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by peter303 13y ago
I've only experienced this right after high school, college and PhD graduations. These were long term goals that dominated my life. There was bit of emptiness once these goals were achieved. Plus there was a dispersion of the social
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by peter303 13y ago
To me a hacker is a type of artist who creates something either software or computer/electronics. (The term "maker" is starting to supplant the hardware side.) We respect cleverness and creativity among fellow hackers. This
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by peter303 13y ago
I was wondering closer to home why Harvard and Stanford skate circles around my alma mater MIT when it comes to billionaire dollar tech IPOs. Having attended all the three, the tech culture is deepest at MIT. The business culture is deepe
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by peter303 13y ago
I finished reading Jaron Laniers on Who owns the Future and waiting for a copy of Eric Schmits book on the digital future. Jaron makes some very good points about inequalities in internet content economics, which I had not considered befor
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by peter303 13y ago
For me living in China as a white American student in the 1980s was to wake up to minority prejudice. That is to be treated different, sometimes better, sometimes worse than native Chinese. Its something I had not felt in the US. An amus
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by peter303 13y ago
A "balanced" computer system used to follow the "one second" heuristic. (Is this named after somebody?) That is you should be able to offload temporary memory (core) to permanent storage in one second. And it should be
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by peter303 13y ago
The new Utah NSA facility is planning for zetabyte (million petabyte) bandwidths. We dont use this much yet, but may during the lifetime of that facility. Humankind has an insatiable appetite for digital storage.
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by peter303 13y ago
Yes, I paid for MIT with five summers of work in the 1970s. When I graduated I had two months of living expenses left in the bank, the lowest ever in my life. the first three summers were blue collar, e.g. auto factories which paid triple
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by peter303 13y ago
Computer Science has come of age when textbooks from 20 years ago are about as relevant as they are today. That means there are now timeless principles in the discipline. Most of the computer languages used in mY MIT classes 40 years ago ar
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by peter303 13y ago
I was in the Stanford bookstore a few days ago and noticed their summer softback text for their summer Comp Sci 101 course was $132. It was about Java and basic computer principles together. It resembled a standard softback beginning Java r
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by peter303 13y ago
This happens too with public land trails in the Rockies (near Boulder). The nearby landoweners remove signs, plant over trails, etc.
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by peter303 13y ago
"New numbers" are invented to complete a group for a particular arithmetic operation. Zero is not necessary the addition operation because all cardinals one and above suffice. Zero is created for the subtraction operation of a cardinal with
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by peter303 14y ago
All the conventional planet hunting methods are biased towards fast, large, close-in planets. If we could run Kepler for 20 years we might see systems more like ours.