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by hugh 19y ago
From a narrow, self-interested perspective, I wonder if this will end up having any impact on how computers look to the programmer. As far as I can see, the most likely case is that you might wind up with a single, huge, fast chunk of mem
902.
by hugh 19y ago
Now I come to look at the image, you're right in that the new memristor architecture seems to a similar crossbar-style geometry similar to some of their previous inventions. It's possible that the first or the third one you posted might be
903.
by hugh 19y ago
Actually those seem to be related to a very different device which was in development in the same group -- an array of nanowires with single molecules at the intersections forming logical elements. Very cool, but very hard to fabricate, and
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by hugh 19y ago
Reply to the edit: I'm reading through the paper now, and the magnetic properties appear to be irrelevant. The "flux" being discussed is related to the flow of current. I'll post something more detailed when I finish the paper.
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by hugh 19y ago
I don't know. Does anyone know if HP managed to patent it before they published it?
906.
by hugh 19y ago
It would be interesting to know what happens to these students once they actually get to Havard/Yale/Princeton. Do they find themselves able to cope in an environment where they have to learn on their own, without anybody to hold their hand
907.
by hugh 19y ago
Well, I'm sure it wasn't invented on Reddit or Digg. However, I think in general "pls" is a pretty poor abbreviation. Those little words we use in order to sound polite are not the place where we should try to save keystrokes. It's a way of
908.
by hugh 19y ago
I've heard of offers as low as $48K for assistant professors in biological sciences. That's at a real PhD-granting research university, though admittedly not a particularly good one. Even lower for fields like English and History. Higher fo
909.
by hugh 19y ago
Wow, way to make me feel bad for being a postdoc! :( (Computational physics, not CS, but still...)
910.
by hugh 19y ago
OK, "God Particle" was a silly enough name when it was applied to the Higgs Boson. But when you're two layers of analogies deep, looking at an electronic device which is (very) tenuously analogous to a particle which is (very) tenuously ana
911.
by hugh 19y ago
Is there any way to flag spam?
912.
by hugh 19y ago
Is this a real trend, or just another trend made up by the New York Times to fill in space?
913.
by hugh 19y ago
Oh, and also: the comment you're talking about isn't an "ad hominem attack" anyway -- wheels said "that's a pretty racist comment", not "you're a racist".
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by hugh 19y ago
Suppose you met an Englishman, born and raised in England, who happens to have dark skin due to his African ancestry. Are you going to tell him he's a "pretty peculiar-looking Englishman"? Suppose you meet an American, who happens to look C
915.
by hugh 19y ago
No, just strongly correlated.
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by hugh 19y ago
I estimate about 2 MW.That's only the same power as two and a half Bugatti Veyrons. Or maybe a dozen mortal cars. Or the power of the sun hitting 2,000 square metres of the Earth's surface on a sunny day. So, not all _that_ much, really.
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by hugh 19y ago
If it makes you feel any better, I guess you're performing a valuable service to society. You're keeping the market working the way it should by ensuring that stations with slightly lower prices get less business than stations with higher p
918.
by hugh 19y ago
How about buses? Buses don't require much infrastructure. Also, the cost scales almost linearly with the number of passengers, and they can be easily rerouted depending on demand.
919.
by hugh 19y ago
So you decided to quote a line from a classic 1980s movie because said line occurs in said movie shortly before a line which sounds somewhat like the line from another classic 1980s movie which was (quite relevantly and in context) quoted b
920.
by hugh 19y ago
Scary predictions indeed! "I believe the aggregate economic effect of these failures will be a worldwide deflationary depression. I will not be surprised if it is as bad in terms of unemployment and hardship as the 1930s. I expect that it w
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by hugh 19y ago
Ah, I see what you mean. That makes sense.
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by hugh 19y ago
Exactly. My favourite slide that I saw at Startup School was Paul Bucheit's one that said "Advice = Limited Life Experience + Overgeneralization", since it was a great antidote to all the other talks. If you listen to the 37signals guys, th
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by hugh 19y ago
What do you mean that it "finally explains the African Eve"? There would have to be a last universal common female ancestor whether this had happened or not.
924.
by hugh 19y ago
Y'know, I liked DHH's talk as much as anyone. It was a good talk, which provided an interesting and much-needed contrasting perspective. But haven't we had a sufficient number of reports, notes, videos, paraphrases, discussions, comparisons
925.
by hugh 19y ago
The experiments were done on college students, and yet they seem to be trying to draw conclusions about elementary school students. This seems like a pretty big flaw -- I suspect they learn in very different ways.
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by hugh 19y ago
The Amazon version appears to be a lot prettier than the Yahoo version. That's gotta be worth something, though probably not an extra 5% of gross revenues.
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by hugh 19y ago
Perhaps it's not so wasteful. The stuff you remember is the stuff that you keep on using, while the stuff you forget is the stuff that was never really important. Perhaps learning a vast amount of stuff and then filtering out everything exc
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by hugh 19y ago
Octopartygoers. update: Octoparticles?
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by hugh 19y ago
His first three points: "Spread risk through multiple projects and multiple partners", "Do as much as possible myself" and "Question everything all the time" sound like a perfect recipe for pissed-off cofounders. I don't think I'd want to b
930.
by hugh 19y ago
"How else do you explain that 30% of americans can't remember the year of the 9/11 attacks?" I dunno, but I'd say at least 15% of Americans are smartasses who deliberately give wrong answers when asked stupid questions by pollsters.

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