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by sah 18y ago
If you liked Down and Out , you should try John Varley's short stories, especially The Phantom of Kansas .
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Antitrust probe opened over Google, Yahoo deal(sfgate.com)
1 points by sah 18y ago|0 comments
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A design for a train that never stops(carectomy.com)
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by sah 18y ago
It's interesting that this feature turned out to be important enough to customers that Netflix ultimately decided it was better to keep it, but apparently Netflix wasn't able to see that in its usage.
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by sah 18y ago
I think IDEs are a matter of personal preference. There's nothing wrong with wanting good integration between the various tools you use, and good tools are not the same thing as "training wheels". Most of the popular IDEs have at least a
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Survey data from 1981-2007 says happiness is rising worldwide(scienceblog.com)
1 points by sah 18y ago|1 comments
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Citysense uses location data to map nightlife(columbia.edu)
2 points by sah 18y ago|0 comments
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by sah 18y ago
Sure, they are. But I think it's confusing to characterize machine learning as an alternative to the scientific method; it's an example of the scientific method.
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by sah 18y ago
Yeah, good point. I wish I could still edit the title...
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by sah 18y ago
There are fish that habitually eat which are eaten by fish that are in turn eaten by other fish. So, fish eat. Even fish [that] fish eat [have to] eat. And fish eat fish that eat fish that eat. Also try it with varying nouns and verbs:
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by sah 18y ago
This whole idea strikes me as extremely confused. Data mining is just observation. Any extrapolation from data is a theory. Anderson and this author seem to be surprised that you can get so far with an incomplete theory that doesn't expl
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by sah 18y ago
I agree, but thought it was interesting anyway. I couldn't think of a better title.
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I think I love you: What happens in that first nanosecond that makes us fall for someone(chicagotribune.com)
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by sah 18y ago
I was surprised that I couldn't find a wikipedia page for my favorite: "Fish fish fish eat eat eat."
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Evidence of life on the early Earth might be found in meteorites on the moon(space.com)
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Entire Neighborhood Has Shared Solar Heating(greenbuildingelements.com)
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The neuroscience of itching(newyorker.com)
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Firefox 3 already rules the roost(pcpro.co.uk)
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NASA's hyperwall-2, the world's highest resolution visualization system(gizmodo.com)
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Google Goes After the TV with Google Media Server(techcrunch.com)
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Existing Drug Reverses a Form of Mental Retardation in Mice(sciam.com)
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Ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year(independent.co.uk)
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BT starts threatening music downloaders with internet cut-off | The Register(theregister.co.uk)
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ICANN approves relaxation of TLD rules(guardian.co.uk)
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100gb Ethernet over copper? It could happen(comtradcables.com)
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How much oil does the U.S. have?(itwire.com)
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by sah 18y ago
Too obtuse? C++ can be used for systems programming, so I don't think there's any good argument that it's not a sharp enough tool. I agree that "obtuse" is a poor criticism. [...] from my experience it takes at least one year to underst
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5 cognitive abilities you might think only humans have(scienceblogs.com)
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A review of the D language by someone who has worked in it(timburrell.net)
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by sah 18y ago
Travel while you can do it cheaply. Take as many electives as far outside your majors as you possibly can without graduating later; college is better at giving you exposure than skills anyway. Make friends that you want to have parties wi

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