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What do you get when you cross an accelerator with a nuclear reactor?(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by hardtke 15y ago|0 comments
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A 1-star, unfiltered user review of Yelp(sfgate.com)
402 points by hardtke 15y ago|193 comments
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by hardtke 15y ago
Here's an article by the Freakanomics authors about the age bias effect. The most interesting bit is how European soccer players all tend to be born in the first few months of the year: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/magazine/07wwln_fr
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by hardtke 15y ago
BOSS queries are $0.80 per thousand queries, so $0.0008 per search. A web search site that uses a premium sponsored link feed should be able to generate about $0.04 per query (50% share of the $0.09 per query that Google makes). Thus the
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by hardtke 15y ago
I was debugging a php memory issue yesterday, and noticed that at some point my get_memeory_usage() value became much, much smaller than the memory footprint recorded by top (20 MB in get_memory_usage(), 500 MB in top RES). It was a sudden
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by hardtke 15y ago
Errors like this have a life of their own -- there is no ill intent. Once a mistake is made in a seminal paper, most papers that build on that research will usually copy the error. Most authors do not test the statistical assumptions made
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by hardtke 15y ago
If they were working on data center efficiency, that would be one thing. The RE<C program was an attempt to make solar power more efficient. This involves basic physics, material science, and manufacturing. Nothing that Google had don
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by hardtke 15y ago
I see they are shutting down their clean energy program. The renewable energy cheaper than coal initiative showed a unique level of arrogance. We, a software company, can solve a problem in which we have no experience better than people wh
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by hardtke 15y ago
Most important I even learned in physics graduate school was "physics research has many more 3 sigma effects than it should." Part of it is that if you do 100 searches you are going to see one three sigma effect. Couple that with reportin
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by hardtke 15y ago
Using Yahoo BOSS or the Microsoft search feed, anyone can build a fully functional, highly relevant "search engine" in a couple of weeks. "Search engine" is really a metasearch engine. Given enough traffic, you can syndicate a sponsored l
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by hardtke 15y ago
An alternative is that neutrinos and photons travel a different distance because there are extra dimensions that affect the two types of particles differently. These are the so-called space-time foam models.
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by hardtke 15y ago
If I follow your workflow, my coworkers go ballistic. The problem is that the "git pull" messes up the revision history. I finally learned to use "git pull --rebase".
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Just In Case You're Wondering Who's In Charge At Zynga(businessinsider.com)
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So when does academic publishing get disrupted?(gigaom.com)
3 points by hardtke 15y ago|1 comments
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Fake tits and money(venturecompany.com)
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by hardtke 15y ago
The trouble with this idea is that university researchers have very little cash and are loathe to part with it. Almost all of their grant money goes to paying the salaries of people in their lab (fixed costs). If they need to use a piece
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by hardtke 15y ago
Are you sure you want to use your real name on this blog? You are advertising the fact that you are breaking the law in San Francisco (short term rental without a license) and violating your lease (subletting your apartment).
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by hardtke 15y ago
AdWords is a natural monopoly, so it is unlikely that someone will ever create a successful competing keyword driven advertising network. In order to generate high prices for the search ads, Google needs to have multiple bidders competing
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by hardtke 15y ago
I did a similar study of traffic solely attributable to a single post on ReadWriteWeb. I wrote a technical paper with the results: http://www.stinkyteddy.com/documents/SocialMediaResponse.pdf The long tail traffic is well described by a
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Lawsuit says grandma illegally downloaded porn(sfgate.com)
1 points by hardtke 15y ago|0 comments
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by hardtke 15y ago
Sharded search is not new. Solr, elastic-search, and Riak do it as well. The difference here is that we've built the Search on top of the BigCouch map-reduce view model. Views are calculated post commit so there are no data insertion loc
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by hardtke 15y ago
I've sat in many a meeting where the Macs "steal" all of the DHCP connections and I'm stuck watching the speaker instead of following TweetDeck.
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Physics - Perhaps no "bump" in the data(physics.aps.org)
1 points by hardtke 15y ago|0 comments
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by hardtke 15y ago
This chart is misleading with regards to the current US debt. It claims our gross government debt in 93.6% of GDP. There are two types of government debt -- debt held by the public (currently about 60% of GDP) and intergovernmental debt (t
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by hardtke 15y ago
A perverse incentive of the current situation is that Amazon is prevented from having distribution warehouses in California even though that is where much of their stuff is shipped. How many jobs are we losing now and how much extra CO2 is
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by hardtke 15y ago
ESPN makes more the $4 billion from those fees. And then they get to show advertisments as well.
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by hardtke 15y ago
I should mention that one of the primary authors on the Cogent paper is a YC alum, Mike Miller, Cloudant (YC 07) Founder.
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Grigori Perelman claims he can control Universe(english.pravda.ru)
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by hardtke 15y ago
Moore's law is an observation, whereas Shannon's law is basic physics. Shannon's law dictates the maximum bandwidth over a physical communication link. Telephone wires and over-the-air solutions aren't going to cut it. The only two was to
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by hardtke 16y ago
The most important number is search advertising revenue. The entire online services division (which includes Bing) has revenues of around $2 billion per year. Google's AdWords brings in about $15 billion per year. Microsoft is nowhere cl

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