randcraw

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by randcraw 12y ago
That's not what I see. The book delves into the coordination of shared resources in a shared space (like RAM). This could take the form of task parallelism for speedup, or more likely in this case, task parallelism for concurrency an
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by randcraw 12y ago
This is not so different from recognizing images in their fourier frequency domain. The frequency features and their origins in the spatial domain can be made very unintuitive. But I'm not clear how important this phenomenon really is
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by randcraw 12y ago
Perhaps the right policy to serve the public interest is for Uncle Sam to pay the patent owner $1B for each of the remaining years on its insulin patent and then 'genericize' today's insulins. The shareholders would earn thei
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by randcraw 12y ago
Yes, but I disagree. It's a matter of avoidance of oversight. NSA is designed to avoid it and FBI is not, they simply cannot. FBI is tightly constrained by the process of law in ways that Guantanamo and NSA were created and operate
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by randcraw 12y ago
Exactly. Right now the NSA can escape all legal oversight because it has historically operated physically outside the US and under military governance. Since 9-11 and the Patriot Acts, BSA operations have moved inside the US. And in conc
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by randcraw 12y ago
Right. And software developers usually don't realize that engineering is all about design and implementation tradeoffs that fit within quantitative tolerances that deliver a specific level of accuracy, precision, and reliability. Sof
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by randcraw 12y ago
Probability, convex and nonlinear optimization, linear algebra, and statistics are clear wins in many problem spaces, especially machine learning, AI, and computer vision. Ordinary and partial differential equations and numerical methods a
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by randcraw 12y ago
That's exactly what Henry Ford found when he introduced the assembly line in 1914. He found that he had to hire 10x more men than he needed because 90% would quit the line within a few weeks. That's where Ford's 'gener
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by randcraw 12y ago
So it's better to be a bored wannabe like Walter Mitty than a Formula One driver, an olympic skiier, a general dedending your homeland in war, or James Bond? Better you than me, I say.
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by randcraw 12y ago
That was not the case when I used Irix (commercially), or later when I worked at SGI. Perhaps you mean "Son of SGI", the company that once was Rackable Systems?
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by randcraw 12y ago
There's another big reason to still be 'enthused' by GCC: without GCC we wouldn't have Linux. Or Mozilla/Firefox. Or virtually all of the shareware / freeware we largely take for granted, that frees users an
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by randcraw 12y ago
If I may add emphasis... GCC's error messages were a HUGE improvement over existing compilers. Back in 1985, C compilers might tell you what line the error was on, but they also might not. GCC went further, revealing not only the
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by randcraw 12y ago
Wow. That's a really great quote. It captures my social values perfectly, irrespective of sports, or my telling others what they should do. Yes, sports are all about immersing yourself in the earnest discussion of trivial minutiae.
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by randcraw 12y ago
I agree that people should learn the value of modeling and know how to do it. But in order to model, people will need tools. Natural language, even when very carefully phrased, is insufficiently clear or precise. And predicate logic isn&#