garrybelka

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How to domesticate the fox(m.nautil.us)
2 points by garrybelka 9y ago|1 comments
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by garrybelka 9y ago
Mandelstam was writing in the XXth century. Who could be other contenders? Solzh? Iskander? Rasputin? Nabokov? The Faculty of Useless Knowledge? Life and Fate? Moscow - Petushki?
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by garrybelka 9y ago
Pierre Menard could have made a movie. But even leaving that aside, and assuming for a moment that replays are indistinguishable (and one can enter the same river), would you accept that a movie is reducible to a photographic film chemistry
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by garrybelka 9y ago
So Yojimbo and Wild strawberries are simple data sets. Where does inspiration come into play?
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by garrybelka 9y ago
Let's talk about something simpler first - about movies. We know enough about chemistry of photographic film to conclude that movies are simply fantastically complex clockwork automatons, correct?
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by garrybelka 9y ago
What you can't say http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html ... with its scope extended to any imaginable opinion without exception.
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by garrybelka 9y ago
It's a nice example of looking for the keys under the light aka if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. A bit more interesting analogy would be the Big Data craze. We do them because we can. Are the results produced
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by garrybelka 9y ago
The perpetrators of the recent terrorist attack in Saint Petersburg Metro were using Telegram.
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Amazon has secretly become a big bank for small businesses(rt.com)
1 points by garrybelka 9y ago|0 comments
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by garrybelka 9y ago
That mathematician is Fomenko. An entertaining read though history and linguistics experts just laugh at it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Fomenko https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Chronolo
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by garrybelka 9y ago
1. 2. There were too many fully incompatible dialects of Prolog. I recall Lisp-like Micro-Prolog. Turbo
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by garrybelka 10y ago
This is a difference between San Francisco startups and Silicon Valley companies.
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by garrybelka 10y ago
The real issue is not an amount of swap but thrashing. E.g., several large processes sleeping in memory on desktop would be fine if only one or two used at the same time. OTOH, clustered nodes well tuned for a single task may not need a swa