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Gus Van Horn: "Ford-Chevy" Arguments(gusvanhorn.blogspot.com)
2 points by johndcook 16y ago|0 comments
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Buy ethically: Buy sweatshop(adamsmith.org)
11 points by johndcook 16y ago|10 comments
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by johndcook 16y ago
The problems pointed out in this post have turned into a major issue. A clinical trial was designed to test cancer treatments recommended by the erroneous analysis. The trial was stopped (and restarted and stopped again) and now the Nationa
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Marginal Revolution: Explaining France, a reader request(marginalrevolution.com)
4 points by johndcook 16y ago|0 comments
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Roman Numerals(threesixty360.wordpress.com)
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Brian R. Bondy - Twitter accounts for all StackOverflow users by reputation(brianbondy.com)
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by johndcook 16y ago
The original article criticizing minimalism was written with more depth and more sense of humor than this article written in response. My take on the two articles: http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/01/01/periodic-minimalism...
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Why December 25 is Christmas(geneveith.com)
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Visualizing 7 dimensional simplex(yaroslavvb.blogspot.com)
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MagicTile - geometrical and topolgical analogues of Rubik's Cube(gravitation3d.com)
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64-bit and 32-bit floating point results differ(software.intel.com)
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Rehabilitating the reputation of the lecture(cs.uni.edu)
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Rebuilding the Antikythera Mechanism out of Lego | Casting Out Nines(castingoutnines.wordpress.com)
3 points by johndcook 16y ago|1 comments
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Who will need database administrators in 2020?(lemire.me)
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Canned Platypus » Blog Archive » Caching vs. Replication II(pl.atyp.us)
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The trouble with wizards(johndcook.com)
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Developer problem solving sequence(twitter.com)
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Health Care and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Musicians with PhD's(divisbyzero.com)
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by johndcook 16y ago
The post doesn't give a definite answer to the question in the title, but it is interesting.
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Thorium Instead Of Uranium: Solution To Our Energy Woes?(wmbriggs.com)
76 points by johndcook 16y ago|70 comments
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Probability and statistics cheat sheet(cs.berkeley.edu)
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by johndcook 16y ago
For 10 lines of code, a meaningful function name might be enough documentation. But suppose instead of a 10-line function the same code were 10 lines inside a 100-line function. Then you'd need a comment. (It would be better to break it o
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Open source bioinformatics software from Microsoft Research(blogs.msdn.com)
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How scientific group-think forms and grows(wmbriggs.com)
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IT without software(instedd.org)
5 points by johndcook 16y ago|0 comments
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Why computers have two zeros: +0 and -0(johndcook.com)
14 points by johndcook 16y ago|1 comments
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Dynamic typing and anti-lock brakes(johndcook.com)
27 points by johndcook 16y ago|37 comments