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by Untitled 16y ago
> Whereas undergrads are coached to write tests we're coached to publish. That is the big problem. The problem is that the sole method of employee evaluation for University professors (and postdocs - anyone in an academic career) is pub
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by Untitled 16y ago
Stupid question (I know embarrassingly little about GPGPU programming). Is OpenCL mostly used with ATI cards? How common is OpenCL? It seems to me that almost everyone is using CUDA. Also, isn't copying everything to the GPGPU memory and th
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by Untitled 16y ago
Is it true though that politicians focuses on certain case? (With caste based admissions to universities and pandering for votes with these castes (by for instance welfare and job reservation)?) IMHO, I think that is what China is doing rig
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by Untitled 16y ago
Here is a very bad pseudo-code demo illustrating the problem and the proposed solution: http://pastie.org/1247590 I'm beginning to suspect that the willful incompetence on their part is maybe just a scheme of many to get others to do the
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by Untitled 16y ago
That is not the biggest problem. My problem is that people do not understand basic things (which higher-level programming languages hide). One thing is pointers (e.g. how a matrix is represented in a language) and another is the flow of exe
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by Untitled 16y ago
I'm going to go off at a tangent here and rant a bit. Firstly, "C" is not a difficult language. When you compare it to the difficulty of say elementary calculus, you will notice that the concepts are simple. Any person who studied computer
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by Untitled 16y ago
> Even the nobel peace prize winner this year claims that another 200 years of British colonialism is what china needs to uplift itself out of totalitarianism. The Nobel Peace Prize winner of this year is a fairly obscure writer in Chin
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by Untitled 16y ago
> China is increasingly a heavily industrialised society yet still maintains an autocratic system of government with no democracy. So? The Chinese government is arguably more responsible than many democratic countries (as far as foreign
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by Untitled 16y ago
> more evil than the Third Reich, given what we know about the sheer scale of systematic extermination during the Holocaust. Six million people died during the Holocaust. Probably many more died because of the British Empire's policies.
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by Untitled 16y ago
Read up about the British Empire and its history (it really is no secret). Examples include favouring certain classes in Sri Lanka (creating strife that lasted to this day in Sri Lanka and Malaysia). Overseeing immense famine (while British
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by Untitled 16y ago
> I dunno, I normally have a thick skin and a good sense of humor, but having been raised jewish its hard for me to look at cuddly hitler and not cringe a little Maybe you should grow a thicker skin? The British Empire was arguably mor
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by Untitled 16y ago
The majority of people who received the Nobel Peace Prize did fuck-all for world peace (e.g. Yassar Arrafat - a terrorist, Henry Kissinger, Barrack Obama - fighting two wars and starting a new one in Pakistan, Al Gore - he made a movie, etc
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by Untitled 16y ago
> How many Amazon's that sell books? Maybe. I always thought the connection is that they cut down the Amazon rain-forest to make and sell high-quality books.
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by Untitled 16y ago
This is a very popular undergraduate book which I hated. I simply hated how the work is represented - instead of having good mathematical examples (and a clear notation!), they have a lot of text and a bad/substandard notation.
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by Untitled 16y ago
This is sad. What made environmental programs worse for me is the human interaction (and human interest) stories that they try to create. Usually it is a person catching or wrestling with a wild animal (they usually try to justify this for
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by Untitled 16y ago
The white upper middle class are always doing fairly well. Yet poor whites are the ones that are double screwed. They are discriminated against in many countries ("black economic empowerment") and they are loathed by upper middle class whit
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by Untitled 16y ago
<rant> This article irritates the living hell out of me. I was extremely poor as a child, yet there are sensible ways people act who are in poverty and ways in which poor people act that causes poverty. > Because personal respon
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by Untitled 16y ago
> Coca Cola, for instance, doesn't have any real benefit over other drinks, but they have a fearsome salesforce, marketing and distribution. Not as simple as that. Firstly, it is extremely difficult to enter the drinks market (setting