amai

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by amai 11y ago
This initiative makes no sense. If AI could really become a technology which would endanger our civilization, when you clearly would not(!) want it to be useable for everyone. There is a reason why it is not the right of every american citi
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by amai 11y ago
I have doubts about the fairness of voting in general. I would prefer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition to select members of the parliament. And to add another smart quote: "It is accepted as democratic when
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by amai 11y ago
“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.” (Joseph Stalin)
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by amai 11y ago
Stop complaining and use Ada or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_%28programming_language%... . There is also a web Server in Ada: http://libre.adacore.com/tools/aws/
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by amai 11y ago
The complete table is Warming per billion people: 1. United Kingdom 0.54, 2. United States 0.51, 3. Canada 0.41, 4. Russia 0.41, 5. Germany 0.40, 6. Netherlands 0.34, 7. Australia 0.30, 8. Brazil 0.26, 9. France 0.26, 10. Venezuela 0.25, 11
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by amai 11y ago
Somebody already asked that for you: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/4094/is-the-plan...
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by amai 11y ago
Peter Krämer is actually also one of the few billionaires who is in favor of reintroducing a high wealth tax in Germany.
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by amai 11y ago
Inbrowser demos like this should be a new category for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene !
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by amai 11y ago
It is really a shame that American airports usually have no connection to public transport.
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by amai 11y ago
Russia had continuous day light savings time from 2011 to 2014 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Russia#Daylight_saving... ). "However, many Russians in the north complained about darker mornings in winter.&qu
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by amai 11y ago
"Arthur Eddington ... was asked if it was really true that only three people in the world understood the theory, he said nothing. “Don’t be so modest, Eddington!” his questioner said. “On the contrary,” Eddington replied. “I’m just won
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by amai 11y ago
If you want real SQL on top of Elasticsearch have a look at https://crate.io/ ( https://crate.io/blog/sql-for-elasticsearch/ ). P.S.: I'm not affiliated with that company.
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by amai 11y ago
An interesting mixture of the existing election systems with sortition might be the following: Elections for seats in the parliament are done in the usual fashion. However the number of seats selected by vote in the parliament is only equal
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by amai 11y ago
German is far ahead in weirdness compared to english. It is the 10th most weird language in the world. English is only on place 33. See http://idibon.com/the-weirdest-languages/
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by amai 11y ago
Why should selection by lot only work, if a large number of people are excluded from the pool?
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by amai 11y ago
"It is accepted as democratic when public offices are allocated by lot; and as oligarchic when they are filled by election." (Aristotle, Politics 4.1294be)
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by amai 11y ago
I recommend Urubu ( http://urubu.jandecaluwe.com/ ) for building static websites.
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by amai 11y ago
One of the best looking HTML output from LaTeX can in fact be generated with https://www.softcover.io/ . Although it uses a limited subset of LaTex called PolyTeX (see https://github.com/softcover/polyt
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by amai 11y ago
I have seen similar results before: https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/the-algorithm-that...
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The evolution of fault-tolerant streaming architectures and their performance(data-artisans.com)
2 points by amai 11y ago|0 comments
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TeraSort with Apache Spark and Apache Flink(eastcirclek.blogspot.com)
2 points by amai 11y ago|0 comments
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by amai 11y ago
Why do people keep reinventing LaTeX?
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by amai 11y ago
If there would be signs of oil the US would invade Mars tomorrow...
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by amai 11y ago
"Apache Nifi is a new incubator project and was originally developed at the NSA. In short, it is a data flow management system similar to Apache Camel and Flume. It's mostly intended for getting data from a source to a sync. It ca
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by amai 11y ago
FYI: Hortonworks buys Onyara, the company behind Apache Nifi: http://hortonworks.com/press-releases/hortonworks-to-acquire...
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ZbMath: Search engine for mathematical formulae(zbmath.org)
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by amai 12y ago
The competition doesn't sleep: http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/sungevity-and-so... In fact they seem to be ahead. Sonnenbattery offers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_iro
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by amai 13y ago
A much smarter proposal also comes from Switzerland: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidgen%C3%B6ssische_Volksinitia... . In Switzerland people will vote this month about a proposal, that companies should not be allowed
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by amai 14y ago
I bet on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_wave : The waves can take the form of stripes, close-packed hexagons, or even squares or quasiperiodic patterns. See also http://nanopatentsandinnovations.blogspot.de/2012/11/new-typ...