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by patfla 14y ago
I'm speaking only from my own experience but as a software engineer observing other software engineers a surprisingly large percent of the the (imo) very best have striking degrees of general knowledge. That is, that could speak very well
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by patfla 14y ago
Is this an instance of Think Different?
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by patfla 14y ago
Vannevar Bush's idea for the PC (and web) as an aid to memory is coming true big time. For better or worse, it's often those who already well educated who benefit the most.
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by patfla 15y ago
I came here with the thought of adding John Cook's blog but I see the name already. Second the recommendation.
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by patfla 15y ago
I found this more compelling and succinct: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/andrewlilico/100010332/...
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by patfla 15y ago
All the machinery of functional programming languages that's creeping into non-FP languages is great. I actually think that FP one-liners are usually _more_ transparent than the corresponding non-FP loop. However if I'm not mistaken an imp
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by patfla 15y ago
My reading of the Chinese classics - or rather their authors - is that, historically, the single greatest ambition of China's intellectuals was to advise rulers on better governance. Which didn't seem to me a particularly productive or hea
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by patfla 16y ago
Nature (and evolution) can be both abundant and parsimonious. Abundant might refer to the explosion of life-forms around the time of the pre-Cambrian. Or, in our day, the extraordinary way that insects and flowering plants interact (and d
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by patfla 16y ago
Adding GPUs seems a no-brainer in retrospect. Have top500 institutions outside China been trying this approach? Except one thing. Until recently GPUs have only done single-precision calculations. Double precisions has been added with the
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by patfla 16y ago
> Makes me want a smartphone a little more That’s part of the point isn’t it? Google extends the service for free (for a limited time) and people without smartphones grow to like it (glad that 1800FREE411 is still there) and then when
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by patfla 16y ago
Among the reasons (first list): #s 2 and 3 are ways in which the AMA restricts supply in the US. The AMA may claim 'quality' (and who can gainsay claims of quality in health care) but one suspects that restricting supply and keeping salari
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by patfla 16y ago
I'm wary of any article that begins: "The Truth About ..." and I haven't read this one yet. "The Truth About ..." is designed to get your juices flowing and to get you to read. Caveat lector.