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by bentoner 17y ago
Congrats! Did you guys move back to Melbourne after Y Combinator?
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by bentoner 18y ago
Evan Williams doesn't sound like that interesting of a person You can't conclude this just because you don't like the style in which the New York Times writes its "The Boss" column.
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by bentoner 18y ago
A is better. The kind of person who prefers B doesn't hire 16-year-olds to work remotely.
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Mathematics, Physics and "A Hard Day's Night"(mscs.dal.ca)
3 points by bentoner 18y ago|0 comments
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by bentoner 18y ago
Please do! I would use it.
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by bentoner 18y ago
I don't know yet! I'm still exploring that, while finishing up various academic projects.
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by bentoner 18y ago
My solution to procrastination: 1. Identify the activities you procrastinate (for me, writing scientific papers); 2. Rearrange your life so you don't have to do them any more. (I just left academia to do a startup.)
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Engagement loops: beyond viral(startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com)
3 points by bentoner 18y ago|0 comments
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by bentoner 18y ago
It doesn't matter. His primary goal in giving the talk himself was probably not so much to teach people about memcached, but more to signal his values, one of which is that Facebook is a company where technical contributions are highly rega
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by bentoner 18y ago
Could "recently" mean 2003? http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/12/technology/circuits/12shar... While writing the software, "I lived on savings for a while and then I lived off credit cards, you know, using those zero percent introductory ra
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by bentoner 18y ago
Great post! I don't understand the paragraph about the cost of the PUTs and GETs though. The saving you get by batching writes seems marginal. Can you give some numbers?
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Your World View Doesn't Compute: A program for sorting out political contradictions(forbes.com)
2 points by bentoner 18y ago|0 comments
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A mathematical coloring book(neutraldrifts.blogspot.com)
1 points by bentoner 18y ago|0 comments
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The Cepheid Galactic Internet(arxiv.org)
5 points by bentoner 18y ago|0 comments
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Velocity dispersions in a cluster of stars: How fast could Usain Bolt have run?(arxiv.org)
11 points by bentoner 18y ago|4 comments
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by bentoner 18y ago
Rudolph's commentary is reproduced at the bottom of this page: http://www.physicsnerd.com/qi.htm
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by bentoner 18y ago
Whoops, sorry. Suppose we try to explain quantum correlations by postulating that as soon as one member of an entangled pair of particles is measured, a very fast signal travels to its partner, updating its state. If the signal is instantan
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by bentoner 18y ago
I can't without violating copyright, but I emailed Terry and asked him to.
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by bentoner 18y ago
There is definitely something new here, although the linked article does obscure what this is---read the actual paper or see my other comment. Why do you think there is an important connection to many-worlds? Many-worlds is an interpretatio
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by bentoner 18y ago
The linked article is a little confusing. Here's a better description: Pairs of quantum-mechanically entangled particles seem to know at once what is happening to each other. Experiments show that even if this signalling is not instantaneo
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Low-Tech Camera Uses No-Tech Gravity to Drop Viewers Into the Pool(online.wsj.com)
10 points by bentoner 18y ago|3 comments
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by bentoner 18y ago
2. Especially since you have a pure math background, you could work on SAGE ( http://sagemath.org ). The people there (mostly academics) are very friendly and open, and you should be able to find something with an AI flavour (e.g., automate
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The GrownChildCam(blog.sethroberts.net)
50 points by bentoner 18y ago|8 comments
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by bentoner 18y ago
I was trying to ask a question, not make an assumption. Sorry if my phrasing was inept. I lived in America for five years and I noticed that the fear-mongering was much more pervasive there, compared to Australia, where I grew up, and espec
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by bentoner 18y ago
As I see it, it's the American media that has conditioned people to think that any interaction between an adult and a child not related to them is suspect. This is terribly sad. When I was 14, I would have loved to be able to talk to a real
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Sparklines: theory and practice(edwardtufte.com)
27 points by bentoner 18y ago|7 comments
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by bentoner 18y ago
The torrent for the Slime screencast has no seeders. The video is also available here: http://www.guba.com/watch/3000054867
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by bentoner 18y ago
I wish I could buy one for my laptop. Then I could happily disappear into a national park for a few days at a time, walking and working.
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The 'Art' of Being Donald Knuth(mags.acm.org)
32 points by bentoner 18y ago|18 comments
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Anton, a Special-Purpose Machine for Molecular Dynamics Simulation(mags.acm.org)
1 points by bentoner 18y ago|0 comments

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