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by lucifer 17y ago
Tesla was practically a demigod and quite dear, but "worst is better" was the governing principle even in the heydays of the industrial revolution. That said, your post doesn't make sense. Tesla applied his book learning consistently. I
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by lucifer 17y ago
slahacker.
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by lucifer 17y ago
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+14%3A13-... Now, quick: what happened to the 2 little fishies?
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by lucifer 17y ago
"In Iran you would be hanged simply because you don't believe in Islam, or think women should have equal rights." I challenge you to provide a single reference for any of the above alleged "hanging" offenses. (You will be held to your stat
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by lucifer 17y ago
The article's writer likely intended the "merely" to indicate that the "deterministic" nature of a program is not affected by the "mere" fact of the parallel execution of its parts. I believe this distinction between deterministic vs. non-d
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by lucifer 17y ago
In absence of a theist point of view, no credible moral criticism of Mao is possible. Mao was determinedly and consciously a monster, per his self assigned civilization imperative to achieve the shared goal (of the Chinese intellectual eli
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by lucifer 17y ago
Are you entirely certain that RedHat is not worried about future 'submarine' warfare in future? (Sure, they have a steady supply of peasant soldiers, but the empire rules the seas...)
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by lucifer 17y ago
http://www.santafe.edu/research/publications/bookinforev/al1... http://www.santafe.edu/research/publications/bookinforev/al2... http://www.amazon.com/Origins-Order-Self-Organization-Select...
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by lucifer 17y ago
It is grammatically correct. (Not that I could care less.)
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by lucifer 17y ago
"First, mathematics is the language used to describe physics; it does not at all constrain what physical patterns are possible to express." Mathematics is entirely independent of physics and is not a mere descriptive language. The second s
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by lucifer 17y ago
Evolution is subservient to mathematics that governs physics. It merely searches the phenotype space, but that space is structured and constrained. (Number governs all.)
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by lucifer 17y ago
The higher order unit (e.g. Bee Hive) for the humans is very compelling. But all n-th level units exhibit a pattern that is not immediately evident for the human group unit. 1 - Body. Every unit has a distinct physically cohesive componen
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by lucifer 17y ago
Joe Inzerillo is the technical brain behind mlb.com tech magic, not Bowman.
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by lucifer 17y ago
You make a very persuasive point, but I have reservation regarding the words "encourage" and "solve". I would think the fact of the possibility of mapping exceptions (according to some abstraction order mirroring the layering of the overall
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by lucifer 17y ago
"I think checked exceptions are a bad idea for a couple of reasons. First is their most acclaimed benefit: they force you to deal with the exception immediately, even if you have no solution for it." The use of the word "immediately" inform
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by lucifer 17y ago
> Dude the guy/gal does not have to respond to any email unless he wants to. Obviously. (There is nothing in the earlier comment that in any way addresses the recipient's rights.) Equally obvious is the fact that the bank in question c
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by lucifer 17y ago
There is a mad logic to it: Reasoning for de-activing the account: gmail account holder has not replied to follow up emails from the bank to destroy email and sensitive content. Therefore it is possible that the account is dormant and/or
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by lucifer 17y ago
(Just) Curios why you point out the technical angle of their achievement but don't mention aferdowsi. Doesn't he deserve any credit as the CTO?
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by lucifer 17y ago
Sorry, replied to the wrong comment. (Was addressing the "concurrency is hard" bit.)
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by lucifer 17y ago
You recognize, of course, that the ironic fact of Clojure's implementation on top of JVM (using JVM concurrency mechanisms) argues against the very thesis he is putting forward.
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by lucifer 17y ago
The issue isn't computation, it is modeling. The next order of evolution for computation is quantum computation. What R Hickey is addressing is modeling. I think the modeling problem could be alternatively addressed by unlearning the noti
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by lucifer 17y ago
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/t...
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by lucifer 17y ago
I understood that, but don't accept the premise of the "digital" changes the world (in this context). Can you imagine a business selling bootleg (hard) copies of text books opening shop in a university town? What's so hard about making pa
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by lucifer 17y ago
What does "the genie is out of the bottle" mean? Does it mean: it is now possible to do X. If that is the case, then the "genie" has been out of the bottle to do a variety of criminal activities for the duration of this last recorded leg o
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Cryptome.org: Google Voice Rejected for iPhone - Confidential [zip](cryptome.org)
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by lucifer 17y ago
All today I have been obsessing over Map-Reduce on GPUs. Here is a link ( http://graphics.cs.ucdavis.edu/~lefohn/work/dissertation/lef... ) to get things started. Still not sure if Java is a good front end to openCL. (Would appreciate th
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by lucifer 17y ago
Thanks++ for the 61 link! Great stuff (and your's was pretty good too).
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The very fact of the continued existence of VCs for software technology businesses is a sad testament to the inability of the geekdom to capitalize on their knowledge. Perhaps we are unconsciously worried that we will suffer the fate of th
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by lucifer 17y ago
Beyond the temporal distance, there is the fact that the astronauts were under constant surveillance by HAL. Perhaps Frank Poole did not care to be demonstrative under the circumstances.
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by lucifer 17y ago
It is a disservice to Plato to assume he lacks the ability to make a distinction between a (written) correspondence and text. Plato's statement here is likely more subtle than superficially apparent. Specifically, note that he refers compa

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