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Geography of Jobs (2004-2009)(tipstrategies.com)
33 points by brg 17y ago|5 comments
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Iceland looks to serve the world.(news.bbc.co.uk)
64 points by brg 17y ago|34 comments
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by brg 17y ago
With apple's brand recognition, how does being a member affect their business?
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by brg 17y ago
In the 20th Century, John VonNeumann. He was a hacker through and through. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann
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by brg 17y ago
Come to think of it, does anyone know if Amazon doesn't turn around and sell sales data back to competing manufacturers? This data would be a huge benefit in terms of where to focus advertising money and bundling efforts.
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by brg 17y ago
Amazon. One can see sales trends of every book, cd, dvd, clothing, and electronics store across the world. This would be amazing.
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by brg 17y ago
My personal reasons why he will resign or be forced out: He has significantly underperformed compared to the market. Stephen Sinofsky has shown how valuable he is to the company during the Win7 reorg, and will be elevated to CEO by popular
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by brg 17y ago
While a valid argument, I wonder if it was at all necessary to even enter into the discussion.
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A Brief Guide to DNA Sequencing(arstechnica.com)
5 points by brg 17y ago|0 comments
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by brg 17y ago
The title makes an incorrect claim. Science does not need to be saved, and America is no more unscientific than any society has ever been. It is also not capitalism that hinders a scientific society, as the author claims. A simple examin
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by brg 17y ago
I definitely meant as a Microsoft competitor. I read the article's emphasis on virtualization as an explanation of VMWare's product, not as the emphasis of the article.
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by brg 17y ago
Doesn't Apple play a role at the top there?
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by brg 17y ago
How long until stories about the potential for danger from harnessing tidal power. Not serious problems such as coastal development impacting with the ecology on the coast. But far fetched worries such as how harnessing the ocean's power
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by brg 17y ago
This was also the topic of Dan Pink's TED talk, http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html , which came across the RSS feed about 9 hours ago, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=782171 . In that presentation, the speaker talked
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by brg 17y ago
"No-one has really thought that falsifiability is a contentful constraint on scientific theory formation for some time now" This quote is a textbook case of someone parroting the fashions of philosophy to make noise instead of a point. To
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by brg 17y ago
I agree that the author detracted from what could be a more interesting (less noisy) conversation by attempting to be affected by the "problem." By "can be accounted for" I mean that while posing a problem, the considerations do not yet pro
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by brg 17y ago
I don't think the gp is far off. The author of the article clearly says that he places movies in his queue which he does not watch. If he provided truthful responses to Netflix (not interested, not-enough-stars-to-order-again) regarding t
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by brg 17y ago
Yes, it would be a tautology if I had defined it in terms of progress. But progress is the result of the methods and intention of the endeavors of science; falsifiability being one of them. Another is applicability, which often comes in t
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by brg 17y ago
I apologize for not responding sooner. This is after all a discussion, and not a forum for simply venting. As for logicians as philosophers, perhaps I am in the minority when I disassociate them soley based on their results. Maybe that is
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by brg 17y ago
Claude Shannon's thesis is special in that it is the most influential M.Sc. thesis ever written. See the second paragraph: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon
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by brg 17y ago
I think the author is correct in the result, but not in the reasoning. The vast majority of M.Sci thesis are not read because they are neither ground-breaking nor well written. As for ground-breaking, they are only one year projects on ave
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by brg 17y ago
I associate names with peculiar features or habits. It is best not to ever vocalize these mnemonics to others. For the memorization of facts and figures, I find that alliteration or a short rhyme works best. If something does not readily a
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by brg 17y ago
Allow resubmissions after XXX period of time. My recent submission was "Who Can Name the Bigger Number?" This is a great article for anyone who has studied computer science, mathematics, or enjoys scientific history. It was last submitted
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by brg 17y ago
Philosophy, as it is taught and developed in academia today, is in no way "essential in the further understanding of the nature of humanity and the cosmos." Science and philosophy were once one. Aristotle, and Descartes where all hailed as
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The AKS Primality Test(terrytao.wordpress.com)
6 points by brg 17y ago|1 comments
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by brg 17y ago
From a user's perspective, the suggestions have gotten much better over the last two years. What I think Netflix needs to focus on now is its search. It really is horrid, especially when one considers that it has such a small corpus to ind
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by brg 17y ago
Absolutely not, and for far more reasons than I enumerate below. The language used to encode the search space will be under constant development and expansion. The creation of the axioms of any proof system is not a search problem. Recognit
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by brg 17y ago
If you have some decent background in reasoning and logic, I would suggest Linear Algebra Done Right by Sheldon Axler. It provides a general introduction in mathematical reasoning as well as providing a strong framework for maths needed in
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by brg 17y ago
Here is some general advice. First have some kind of goal. Do you want to be able to determine the orbit of an planet, evaluate the complexity of algorithms and computing models, study human interactions as walks on graphs, or use statisti
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by brg 17y ago
In an ideal world, concurrency need not be a problem. After all, we can say that it is simply a matter of checking the safety of every read/write against every possible state of every thread that may be running concurrently. However, the r

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