anupamkapoor

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by anupamkapoor 19y ago
i like heinlein's "moon is a harsh mistress" and alfred-bester's "tiger-tiger / stars-my-destination". kinda old school though.
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by anupamkapoor 19y ago
for a long time it seemed like two guys with their head+torso stuck in a funny box. but truly, wow ! edit: it seems very close to AT-ST from star-wars though.
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XPRA: screen for X(partiwm.org)
1 points by anupamkapoor 19y ago|0 comments
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by anupamkapoor 19y ago
skip lists are not bad at all. also, i guess for unrolled-linked-list you might have to have different 'num-items' for different cache sizes. better would be to have a library of cache-oblivious data-structures & algorithms. google for
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by anupamkapoor 19y ago
another (more interactive) option might be to pickup a standard compilers text-book e.g aho-ullman / aho-ullman-sethi and follow the intro-compilers course-work available at any of the universities (e.g. stanford). work through the exercise
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by anupamkapoor 19y ago
Requiem For A Dream is very very nice.
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by anupamkapoor 19y ago
this blog should come with an option to turn verbosity off.
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by anupamkapoor 19y ago
privacy is overrated, you have zero privacy anyway. get over it already.
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by anupamkapoor 19y ago
> Should we treat AI like our slaves, or should we treat AI like our children? more likely scenario would probably be, how _we_ would be treated by _them_.
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by anupamkapoor 19y ago
umm, maybe sorta true only. currently with the price/performance of fpga's fast approaching custom asic's, i think fpga's are not a bad bet to start hacking stuff on. also, you can buy fpga h/w approx 100k gates etc. for < 1000$ (cheape
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Why syntax matters [proggit](vaguevagaries.blogspot.com)
4 points by anupamkapoor 19y ago|0 comments
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by anupamkapoor 19y ago
yawn, who cares !
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by anupamkapoor 19y ago
> but physicists in general are much more principled than most other specialists in other fields have a look at "empire of the stars" to see how this is not true. briefly it talks about how arthur-eddington stymied subramanya-chandrashe
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by anupamkapoor 19y ago
devry ?
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by anupamkapoor 19y ago
what really is scary is all the controls that telcos have built around accessing net with such devices.
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by anupamkapoor 19y ago
burning a copy of "7 habits ..." would be a greater symbolic gesture.
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by anupamkapoor 19y ago
network-algorithmics is just soooo cool. really, what you must be reading after stevens.
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by anupamkapoor 19y ago
MIPS
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by anupamkapoor 19y ago
i think its more to do with functional aspects of the language rather than it's "user-interface" aka the syntax. erlang as first intro to functional language might be non-trivial (imho ofcourse). starting with sicp to understand it's (func
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Brain in a box (or a petri dish)(pantherhouse.com)
5 points by anupamkapoor 19y ago|1 comments
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by anupamkapoor 19y ago
i remember reading this from "of human bondage" (slightly paraphrased) "money is like a 6th sense, without which you cannot make use of the other 5"
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by anupamkapoor 19y ago
- use of weapons (ian m banks) - surely you are joking mr feynman (rpf) - origin of order (stuart kauffman) - slaughter house five (kurt vonnegut) - goedel escher bach (douglas hofstadter) - theta-magical memas errr metamagical themas (dogu
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by anupamkapoor 19y ago
couple of salient features: - easy to maintain - easy to extend - obviously correct - <this space is for rent>
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by anupamkapoor 19y ago
isn't it what makes milk more creamier ?
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by anupamkapoor 19y ago
here is the original interview: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/... just in case you missed it.
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by anupamkapoor 19y ago
could you mention a few places to check out the startup action ?
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by anupamkapoor 20y ago
may you please explain why BDB sucks ? thanks !