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From Dom-ino to Polykatoikia: modular architecture(domusweb.it)
2 points by jdmitch 12y ago|0 comments
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by jdmitch 12y ago
full article here: ftp://213.176.96.142/aps8b0dfb6b-e773-20140502092553.pdf
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Sliding Friction on Wet and Dry Sand(journals.aps.org)
8 points by jdmitch 12y ago|2 comments
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by jdmitch 12y ago
just a minor correction - the script is naskh from the triliteral root n-s-kh (نسج - copy) not naksh from the root n-k-sh(نقش - engrave)
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by jdmitch 12y ago
The article mentions language processing, interpreting audio and visual material, and playing games as goals that have been set for AI, and then suggests as an alternative goals that "can expand with our own abilities and desires.&quot
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One Africa Media’s Carey Eaton passes away(oneafricamedia.azurewebsites.net)
3 points by jdmitch 12y ago|1 comments
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Obamacare reforms could see thousands of NHS nurses poached to work in the US(independent.co.uk)
4 points by jdmitch 12y ago|0 comments
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Google Buys an Enterprise Android Company, Divide (recode.net)
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Pills, parties and pirate radio – a frantic quest through hip young London(standard.co.uk)
1 points by jdmitch 12y ago|0 comments
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by jdmitch 12y ago
“Really I must buy a pencil,” as if under cover of this excuse we could indulge safely in the greatest pleasure of town life in winter — rambling the streets of London.
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Street Haunting by Virginia Woolf (1930)(ebooks.adelaide.edu.au)
9 points by jdmitch 12y ago|1 comments
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by jdmitch 12y ago
This also happens with slinkies - I've ruined more good slinkies that way!
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Individual differences in native language attainment(northumbria.ac.uk)
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by jdmitch 12y ago
Why are private universities subject to the FOIA? Or am I wrong in thinking that Oxford and Cambridge are private?
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Seawater to supply Beijing in 2019(globaltimes.cn)
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Meb Keflezighi First American To Win Boston Marathon In 31 Years(boston.cbslocal.com)
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Meb Keflezighi first American to win Boston Marathon since 1983(baa.org)
2 points by jdmitch 12y ago|1 comments
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Open source software quality outpaces proprietary code(ciol.com)
2 points by jdmitch 12y ago|0 comments
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Troubled sleep (how babies cry at night to delay the birth of a younger sibling)(emph.oxfordjournals.org)
1 points by jdmitch 13y ago|0 comments
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How MI5 combated Communist attempts to take over the scouts(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by jdmitch 13y ago|0 comments
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Secret WW1 spy files have been made available online(bbc.com)
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by jdmitch 13y ago
Growth does not happen in the lab, it happens in the markets over long period [sic] of time in a slow process of diffusion, improvement, and recombination. This is an interesting observation, but doesn't square with my experience (
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by jdmitch 13y ago
I always thought the explanation I heard as a kid ("The stripes help them blend in to the tall grass of the savannah") was a bit lacking - this makes much more sense!
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by jdmitch 13y ago
This is pretty amazing - it is probably going to get out of hand very quickly and become as epic as "Time" (xkcd.com/1190)
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In Spite of website glitches Obamacare reaches enrolment target of 7.1mln(dailytech.com)
3 points by jdmitch 13y ago|0 comments
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How Russians are outsmarting Internet censorship(advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org)
69 points by jdmitch 13y ago|24 comments
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by jdmitch 13y ago
Avoiding the cucumber test trap is hard. It’s easy to keep adding scenarios which give you a false confidence that your application is working correctly. It’s easy to just add some more code to make those scenarios pass. Instead we need
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Fli-fy(samsung.com)
2 points by jdmitch 13y ago|0 comments
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Raging Bulls: How Wall Street Got Addicted to Light-Speed Trading(wired.com)
1 points by jdmitch 13y ago|0 comments
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Did inbreeding doom the Mammoth?(news.sciencemag.org)
1 points by jdmitch 13y ago|0 comments

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