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by jdoliner 17y ago
Another cute thing about Wilson Hall at Fermilab is that the front doors faces precisely due north. Not because they were constructed with painstaking precision but because the physicists have redefined Fermilab's coordinate system such tha
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How Physicists At Fermilab Build a Bridge(joedoliner.com)
27 points by jdoliner 17y ago|10 comments
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What The New York Times isn't doing.(joedoliner.com)
1 points by jdoliner 17y ago|0 comments
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by jdoliner 17y ago
Well if you're willing to sacrifice a bit of speed I think I have a pretty good heuristic algorithm you can use: Step 1: Find a maximal point, by this a mean a point `p' s.t. no point has x >= p.x and y >= p.y. (such a point clearly
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by jdoliner 17y ago
Is the BBC considering using end to end encryption for its iPlayer service? It seems to me that they could really stop a lot of this throttling in its tracks by preventing deep packet inspection.
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by jdoliner 17y ago
True, although in actuality if everyone just went online and tried to download a terabyte of data. TCP back off would be the reason that things came to a crawl, which is a user side thing.
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by jdoliner 17y ago
Ahem, 6 million Poincare Conjecture was claimed.
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by jdoliner 17y ago
This means that there are presently two references to Old Macdonald on the front page, the other being EIEIO.
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by jdoliner 17y ago
The coefficient of sqrt{n} was further improved by O. Macdonald. Brilliant.
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by jdoliner 17y ago
The best description I was ever given of the probabilistic method: "It's not like we're searching for a needle in a haystack here. We're searching for hay in a haystack... But every time we reach in, we find a needle" - Laszlo Babai This wa
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by jdoliner 17y ago
I use a text editor for all of my hacking needs (vim but emacs is good times too). That being said I'm amazed the HN community has so much trouble understanding the usability. Do you feel similarly when you load up into the latest Rate My S
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by jdoliner 17y ago
Well here you guys go, pretty simple small desk, although it is all glass which is kinda nice looking. Nice big monitor, but only one. And then my computer which is really the reason I'm posting it has an acrylic case and uv lighting over r
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by jdoliner 17y ago
The real question is: will this be a feature of the quality that facebook has been doing lately? Or is it going to be unreliable for a long time before it actually works?
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Facebook May Roll Out Video Chat(mashable.com)
1 points by jdoliner 17y ago|1 comments
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When did facebook become such an over achiever?
7 points by jdoliner 17y ago|0 comments
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by jdoliner 17y ago
Well this is an exceptionally cute idea, but there is absolutely no way that anyone is going to have any faith in this currency.
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by jdoliner 18y ago
I think everyone's vaporware senses are tingling a bit. But let's think for a second, why can't this work. Really the only issue I can see is keeping the video interface smooth enough to allow for gameplay. The problem is that they need to
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by jdoliner 18y ago
"We... are happy to be one of the first companies to implement Activity Streams at scale." What a subtle shot at their competition.
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by jdoliner 18y ago
I honestly can't see a way to think about computers as a natural evolution of the book format of presenting information. They use text that's true but that's pretty much where the comparison halts. Computers are capable of taking in substan
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by jdoliner 18y ago
I personally went nuts when I saw this on the front page. For a very specific reason. About a year ago I purchased a sweatshirt made by a cool little fashion company called Distilled. It had a really neat design on it that was reminiscent o
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by jdoliner 18y ago
I agree that if we decide that 0 is the identity element then the concept of the kernel does have meaning. Well except that the article says the map isn't defined over {1111, 2222, 3333, ... , 9999} However 0 is just the additive identity a
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by jdoliner 18y ago
It's not so much a question of mathematical use. In mathematics ideas are normally judged for implications for the rest of the field. This leads to a self perpetuating notion of what's important (things are important simply because they are
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by jdoliner 18y ago
Oh, I actually hadn't noticed that part. Honestly I think a 3 app limit will anger pirates so much that their propensity to pirate will be just as high as if they didn't have the option for the cheap to free version. Microsoft's methods of
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by jdoliner 18y ago
I think Microsoft is going to catch a great deal of flack for this one. I can't imagine how they came up with the idea that people use 2 apps at a time on average. Even if this is true on average, every user will at some point want to use m
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by jdoliner 18y ago
True us android users need some love too. Although I'm a little embarrassed Android hasn't fixed that problem yet. I mean it's smart enough to recognize a street address and give me 1 touch directions to that address. So I can't imagine it
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by jdoliner 18y ago
Wait their site says that "Powerband is a world-wide fiber optic network." and that it only costs $24.99/month (well it also says $35.99). Are these just lies at this point or has this kid somehow laid fiber optics over the globe since pres
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by jdoliner 18y ago
I wouldn't count on this being next years runaway success. Cool though.
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by jdoliner 18y ago
Hardware control is done through the internet because it needs to be controlled remotely. The LHC is enormous so you can easily be 10 Km from your the hardware. Not to mention the hardware is also sometimes controlled remotely by researcher
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by jdoliner 18y ago
Having just completed a course in which this was one of the major topics of discussion I feel I can perhaps help to clear a few things up. Generally we consider the mark test to signify self awareness. What's important in the test is that i
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by jdoliner 18y ago
I'm presently doing research on Genetic Programming. I'm just an undergrad but I've read a fair amount on the subject and feel that I basically understand it at this point. However my understanding is largely academic and I'm curious as to

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