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drstrangevibes
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16y ago
Winklevoss syndrome a.k.a. IP copyright?
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bend spoon into a u-shape and stick the other end in a cup of liquid nitrogen
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the fact that watson has good nlp isnt nearly as impressive as the fact that it has a huge knowledge base, how the hell did it get all that knowledge, if it is just from browsing the internet by itself that makes me afraid.......very afraid
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Whenever I am searching for an internet solution, if I see a result coming from the EE domain I automatically pass over it, so why shouldnt the reporter?
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didnt know that people can collaborate in IRC on one document and see real time changes going into a shared piece. The wave bots had also had the ability to collaborate, See http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/telstar/2010/01/14/irm10-help-me...
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IMHO .....because it was, the real problem was that people didnt see its value, scalable online collaborative editing where some of the editors are programmable bots, i dont think people really realised its potential sadly.....
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my code to interface with this for a major financial exchange went live today too. So far its been working perfectly!
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I find all this discussion about the rules slightly amusing, as it is Zen. The rules are there to instruct the apprentice, to guide adept, but there are no rules for a master . shu ha ri. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuhari I do not cl
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yes I meant processes as in the generic term you might say executions as erlang process are different to Java threads. I meant a comparison of concurrent 'activities' as comparing a Java thread model to an erlang process model is somewhat p
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besides it being functional and process orientated, theres lots about erlang syntax, that is just cumbersome, unwieldy and unnecessary, the interested reader is refferred to http://damienkatz.net/2008/03/what_sucks_abou.html . To claim tha
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my main question is why? Seems to be the worst of both worlds..... All the pain of Erlang syntax without any of the incredible stability and scalability of Erlang.
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right so we vaccinate even though theres a low chance of contracting a disease, a significant chance that the vaccination will cause side effects and a chance that it might not work anyway. Makes sense to me!
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anything which prolongs life increases population growth any other argument is absurd, yes I know the theory that populations with high infant mortality have more children, but surely the infant mortality acts as a population regulating fac
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0:30 the goal for bill gates? reducing population growth?!!
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another reason for not doing an MBA is that it stops you from being able to make a point concisely....;-)
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in any case epic fail at damage limitation by all involved
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no, read the article again, Tesla agrees electrical waves get damped when transmitted through the air, but he is talking about transmitting electrical current wirelessly without losing power!
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>A society based on the principles of the free market will >create unprecedented human health and prosperity agreed , but only for 0.005% of the population
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I hardly think Tesla was proposing sending massive microwaves towards a huge metallic object as a means of power. Ever put metal in a microwave? Dont!
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no, read the article again, Tesla electrical waves get damped when transmitted through the air, but he is talking about transmitting electrical current
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why dont we have wireless power then?