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by saretired 11y ago
Stating that your company has tech it does not have in order to lure investors and obtain contracts would be fraud. Whether that's in fact the case with Theranos will become clear eventually.
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by saretired 11y ago
Obama? Bush was president at the time.
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by saretired 11y ago
The idea is you give up return of principal for a bet on the NPV of coupons during your life. Which is a gamble, and quite tidy too: nothing to leave to one's heirs for all but one of the participants[1]. But also a gamble on a particu
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by saretired 11y ago
So the director Schneider found the script "fairly baffling when not downright inscrutable" and "loved it even when [he] wasn't completely sure what Sam meant." But "Schneider supposedly considered Keaton not s
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by saretired 12y ago
Good point -- except the financial crisis was caused in part by techniques and structures invented by other mathematicians and modellers.
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by saretired 12y ago
When you pick a door, before the host does anything, there are three possibilities: a car; goat #1; goat #2. These are the same possibilities AFTER he reveals one of the goats -- the goat he shows could be goat #1 or goat #2. Now of the thr
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by saretired 12y ago
For constraint logic programming, ECLiPSe: http://eclipseclp.org/ It extends Prolog in various ways and was open sourced by Cisco a few years back.
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by saretired 12y ago
"One guy McIlroy" was Doug McIlroy, head of computing research at Bell Labs at the time, the inventor of pipes, diff, etc., and an eminent guy. Before Thompson published his construction for matching regular expressions in the lat
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by saretired 12y ago
Except the UK Treasury fixed the price of gold at £3.17s10.5d in 1717 and the price didn't change for ~200 years until the UK left the gold standard in 1931. So, zero compounding for 211 years. The fixed price was set by Newton, btw.
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by saretired 12y ago
They used more than some assembly. Andy Hertzfeld: "But most of the Lisa code was written in the Pascal programming language. Since the Macintosh had much tighter memory constraints, we needed to write most of our system-oriented code
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by saretired 12y ago
I remain agnostic and can't think of a basis for arguing one side to the exclusion of the other. On the one hand, it's not unthinkable that NK had a mole at Sony, or that the attack succeed beyond expectation owing to Sony's
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by saretired 12y ago
"Kolmogorov also started as a nonmathematician--he was studying history. His first paper, written when he was seventeen, was reported at a seminar given by Bakhrushin at Moscow University. Kolmogorov came to some conclusion based on an
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by saretired 12y ago
A "deuce" was a two-seater hot rod (cf. "Little Deuce Coupe" by the Beach Boys). I suppose it's now archaic slang. But I'm still puzzled, because Springsteen's original lyric is "cut loose like a deuc
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by saretired 12y ago
That's 1992. "In 2013 Harvard made 18% of its offers to Asians, while CalTech admitted 42.5% Asian students." "Though the number of Asians applying for admission [to Harvard] has increased, the percentage of offers has b
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by saretired 12y ago
Progress on open access is slow. 6 or 7 years ago I wanted to read a couple of papers by Cayley, who died in 1895. These were published in the Transactions of the Royal Society--and paywalled. (Google Books had a few volumes of his collect
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by saretired 12y ago
The designer of this machine is the Michelson of Michelson-Morley, Nobel prize 1907; his interferometer was a brilliant apparatus that disproved the aether hypothesis. I'm surprised the blurb for the book doesn't mention who he wa
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by saretired 12y ago
The C program isn't doing the same thing. It overwrites the array of variables each time it scans a line. numpy.loadtxt returns an array of the parsed lines. So you'd need to do some dynamic allocation to store the parsed values.