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How the 'ecosystem' myth has been used for sinister means(guardian.co.uk)
4 points by simonb 15y ago|0 comments
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Bayesian model averaging of the curvature and size of the Universe(arxiv.org)
1 points by simonb 15y ago|0 comments
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by simonb 15y ago
And yet you used socialism with exactly the same carelessness and ambiguity.
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by simonb 15y ago
Considering Nazism stands for National Socialism your friend was not that far off the mark. Not only is socialism != communism != Marxism, there is more than one strand of socialism.
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Eco: The Future of the Book (1994)(themodernword.com)
2 points by simonb 15y ago|0 comments
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Ceylon, Red Hat's new (enterprise-oriented) language(arstechnica.com)
1 points by simonb 15y ago|0 comments
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What Defines a Meme?(smithsonianmag.com)
2 points by simonb 15y ago|0 comments
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Node idea (on hype textuality and Google aura of books)(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by simonb 16y ago|0 comments
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by simonb 16y ago
The: "tf-idf + cosine similarity + LSA metrics" bit from Pattern is what you are looking for.
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Julian Assange to be extradited to Sweden(guardian.co.uk)
14 points by simonb 16y ago|0 comments
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Paralation (Connection Machine parallelism model)(mactech.com)
13 points by simonb 16y ago|0 comments
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Places to Intervene in a System(developerdotstar.com)
1 points by simonb 16y ago|0 comments
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by simonb 16y ago
http://sandersn.com/blog//index.php/2008/06/06/math_notation...
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Nick Tosches on Opium Dens(vanityfair.com)
11 points by simonb 16y ago|4 comments
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by simonb 16y ago
Have you seen Diigo [ http://www.diigo.com/ ]? Does more or less what you described.
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Opacity (A Philosophical Notebook, by Nassim Taleb)(fooledbyrandomness.com)
1 points by simonb 16y ago|0 comments
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American Murder Mystery (2008)(theatlantic.com)
46 points by simonb 16y ago|40 comments
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by simonb 17y ago
http://clojure.org/special_forms#Special%20Forms--%28fn%20na... It's part of the fn form (and by extension defn).
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The case that ‘trial by ordeal’ actually worked(boston.com)
3 points by simonb 17y ago|2 comments
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Visualizing sorting algorithms with Hilbert curve(corte.si)
65 points by simonb 17y ago|6 comments
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by simonb 17y ago
Great job on the list! @simonbelak
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by simonb 17y ago
Java (the language) != JVM There are plenty of good languages for the JVM (Clozure, Scala, ...), but Java is not one of them.
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by simonb 17y ago
If the engine cuts off the helicopter doesn't necessarily plummet to the ground. See autorotation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorotation_%28helicopter%29
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by simonb 17y ago
Keep in mind the data is described in Mathematica as well.
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by simonb 17y ago
For those who don't have time to sit through the whole thing, Zach has some notes on his blog: http://xach.livejournal.com/225634.html
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Tim Sweeney: The end of the GPU roadmap [pdf](graphics.cs.williams.edu)
64 points by simonb 17y ago|18 comments
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by simonb 17y ago
In similar vain. Autocomplete screen sessions: complete -o default -W "$(screen -ls | cut -f 2 -s | tr '\n' ' ')" screen
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by simonb 17y ago
Turboprops have a drive shaft just like car engines. It's "just" a matter of exchanging the rotor gearbox for a car gearbox.
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by simonb 17y ago
It's pretty impressive/scary what can be achieved by application of machine vision (reconstructing shape, dimensions and correcting for angle etc.) to the problem: http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release....
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by simonb 17y ago
Accordig to Wikipedia: "Bamboo is the fastest-growing plant on Earth; it has been measured surging skyward as fast as 121 cm (47.6 inches) in a 24-hour period,[6] and can also reach maximal growth rate exceeding one meter (39 inches) per ho

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