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Italian regulator fines Facebook £8.9m for misleading users(theguardian.com)
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Yes, that was one factor for sure. But it was actually really complicated, quite mind boggling in fact. The thing is that, in spite of Stalin being pretty much the only effective external support the Spanish republic had, the communists ins
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Sure, I meant across decision makers. Realpolitik (the rest is propaganda). Before and in the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, when the great Orwell fought, the left in Spain was extremely atomized: there were the anarchist (very active
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The political situation in western Europe in the 1930s was explosive, specially so in Spain. On the one hand there was the then quite new Soviet Union stoking unrest in a, by contemporary standards, shockingly poor, unhealthy and exploited
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Scientists develop 10-minute universal cancer test(theguardian.com)
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Chip wars: China, America and silicon supremacy(economist.com)
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Developing Developers (2015)(felleisen.org)
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Adventures in Advanced Symbolic Programming(groups.csail.mit.edu)
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You may find lecture 22 [1] of MIT's 6.823 "Computer System Architecture - Spring 2017" [2] a good intro to GPU architecture. [1] http://csg.csail.mit.edu/6.823/lectures/L22.pdf [2] http:/&#x2
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6.838: Shape Analysis (Spring 2017)(groups.csail.mit.edu)
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Engineering Innovation and Design(ocw.mit.edu)
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The Structure of Engineering Revolutions(ocw.mit.edu)
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Maybe the tennis journeyman's essay you referred to is the one about Michael Joyce
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Theory of Computation – Fall 2011(youtube.com)
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Best book I know to understand how the world really works. Here is a link to an abridged version: http://sqapo.com/machiavelli.htm
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"On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules" (1972) - because the core principles of modularity haven't changed [ https://www.win.tue.nl/~wstomv/edu/2ip30/references/cri
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Denying medical treatment was used as a form of torture in the Mao years: Liu Shaoqi was a Chinese revolutionary, politician, and theorist. He was Chairman of the NPC ... Originally groomed as Mao's successor, Liu antagonized him in t
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There's even a book about this unpunished tragedy, by Dominique Lapierre: "Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World's Deadliest Industrial Disaster" On the night of December 3, 1984, a cyanide cloud dri
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Seven Pernicious Kingdoms taxonomy graphic [pdf](cwe.mitre.org)
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Gandhi would be proud. https://blogs.wsj.com/briefly/2015/10/01/5-things-mahatma-ga... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swachh_Bharat_mission
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This is not the way to do FP in Java though. Even before lambdas were introduced, you could do FP in Java. This is actually the whole point of GoF design patterns such as Interpreter and Visitor, which together with Composite are the way to
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According to the pdf's author, the crucial feature of FP is that there is no visible non-determinism. This means that every time you call a function with the same arguments it is guaranteed that you will get the same result. The other
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I have read CTM, the author's book. He did in fact dislike the word "paradigm" and prefered "computation model" instead. A model is a set of concepts. A concept is an orthogonal language feature, like closures, conc
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You are right about the quote. It seems that what Russell considers definite knowledge is ... answer can be found in the laboratory . It depends on what is the best available method for proving, to the extent to which this is possible, a g
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Bertrand Russell: Philosophy, as I shall understand the word, is something intermediate between theology and science. Like theology, it consists of speculations on matters as to which definite knowledge has, so far, been unascertainable; b
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Google Hacking (or Dorking): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_hacking
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I am sure rich Chinese, who were the only ones that could afford this kind of "medicine" before it was banned, or those who cater to then, will have no trouble getting licenses
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You may find the book "Concepts, Techniques, Models of Computing Programming" helpful. My understanding of how Erlang is approached in this book is as follows: - the concurrent declarative/functional computation model has the
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The Viterbi Algorithm: A Personal History (2005)[pdf](arxiv.org)
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SICP, although an excellent book, is not a good introduction to programming. [1] thoroughly explains why [2,3] based on How To Design Programs [4] is a much better intro; you should read SICP after completing this [1] https://www

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