ciot1CDM

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Have US Customs Declared War on TV Boxes (and Mini PCs)?(cnx-software.com)
6 points by ciot1CDM 10y ago|2 comments
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by ciot1CDM 10y ago
Can you guys honestly say, looking at your own website, that you don't seem to be a fly–by–night outfit? Yes, the bar is low in VPS land, but you could certainly do much better at presenting yourselves properly.
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by ciot1CDM 10y ago
For Intel, it's a enterprise marketing bullet, for the rest of us it's an opportunity to secure our systems the way we want, however that capacity has been denied us. The ideal security mechanism would provide us with a per cpu ke
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by ciot1CDM 10y ago
Beware: their servers do not use ECC memory. I believe building reliable, internet-scale services on such hardware is impossible. Having single bit errors, which are hardly rare [0], silently propagate is a recipe for disaster. I applaud Sc
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by ciot1CDM 10y ago
Why Avoton then? You just lost a sale. I shouldn't have assumed ECC, but if you have a group designing your own hardware then routing another 8 wires shouldn't be a problem. I'm disappointed.
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Unums: A Radical Approach to Computation with Real Numbers(docs.google.com)
4 points by ciot1CDM 11y ago|2 comments
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Introduction to Directed Self-Assembly (video, 2013)(youtube.com)
3 points by ciot1CDM 11y ago|1 comments
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by ciot1CDM 11y ago
If your 110MWh to train is accurate, and the 25W used by the human brain reported in this thread is as well. This is equivalent to one person expending 500 years solely to learn Go.
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by ciot1CDM 11y ago
(Not a physicist) So what's the result of applying Feynman's axioms to the analysis of whatever gedanken experiment that lead Einstein to special relativity? Does it further enlighten whatever paradox existed that required a resol
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by ciot1CDM 11y ago
I'm sure this issue will be revisited when/if the Jaffa becomes a favorite of tea drinkers and surpasses the digestive in British sales.
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by ciot1CDM 11y ago
This is an article by Freeman Dyson from the Feb 2009 issue of Notices of the AMS. He explains the necessity of both birds, those that explore in breadth, and frogs, those that explore in depth.
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by ciot1CDM 11y ago
If you're interested in a modern rigorous treatment of the classical infinitesimal, check out "smooth infinitesimal analysis" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth_infinitesimal_analysis )