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by daly 9y ago
Let L be a group. I actually guffawed at that one. I am SO going to use that.
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by daly 9y ago
I did "computer vision" work using punched cards. I had an image of dolphins on punched cards (pixel by pixel) that took two boxes of cards to read. The machine room operators hated me. ... If you go back a few years before that w
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by daly 9y ago
Funniest bit of satirical writing I've seen in years.
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by daly 9y ago
Did you watch the movie? I'm simply quoting the analysis. They modeled their results by taking the actual plume from a test blast of similar size and overlaying it on the U.S. mainland. So they are working from recorded data, not a mod
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by daly 9y ago
See the move "Command and Control' on Netflix this week. They point out that the Nuke in the video, if it had exploded in DC would have killed everyone up to Philadelpha, half of NYC, and some people in Boston. That was a U.S. Nuk
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by daly 9y ago
The key flaw with indentation comes when you try to use it with printing. If your function extends across a page-break, such as in a book or a printout, it is not possible to resolve the indentation by eye.
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by daly 9y ago
Use blind passwords. Have someone at your home site encrypt the files so you don't know the passwords. They can use public key to share those passwords with someone at your travel destination. That person can decrypt the files. That wa
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by daly 9y ago
Why Machine Won't Think... (ref: [1] Jammer, Max "The Conceptual Development of Quantum Mechanics" McGraw-Hill (1966) pp 178-179 [2] Persig, Robert "Lila: An Inquiry in Morals" Bantam (1991) Chapter 11 ... In [1], J
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by daly 9y ago
My first programming job was in COBOL. I don't even list it on my resume. I taught a class in COBOL at UConn a long time ago. The IBM mainframe instruction set is a practically perfect target for compiled COBOL. As I recall, the '
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by daly 10y ago
The fundamental issue with flying cars will be get-there-itis, the need to get to the destination. This kills amateur pilots. FAA rules require fuel minimums so that if your destination cannot be reached then an alternate destination can be
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by daly 10y ago
I tried to watch it but the Netflix queue has it backlogged. I bought a copy of season 3 from Amazon. But HBO has locked it up with DRM and it won't play on any device I have. DO NOT BUY IT THIS WAY. I love the show and can't wait
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by daly 10y ago
See http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783540214939 or Barry Trager's PhD Thesis
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by daly 10y ago
I was once asked by someone who is rich to "define rich"... because they felt that they were not rich. My definition is "If you can solve a problem by throwing money at it, then it isn't a problem"... that's wh
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by daly 10y ago
You're focused on the hardware. My focus is on the software. In my professional opinion, MACs are on par with Windows. Both are horrible development environments if you are trying to develop for cross-platform, especially open-source c
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by daly 10y ago
At IBM I got "called on the carpet" to the Director's office because I was seen in the hallway without my jacket. (1978) Back in the past I worked at Franklin Lakes, the IBM Office Products Division headquarters. I was a VM&#
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by daly 10y ago
There is a fundamental change in language coming. I believe that within 5 years the latest crop of programmers will begin to write PROVEN functional programs. Program proof technology has taken a giant leap in the last few years. These new
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by daly 10y ago
It is not the state of the PROGRAM, it's the "state of the DESKTOP". You have your art tool running, a browser with a dozen open windows, a couple PDFs open, a chat window with the art group, and all of the other open applica
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by daly 10y ago
I bought a new computer with Windows 10 for my wife, an artist. It contains Windows Home edition. Windows Update reboots her computer "outside of working hours". Of course, she leaves the computer running with partially completed
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by daly 10y ago
"elsewhere" is the university. Historically government funded a lot of primary research, especially after Sputnik. One example of primary research is the Internet, aka "Arpanet". Now all of the "ARPA" funding i
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by daly 10y ago
"The tension between making money and making research strides can result in projects being abandoned altogether or pushed forward before they’re ready. " says the author... which really understates the problem. When I worked at IB
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by daly 10y ago
Code is not literature the same way equations are not mathematics. Take any math or physics book, extract all of the equations, and throw away the text. That's how we write programs... just the equations. However, look at Physically Ba
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by daly 10y ago
There is a major programming shift happening. In the last few years there has been major advances in program proof technology. The magic words are the "Curry-Howard Isomorphism". Having lived through structured programming, CLU mo
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by daly 10y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Remember-Study-Course-Memory-Concentr...
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by daly 10y ago
Apparently you've avoided one of the greatest joys of open source... forks. I worked for 7 years on an open source project with hundreds of people subscribed. My most trusted maintainer started a drumbeat about project goals that ended
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by daly 10y ago
re: starting simple and jumping complex... I took a course from Taylor Booth at UConn. He wrote a book on Automata Theory. On the first day of class, after 5 minutes, he said "I'm tired of teaching the easy parts... Let's sta
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by daly 10y ago
Latex...(drops the mike)
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by daly 10y ago
DARPA may be looking beyond the current Neural Network focus on perception and manipulation but the rest of the field seems to be stuck on NNs. Good-Old-Fashioned-AI (GOFAI) techniques, such as knowledge representation (e.g. SCONE ( http:&#
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by daly 10y ago
Edward Deming is honored in Japan with the Deming Prize (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deming_Prize ). He has a series of videos worth their weight in gold. One video is related. Take a bucket with 50% black marbles
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by daly 10y ago
It would certainly make more sense to have it in Moon township near the airport. There is more open land, there is no need to cross the bridges, the facilities for warehouse and shipping are nearby (Fedex has a hub at PIT airport). There is
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by daly 10y ago
It seems that the change from C++11 to C++14 broke the semantics of "inline". I'm not sure who thought that was a good idea. You'll find that code that used to compile no longer does. Reverse-engineering the failure all

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