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by gruseom 13y ago
I wonder how much research academia has put into dataflow concurrency. Me too! Anybody here know about this?
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Byzantium (2012)(harpers.org)
2 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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Caffeine withdrawal is now listed as a mental-health disorder(online.wsj.com)
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Atoning for the Sins of Empire(nytimes.com)
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Thomson Reuters Gives Elite Traders Early Advantage(cnbc.com)
88 points by gruseom 13y ago|41 comments
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by gruseom 13y ago
This is untrue of large private enterprises, which are quite capable of throwing good money after bad, engaging in wishful thinking, and all the rest of it. As another commenter pointed out, the difference with the public sector may rather
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by gruseom 13y ago
Ellsberg was shielded because he was reporting illegal activity by a government official. What specific illegal conduct did Ellsberg report? My understanding is that he leaked classified documents about the Vietnam War because he felt the
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by gruseom 13y ago
Yes! That's it. At first I wasn't sure—I must have heard a shorter excerpt or something before—but then I recognized it. The whole thing is exquisite. He is so lovely.
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Using IO Completion Ports and LuaJIT to Get Work Done(williamaadams.wordpress.com)
1 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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by gruseom 13y ago
I think you're right. Cage's point was that silence doesn't exist. Much of his work was about denying the distinction between "music" as a predefined composition and "noise" as the other sounds going on. I
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‘Financialization’ as a Cause of Economic Malaise(economix.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by gruseom 13y ago
I respectfully but strongly disagree. There is a chasm between Excel formulas and general-purpose programming languages. Very many (even very sophisticated) spreadsheet users have no interest in crossing it. These are the users I was talkin
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by gruseom 13y ago
That line isn't by Mark Twain. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:History
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by gruseom 13y ago
I would love to see someone try this.
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by gruseom 13y ago
I worked in a similar environment and came to similar conclusions. In my view, your three requirements (usable without a big learning curve, intuitive to non-programmers, equally or more efficient than Excel) point directly back to the spre
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Undue industry influences that distort healthcare research(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by gruseom 13y ago
danso's comment didn't seem negative to me ("no no no" is just colloquial). This comment does, though.
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by gruseom 13y ago
First of all, the author sells a book about vitamins being bad, so he's probably not being objective about it. Ok, but that standard applies to any researcher who receives grant money or a salary. In fact, it's so high a standar
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by gruseom 13y ago
people are primarily concerned with economic issues That's true, and I'd venture that it's nearly always true, with the main exception being when people feel unsafe and security becomes #1. However, public opinion alone doe
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by gruseom 13y ago
That's what's significant about these recent disclosures and subsequent wave of interest. Informed people may not have found them surprising, but to say "what's the big deal?" is a mistake. The big deal is the state
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by gruseom 13y ago
smart mobile has basically killed off dumb mobile, but only had a modest negative impact on regular computers I find that fascinating and have not heard it stated so clearly before. Is it true? Has anyone else been making this point?
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by gruseom 13y ago
Well let me ask you this, then: what do you recommend as a way to learn Mathematica? I feel like I should know more about it. My interest is less in the details of using the software and more in its computational model and its approach to l
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by gruseom 13y ago
Have they really not released the entire powerpoint? If not, have they given a reason?
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by gruseom 13y ago
there are more than a few Mathematica-isms that Rich has admitted being influenced by Can you say what some of those are? I'm enjoying your comments on this.
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by gruseom 13y ago
That's how we know you're not really Alan Kay.
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by gruseom 13y ago
HN has always had room for the occasional off beat. Since this is a clever parody of a stock computer science paper, it's not even a stretch to understand why it got upvoted. I admit that I didn't get it, though, until I watched the (much f
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by gruseom 13y ago
I heard that idiom in English just a few days ago. One friend asked another, "Can I steal that book for a minute?" The other replied, "Yes, let me just hide it first." It stuck in my mind because I don't think I've heard that usage of "ste
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by gruseom 13y ago
It's great when someone replies as thoughtfully as this, and I love your phrase "gently disagree". Would that more disagreements were of this kind. > Well, for something like bipolar disorder this feels like it's true. I agree. The open
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by gruseom 13y ago
Anecdote it may be, but I'm glad to hear that. I know both sides of that coin myself.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Holy crap! I'm not sure I've ever heard an audience react that hysterically before. That is infectious.

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