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by mjn 11y ago
> I believe 3D sketching and CAD will be the first popular non-game application of virtual reality. Michael Deering (at the time chief engineer of Sun) had a similar feeling in the mid-'90s, and built an interesting demo called Holo
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I wish that were true, but I'd estimate that less than half of the bot hits on my website properly identify themselves as bots. Most of the crawlers running on DigitalOcean/AWS/etc. seem to use a user-agent string lifted from
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by mjn 11y ago
I've seen projects announced on and off to make a next-gen TeX or TeX-like from a clean start, but they never seem to go anywhere. I think writing a good rendering engine is just a ton of work. Two approaches I see as plausible: 1. Use
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Even closer in the neighborhood, most of the Greek kleptocrats have their money in Swiss banks too. Some of them are now being prosecuted, with information that only came to light because an employee of HSBC took some account lists home (in
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That's been our experience with my uncle who has MS. It started as periodic attacks in his late 30s, where for anywhere from a day at a time, to about a week at a time, he'd have significant difficulty getting out of bed and movin
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Do generic stock servers have a future in a cloud world?(utcc.utoronto.ca)
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by mjn 11y ago
It's funny to read complaints about rent-seeking and someone taking a percentage off the top on a tech forum, where that is the business model of a large portion of tech companies themselves. When authors complain about Amazon being re
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According to the NSF's numbers, about 2/3 of doctorates awarded by U.S. universities in science & engineering fields go to U.S. nationals (citizens and permanent residents). The ratio has been fairly constant over the past 20
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by mjn 11y ago
It's interesting that philosophy, unlike most other disciplines, has been so good at this. It's not purely the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, either. There's another encyclopedia founded at the same time (both 1995), th
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by mjn 11y ago
Web documents are cheaper and more accessible, but there's still a quite large usage of print documents, so at least I, as a document author, don't want to commit to a "web-only" toolchain without a good to-print workflo
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by mjn 11y ago
There's some research on automatically deriving efficient algorithms for classes of distributions, e.g. getting a specialized EM-like algorithm for anything where EM-like algorithms are applicable: http://machinelearning.wus
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I'd guess you either got lucky then, or it didn't look suspicious to them (e.g. your first time doing it, or there wasn't a huge fare difference from the ticket you "should've" bought). It used to be easy to us
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Two other caveats: Don't book a round-trip ticket like this, only one-way. The airline will usually cancel the return ticket if you skip part of the outgoing one. Don't book on an airline where you have frequent-flyer miles you wa
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by mjn 11y ago
OSM has a policy that the base 'name' tag should be the name used on-the-ground locally, i.e. what appears in real life on street signs, building nameplates, and so on. Plus some special considerations for multilingual areas [1].
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by mjn 11y ago
The layoffs here are in their enterprise division, where I don't think quality is the main problem. Two problems instead: the market is generally moving away from high-end enterprise servers towards commodity x86 servers, and, possibly
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by mjn 11y ago
There was an article in the Houston paper a few weeks ago whose main theme was trying to explain to confused readers how Fiorina could possibly be running for president using her record as HP CEO as an actual positive. In Houston, formerly
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by mjn 11y ago
Some background on why Prolog for parsing: That was traditionally a popular use of Prolog, because something similar to BNF-style grammar rules can be written almost literally as Prolog clauses, and you get a parser for "free". Ve
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by mjn 11y ago
That's a good point, and sort of what I was using the monthly rate to eyeball. I think in (amortized) monthly costs for other ways of provisioning bulk computation, e.g. owning+powering your own hardware, renting a dedicated server, or
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Pretty reasonable pricing in return for the preemptible nature. Dividing the numbers on the pricing page [1]: If you use them as a replacement for occasional (full-price) instances, it's a 70% discount across the board. If you use them
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by mjn 11y ago
Since he's sysadmin in a university computer-science department (and going by the first paragraph of this post), I think group-type sharing is the specific use-case that the post author might be hypothetically tempted to solve using AC
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by mjn 11y ago
In common usage, NFS is more commonly used as the name of the network filesystem / protocol, like ZFS, XFS, and FAT are the names of local filesystems. They all have official expansions, but nobody talks about, say, the "File All
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I believe the author's current setup is running ZFS on Illumos (specifically OmniOS), with volumes exported over NFSv3 and Samba. It's not mentioned in this post, but some of the older ones talk about it [1]. The comment about Fre
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Why we aren't tempted to use ACLs on our Unix machines(utcc.utoronto.ca)
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I also like this vaguely related paper from one of the ex-IBM-Watson team members: http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.06924 "Using Thought-Provoking Children's Questions to Drive Artificial Intelligence Research"
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The End of Shorter Hours (1984) [pdf](jhemingway.net)
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Of the things discussed in this post, the main area where I would seriously suggest a commercial Common Lisp system even for a newcomer, is if they are interested in GUIs, either on the development or runtime side. I can recommend LispWorks
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I liked most of the article, but the part you quoted struck me as a bit contrary to the main thrust of it. As a CS researcher, I occasionally think, what would be the #1 thing I'd do if my sole goal were to chase career success in acad
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The reason I think it's useful to note, even though you would not in practice parse it that way, is that in my opinion it better points to why parsing HTML with regexes is a bad idea. It would be possible to do so with a giant regex,
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There is a conceptual version of HTML that's non-regular, but HTML as used in practice is regular, because the standard allows parsers to impose a maximum nesting depth, and all browsers that I know of do so (e.g. Webkit limits to 512)
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I found this an informative look at the history and current state of the supermarket "center store", the aisles that contain the commodity boxed and canned staple products (vs. butcher counter, bakery, etc.).

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