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by aftabh 7y ago
From the course description: Category theory is a relatively new branch of mathematics that has transformed much of pure math research. The technical advance is that category theory provides a framework in which to organize formal systems
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Definition of kilogram set to change(bbc.com)
3 points by aftabh 8y ago|0 comments
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The Collapse of Complex Business Models (2010)(shirky.com)
122 points by aftabh 9y ago|21 comments
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machine-learning system figured out how humans recognize faces(news.mit.edu)
2 points by aftabh 10y ago|0 comments
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by aftabh 10y ago
Randy Pausch's 2007 "Time Management" lecture video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blaK_tB_KQA
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Randy Pausch – Time Management (2007, PDF)(cs.virginia.edu)
2 points by aftabh 10y ago|1 comments
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When Being a Nonconformist Entrepreneur Pays Off(gsb.stanford.edu)
1 points by aftabh 10y ago|0 comments
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by aftabh 10y ago
It's good news that they've changed the default PostgreSQL character set (encoding) from ASCII to UTF8 in Ubuntu 16.04. It'll definitely save a good amount of time of new PostgreSQL users who need UTF8 encoding as default.
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by aftabh 10y ago
> This is actually poor advice. The right way on Ubuntu is to use the packages provided by PostgreSQL Development Group ( https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Apt ), and in that setup you use pg_createcluster instead of i
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by aftabh 10y ago
>To my surprise, PostgreSQL v9.5 on Ubuntu 14.04 does not default to unicode schema. PostgreSQL does (if unicode character set was specified when PostgreSQL database cluster is initialized first time); it's Ubuntu OS which creates P
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You Don’t Need New Ideas, You Need a New Perspective(99u.com)
2 points by aftabh 10y ago|0 comments
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Introducing (Open Source) Parse Server and the Database Migration Tool(blog.parse.com)
4 points by aftabh 11y ago|0 comments
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Giving Time Gives You Time [pdf](people.hbs.edu)
1 points by aftabh 11y ago|0 comments
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New Year Resolution – Less Can Be More(aftabh.ca)
2 points by aftabh 11y ago|0 comments
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by aftabh 11y ago
I agree with your statement if it was a single (or a limited number of) species of antibiotic resistance bacteria. But, the problem seems to be that they'll be acting more like a gang (where each gang member is a species of bacteria) b
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by aftabh 11y ago
From the article: > "antibiotic of last resort - colistin" > "The DNA that gives bacteria resistance to colistin - the mcr-1 gene - can spread rapidly between species. The concern is that colistin-resistance will now fi
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Bacteria that resist 'last antibiotic' found in UK(bbc.com)
127 points by aftabh 11y ago|117 comments
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by aftabh 11y ago
Try something as follows: First, don't worry too much if you think your attention and focus is not good or it's getting worse because this act of (constant) worrying itself keeps you in the very same (worry) loop you want to
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by aftabh 11y ago
I might have taken the content of this article more seriously if it had been titled something like "Why Go Is Not Good for Embedded System Programming" since the original author of the article seems to have more experience in embe
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by aftabh 11y ago
tl;dr It's clear that it's a psychological thing. If I were you, I would go watch 'Good Will Hunting' movie (and watch it again if I think I had already watched it) and substitute Hunting's negative 'personal e
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by aftabh 11y ago
+1 for Postgres. It's one of the most awesome OSS project: great development team, community, large codebase (which is well organized and very modular), has a very good code and end-user documentation, always working with a significant
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by aftabh 11y ago
> If I had to guess it's probably because they look a lot different than most Pakistani's...looks are usually the strongest influencer when it comes to discrimination. A large majority of Hazaras identify themselves as 'sh
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by aftabh 12y ago
The graphs have been generated using Python's matplotlib[1] 2D plotting library[2]. [1] https://github.com/Dobiasd/articles/blob/master/programming_... [2] http://matplotlib.org/inde
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by aftabh 12y ago
Interesting. I'm able to read the article with Google Chrome but not Firefox (which I used first) browser. Edit: I opened the article in private mode in both Google Chrome and Firefox browsers so it cannot be related to browser's
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by aftabh 13y ago
Try pgAdmin at http://www.pgadmin.org/ Edit: You can also check phppgadmin at http://phppgadmin.sourceforge.net/doku.php