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by aheilbut 16y ago
Or you could get over it, create an account, sign in once, and then never worry again.
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How WikiLeaks Just Set Back Democracy in Zimbabwe(theatlantic.com)
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by aheilbut 16y ago
I'd like to see the same thing done with math.
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by aheilbut 16y ago
ThirdVoice http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2001/04/42803 Before that, Ka-Ping Yee made CritLink: http://zesty.ca/crit/
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by aheilbut 16y ago
What ever happened to journalists asking tough questions?
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by aheilbut 16y ago
That reminds me, I've gotta finish reading Amusing Ourselves to Death.
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by aheilbut 16y ago
Based on the accuracy of the headline, I'm not sure how much trust I have in the source. Doesn't seem as if this news is being ignored by the MSM: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/us/12prison.html Prisoners Strike in Georgia http://www
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by aheilbut 16y ago
The other loss is how you can use it to discover other people interested in the same incredibly esoteric things as you. It was a like an asynchronous, organized version of twitter, 3? years early.
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by aheilbut 16y ago
If somebody came, exclusively, to the Times with 251,287 stolen / leaked cables, would they have published them all?
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by aheilbut 16y ago
It would seem that the ultimate solution to this problem would be an implantable artificial kidney. Given that the technology for dialysis has been around for so long, it's surprising that there hasn't been more progress in miniaturization
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I think it will be a lot like email - what is undesirable about appending a domain? That's how the internet works.
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We really need (and will inevitably get) an open, distributed protocol for status updates. It's insane for everything to be routed through one (or 2, or 3) companies.
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I think (hope?) that the structured methods help when there are external factors driving priorities and potentially causing interruptions and interference. In the absence of any outside influences, 'keep hacking until it's done' is probably
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by aheilbut 16y ago
The reason it really works, though, is that they have great musical taste and it's full of delightful songs I've never heard before.
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Jim Simons: Drawing our best math and science minds into the classroom(washingtonpost.com)
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What is it? If you don't tell anyone, nobody is going to know.
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by aheilbut 16y ago
If you read a book a couple more times, you'll remember a lot more.
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by aheilbut 16y ago
How do you know that this is a losing bet? It's still pretty early days. And aren't they hedged with their work on Desmond, which is MD software for commodity clusters?
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by aheilbut 16y ago
There are many local optima, not one "best field." Evolutionary and genetic algorithms remain out of vogue in the mainstream machine learning community.
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U.S. Is Working to Ease Wiretaps on the Internet(nytimes.com)
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IBM to buy Netezza(dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Plagiarism and essay mills(danariely.com)
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by aheilbut 16y ago
I have complete trust that Google is doing their damnedest to maximize Adwords revenues, and I highly doubt that they would have made a change like this without knowing for sure that it would increase impressions and clicks.
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I don't know if this counts as a quote, but the term of art is "divide and conquer"
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For centralized access to course materials, try a NoSQL document database. All you need is a printer, 3-hole punch, and a binder. In addition to providing a portable, permanent archive, this approach provides linear scaling to hundreds of
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On jQuery & Large Applications(blog.rebeccamurphey.com)
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It's more an empirical question rather than a theoretical one, and short-read sequencing wouldn't be as popular as it is if it didn't work out most of the time. I don't have all the exact numbers handy, but 76bp will uniquely map about 80-9
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by aheilbut 16y ago
Or at least if they included a column with # citations / publication.
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“If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as 'lines produced' but as 'lines spent'" - Edsger Dijkstra
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You can turn off the flashing red light, you know.

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