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by 6ren 15y ago
Now on the way up (18m ago); now surfaced.
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by 6ren 15y ago
The idea of a clean abstraction is you can predict what a particular operation will do without knowing its internal implementation. For higher-level languages, this is generally true for the effect of a command: you can work out what a line
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Brain size may determine whether you are good at keeping friends(sciencedaily.com)
4 points by 6ren 15y ago|0 comments
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NASA's Cassini Space Probe Finds New Saturnian Ocean(news.yahoo.com)
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by 6ren 15y ago
...without an understanding of what the reasoning problems are, it will not be possible to implement their solutions. Plausible as this Platonic argument may seem, it is in fact controversial in the context of AI... It's even co
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by 6ren 15y ago
I wonder how much of this disappears when you normalize for use? PHP would still seem overrepresented and C underrepresented. There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses. Bjarne Str
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by 6ren 15y ago
If cost/transistor continues to not improve, industry-wide, it spells the end of Moore's Law, at least for mainstream applications where cost is a primary factor . However... where size itself (and power consumption) are the primary factor
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by 6ren 15y ago
specs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiReader cpu S1C33E07 http://www.epson.jp/device/semicon_e/product/mcu/32bit/ (bottom of table)
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by 6ren 15y ago
The Dr. Frankenstein in me loves the idea of an automated data-driven business: generic algorithm + A-B testing + payment mechanism. If you could also automate litigation... running many in parallel, a useful monster might one day emerge.
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by 6ren 15y ago
Conceptually plausible: the cyclic motion of articulated wings (flapping) seems understood in models e.g. http://www.ornithopter.de/english/clips.htm Jarno's idea of a powered exoskeleton wing to provide x20 power is right in principle,
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by 6ren 15y ago
Anyone know how to block the popups on this site?
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by 6ren 15y ago
Still common in Coober Pedy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coober_Pedy,_South_Australia#Ov...
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by 6ren 15y ago
The arguments here signify the content of the essay - if it contained only joke and anecdote, it would be impossible to dispute. To add my own dispute, content-free writing is possible. Consider some self-help books; and Ed Catmull describ
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by 6ren 15y ago
Apple solved 4G (+retina) on the iPad with a 70% larger battery. But I think they'll solve it differently on the iPhone ("4GS"?): using Cortex-A15 + PowerVR G6200 (Rogue), both drastically underclocked , to give the same performance (or sl
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Oliver's simple fluid dynamics simulator(nerget.com)
1 points by 6ren 15y ago|0 comments
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by 6ren 15y ago
I think in part he's documenting modules. Because modules often crosscut the primary hierarchy of files/classes/methods, it's awkward to document in the source itself, and so usually isn't documented at all. Git allows documentation across
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by 6ren 15y ago
GPU within it went from dual to quad-core. Maybe it also upgraded from SGX543 to SGX544 or SGX554. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerVR#Series_5XT Hard to teardown a SoC.
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by 6ren 15y ago
1) DEC also had bumper years just before they failed. That's a common pattern, according to Christensen (and his empirical data), caused by the incumbents' retreat upmarket (away from the new threat) - where the margins are higher. For Goog

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