michael_dorfman

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   by michael_dorfman 19y ago

   Sure: but part of the point of the essay is that certain languages (Lisp, Assembly) are so spare (and bare) that the simplicity of the complexity (and the complexity of the simplicity) are more readily visible.
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   by michael_dorfman 19y ago

   Sure, but I think there's more to it than that-- if you take the promise "ubiquitous computing" seriously, there's a lot of potential input/output devices available besides a traditional keyboard/mouse/monitor.
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   by michael_dorfman 19y ago

   I'm not sure I see the downside of showing Karma. Do you have any specific examples of groupthink in mind?
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   by michael_dorfman 19y ago

   When is it ever not a good time to sell to Microsoft, if they are interested?
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   by michael_dorfman 19y ago

   Thanks for that! Good book, good link.
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   by michael_dorfman 19y ago

   It looks like some of the relevant research (called here "attribute-based encryption" rather than "functional encryption") is freely available at: http://eprint.iacr.org/2007/323.pdf
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   by michael_dorfman 19y ago

   I'd certainly read a blog that shares the experience of working through TAOCP.
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   by michael_dorfman 19y ago

   I had a similar epiphany back in my youth, when I was working at a cafeteria. A co-worker and I had to sweep and mop the floor each day, so we decided we'd alternate which of us swept, and which mopped-- only we completely arbitrarily deci
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   by michael_dorfman 19y ago

   It's probably too idiosyncratic to meet your needs, but I really like Knuth's "Concrete Mathematics"
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    by michael_dorfman 19y ago

    Well, there you go. You're really the only one who can decide what the appropriate weights are, based on your own individual preferences.
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    by michael_dorfman 19y ago

    In that case, you make "time since creation" one of your parameters, and assign that an appropriate weight.
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    Video presentation - "Stuck: Why It’s So Hard to Do New Things in Old Organizations"(mitworld.mit.edu)

    1 points by michael_dorfman 19y ago|0 comments
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    by michael_dorfman 19y ago

    I'm not completely sure I understand the problem-space, so excuse me if this if way off-base: It appears to me that what you are looking for is not really an algorithm per se, but a formula. If you have a series of parameters, and you want
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    by michael_dorfman 19y ago

    I get this often, but since refreshing the page always fixes it, I've assumed that it's just because I've used the "back button" to get to an expired version of the page.