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by Rod 18y ago
It's tempting to think that the job market works that simply. However, it takes at least 10 years to train a good scientist / engineer. Waiting 10 years is a luxury. Moreover, people who choose a career based on earning power tend not to be
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Fermat's Last Theorem [video](video.google.com)
4 points by Rod 18y ago|0 comments
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by Rod 18y ago
I assume he took a leave of absence, then.
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by Rod 18y ago
But didn't he intend to obtain the PhD when he went to Stanford? I once read a long interview with him, and I believe that PhD was his goal. I am not sure, though.
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Parasitic Computing(nd.edu)
3 points by Rod 18y ago|0 comments
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by Rod 18y ago
Exactly. It's a manifestation of selection bias . We pay attention to the Gateses, Zuckerbergs and such, and disregard the thousands and thousands who dropped out of college and ended up achieving nothing in their lives. It seems to me tha
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by Rod 18y ago
Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard while undergrads. David Filo, Jerry Yang, Sergey Brin, Larry Page didn't bother to finish grad school at Stanford and dropped out too. On the other hand, we can think of Craig Venter, An
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by Rod 18y ago
More info on Flower: http://playstation.joystiq.com/2008/07/16/its-awesome-flower... http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122972605155122665.html
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by Rod 18y ago
The illustrious corporate raider 's name is actually spelled "Icahn". Yes, Icahn! (sorry, could not help it)
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Verifying Code When Software Reliability is Critical(mathworks.com)
3 points by Rod 18y ago|0 comments
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by Rod 18y ago
Weird. The URL is working fine for me.
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by Rod 18y ago
Google would lose all their credibility? People would realize that having all their data in the cloud is not risk-free? This doomsday scenario sounds so unlikely that it gets to the point of being ludicrous...
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Microfluidic Bubble Logic(web.media.mit.edu)
6 points by Rod 18y ago|2 comments
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How Sabeer Bhatia started Hotmail on $300,000 and sold it two years later for $400 million(wired.com)
34 points by Rod 18y ago|14 comments
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by Rod 18y ago
In what sense?
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by Rod 18y ago
On the same Nepalese village, here's a story from Oct. 2001 (before they had internet access): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1606580.stm
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by Rod 18y ago
A truly inspiring story. While to us, blasé Westerners (tongue-in-cheek), it seems that the world is collapsing, it's heart-warming to know of a place where positive change is happening thanks to technology. It does put things in perspect
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by Rod 18y ago
"Bankraub ist eine Initiative von Dilettanten. Wahre Profis gründen eine Bank." -- Bertold Brecht In other words, only dilettanti rob banks. True pros found one ;-)
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by Rod 18y ago
Let's see: - the author does not define "grace" - the author does not define "sports" - the author does not define "schools" Sure, the text is not ambiguous at all! Maybe I am just being a pedantic academic, but in Math if you want to make
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by Rod 18y ago
Isn't it true that when one wants to make a point (especially a polemical one), one should remove all ambiguity? If "schools" refer to "high schools" not universities, then the writer should make that explicit. "Mandatory sports" means "man
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by Rod 18y ago
Caltech and MIT are elite private schools, and sports are not mandatory there! What a sad, pathetic, weak article... I wonder how this crap even got upvoted to the main page.
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by Rod 18y ago
Though I greatly admire Stallman, this essay is a bit simplistic and disappointing. I would argue that hacking precedes the age of the computer. Those pranks mentioned by Stallman were happening at MIT in the 1920s and 1930s already. In f
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The Race for New Biofuels(pr.caltech.edu)
1 points by Rod 18y ago|0 comments
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by Rod 18y ago
The U.S. Navy should learn from this. Last Summer there were 5 carrier groups in the Persian Gulf. If, all of a sudden, the fleet's fighter jets can't take off because of a computer virus, would it be too wild to presume that the AAA and an
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by Rod 18y ago
I would like to see a human proof of the Four Color Theorem ;-) Computers are better than humans at many tasks. Zeilberger has a lot of valid points, IMHO. However, he could be less opinionated and more tactful. Creating flame wars just for
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by Rod 18y ago
Would it be too far-fetched to claim that Facebook's evil terms of use create an opportunity for a new photo-sharing platform? Facebook makes it very easy to share photos. What if one could still share photos with friends on Facebook, but t
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by Rod 18y ago
As a Portuguese citizen I feel obliged to point out that it's actually written "Portugal".
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by Rod 18y ago
Maybe the 300-strong staff will not only attend to the "needs" of the 600 programmers, but also run an offshore casino and an offshore brothel in parallel. After all, 1 staff member for each pair of programmers should leave a lot of the sta
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Economics of Information Security(cl.cam.ac.uk)
4 points by Rod 18y ago|0 comments
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by Rod 18y ago
Remember that scene where Lazlo comes up with a way of hacking some sweepstakes? That was based on a real event: http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/Hoaxipedia/Caltech_Sweeps... More info on the actual stories portrayed in the movie: ht

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