Rod

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   The Quest for Artificial Intelligence (free ebook) [15 MB pdf](ai.stanford.edu)

   2 points by Rod 16y ago|0 comments
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   by Rod 16y ago

   "Nowadays, journalism all over the world is becoming part of the entertainment industry. It's becoming a circus. And in doing so it is forfeiting the constitutional role it had in a free society. This role was to educate, not to entertain.
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   by Rod 16y ago

   In a recent interview, Assange mentioned that in the first days of WikiLeaks they used to make the leaked files available, without trying to publicize them. The result was that nobody noticed them. They soon realized that they needed to bec
4. 94.▲
   by Rod 16y ago

   Big media is part of the entertainment industry. They sell what people want to see. How many Americans want to watch a video of an Apache firing at civilians during a war that was started based on lies, that has resulted in the death of app
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   Elementary Number Theory: Primes, Congruences, and Secrets (free ebook)(wstein.org)

   4 points by Rod 16y ago|0 comments
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   by Rod 16y ago

   "It's fair, equal, and all that jazz until it hurts women financially." Most people have no ideology. Instead, they have a "retirement plan", so to speak. People oppose taxes when they're wealthy, they are for social welfare when they're
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   Foundations of Computer Science (free ebook)(infolab.stanford.edu)

   100 points by Rod 16y ago|13 comments
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   Lie Group Computations With Python(davidsd.org)

   5 points by Rod 16y ago|0 comments
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   Emmy Noether and The Fabric of Reality (vid)(youtube.com)

   3 points by Rod 16y ago|0 comments
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    by Rod 16y ago

    "LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living und
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    Doctoral dissertation could be security threat (2003) (washingtonpost.com)

    1 points by Rod 16y ago|0 comments
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    DIY High-Resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging System [pdf](web.mit.edu)

    2 points by Rod 16y ago|0 comments
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    by Rod 16y ago

    There's a reason I used to love reading PhD Comics ... until I started my own PhD. It used to be fiction, now it's non-fiction (sigh)
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    Help Bradley Manning(bradleymanning.org)

    2 points by Rod 16y ago|0 comments
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    by Rod 16y ago

    No, I really, really don't see how my words could have been misinterpreted like that. I made it clear that, as Iceland depends too much on the U.S., it has no leverage and, thus, will be an obedient lackey whenever the boss tells it what to
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    Where Are The Health Care Entrepreneurs?(papers.nber.org)

    1 points by Rod 16y ago|0 comments
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    by Rod 16y ago

    It depends on the schools. A graduate student at a UC school is way cheaper than a graduate student at Stanford or Caltech. It also depends on the PhD program, or more to the point, on the course requirements. If a PhD student already has a
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    by Rod 16y ago

    (sigh) Dude, seriously... who's talking about invading Iceland? Are you out of your mind? I never even suggested that!!! Did the MPAA / RIAA mafia need the U.S. military to invade Sweden to shut down The Pirate Bay's servers a few years ago
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    by Rod 16y ago

    Iceland may be a sovereign nation, but it has no armed forces. It's fair to say that its defense consists of its alliance with NATO, i.e., with the U.S., which implies that if the U.S. says "jump!", Iceland will ask "how high?". Considering
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    by Rod 16y ago

    I never said Lieberman is part of it. If you want to distort my words as you please, go ahead. It amuses me. You can accuse me of thread-jacking, but you can't accuse me of Obama-bashing.
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    by Rod 16y ago

    Didn't they try that in Sealand? http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.07/haven.html Apparently it didn't work all that well.
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    by Rod 16y ago

    I read the article. Read my comment. I never claimed that Obama is trying to get this power, so your accusation has no merit. I stand by my observation: the Obama administration can get away with more than the Bush administration did, as th
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    Luis von Ahn: Outsourcing My Research Group(vonahn.blogspot.com)

    18 points by Rod 16y ago|5 comments
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    by Rod 16y ago

    I don't want to politicize this argument, especially so since I am not a U.S. citizen, but my perception is that if Bush had tried to acquire such powers, people would have gotten hysterical. Obama, being a "liberal" can get away with more.
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    The Great Firewall of Australia(time.com)

    2 points by Rod 16y ago|0 comments
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    The Invention of the First Wearable Computer [pdf](graphics.cs.columbia.edu)

    1 points by Rod 16y ago|0 comments
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    by Rod 16y ago

    Speak for yourself. Gaussian distributions are ubiquitous (thanks to the Central Limit Theorem), while uniform distributions only exist in the realm of pseudo-number generators and little else. I think that the point you're trying to make i
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    by Rod 16y ago

    "Uniform distribution is special case of random distribution." What is a random distribution? I think you meant probability distribution .
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    Crypto AG: the NSA's trojan horse? (mediafilter.org)

    1 points by Rod 16y ago|0 comments
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    by Rod 16y ago

    You're missing the point. She glorified the "productive people", the people who, if absent, would lead to the collapse of society. John Galt, Rand's superhero, was nothing like Rand. Let's face it, Rand never did Science, nor Technology, sh