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by mjn 9y ago
True, although perhaps worth noting that the Mac II was developed in secret because its developers knew Jobs would hate it, and indeed Jobs hated its "unnecessary" and supposedly user-unfriendly expansion ports. It ended up being
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by mjn 9y ago
The current philosophy is pretty solidly in line with the historical Apple design philosophy, so I wouldn't necessarily expect it to change. The iMac is basically today's evolution of the original Mac [1], a single-piece computer&
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by mjn 9y ago
There's a medtech and health-IT cluster as well, partly due to Emory's med school, and Atlanta being a regional hospital center. Much of that's b2b too (though there are a few Fitbit-style b2c health-IT companies), but differ
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by mjn 9y ago
Yeah, there's no pointing to other hosts in WKS, just information on the host itself. I believe it come out of ideas about service discovery in the early days of the internet, when you might know of 100 other hosts, but not know which
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by mjn 9y ago
Minor side bit here, > The number should preferably be in the range 1-255 so that it can be used in the WKS field in name servers. Well-known service (WKS) records let hosts advertise in DNS which services a given machine made available,
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by mjn 9y ago
I'd never heard of this magazine before, but it has quite a bit of interesting stuff in it. For example, a philosophy of mathematics piece by Gregory Chaitin (known for developing algorithmic information theory): http://infe
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by mjn 9y ago
Even embedded exponential problems can be fine, since existing solvers in the SAT/SMT/ASP/etc. family working on finite domains like these can usually heuristically solve them in reasonable time. I did some work on formally m
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by mjn 9y ago
Similar in the UK, the regulations for B&Bs and guesthouses are pretty minimal compared to a hotel. The biggest issue people run into in getting licensed is that often some changes are needed to meet the fire code for overnight accommod
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by mjn 10y ago
Speaking of Emily Short, she compiled a more recent overview/bibliography of IF history that I found useful: https://emshort.blog/2016/04/02/brief-bibliography-about-if-...
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by mjn 10y ago
Some parts of stats (esp. classically) do use "inference" for the whole process of going from data -> result, especially when doing descriptive rather than predictive statistics. In most of ML the process is split into two phas
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by mjn 10y ago
He's considered important in at least two fairly central, mainstream R&D areas. One, object-oriented programming, where his development of message-passing OO and the design of Smalltalk are an influential line of thought. And two,
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by mjn 10y ago
> You're most likely thinking of Kurzweil's school of thought around a singularity, which is nowadays far from the "norm". I wish this were true, but it's gotten a new lease on life with Nick Bostrom's book
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by mjn 10y ago
It's possibly too big a task for one person, I agree. If he manages to get something usable in even 10-15 years, though, I'd be impressed. HAMMER2 is a clustering file system with POSIX semantics, and by the standards of that cate
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by mjn 10y ago
The basic idea of collective bargaining isn't really illegal when applied to a employers in general, because it's already the norm on that side of the table. A group of businesspeople with mutual economic interest can legally &quo
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by mjn 10y ago
The only sub-area of blogging I know of that has reasonably healthy communities of regular readers (vs. only people coming in from search or Reddit) is for communities of bloggers based around some programming languages. Language-specific a
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by mjn 10y ago
This is pretty slick, and I think very useful as-is. But, while we're all posting wishlists, one thing that'd be nice is if it simplified unnecessarily complex compound units in the result. In the simplest case, it's able to
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by mjn 10y ago
Yeah, that's a good bit of context. I expanded this blog post into a conference paper last year, and that version of the article does mention the Marvin Glass & Associates connection, along with a few other interesting historical t
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by mjn 10y ago
The jargon does vary by subfield and community, along with the actual measures used (sometimes it's just a different name, but sometimes practices are different as well). Precision/recall are terms from information retrieval that
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by mjn 10y ago
It's better than fully self-managing it, but GKE is still less managed than I'd personally like. I just want to submit containers as jobs to be executed in "the cloud", with the cloud provider figuring out the details of
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by mjn 10y ago
This is roughly what SBCL does for Lisp, compilation to native code that can sometimes be improved with optional type annotations. Coincidentally, the native-code compiler itself is named Python (it predates Python the language).
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by mjn 10y ago
Why would it be "wasteful" to prioritize quality of life for residents over investors' profits? Some cities (like Copenhagen) structure their housing mainly as owner-occupied cooperatives for a reason. A functioning city that
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by mjn 10y ago
They're always refrigerated in Denmark as well, usually in the dairy section along with the milk, cheese, and yogurt.
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by mjn 10y ago
Yeah, articles that focus on wages as the primary driving force (or here, wages plus currency movements) are missing the main picture. Changes in wages do make a difference at the margins, but only the margins: a 15% wage change in one dire
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Can you secure an iron cage?(limn.it)
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by mjn 10y ago
I agree the term is confusing now that "serverless" has a cloud-related definition, but in the database world, it is traditionally one of the terms used as an antonym to "client/server database". See, for example:
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Plain HTML with a few bureaucratic gestures(kmjn.org)
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by mjn 10y ago
Google reportedly [1] also uses a virtual filesystem (FUSE-based, in their case) to let individual clients get a convenient/efficient view into their giant monorepo. Microsoft looks like they're doing something very similar here,
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by mjn 10y ago
In what sense does it not work that way? And what do taxes have to do with it? I'm not talking about progressive tax rates, but about wider dispersion in incomes (which is what income inequality measures). If you have wider dispersion
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by mjn 10y ago
It's typically partly removed from your salary: you join a corporate health-insurance plan, whose premiums are partly but not fully subsidized by the company, with the remaining $x/month after subsidies coming from your paycheck.
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by mjn 10y ago
If you're comparing to European jobs, one factor is that the U.S. has higher income inequality then many other countries, which means generally the highly paid jobs pay more, and the poorly paid jobs pay less. This will make U.S. salar

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