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The policies and paywalls of Elsevier and many other commercial scientific journals do impede the progress of science. One way to improve things over current practice would be for authors to only cite works published in open access journals
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Another collection of wisdom, this time from David Farber. https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/icon/oddsends/farber.htm These days, Dave is in Japan. Co-Director, Cyber Civilization Research Center and Distinguished Prof
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by drallison 6y ago
The SCOTUS decision on API Fair Use is the correct one. Students of intellectual property law and computer programs will find the briefing for the Supreme Court fascinating. I find it hard to see how the Circuit Panel that overturned the o
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Behavior and the Dynamic of Epidemics(brookings.edu)
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It is sad to see Larry McMurtry has passed on. He was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford 1960-1961 along with my friend, Peter Beagle. My personal favorite of Larry's books is "Leaving Cheyenne", which plays out three intertwined
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This puts everything in context.... Visualization is a powerful tool.
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The link goes off to another paper on another topic.
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Entirely appropriate paean to female power and mystery for International Women's Day. Fascinating.
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The headline claiming "limited negative impact" does not refer to fact but to the opinion of library staff based upon complaints. The pricing of Elsevier journals and their access limitation policies keep recent research out of t
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Refrigerant leaks are common and very significant sources of greenhouse gases. Common refrigerants are thousands of times more efficient than CO2.
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Influential and educational. The paper is worth reading and understanding. Bootstrapping a system is within the abilities of beginning programmers. The wikipedia article provide a brief introduction to the world of Meta II.
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The desire for "Write Once Run Anywhere (WORA)" probably came from Smalltalk (Kaye, Goldberg, Ingalls) and was adopted by Java. Both Java and Javascript were influenced by the Smalltalk language and system. Wikipedia attributes th
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by drallison 6y ago
Futurists prefer "forecasting" rather than "prediction" since the future is constructed from the past (that is, data) and not from the examination of pigeon entrails, tea leaves, or flakey models with deus ex machina sol
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Please point out the irony. If this op-ed were published in the Rupert Murdoch's NY Post or read on Fox News, it might be ironic, but in the NY Times by Shoshana Zuboff, it is serious analysis. If you find it interesting, read her boo
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He is wrong. 20 Mb/s is barely adequate. Pai's opinion may be informed by requirements that telcos and others provide "high speed internet" and they can only provide 3 Mb/s without making a considerable investment
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Climate change solutions short stories contest(grist.org)
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Single pointer lists using the XOR trick were used, I believe, to implement the XDS Sigma 7 operating system block free list back in the day when memory was not free and core dumps were the primary debug tool. I remember writing a column on
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CHM Launches Patrick J. McGovern Tech for Humanity Prize(go.computerhistory.org)
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Leap seconds adjust clocks which are run at an atomic standardized rate to meet the astronomical reality and keep UTC in sync. So far there have be 18 seconds of correction. Leap seconds are a bad idea. They confuse geophysical data. The
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I don't know if Peter G. Neumann remains "the most influential voice on computer security" at this point in time (January 2021) but he is still an important in the field, still a mentor, still doing RISKS, and still a voice o
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Josiah Zayner's and his company, The Odin, has classes, tutorials, kits, materials and lab tools to get yourself started. http://the-odin.com . The biohacking community is a good place to start; the vibe is exciting, rather
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The Recognitions (William Gaddis)was one of the assigned readings in my honors English 1A class at UCLA in 1957; another was Generation of Vipers (Philip Wyle). We read three or four other books but I only remember Gaddis and Wyle. The
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Much of the discussion here centers upon "race" and its use in the headline and in the medical literature. A better term might be "genetic variation" as it has less baggage than "race". What is significant is
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Combinators 100-th Year Celebration LIVESTREAM Dec 7 [pdf](stanford.edu)
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Everyone should read this collection of some of Ted Nelson's insightful comments. Read slowly and considered carefully. Ted is a non-linear thinker whose insight is frequently extraordinary and sometimes embarrassing. You will be the
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Everything is 0-indexed in C. It is convenient for each day in a month to correspond to it's ordinal position.For example, the Ides of March would be entry 15 in the structure containing data for the month of March. There is no 0-th d
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Dear Santa Claus, I want one of Nvidia's latest desktop workstation for Christmas. Please. I promise I have been good. I'll leave out some chocolate chip cookies for you and a carrot for Rudolph. Denny
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Paul Krugman has a point: If we cannot stomach impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, how will we ever be able to stomach the hard choices which will accompany the impacts of climate change and global warming? Extinction will be instantaneous a
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Why the 2020 Election Makes It Hard to Be Optimistic About the Future(nytimes.com)
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I used Bourbaki as a second text in an advanced math course I took when I was at UC Berkeley in the early 1960's. I remember with delight the spare clarity of the presentation of the material and organic, intuitive organization of the

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