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by mjn 12y ago
It's a pretty overloaded term. I haven't looked into the Cosmos semantics much, but since it's mentioned in the "logic programming" part of the language, I suspect it's referencing the Prolog sense of the term:
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I think that's mostly a socioeconomic issue in SF, very similar to how many New Yorkers resent bankers.
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I think some of the weirdness is the fashion aspect, but I think there is also more to it than that. Back in 2004 when I was interviewing for grad schools, I had an interview with Thad Starner [1], who wore a HUD eyepiece, and it was a dist
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Big data excites everything(molleindustria.org)
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NTIS expands free access to federal technical reports(ntis.gov)
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They're a drier read than the book, but if you're interested specifically in the data and its analysis, there's a series of journal articles written by Piketty and another economist, Gabriel Zucman, which have more detail tha
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by mjn 12y ago
The argument is more caused by disputes over history than by the name duplication (though there is some dumb arguing over just the name). What mostly inflames Greek opinion is the other set of claims that goes along with the name: for examp
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by mjn 12y ago
It is a bit weird that the headlines around this find are mostly being phrased like that. We studied both in school, and I had assumed they were both pretty well known. I guess for a headline-writer, though, "Alexander the Great"
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Machineers teaches you programming with or without your consent(killscreendaily.com)
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Yes, I think one culprit is misperceptions that the term "STEM" encourages (science, technology, engineering, mathematics). It's become a widespread marketing term, especially towards young people choosing education and caree
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I'm also not a big fan of Moodle, but it does have the advantage of being self-hosted and open-source. Moving student data to a cloud provider adds a bunch of legal complexity, at least here (Denmark). I can use anything I want for non
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I would guess it correlates highly with number of posts, so I just think of it as a proxy for "highly active long-time users". Another measure could just be postcount. Karma is like a slightly "corrected" postcount that
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by mjn 12y ago
I tallied locations ~9 months ago [1]. Of the top 100 posters, I could determine the location of 81. Those broke down as 54 US, 27 non-US. Mostly from English-speaking countries: US/Canada/UK/Australia together accounted for
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by mjn 12y ago
This is sort of interesting to look at, but not too reliable: it only shows users whose profiles happen to be swapped in to the in-memory Arc data structures whenever the list is regenerated. So from day to day, depending on post and cachin
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I believe it is. His old one had more technical content: https://twitter.com/losethos
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Another article (annoyingly undated, but I believe ~3 years old): http://9ol.es/LoseThos.html
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I found some of the messages I was thinking of (this stuff is scattered across many years of debates, so there are probably others). Clisp maintainer on how loading Elisp into clisp was a weekend's work (2002, but talking about work fr
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by mjn 12y ago
Some years ago the a clisp maintainer actually made a minimal demo of Emacs hosted on clisp with just a compatibility layer for Elisp via macros/functions, which seemed to work pretty well. But it didn't progress any further becau
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by mjn 12y ago
There's actually a lot of debate about that in games: best-selling games tend to be often at least in part boosted by bundling with consoles. For example, the two best-selling games of all time by some counts are Tetris and Wii Sports,
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by mjn 12y ago
The mediterranean countries do largely use olive oil as the cooking fat, though they of course also eat other things. But olive oil is the default thing you cook with, in contrast to northern Europe, where lard and butter are traditional.
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by mjn 12y ago
The article this Wired post is mostly reblogging is quite a bit better imo, at least in having a higher ratio of facts to commentary: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=2...
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Early Transmission Dynamics of Ebola Virus Disease(eurosurveillance.org)
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Well, in the first case you're actually enrolled in a health-insurance plan, whereas in the second case you aren't. This solves many problems; for example, everyone who visits a doctor's office or hospital can be assumed to h
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On #2, a colleague of mine has a hypothesis that that's a primary reason a lot of smaller enterprises (on the threshold of enterprisey) buy ERPs: it tells them what they should be keeping track of and how, along with providing the tool
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A friend of mine ran across this in Switzerland. It has a nominally free-market system, but when he moved there, he ended up automatically enrolled in a plan without doing anything at all. He was remiss in reading and translating all his ma
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by mjn 12y ago
There's a fairly large part of the ex-Prolog community that decided to go all-in on the declarative part, partly in reaction to that, and partly in reaction to other warts in Prolog's semantics, like the fact that statement order
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by mjn 12y ago
You could, but it's fairly uncommon to do that kind of "custom allocator" style in C, especially in traditional Unix utility programming. It seems to be more of a C++ thing culturally in my experience, though you do find it i
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If it's the last thing you do before you exit the process, it isn't necessary, because the OS will reclaim your process's memory in one fell swoop. I believe that's what the linked post is advocating 'cp' shou
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Looking at the code, it looks like deallocating a hash table requires traversing the entire table, because there is malloc()'d memory associated with each hash entry, so each entry has to be visited and free()'d. From hash_free()
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Executable Version of Apollo Lunar Landing Visualization(mindell.scripts.mit.edu)
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