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by pge 12y ago
For an elegant and efficient solution method for this class of problems (which includes sudoku), check out donald knuths dancing links algorithm.
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by pge 12y ago
One of the projects on my back burner is to write a decent financial library for Python. The closest out there is numpy.financial, but it is not well done. I have contributed bug fixes to some of the functions but have not done a comprehens
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In new case, Supreme Court revisits the question of software patents(m.washingtonpost.com)
95 points by pge 13y ago|37 comments
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by pge 13y ago
Only if he is successful. While personally, I am of the mind that software patents should be eliminated entirely, the concept of patents appears in the constitution[1], which makes it very hard to make substantive changes, and there are a l
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by pge 13y ago
To give them the benefit of the doubt, when a plane's transponder shuts down over the ocean and isnt heard from again, it's very easy to leap to the obvious conclusion that it went down and focus on marshaling recovery resources,
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by pge 13y ago
I believe (though I don't have a source handy) that the same is true in the US - medical expenses are the leading cause of personal bankruptcy.
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by pge 13y ago
While I won't speculate as to why people downvoted (and I didnt downvote), I personally would disagree with your first assertion. Python is used in production all over the place, particularly for web-facing applications (obviously all
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by pge 13y ago
What about e^(i*pi) = -1?
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Facebook Whatsapp messaging service written in exotic Erlang(blogs.wsj.com)
1 points by pge 13y ago|0 comments
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by pge 13y ago
Here's a link to PG's essay and speech excerpts on why Lisp is great for web-based applications (2001) - http://www.paulgraham.com/lwba.html PG delivered a similar message to my undergraduate CS class in 1996&#x2F
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by pge 13y ago
An entertaining article by Hillis about Richard Feynman's involvement in Thinking Machines: http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine...
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by pge 13y ago
I once saw a cast iron pedal powered jigsaw built in the early part of the 20th century (the heyday of mechanical machines!), and the idea has stuck with me ever since. I've tried to hack together a pedal generator with an old bike fra
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by pge 13y ago
The author of this article is Robert Lustig, so there is a lot of relevant background out there about his views and the reception. Here is one of his well known youtube lectures about sugar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB
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by pge 13y ago
Just another reminder of the old investing rule: if it sounds too good to be true, it probably isnt true.
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by pge 13y ago
See also PG's essay on a similar theme: http://www.paulgraham.com/selfindulgence.html
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by pge 13y ago
CustomInk.com is worth looking at as a comparison - similar approach started 10+ years ago, now apparently selling several hundred million dollars of T-shirts.
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by pge 13y ago
I was surprised to see that in 1974 - earlier than I expected.
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by pge 13y ago
I believe the choice of BSD kernel of OS X was laregely due to the permissiveness of the BSD license v. GPL, not underlying kernel advantages.
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by pge 13y ago
It may depend on the case - in many cases, the school a student attended trumps the GPA the student achieved at that school. For schools like Harvard and Yale, it is the brand that employers react to most, not the GPA. Having recruited stud
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by pge 13y ago
To play devil's advocate for a moment, the tenure evaluations I am familiar with at many universities take student feedback into account, as a proxy for "good teaching," but unfortunately teachers students like and teachers t
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by pge 13y ago
To add to your list, Vertica (HP) and Paraccel are columnar; TimesTen was a main-memory database bought a number of years ago by Oracle.
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by pge 13y ago
This post begs the question - can Word be replaced with HTML/CSS? What if there were a WYSIWYG HTML/CSS editor? HTML would provide the intechangable document format; the ubiquity of browsers means everyone already has a document v
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by pge 13y ago
I played sports all through college, and looking back I wonder why i played for my college team and not a local club. Particularly looking at the culture and impact of sports at the college level (most notably football and basketball). It s
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by pge 13y ago
In addition to compression, let's not forget sampling. For a lot of problems a random subset of the data will give you a statistically meaningful answer with sufficient precision. It seems like the rise of "big data" has led
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by pge 13y ago
I first read these as an undergraduate physics major. They are fascinating if you already understand the physics, because his approach is always unconventional and a little brain-bending. For an introductory text for those not familiar with
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by pge 13y ago
One of the first things i learned about writing VBA macros was to start every one with application.screenupdating = false. It was amazing how much of a performance hit the screen updating was.
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by pge 13y ago
Carnegie Speech is another good product in this area, that as the name suggests came out of Carnegie Mellon a number of years ago (I have no affiliation with the company).
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by pge 13y ago
In addition to the factors described in the article, in the United States there is an additional and very real incentive to work "bullshit jobs" and that is that health insurance is tied to employment (far less expensive when purc
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Science is not the enemy(newrepublic.com)
1 points by pge 13y ago|0 comments
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by pge 13y ago
If you're interested in the topic, check out ihpva.org (international human powered vehicle association). They have a regular speed test in battle mountain, nevada where the fastest speedbikes do time trials (without drafting). It&#x27

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