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   by bshanks 11y ago

   (cross-post from another HN discussion) The way i think about Ethereum is that it's a cloud computing platform upon which the whole world can see which program the server is running. The usefulness of this is that if you want to run a
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   Ethereum, a virtual currency, enables transactions that rival Bitcoins(nytimes.com)

   3 points by bshanks 11y ago|1 comments
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   AlphaGo vs. Sedol Go game analysis(qz.com)

   8 points by bshanks 11y ago|0 comments
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   Code happy: Find out what a company is really like(codehappy.info)

   42 points by bshanks 11y ago|8 comments
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   Functional programming at Facebook(scs.stanford.edu)

   2 points by bshanks 11y ago|0 comments
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   by bshanks 11y ago

   The way i think about Ethereum is that it's a cloud computing platform upon which the whole world can see which program the server is running. The usefulness of this is that if you want to run a computing service that administers somet
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   by bshanks 11y ago

   Can anyone recommend some introductory textbooks or review articles on how to design institutional structures that resist corruption?
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   by bshanks 11y ago

   If humans can go multiple weeks without food, then how do biological organisms solve the problem of power storage better? Or does our brain and muscles etc just require less power?
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   by bshanks 11y ago

   The reliable determination of novelty is an intractable problem. Empirically, this appears to be true; anecdotally, i know of at least one patent office that has tried to reliably determine novelty and failed, and i know of none that have s
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    by bshanks 11y ago

    Google seems to be facing a trust problem here that its competitors don't, due to its history of shutting down popular services, even those that were being used internally and even those that it had been recently hyping to the press. D
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    by bshanks 11y ago

    There's an Android app that does something like that, "The vOICe for Android" by Peter Meijer: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vOICe.vOICe&hl... website: https://www.see
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    by bshanks 11y ago

    I'd like to buy Microsoft Surface Book or Microsoft Surface Pro 4 but after a glance at https://www.reddit.com/r/SurfaceLinux/ it seems like people who dual boot may be having trouble with Ubuntu failing to b
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    18000 passwords to BTC brain wallets found [pdf](eprint.iacr.org)

    6 points by bshanks 11y ago|0 comments
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    SECD machine (1963 abstract machine target for functional programming languages)(en.wikipedia.org)

    3 points by bshanks 11y ago|0 comments
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    by bshanks 11y ago

    What do people think of Go's new(ish) vendoring?
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    Gitlove – discover projects you may love(gitlove.us)

    7 points by bshanks 11y ago|0 comments
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    Stopping hardware trojans in their tracks(spectrum.ieee.org)

    18 points by bshanks 11y ago|0 comments
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    by bshanks 11y ago

    Focus on things that can't be funded in traditional academia, yet which are public goods and so cannot be funded by startups. Project that have one or more of the following characteristics: 1) requires a large amount of implementation
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    by bshanks 11y ago

    By way of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10990105
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    George W. Bush is smarter than you(keithhennessey.com)

    6 points by bshanks 11y ago|3 comments
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    by bshanks 11y ago

    my summary (may be wrong): they create a convolutional neural network with 13 layers to select moves (given a game position, it outputs a probability distribution over all legal moves, trying to assign higher probabilities to better moves).
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    by bshanks 11y ago

    The Villain of CRISPR is the Bayh–Dole Act.
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    What 'userland' is needed on top of Ethereum 'kernel'? (Gavin Wood)(medium.com)

    3 points by bshanks 11y ago|0 comments
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    Smalltalk MVC Translated to JavaScript(peter.michaux.ca)

    1 points by bshanks 11y ago|0 comments
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    by bshanks 11y ago

    The features given to their random forest classifier appear to be: * assembly language instruction features: "token unigrams and bigrams" * decompiled lexical features (unparsed decompiled text): "word unigrams, which capture
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    Self-Driving Genes Are Coming(edge.org)

    58 points by bshanks 11y ago|12 comments
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    ΜKanren: A Minimal Functional Core for Relational Programming (2013) [pdf](webyrd.net)

    26 points by bshanks 11y ago|2 comments
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    Modular implicits – a system for ad-hoc polymorphism in OCaml [pdf](eptcs.web.cse.unsw.edu.au)

    63 points by bshanks 11y ago|1 comments
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    Is Sound Gradual Typing Dead? [pdf](ccs.neu.edu)

    74 points by bshanks 11y ago|93 comments
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    by bshanks 11y ago

    In any case, the government would have to increase funding by some amount in order to fund 100% of the costs of bringing drugs to market, including all clinical trials, so as to remove the need for any private investment. If the study cited