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by Schiphol 11y ago
All right, let's go with that :)
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by Schiphol 11y ago
The title is taken verbatim from the link. I agree it's a bit misleading, but I'm finding it hard to come up with a better one. I'm open to suggestions :)
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Infinitely fast phase velocity with zero-index metamaterials(qz.com)
5 points by Schiphol 11y ago|4 comments
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by Schiphol 11y ago
Thanks for this. Incidentally, the second paper you link to is co-auhored, among others, by Daphne Koller, who teaches [this great course on probabilistic graphical models]( https://www.coursera.org/course/pgm ) and Andr
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by Schiphol 11y ago
5% sounds pretty high to me, considering how low (nonexistent, really) the entry barrier is. Where does that figure come from, if I may ask?
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List of the Most Popular MOOCs(onlinecoursereport.com)
200 points by Schiphol 11y ago|85 comments
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Computational Modelling Courses(aidanhorner.blogspot.com)
4 points by Schiphol 11y ago|0 comments
578.
by Schiphol 11y ago
Link to the original paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.03346 . It hadn't occurred to me that self-driving cars would put manufacturers in the position of actually having to make a decision on the various trolley-pro
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The Ultimate Ethical Dilemma: Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill(technologyreview.com)
2 points by Schiphol 11y ago|1 comments
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by Schiphol 11y ago
The "community of websites" idea is perhaps misleading that way. Websites in this context are, pretty much, analogous to your Twitter or Facebook page.
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Does the physics of Marty’s time travel add up?(newscientist.com)
2 points by Schiphol 11y ago|1 comments
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by Schiphol 11y ago
In general, it's far from useless to investigate the nature of X before having a clear definition of X. Perhaps the definition will come as a result of the investigation. Perhaps there will never be a clear definition, but paradigm cas
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Google’s been quietly recording your voice(qz.com)
3 points by Schiphol 11y ago|0 comments
584.
by Schiphol 11y ago
Then, finally (for now), you have Erdos-Bacon-Sabbath numbers ( http://timeblimp.com/?page_id=195 )
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by Schiphol 11y ago
I found this sentence funny "Representatives of Red Hat and Ansible did not immediately respond to requests for comment". I take it to mean: "we wanted to run the story as quickly as possible; still it would have been nice to
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by Schiphol 11y ago
And a video tour here http://www.sixdegreesoffrancisbacon.com/ Prediction: the next big thing in fan wikis will be a similar 6º of, say, Frodo Baggins.
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Six Degrees of Francis Bacon(cmu.edu)
11 points by Schiphol 11y ago|9 comments
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by Schiphol 11y ago
And a video here: http://www.sixdegreesoffrancisbacon.com/
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Six Degrees of Francis Bacon(cmu.edu)
1 points by Schiphol 11y ago|1 comments
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by Schiphol 11y ago
William Rapaport has just won the 2015 Barwise Prize for significant work on philosophy and computing -- http://www.apaonline.org/news/254862/William-Rapaport-is-the...
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Philosophy of Computer Science [pdf](cse.buffalo.edu)
75 points by Schiphol 11y ago|10 comments
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by Schiphol 11y ago
The vagaries of HN submissions :)
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Kilogram conflict resolved at last(nature.com)
10 points by Schiphol 11y ago|3 comments
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Strogatz's 'Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos' Video Lectures (2014)(youtube.com)
2 points by Schiphol 11y ago|0 comments
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Top 5 ArXiv Deep Learning Papers, Explained(kdnuggets.com)
1 points by Schiphol 11y ago|0 comments
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Giraffe: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Chess(arxiv.org)
17 points by Schiphol 11y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Publishing a copyleft book
7 points by Schiphol 11y ago|2 comments
598.
by Schiphol 11y ago
Having to come up with scientific lessons on the spot ("this may cause us to rethink..."), for the sake of press releases must be pretty stressful. I'm also not sure that such more-or-less impromptu analyses foster the right
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Tips for Reading Math Books(blog.jpolak.org)
3 points by Schiphol 11y ago|0 comments
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by Schiphol 11y ago
All right, yes, I do that. I thought the OP was alluding to something more sophisticated :)

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