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by brg 17y ago
Many research organizations structure the positions of senior recruits this way. For instance, senior researchers at MSR are given this leeway. However, the outcomes are not what one would hope. Although demos are held quarterly or semi-a
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by brg 17y ago
No matter what the outcome, a few years from now every school book will have a chapter dedicated to the AP/Reuters response to web links. This is as big as the response of railroad companies to airlines. I'm rooting for Reuters.
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by brg 17y ago
I don't know how they will be able to top the ending of the first one.
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by brg 17y ago
Within the realm of the baseball playing robotics, this is true. There is a lot of research to be done on human locomotion and automated rapid response. Don't get me wrong, I was very impressed by the reproduction of a two finger fastball
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by brg 17y ago
Linked from the article is another on robot chefs: http://singularityhub.com/2009/08/03/the-robots-are-the-chef... One thing that strikes me about this nascent technology is how much effort is being spent making robotic use of human hand
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by brg 17y ago
How can a person on one hand say "Apple did not reject this developer’s application for including references to common swear words" and on that other hand know that the app was being banned because they wanted a 17+ rating due to the availa
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by brg 17y ago
Wow, I read this article when I was ten years old. Later, when I had an IIc I indeed tried to code up the Mandlebrot set. I don't remember if I got it to work, but it wouldn't have been too impressive in GR or HGR.
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by brg 17y ago
Wow. I don't know if I've ever been so impressed by a corporate document.
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by brg 17y ago
This has worked for me. Decide now on a chapter that you haven't reached yet as a goal. Force yourself to take a break when that milestone is reached and read something else in the intermission. If you still feel its worth the effort to f
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by brg 17y ago
In fact it is flowers. US: http://www.google.com/trends?q=flowers&ctab=0&geo=us... UK: http://www.google.com/trends?q=flowers&ctab=0&geo=gb...
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by brg 17y ago
The search term is likely to be "Flowers". Flowers are sent in the highest volumes on Valentines day and Mother's day. Both graphs have spikes in February. In Britian, Mother's day is in March. In the US it is in May. These correspond di
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by brg 17y ago
No, and never have but that is probably an effect of not having any inclination to seek it out as a younger person. I don't much care either way.
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by brg 17y ago
I think missing from the list is the fact that for many immigrants, a Canadian visa is a stepping stone to US residency. While I am speaking from anecdotal, many of my Indian, Isreali, Russian collegeues have taken this path to working in
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by brg 17y ago
Has ANKoS had the impact you envisioned? If so, what are the most significant results that have come as an outgrowth of its thesis.
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by brg 17y ago
I am always annoyed at the usage of "log on" instead of "navigate to" or "visit."
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by brg 17y ago
The one thing I've noticed about all successful programmers is that they incubated their interest and skills outside of academics.