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by davidf18 9y ago
I have learned Talmud without being religious and it is very, very educational in my opinion and very interesting. If you study it you will see that it is full of critical thinking and different ways of looking at the same issue. It has be
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by davidf18 9y ago
Why wait for college to teach critical thinking skills? My father is a prof at a major university and we grew up discussing ideas, but high schools can teach critical thinking skills and problem solving. My high school was owned by the un
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I have to read NYT, WaPo, WSJ, Economist, The Guardian, Breitbart, TimesofIsrael to get full information. NYT does a lot of censoring/under emphasizing of critical information. Of course there is also general reading that is importan
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It is possible/probable that these processes are used by NSA/DARPA, military applications. In many of these situations performance well trumps volume/cost issues.
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I suspect that one way or the other the military and spy agencies will be funding the further development for national security and weapons reasons. It may not be known, but they are (or will be) funding either directly or indirectly.
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When it comes to terror, there is no middle ground. If you are against terror in the Britain and the US then you are against terror in Israel. > "hundreds of civilians, politicians, policemen, and scientists" Please cite your
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by davidf18 9y ago
It is very disturbing that people have down voted this implying the believe it is OK for US and British taxpayers to fund and incentivize Palestinian terrorists and funding a Palestinian government that names a women's center after a t
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by davidf18 9y ago
The truth is that Britain and the US has been funding Palestinian terror for years and PM May knows this but refuses to withdraw funding: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/world/middleeast/palestin.
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by davidf18 9y ago
Barnes & Noble already did that. "You've Got Mail."
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In my case, at least, living in NYC, I compare prices with what I pay for standard Yellow Cabs. Sometimes the Uber prices are not that much lower for routes that I know. In NYC, the Uber and Yellow Cab rates are almost the same. Compare
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by davidf18 9y ago
Instructive is a bar chart in the middle of the article that shows the amounts of money NATO member countries were expected to pay vs. the lesser amount they do pay (with the exception of the US, UK, Greece, and smaller states). Our infrast
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Old World Order Alive but Unwell After Four Months of Trump(bloomberg.com)
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If you're going to down vote, please state the reason. The truth is that tiny Israel has more high tech software/hardware than any other nation except the US. There is definitely a difference in software quality.
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May 5, 2017: Warren Buffett selling his stake in IBM. http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/05/cramer-warren-buffetts-decisi... Also May 27, 2017 https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/05/27
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by davidf18 9y ago
Interesting, I hear of outsourcing software dev to Ukraine, Russia, Bulgaria, but not Poland. Might just be connections.
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IBM has the resources and infrastructure others firms don't have. It can afford to pay higher rates for the top IT people and it has the software and management and the backup in the US to ensure that projects are performed properly.
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While I can't speak to the exact circumstances, IBM when it takes over operations often hires the IT staff of the firm it is taking over operations from and runs systems on multiple-year contracts. At any rate, I believe few would cont
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by davidf18 9y ago
By using IT outsourcing in India (Tata?), Poland, BA and its parent is revealing some important information: They are cutting corners to the point of risking airline operations. The question is, where else are they unnecessarily cutting c
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by davidf18 9y ago
From the Atlantic article. "It’s no wonder women in the U.S. hold just 13 to 22 percent of the doctorates in engineering, compared to an already-low 33 percent in the sciences as a whole." The info cited is in an Excel spreadsheet
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The article was not referring to CS but engineering. EE, ME, Civil, Chem, Aero, Industrial, http://engineering.illinois.edu/academics/rankings.html My EE profs at Illinois were capable to run studies and they understan
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by davidf18 9y ago
I am curious as to what exactly can be optimized by the JVM runtime vs. LLVM. Do you mean targeting specific machine architectures? Because LLVM can generate images for different processors (e.g., different version of Intel architectures)
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Studies about education are famously not done well and are hard to replicate (this is true of other fields as well). Instead of having a psychologist who has never done engineering do the study, have actual engineers. Different people res
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by davidf18 9y ago
While not directly related to tech, Bond films actually do have a great deal of tech, some was SciFi, but now real some still SciFi. Such articles are iconic and can give people ideas for tech.
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:-( Two other related articles: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/movies/roger-moore-was-th... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/movies/one-line-reviews-o...
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It can end up with direct code generation. No JIT, no interpreter, no loading a "JVM." C++ (Clang) generates LLVM, not JVM. So does Rust. Two languages where performance is a requirement. As other have pointed out, any optimi
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by davidf18 9y ago
Well, for example, many claim that Israel is not ready for peace, but the reality is that since Fatah is still naming children's schoolhouses and streets after terrorists (including the mastermind of the Munich Olympics Massacre (see S
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by davidf18 9y ago
Why not code generate to LLVM which is superior to JVM. Why not make a JVM to LLVM converter as well as a JAVA to LLVM?
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Scala has good Java interpretability. What more does Kotlin provide of Scala which is the implementation language for Spark and Akka, etc.
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This is a very impressive piece of technology. Coupled with a 777-9, a 2 engine plane can have nearly the same number of passengers as the 4 engine 747. A GE exec told me that 80% of this technology makes up the electric power generators a
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As a long-time NYT reader, I can't speak to whether they are better than other new sources, but in areas that I know well, they generally get it wrong, at times leaving vital information out. At other times, they have done well, when

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