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by adulau 16y ago
I really enjoyed reading and re-reading "Gödel, Escher, Bach". Looking at the course/lecture page at MIT, I especially liked the following part : Grading There are no grades for this course. You can't grade such knowledge. This
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by adulau 16y ago
The toxicity of lithium is a reality. To monitor the level of toxicity you need to check the concentration level in the blood. If you start to distribute lithium in water, how can you ensure that the level of lithium remains below toxicity
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by adulau 16y ago
The website (relying on a modified version of XWiki[1]) is a bit difficult to use and read. I didn't try contribution or to register but compared to Wikibooks ( http://en.wikibooks.org/ ) where navigation is easy and contributing is much mo
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Writing User Defined Functions for pig(blog.darkhax.com)
1 points by adulau 16y ago|0 comments
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by adulau 16y ago
An interesting point of view, especially that is a "bit opposing" the perspective of Sergey Brin described in this article : http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/06/ff_sergeys_search/all/... where Sergey Brin knows having a specific gene (L
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by adulau 16y ago
He got a genius grant ($240,000) from MacArthur foundation and the grant from Takeda was $830,000. [1] http://tech.mit.edu/V121/N59/59stallman.59n.html
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by adulau 16y ago
The link is now squatted but still available in archive.org : http://web.archive.org/web/20061109232923/http://www.rfidana...
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by adulau 16y ago
It's always very interesting to see the library of other people and especially the one of Peter Norvig... You may find books you don't know or see relationship between topics that you underestimated at some points. Maybe it would be very in
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by adulau 16y ago
I really share this feeling especially during the past 7 months while the fund-raising was ongoing. Now, to be more practical and maybe start an implementation of a distributed Wikileaks. There are two processes : the submission process and
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by adulau 16y ago
or "looks like the return of 4GL or even the Fifth-generation programming language".
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by adulau 16y ago
I owned and tested various readers (including the previous Kindle) but until now a traditional book is unbeatable (at least in my eyes). Here is my major reasons behind this: - The setup cost is too high for an electronic reader. Starting o
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by adulau 16y ago
"Oil dispersant" is a vast term and can include various type of chemicals. The toxicity depends on the chemical used, the concentration and where it's used (e.g. water depth or next to the coast). As a lot of products are sold under a "trad
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by adulau 16y ago
I'm using text files stored by days (notes/2010/09/19) in a git repository. The git repository is replicated between my work and my home system. I have a quick-and-dirty(tm) script that generate automatically the daily file especially with
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by adulau 16y ago
The Google Command Line Tool is interesting but it's missing the search (is that intentional from Google? I don't know). I made a quick and dirty one liner replace foo by your search query: curl -s "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/servi
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by adulau 16y ago
The claim "largest single commercial launch deal" is somehow a bit marketing. A launch deal often includes multiple launches of satellite for a multiple years contract. Looking at Arianespace yearly turnover (more than 1000 MEUR in 2009) or
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by adulau 16y ago
URL normalization/canonicalization is already a hard work but chopping off URL to avoid dirty words in any language looks also difficult. How could we implement that? First, we need to know the existing dirty or vulgar words in a specific l
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by adulau 16y ago
From my experience in EU school, a class is given a book (often fiction) to read and everyone should have read it for a specific date and everyone got a test about that book. So we are "forced" to finish the book as the test is usually incl
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by adulau 16y ago
What kind of books? I discover that I'm usually cherry picking chapters or section in technical or books where there is no strong interrelationship between the various elements or the topics. As already pointed previously, marking or taking
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by adulau 16y ago
Yes, this is a good point. There is a pretty alternative to NTP and limiting the drift called radclock : http://www.cubinlab.ee.unimelb.edu.au/radclock/ more information about the accuracy is available there : http://www.cubinlab.ee.unim
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by adulau 16y ago
Looks nice on paper. Where is the free software implementation?
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by adulau 16y ago
I'm sometime tempted to do a s/GitHub/gitorious/g Especially that the gitorious.org software is free : http://gitorious.org/gitorious
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by adulau 16y ago
If we purchase that, can we export it and read it in reader using an open and free format? I suppose again, we can't use it and are forced to go in p2p to fetch a converted and open version. I'm always willing to buy e-books in open format
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by adulau 16y ago
Yes but the weakest point is usually the trackers. If you shut down the trackers, no one is able to initiate a download. Except when you use a trackerless BitTorrent but even in DHT mode (for the trackerless torrent), you still need to conn
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by adulau 16y ago
If you want to use the protocol within a browser, there is no standard (included by default in the browser) UDP socket interface accessible from js. Nice to use JSON but I'm still wondering how they could use UDP from the Browser? using "fa
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by adulau 16y ago
That reminds me of the statement from Eric S. Raymond : "Goodbye, "free software"; hello, "open source"" http://catb.org/~esr/open-source.html There is a philosophical/political aspect to claim that "information wants to be free" regardi
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On the Origin of Species (annotated)(documents.nytimes.com)
2 points by adulau 16y ago|0 comments
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by adulau 16y ago
A small side note regarding the "gambling casino" comparison mentioned in the article, I think this is not comparable especially that casinos are much more controlled than a part of the financial activities. In the article : "Capitalism sho
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by adulau 16y ago
“They have to explain how they do things, but that sometimes allowed people to game it.” Does this mean the obscurity of the rating scheme would have helped to avoid the gaming on it by the banks? I don't think so. Yes, knowing how the rati
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Are You a Scanner?(rosinecaplot.com)
1 points by adulau 16y ago|0 comments
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by adulau 16y ago
Very nice concept and idea. The design is simple and efficient. Small comments : 1. Living in Europe, the US "zip code" is bit restrictive. In other words, will you make a version for European users? 2. It would a nice idea to extend a bit

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