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by ihnorton 12y ago
On the other hand, how long did it take Microsoft to figure that out - remember the Windows 95 TCP/IP stack? edit: note, Windows 95 originally didn't have a TCP/IP stack! The point is, plenty of smart people missed this boa
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by ihnorton 12y ago
As jacalata pointed out, President Obama could be cited as a counter-example, and under the same criteria I would add at least Wilson to the list. Being perceived as an intellectual is not strictly exclusionary, but opponents will certainly
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by ihnorton 12y ago
By productivity, I certainly did not intend to imply volume! Perhaps impact would have been better. Although I'll leave aside the philosophical question of historical inevitability vs. singular genius :) Do you think that there is a
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by ihnorton 12y ago
In physics at least, isn't that because most of the low-hanging (low-energy..) fruit is gone? CMS or Atlas at the Large Hadron Collider are feats of engineering, not to mention the physics, and doing all of that takes a large organizat
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by ihnorton 12y ago
Thinking about this, I wonder: has anyone tried to systematically measure "eccentricity" vs. scientific productivity? Also, I wonder if there a risk that this characterization just perpetuates the pointy-egghead stereotype - that
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by ihnorton 12y ago
Interesting point on science funding practices: I think there's been a Gresham's Law in science funding in this country, as the political people who are nimble in the art of writing government grants have gradually displaced the
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Harvard, Ivy League Should Judge Students by Standardized Tests(newrepublic.com)
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by ihnorton 12y ago
Try these one-click installers; the experience is much better. mingw-builds to install gcc: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwbuilds/ msys2 to install the rest of the build environment: http://msys2.
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by ihnorton 12y ago
The hypothesis is that immunity is conferred by the presence of ebola antibodies developed after very-low-dose exposure from eating fruits visited by infected bats. > His teams took 4,349 blood samples in 220 randomly selected villages.
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by ihnorton 12y ago
Julia has some nice functionality for introspecting both lowered and type-inferred ASTs, the corresponding LLVM IR, and finally the resulting assembly code. (several Lisp systems have this kind of thing too)
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by ihnorton 12y ago
PyCall has been used for a significant range of Python packages (from libraries like scikit and NLTK to PyQt). https://github.com/stevengj/PyCall.jl
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by ihnorton 12y ago
True, but in the US at least, there is a very long jurisprudence that says government cannot compel vaccination over parental objections, as parents are stewards of a child's bodily autonomy. Parents have rights that government does no
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by ihnorton 12y ago
The right to bodily autonomy is not conditional on reaching an arbitrary age marker.
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by ihnorton 12y ago
> There are only so many war zone reporters and mountain climbers to go around, though. The U.S. Department of Defense is Iridium's largest customer by far, and kept them alive with a large cash infusion at one point (if memory serv
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by ihnorton 12y ago
You might be interested in Haxe [1] and Felix [2], although both have broader scope than you indicate. [1] http://haxe.org/ [2] http://felix-lang.org/
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by ihnorton 12y ago
Should be fixed. Thanks for the report.
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by ihnorton 12y ago
Release announcement: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/julia-users/N-__nw3Wd04/961T... Downloads: http://julialang.org/downloads/ Here are some of the biggest user-facing changes in
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by ihnorton 12y ago
Details are scarce on the website and in the articles I've found, but this seems similar to the 4S project Toshiba has been working on for over a decade [1,2]. Between the full-size plants they've built in Japan, and their acquisi
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by ihnorton 12y ago
Quite remarkably, it supports Windows too (via cross-compilation). The Julia WinRPM tool [1] automatically downloads dependencies for various Julia packages from OBS - including some very interdependent, complex libraries like Glib and Gtk.
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by ihnorton 12y ago
Oh, sure, but no one thinks they are violating the laws of physics anymore. It's "just" engineering now to get the accuracy and sustained-read lengths high enough.
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by ihnorton 12y ago
The Oxford Nanopore Minion is "usb scale": https://www.nanoporetech.com/technology/the-minion-device-a-... Not quite built in a weekend, but certainly within the realm of possibility.
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by ihnorton 12y ago
The point that you miss is that microscopy is still a bottleneck in developing and rural areas. H&E staining is not that hard, but you are right that maintaining reagents and a clean lab is a logistical challenge. Still, a lot of sm
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by ihnorton 12y ago
Nicely done! Manu Prakash's lab at Stanford has explored this bead-lens approach quite a bit with the Foldscope project: http://www.foldscope.com/ http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.137
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by ihnorton 12y ago
It is kind of fun to imagine fleets of riderless bikes shuttling themselves around cities to meet demand. HubWay, CitiBike, and similar services would love that; I don't have any citation, but I would guess that manual shuttling and re
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by ihnorton 12y ago
See: http://teardownthispaywall.appspot.com/ for the context of this comment, which bears repeating: Sadly, ACM, rather than acting like a society with its members' interests at heart, has been acting as a for-pr
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by ihnorton 12y ago
Perhaps worth noting that there is a difference between MinGW [1] and MinGW-w64 [2] - namely, the latter supports building 64-bit applications. In combination with msys2 [3], its pacman port [4], and mingw-builds [5] the toolchain has beco
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by ihnorton 12y ago
Wow, that looks really neat too! ZFS is another one (Merkle tree on block-level checksums, and kind of "distributed" if you squint at zfs send | netcat just right). Not sure if they published about it beyond the code, but some o
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by ihnorton 12y ago
Isn't that the ACLU? (and perhaps the ACLJ?) The need for the parenthetical is telling - various groups fight vehemently against some restrictions while accepting or promoting others. Some progressives advocate restriction on offensive
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by ihnorton 12y ago
Seems like it made sense at the time [1]: > Thanks to HP's distribution network, the iPod+HP was sold in retailers where Apple did not have any presence at the time, which included Wal-Mart, RadioShack, and Office Depot. Many of the
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by ihnorton 12y ago
I originally thought it was just a music thing too, but the core use seems to be as a meta-layer for the web. That has existed before, but people apparently use this one - which is the value proposition of every social-web-thing, ever. Look

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