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by sprachspiel 16y ago
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine is a very good book on the crisis. The Economist calls it "One of the best books on the recent crisis". I very much agree with this assessment. It's written by the former investment banker Michael
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science(theatlantic.com)
15 points by sprachspiel 16y ago|1 comments
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So is the universe made of tiny springs, or isn’t it?(gravityandlevity.wordpress.com)
3 points by sprachspiel 16y ago|1 comments
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The Future of PostgreSQL(rhaas.blogspot.com)
70 points by sprachspiel 16y ago|4 comments
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by sprachspiel 17y ago
Another similar problem from http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/ You visit a family whose three children are all at the local school. You don't know anything about the sexes of the children. While walking clumsily round the h
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by sprachspiel 17y ago
This is actually an interesting variation of the problem. If a random door opens but by chance happens to not have the prize, then the result is different.
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by sprachspiel 17y ago
Even in England it used to be commonly called Informatics. I like Informatics/Informatik/Informatique etc. much better than "Computer Science", because most applications are not really about computing, but about information.
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by sprachspiel 17y ago
Three sad programmer stories and a happy ending: In order to handle complexity, I split my program carefully into modules with low coupling. I'm happy until a new feature comes along which cannot be implemented without destroying the indepe
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by sprachspiel 17y ago
The transcript of the relevant Supreme Court hearing is the reason for hope and is remarkable thoughtful: http://www.supremecourtus.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transc...
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by sprachspiel 17y ago
Unless X has 17,770*480,189 elements like the netflix dataset. Then you can use something like this: http://sifter.org/~simon/journal/20061211.html The site is currently down, google chache link: http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:h4Lj
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by sprachspiel 17y ago
Interesting. In Russian and Polish this kind of phrase is quite common. In German it's not common, and I would consider it bad style. How about English?
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by sprachspiel 17y ago
What does "eight times poorer" mean?
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How does our language shape the way we think?(edge.org)
4 points by sprachspiel 17y ago|2 comments
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Rich, poor, red, blue: why Americans vote the way they do(youtube.com)
5 points by sprachspiel 17y ago|1 comments
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A Map of Moral Values (by Country)(overcomingbias.com)
4 points by sprachspiel 17y ago|0 comments
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by sprachspiel 17y ago
I think scalability and reliability are mostly orthogonal issues and should be discussed separately. Scalability is a farce. In my experience applications are implemented in such hilariously inefficient ways, because it's hard to see where
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by sprachspiel 17y ago
Anyone has an idea if there is any way to distinguish random from sequential IO? In my experience sequential IO is never the problem. Instead, it seems to me that random seeks are really the only performance problem nowadays. In the most ex
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Triple-A Failure(nytimes.com)
5 points by sprachspiel 17y ago|1 comments
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by sprachspiel 17y ago
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Erik_Naggum
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by sprachspiel 17y ago
Remarkable facts about The Economist: - It is a British newspaper published in London, although only 13% of its copies are sold in the United Kingdom. 57% are sold in North America, 17% in Continental Europe, and 10% in Asia. - It doesn't a
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by sprachspiel 17y ago
My reason not to learn C++: There are so many things one should know, that it is not rational to learn all the arcane details of C++. Every decision to learn something is an implicit decision not learn everything else.
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by sprachspiel 18y ago
This article doesn't mention the actual reason: There are very few female geeks. And geeks are those who create open source software. Women who go into computing do it in order to earn money.
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by sprachspiel 18y ago
That guy compares British rule in India around 1800 with Jewish rule in the US now. He dismisses the arguments of global warming, based on the claim that small differences can't cause big ones.
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by sprachspiel 18y ago
If you are interested in the topic, check out the book "Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air" (available at http://www.withouthotair.com/ ). Unfortunately it's pretty disillusioning.
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O'Reilly published Lisp book(amazon.co.jp)
1 points by sprachspiel 18y ago|0 comments