magoghm

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541.
Games industry takes first step toward lootbox regulation without the government(venturebeat.com)
2 points by magoghm 9y ago|0 comments
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by magoghm 9y ago
"There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world." -- John Maynard Keynes
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The deep biosphere could contain up to one third of Earth’s entire biomass(aeon.co)
3 points by magoghm 9y ago|0 comments
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What Was the Strange Noise in Colorado?(valuewalk.com)
3 points by magoghm 9y ago|0 comments
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Ethereum Now Handles More Transactions Than All Digital Currencies Combined(trustnodes.com)
220 points by magoghm 9y ago|134 comments
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by magoghm 9y ago
Here is an interesting analysis of Benford's Law from a digital signal processing perspective: http://www.dspguide.com/ch34.htm
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Massive US military social media spying archive left wide open in AWS S3 buckets(theregister.co.uk)
41 points by magoghm 9y ago|0 comments
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by magoghm 9y ago
4GL (Fourth Generation Languages). I never thought they would take the world by storm, but many people in the 1980's thought they were the future of (business) software.
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by magoghm 9y ago
Lisp for AI. Frames for Knowledge Representation.
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by magoghm 9y ago
Space Colonies.
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by magoghm 9y ago
Oberon.
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by magoghm 9y ago
The Eiffel Programming Language.
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by magoghm 9y ago
FORTH.
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by magoghm 9y ago
The Connection Machine.
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by magoghm 9y ago
NeWS (Network Extensible Window System). Although, we now have web browsers + JavaScript (not exactly the same thing, but there are some similarities).
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by magoghm 9y ago
Genetic algorithms.
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by magoghm 9y ago
Expert systems.
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by magoghm 9y ago
Cyc.
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by magoghm 9y ago
Fractal image compression.
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by magoghm 9y ago
The book "Project Oberon: The Design of an Operating System and Compiler" https://www.amazon.com/Project-Oberon-Design-Operating-Compi... contains a detailed explanation of the design for the Oberon compiler and o
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Tech companies spend more on R&D than any other companies in the U.S(recode.net)
1 points by magoghm 9y ago|0 comments
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by magoghm 9y ago
I had to program in COBOL for one year when I was in college (in the 70's), I hated it. After that I had to program for one semester in IBM 360 assembly language, which turned out to be a far more interesting and enjoyable programming
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by magoghm 9y ago
"2. SQL is intended to be accessible to users without formal training in mathematics or computer programming. It is designed to be typed on a keyboard. Therefore it is framed in familiar English keywords, and avoids specialized mathema
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by magoghm 9y ago
When I look at the average rate of inflation from 1900 10 1970, it is 2.26% per year: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1000+1900+dollars+in+19... And when I look at the average rate of inflation from 1970 to 2017,
565.
by magoghm 9y ago
Look at this chart, you can see that inflation started to increase really fast since the 70's: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1000+1776+dollars+in+20... (sometime WolframAlpha doesn't display the chart
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by magoghm 9y ago
I had a subscription to BYTE magazine. That issue was how I discovered there was this amazing language called LISP.
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by magoghm 9y ago
Altos Computer Systems released its Altos 386 2000 computer running Unix in 1987 https://classictech.wordpress.com/computer-companies/altos-c...
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by magoghm 9y ago
I agree that whitespace is helpful for readability, but the amount of whitespace they're using is overkill.
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by magoghm 9y ago
"Let ε<0." There goes the neighborhood!
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Researchers Crack the Brain's Facial-Recognition Code(scientificamerican.com)
1 points by magoghm 9y ago|0 comments

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