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by erdos2 19y ago
Which of the three criticisms count as two criticisms?
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by erdos2 19y ago
It's typical of commercial enterprises (and some academics) to write about technology without citing references and prior work--perhaps plagiarism is more profitable than citation. (Richard Fateman's old review of Mathematica documents th
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by erdos2 19y ago
I used to share an office with Greg McAdoo, at a certain subsidiary of the New York Times.
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by erdos2 19y ago
The blurb reads, "Authors Tim Ferriss (4-Hour Workweek) and Marcia Alboher (One Person/Multiple Careers) give an hour-long talk at Google about how to retire immediately or have multiple careers simultaneously." My question is: given that t
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by erdos2 19y ago
"Isn't the top one percent kind of a large number?" It is. They want less than the bottom tenth of that. This is what would happen if JS were to interview anyone further to the right on the Bell curve. JS: How would you fit in here? Candida
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by erdos2 19y ago
They look like crap. And they are too focused on business to be interesting.
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by erdos2 19y ago
I'd recommend reading Knuth's TAOCP. Example: Knuth introduces the Grey code permutation of the natural numbers in The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4 Fascicle 2, Generating All Tuples and Permutations (2005). Knuth gives the followi
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by erdos2 19y ago
Indeed: here are two of the original functions. (defun lsb (n i) (cond ((eq n 0) i) (T (lsb (logand (- n 1) n) (+ i 1))) ) ) (defun bits (n) (lsb n 0)) CL-USER (bits #B10110010110100
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by erdos2 19y ago
Besides, the code is in C++, not lisp (unfortunately).
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by erdos2 19y ago
I still don't know what he was getting at, and neither does he. :)
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by erdos2 19y ago
I suggest outsourcing CEOs: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/09/opinion/09orlow.html?ex=1307505600&en=8926f03224ff1d65&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
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by erdos2 20y ago
The first alternative is what I thought: that you were probably taking time away to write. The piece somehow reminded of a time when I was in the middle of doing my taxes and took 45 minutes off to solve a puzzle: dissect an 8x8x27 cubic in
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by erdos2 20y ago
Here's a detailed link on setting up a scheme server (perhaps more detailed than many system admins would need). I'd err towards mod_lisp under Apache rather than run SISC Scheme under Tomcat, but this is a pleasant read: http://www.lisper
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by erdos2 20y ago
The Cliff Notes probably aren't the whole story: the "Microsoft is Dead" and "Cliff Notes" essays were released in the midst of the selection process for Y Combinator's 2007 summer funding program. Interesting timing...
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by erdos2 20y ago
Apropos of Microsoft versus Google A senior researcher from Google gave a talk at the compter science colloquium at my institution in December 2005. It was supposed to be about such things as the Google Maps API, but it really was a talk ab
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by erdos2 20y ago
I recently acquired a Mac Book Pro. There was precisely one Windows program I wanted to run on it (SuperMemo) under Parallels, which received good reviews. Rather than wait to purchase a copy of Windows from the local CompUSA, I used an OEM
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by erdos2 20y ago
Here's a deal for a venture capitalist: the VC funds the development of the internet. As an inducement, the VC is told that the return on his investment is that the internet will be handed over to some unrelated corporation, after which the
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by erdos2 20y ago
It's about as exciting as an EDUCAUSE article. Intellectually thin.
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by erdos2 20y ago
A good source on the economic harm of intellectual property law is the Against Monopoly blog http://www.againstmonopoly.org. Today's lead article mentions the EMI/Apple deal. Economist David K. Levine writes, "It will be interesting to se
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by erdos2 20y ago
One of my student assistants got a Google internship this summer. They asked him how to clean a coffee maker.
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by erdos2 20y ago
I mentioned the discovery of a hypergeometric combinatorial enumeration formula with a useful decomposition that could be used to find a limit probability distribution for the objects I was enumerating. I edited out the following: Richard S
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by erdos2 20y ago
David Sternberg writes in his book, "How to Complete and Survive a Doctoral Dissertation," that the right reason to pursue a doctorate is a deep interest in your discipline, along with the intention to work professionally in it upon complet