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Do we want another Manhattan Project?(nuclearsecrecy.com)
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Coding the Next Chapter of American History(schedule.sxsw.com)
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Top 12 reasons you know you are a Big Data biologist(ivory.idyll.org)
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Pitfalls in Unit Conversion: kg -- nuclear weapons(lewis.armscontrolwonk.com)
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Everything is amazing and nobody writes errata(backreaction.blogspot.com)
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A skeptic visits D-Wave(scottaaronson.com)
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The Future is Gender Distributed(antipope.org)
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There's also a fun interactive version: http://bost.ocks.org/mike/shuffle/compare.html
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Will it shuffle?(flickr.com)
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More thoughts on arrays in PyPy(blog.streamitive.com)
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If we define "general purpose" as "equally mediocre in all domains", then what you say makes sense. If we define "general purpose" as "works well in as many domains as possible", then I'd argue that the correct response to an easily-remedie
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Are Scientific Papers Becoming Worse?(wmbriggs.com)
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Felix Salmon: the NYT paywall is working(blogs.reuters.com)
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... and now it's back. https://plus.google.com/u/0/108772200278976934119/about
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Google [briefly] suspends Limor Fried's ("Ladyada") Google+ profile(adafruit.com)
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An associated LWN article has some context: https://lwn.net/Articles/451306/ The gcc plugin (written in Python) used to generate the plot: http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=gcc-python-plugin.git;a=b...
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Every GCC optimization pass, on a subway map(readthedocs.org)
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To provide additional context (the NYT article is fine, but doesn't give a sense of the technical issues with the study, or of how difficult/impossible it was to bring attention to those issues; the behavior of Duke seems particularly scand
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Software incompetence (and more) lurks behind a cancer treatment trial(nytimes.com)
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Exactly. I'd go further: in industry, the software is typically the end product, and the quality of the software is inherently relevant. In science, the output (the prediction of the simulation, the result of the analysis, etc.) is typi
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That attitude seems a bit provincial: the usage may be uncommon in industry software development, but it's not rare in some areas of computer science. For example, http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22linear+alge... "Code" als
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But what sort of traffic? See, e.g., Arvind's comments on StumbleUpon visitors: http://arvindn.livejournal.com/133249.html To quote the takeaway, "most of the traffic generated by StumbleUpon users to any given site is going to be low qua
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The International Society of Business Astrologers(businessastrologers.com)
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That's literally true, but in practice D3 makes for (and is intended as) an effective Protovis replacement. The set of primitive marks in Protovis is close to that of SVG, in any case. These libraries' primary author (Mike Bostok) views D3
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I'm sorry, but there is a qualitative difference between, eg, a Java application running on a modern JVM and a Python application executing through the CPython runtime, neither of which are toys. (Although it's true that CPython is one of
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I'm not sure of your needs, but there's now reasonable support for efficient interaction with numpy arrays; see, eg http://docs.cython.org/src/tutorial/numpy.html and/or http://conference.scipy.org/proceedings/SciPy2009/paper_2/fu... So
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Unfortunately untrue. Many military robots are purely remote controlled, but many others integrate often substantial levels of autonomy. Most UAVs provide autonomous navigation and stationkeeping, for example, and often much more; other mil
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... and as someone whose research involves both SAT and statistical learning, I'd agree: putting a variety of specialties under the AI umbrella can make it easier to connect different areas in useful ways.
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I understand the sentiment... but completely disagree. _Rainbows End_ is less fun than his other novels, but it deals directly with near-future issues in a way that only a few other SF authors are doing well (Stross, Stephenson, recent Gibs
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Thanks, enjoyed your response. Your "tackling nastier problems" point is well-taken, and one reason I have a great deal of sympathy for work in these research areas. I think that you're painting an overly-rosy picture of the benchmark situa

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