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Snowden wasn't 'on-site', AFAIK he had remote access as a private contractor. One of Snowden's main revelations was how little oversight there was. He was motivated to come forward by the abuses he saw the NSA database p
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This is not a matter of the EFF 'not liking', rather the EFF fears this is overly broad and ripe for abuse. Not only is rule 41 potential overreach but it is enacted by the backdoor avoiding Congressional oversight. Your list is t
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Octave is a free (GPL) MATLAB alternative. Andrew Ng's introductory Machine Learning Coursera uses Octave to teach programming a simple Neural Net that recognises handwritten digits (MNIST).
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Thanks this is very useful.
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Eyewatering bill shock will continue. 100 pages @ 2.3Mb [1] costs over €10. [1] http://www.wired.com/2016/04/average-webpage-now-size-origin...
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Is there a good GPLed substitute for Minecraft ? I am required to use a Free license as an educator and the massive appeal of voxels is undisputable.
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Customer's pay the wages and costs of business - plurocrats reap the profits. Socially beneficial plutocrats invest in economies, risking their capital to seek reward. Money hoarded is of no value, an economy is powered by the movement
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by deepnet 10y ago
NVidia's NVCC has performance & compile time issues with Tensorflow.[1] NVCC vs GPUCC benchmarks 8% - 250% slower compilation & 3.7% - 51% slower runtimes.[2] Google use GPUCC internally so weren't optimising for NVCC. LLV
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Perhaps from his other writings or I misremembered a bit but present in parts in "Economy of Machinery and Manufactures" , Babbage 1832, (1846 edition) ..."In order to convey the cylinder which contains the letters, it would
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My procrastination has a single task buffer. I find a worse task, put that at the top of a list - then procrastinate this decoy task with the real to do list.
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National governments just have to face their Napster moment, in 50 years they will be irrelevant and the inefficiency of endless war and recessions will be turned skyward and the next era of humanity can begin.
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Babbage's Difference Engine was later built by others shortly after, producing log tables. The original idea was Müller's who preceeded Babbage. Babbage produced a workable implementation. The mechanical method of finite differenc
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Snowden revealed, naughty pics from the surveillance database were regularly filched & traded amongst his colleagues. So "Dirty Derek" does work as a spy.
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Thought provoking, I mostly agree with the following caveats: I see the complete transparency of Bitcoin as a strength, it is certainly an antidote to the opacity of offshore / shell companies & tax dodging. [2] & [3] they can&
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In the OP article Norvig suggests 10^172 possible games and games average 200 moves. Walraet paper has 10^10^103, so 1000 googolplexes - this is very large. Monte Carlo methods are specifically for guess-timating intractably big searches. M
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That is a staggering amount of possible Go games, no wonder tree search failed to improve without the Convnet pruning. Makes me wonder if Deepmind could learn Go without first learning from the big dataset of expert games to train the convn
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The 1st A.I. winter was 1973 when Donald Michie's work was eviscerated by the Lighthill report. Edinburgh University, under Michie, was leading the world in A.I. Michie, Ambler & Popplestone's 1969 Freddy Robot could assemble
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Compared with a googol our Universe has negligible atoms , 10^100 - 10^80 = ~10^100 Compared with a googolplex (10^(10^100)) the entire Evrettian metaverse is negligible as (10^(10^100) - 10^80^2 * (average quarks in atom) * leptons(10^20
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s/ Baggage/ Babbage/r (no snark intended, error) s/ envision the porention of/ envision the potential of/r
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So OK, given that generality, is there any reason to suspect that parts of the Makerbot derive from GPLed community innovations and thus in violation ? Or I am off base and Bowyer's RepRap GPL only applies to media like blueprints ? Or
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s/ frequency/ frequency hopping/r
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Your detailed focus misses the big picture. You could easily be read as conveying that Hopper didn't invent the compiler and compilation. This is not correct. Hopper both invented the concept of compiler and wrote the 1st one. In 1952
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Jobs got all his computing innovations from Xerox Parc & Woz. That he transformed society by successfully commercialising those ideas is undisputable. Alan Kay's Dynabook was an innovation, Jobs realised this innovation in the iPho
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Lamarr & Antheil invented frequency to help the Allies, so their remotely steerable torpedoes could not be pwned en route. One should not fail to mention Antheil, it was a collaboration.
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Indeed. Noether's formilisation of algebra allowed Church & Turing to develop the lambda-calculus & invent modern programming & computation. All modern physics stands apon Noether's 1st theorem, that every differentiab
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I agree with opposing a cult of leaders getting credit, but replacing it with corporate credit ? There is a long unjust tradition of stealing deserved credit from engineers, employees & research assistants[1]. Sometimes individuals are
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Experimentally it can be informative to refresh one's controversial comments as this can show the total may have received many more up and down votes than the final total suggests. My inner statistician would be interested to see up &a
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'Normal' currency has severe problems which are important current issues for many and Bitcoin solves: [1], Prevention of access - e.g. Nationwide Bank unserved queues & capped withdrawl in the UK on the days sub-prime hit is o
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Not most but many. It was a subsidised platform with great specs, the cheapest linux box available and ran on a tv, never mind free console & media player. A lot of my student contempories bought it solely for Linux as it was the cheape
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Primacy of publication, unfairly in many cases, is histories yardstick. Sometimes so great a leap is made that the 'great thinker' model applies. It is generally highly useful to examine the context surrounding groundbreaking idea

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