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by merraksh 12y ago
Though this is more a recognition rather than an optimization problem, it can be modeled with optimization modeling languages. Here's an example in Mosel (disclaimer: I work for the company that develops Mosel). Here, a and b are the a
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by merraksh 12y ago
Agreed. The battery would also be restricted for use with smoke detectors, if we exclude the ability to signal that it's running out of charge. Why not make smoke detectors wifi-aware instead? Their wifi circuit would require much less
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by merraksh 12y ago
Snively estimated that a naked head struck the surface with a force more than 1,000 times greater than gravity, or 1,000g, which is lethal. I assume it meant "the acceleration of a naked head upon hitting the surface is estimated as
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Randall Munroe (XKCD) on the Colbert Report [video](thecolbertreport.cc.com)
4 points by merraksh 12y ago|0 comments
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by merraksh 12y ago
But * * has an entirely different meaning in C/C++.
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by merraksh 12y ago
Makes sense, it's probably easier and more fun to learn some vocabulary than correct grammar. I moved to an English speaking country (from Italy) eight years ago and still confuse "his" and "her" sometimes.
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by merraksh 12y ago
From his examples I wonder if these apps are good for grammar too, given that the two Portuguese sentences he writes have wrong grammar and/or declination. 1) Mulheres bonitas sao muito motivado. Literally "Beautiful women are v
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by merraksh 12y ago
the original claim 1 [...] had not claimed a computer. The examiner correctly issued a rejection, saying the claim was abstract and thus wasn’t something that could be patented. In response, the applicant added element (g) (“providing a co
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by merraksh 12y ago
Good point. There are many hints that article was OCR'd, for instance an ".4ECL" instead of "AECL".
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by merraksh 12y ago
The Therac-25's software program, relatively crude by today's standards, probably contained 101000 lines of code. At one error for every 500 lines, that works out to the possibility of twenty errors. I'd say 200, not twenty
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by merraksh 12y ago
Number should be used in both ways. If the US have a population k times that of Sweden, there are k Notch-likes with possibly k times the revenue of Minecraft, hence k times the potential taxes. The revenue might be considered equal as both
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BMW's Laser Headlights(wot.motortrend.com)
70 points by merraksh 13y ago|74 comments
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by merraksh 13y ago
I would assume you can't safely do arithmetic within a structure, for instance. As an example, take a struct { char a; char b; char c; char *p; char d; } A valgrind error that points at "0 bytes with
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by merraksh 13y ago
See also http://www.noisli.com
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Jajah to shut down in January 2014(jajah.com)
1 points by merraksh 13y ago|0 comments
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What a bubble I've been living in – Discovering multicultural Finland(yle.fi)
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Why It's So Hard to Get From Brooklyn to Queens(m.theatlanticcities.com)
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by merraksh 13y ago
Nice! But where is my spaceship and what do I shoot? :-)
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by merraksh 13y ago
A typing hacker would not just enjoy shooting at words such as "specifying" and "establish", but also at #define, for(;;), /bin/bash, *p[1+i], s/[^0-9]/_/g, "%10f\n", ~(str&(b|c)),
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by merraksh 13y ago
I don't think the article has any intention to depict Bogotá as a happy city in absolute terms (although yeah, the author calls Peñalosa the "Mayor of Happiness"), but rather that the changes brought by its mayor in recent ye
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Dead Man Walking(nejm.org)
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by merraksh 13y ago
Or you could live in Birmingham, in a £650/month one-bedroom apartment 10 minutes away from New Street station, where you can take a 70 minute train to London Euston. Sure, Birmingham is not Barcelona or London, but I'm not sure h
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by merraksh 13y ago
which time he sent himself, through a so-called "subversion repository," 32 megabytes of source code from Goldman’s high-frequency stock-trading system. I can't help smile at the thought of what non-CS people might mistake
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by merraksh 13y ago
It could also be that Steve Jobs had incomplete information. Holt told him he designed such and such (maybe he should have just said implemented ), without giving him references for who did it before. Jobs did not bother to find out and th
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by merraksh 13y ago
One way for him to take advantage of his current popularity (which he acquired through loyalty) would be to create a pastebin-like blog for classified sources and material. I wonder if this is among his intentions.
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by merraksh 13y ago
Agreed. Yet my field (Operations Research) has seen four or five new journals born in the past 10 years, all of relatively high level. Most often they were born as an initiative of one or more scholars in the field, who convinced a publishe
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by merraksh 13y ago
As that lack of enthusiasm demonstrates, the fundamental force driving the speed of the move towards full open access is what researchers — and research funders — want. Eisen says that although PLoS has become a success story — publishing
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Death of an adjunct(post-gazette.com)
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by merraksh 13y ago
I'd rather think his point is precisely that: distrust of authority, misunderstanding about the existence of god are just distractions from reality, and the wrong tools to face it. When disease=reality hits, he says, vaccines are the r
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by merraksh 13y ago
10p/minute, or 6 GBP per hour, is probably good enough money if you are on minimum salary (but then you don't work from home like this guy) or unemployed. I don't think it makes sense otherwise.

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