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by hadronzoo 14y ago
“For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage
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Crossfilter: Fast Multidimensional Filtering for Coordinated Views(square.github.com)
2 points by hadronzoo 14y ago|0 comments
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Amazon joins Walmart in push for online sales tax(washingtonexaminer.com)
6 points by hadronzoo 14y ago|0 comments
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by hadronzoo 14y ago
From my father (who can read/write Sanskrit): I'll add that at the University of Chicago, someone noted that modern linguistics really had its launch when German philologists in the 19th century encountered Sanskrit and the Sanskrit grammar
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by hadronzoo 15y ago
Here's a superior Bayesian solution: http://masanjin.net/blog/how-to-rank-products-based-on-user-...
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Fallacies as weak Bayesian evidence(lesswrong.com)
5 points by hadronzoo 15y ago|0 comments
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by hadronzoo 15y ago
Here's the text of the standard: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips180-4/fips-180-4....
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NIST announces approval of Secure Hash Standard(csrc.nist.gov)
4 points by hadronzoo 15y ago|1 comments
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Examples of Lisp formatting through history(kazimirmajorinc.blogspot.com)
107 points by hadronzoo 15y ago|43 comments
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by hadronzoo 15y ago
Raptor codes require O(1) time to generate an encoding symbol. Decoding a message of length k with a belief propagation decoding algorithm require O(k) time for the appropriate choice of inner/outer codes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapt
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by hadronzoo 15y ago
With large enough blocks and efficient coding, the noisy-channel coding theorem guarantees nearly error-free transmission rates up to the maximum possible channel capacity. Modern LDPC, Raptor, and Turbo codes can get very close (to within
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by hadronzoo 15y ago
RaptorQ codes, an efficient fountain code implementation, have a relative reception overhead of K+2 symbols with probability of 99.9999%. See: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-rmt-bb-fec-raptorq-06
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by hadronzoo 15y ago
According to Namecheap customer service, GoDaddy is blocking whois requests, forcing whois information to be entered manually. Due to the large number of recent domain transfers, this is slowing down the transfer rate. .com domains appear t
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How Airplanes Fly: A Physical Description of Lift(allstar.fiu.edu)
185 points by hadronzoo 15y ago|22 comments
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When Will We Have Unmanned Commercial Airliners?(spectrum.ieee.org)
3 points by hadronzoo 15y ago|1 comments
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by hadronzoo 15y ago
If you're using Homebrew on OS X, here's a formula to install Shen 1.7: https://github.com/hadronzoo/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Fo...
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by hadronzoo 15y ago
Shen was designed to not only run on Common Lisps like Qi, but also on Javascript (released mid-October) and Scheme. Practically all Qi programs will run in Shen, but not all Shen programs will run in Qi.
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Shen 1.7, successor to Qi II, released(lambdassociates.org)
36 points by hadronzoo 15y ago|9 comments
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by hadronzoo 15y ago
This paper, Secure Data Deduplication, has an overview and a security analysis: http://www.ssrc.ucsc.edu/Papers/storer-storagess08.pdf
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by hadronzoo 15y ago
I think nomagraphs could be very useful in realtime dashboards, where one needs to convey several interrelated values and their relationships simultaneously. Moreover, many engineers prefer nomographs because they're actually faster and mor
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by hadronzoo 15y ago
I'm surprised the author didn't mention the Smith chart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_chart
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by hadronzoo 15y ago
Just a historical note: common Western belief in a flat earth is a nineteenth-century myth popularized by Washington Irving and Antoine-Jean Letronne. Since Pythagoras, to my knowledge only Lactantius (c. 245–325) and Cosmas Indicopleustes
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by hadronzoo 15y ago
If Google is filtering those pages, here's an earlier version of that chapter: http://omega.albany.edu:8008/ETJ-PS/cc10i.ps
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by hadronzoo 15y ago
I also have one for Matlab/Octave that allows you to change to door count to get a better feel for what's going on: https://gist.github.com/411593
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by hadronzoo 15y ago
It's relatively easy toss a coin and always get heads (for both biased and unbiased coins): http://books.google.com/books?id=tTN4HuUNXjgC&pg=PA317#v... (Jaynes's Probability Theory: The Logic of Science, Section 10.3)
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by hadronzoo 15y ago
I quite agree with you (and Fisher) that the Social Security system's problems are solvable (you might have confused me with winestock). My point was that SS is a distraction–Medicare dwarfs the other entitlement liabilities–and it will tak
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Unfunded US Entitlement Liability is $100 Trillion(dallasfed.org)
1 points by hadronzoo 15y ago|0 comments
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by hadronzoo 15y ago
I think it will take more than rolling back the Bush tax cuts. If no entitlements changes are made, it would take roughly twice the GDP of the entire world: "Add together the unfunded liabilities from Medicare and Social Security, and it co
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by hadronzoo 15y ago
> Using this new technology shared spectrum is not limited by Shannon's law at all. They can get 10x what Shannon's law is possible. They have 10 radios working, all at the Shannon limit on the same frequency and they do not interfere w
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by hadronzoo 15y ago
It's difficult for me to buy Tyler Cowen's thesis that all of the huge gains in marginal productivity have been tapped. If you're a developer, you tend to see incomprehensible inefficiency everywhere, especially if you consult for larger or

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