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Overcoming Bias : Unequal Folks Save(overcomingbias.com)
1 points by kmod 16y ago|0 comments
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The crying game: a woman's tears aren't sexy(arstechnica.com)
3 points by kmod 16y ago|0 comments
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Britain Arrests WikiLeaks Founder on Sex Charges(nytimes.com)
5 points by kmod 16y ago|0 comments
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OSDI '10 (top-tier systems conference) has released their proceedings(usenix.org)
3 points by kmod 16y ago|0 comments
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by kmod 16y ago
You unfortunately fall right into the trap that he's warning about: just because you can enumerate the possible outcomes doesn't mean that they are all equally likely (cf: the Monty Hall problem). The conclusion that BB/BG/GB are all equall
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Nobody Understands Probability(jsteinhardt.wordpress.com)
84 points by kmod 16y ago|60 comments
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Non-myths about programming (or, CS is the "least worst" profession)(portal.acm.org)
1 points by kmod 16y ago|1 comments
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Web-based jailbreak relies on unpatched iOS PDF flaw(arstechnica.com)
2 points by kmod 16y ago|0 comments
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by kmod 16y ago
Not quite -- you need to make sure that the counters are on separate cache lines, otherwise you'll still get the same issue.
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by kmod 16y ago
This seems to be a cache performance issue: - The difference in performance is too big to be a memory bus issue - Since the number of threads doesn't change, just the number of processes, it's not an un-scalability issue of the program. - I
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When science clashes with beliefs? Make science impotent(arstechnica.com)
1 points by kmod 16y ago|0 comments
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Google Code Blog: Introducing the Google Font API & Google Font Directory(googlecode.blogspot.com)
2 points by kmod 16y ago|0 comments
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by kmod 16y ago
Using past data to give you better service for future data -- isn't this exactly what you want a prediction algorithm to do?
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by kmod 16y ago
I don't think Google has some magic "make this algorithm scale to huge datasets" box that they can run things through. The reason why Google can run predictions on huge datasets is because they designed an algorithm that has lower accuracy
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Linux on the console? Sony sued for removing PS3 support(arstechnica.com)
3 points by kmod 16y ago|0 comments
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College students struggle to go without media for 24 hours(arstechnica.com)
7 points by kmod 16y ago|8 comments
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US government finally admits most piracy estimates are bogus(arstechnica.com)
145 points by kmod 17y ago|12 comments
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No Survivors in Crash of Flight Carrying Polish Leader(nytimes.com)
33 points by kmod 17y ago|37 comments
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by kmod 17y ago
They do log them, via a GET request to /unixkcd/missing
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by kmod 17y ago
Interestingly, you can see it log every unrecognized command via a GET request to /unixkcd/missing (look at source/firebug). It appears that he's been updating the source code with things that people commonly try ('rm' didn't used to be su
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Gov't, certificate authorities conspire to spy on SSL users?(arstechnica.com)
2 points by kmod 17y ago|1 comments
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Gov't, certificate authorities conspire to spy on SSL users?(arstechnica.com)
1 points by kmod 17y ago|0 comments
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Why new hard disks might not be much fun for XP users(arstechnica.com)
1 points by kmod 17y ago|0 comments
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The Apache Cassandra Project(incubator.apache.org)
4 points by kmod 17y ago|0 comments
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by kmod 17y ago
Simple: - Get a bunch of well-respected people together - Create something exciting - Use your connections to find people that you know are good
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Apple blocks screenshots, axes sexual content from App Store(arstechnica.com)
1 points by kmod 17y ago|1 comments
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by kmod 17y ago
Interesting article, but I find the author's use of statistics to be quite bizarre... [quote] Approximately 68% of URL shortening services were Stage 1 Compliant. Approximately 56% of URL shortening services were exclusively Stage 2 Complia
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Social Experiments using Amazon Mechanical Turk: Coin Flipping(groups.csail.mit.edu)
3 points by kmod 17y ago|0 comments
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IE6 users to be evicted from Gmail, Google Calendar(arstechnica.com)
2 points by kmod 17y ago|0 comments
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by kmod 17y ago
Zipcar does the same thing: only numbers and letters. Also, try putting '<' or '>' in your password -- they'll complain about how you're putting HTML tags in your password. Now why would they worry about that?

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