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by sriku 10y ago
The article gives the same reason of arbitrariness of the second to debunk the numerology, but then goes on to say that the BBC chose 440hz because 439 is a prime number and is harder to generate electronically ... Which is nonsense as well
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by sriku 10y ago
Wow! Not heard of sandstorm before and seriously impressed!
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by sriku 10y ago
If you're interested in logic programming, Mozart/oz offers a better deal than raw prolog for practical problems. The reason is that you can express various search strategies using the concept of "computation spaces" in
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by sriku 10y ago
The slew of differences dont seem very "designed", meaning some corner of the world won't end if life wasn't that way. They seem more like a consequence of "my pet lisp interpreter as I began implementing it".
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by sriku 10y ago
I, for one, am imagining a news item 84 years into the future - "how letting people share lunch pictures and stalk other people has led to the eradication of all diseases". The history of technology is filled with cross pollinatio
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by sriku 10y ago
Hey - I'm viewing the page on a macbook air and see what you see.
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by sriku 10y ago
When viewing this on a macbook air, the discussion around the two images in the section "Light emission vs perceptual brightness" appears weird. To me, the first image appears linearly spaced and in the second image I can hardly
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by sriku 10y ago
This usually comes up regarding books that are expensive for Indian students to purchase. Students, on the other hand, have no issues with buying "eastern economy editions" made by several publishers for sale only in India and sel
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by sriku 10y ago
This seems a strange stance given how've already generalized it in day to day communication even in the tech world with its own religious wars.
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by sriku 10y ago
I don't know what to make of this. We lose if Snowden is "pardoned", because that would mean he did something morally wrong. Snowden loses his life in the US if he's not pardoned. I'm not American, but the issue cut
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by sriku 10y ago
Good summary. Classical physics is not good enough for chemistry. So why are we surprised that without a quantum foundation, biology cannot function at all? OTOH, we have a theory that classical computation adequately accounts for intellige
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by sriku 10y ago
A meta spherical cow?
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by sriku 10y ago
I have this exact example in FD.js ( https://github.com/srikumarks/FD.js ), plus Sudoku solvers and others.
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by sriku 10y ago
One of the issues with standard logic programming is that sooner or later you want to be controlling the search strategies. Mozart/Oz has the notion of "computational spaces" as a primitive on which to build custom strategies
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by sriku 10y ago
Yup. Their journey started with Camlistore. Which appears to be a nice personal CMS with built-in syncing.
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by sriku 10y ago
Nice to see another team go at this problem. Firedrop's marketing using the general term "AI" doesn't give much confidence. As a startup, you probably want to keep your cards close to your chest, but the current stance i
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by sriku 10y ago
TheGrid's cool contribution has been GSS - "grid CSS" - where the style sheet is resolved using a constraint solver. From there to claiming "AI" is probably the mistaken view of the original AI wave.
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by sriku 10y ago
Probably not quite what you have in mind, but I use Camlistore like that ... though not for a public site.
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by sriku 10y ago
If I understood the ruling right, then I send FB a "cease and desist" letter prohibiting FB from accessing my computers, et voilà, all carte blanche privacy violations by FB will go poof because they would be committing a federa
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Living the future of technical writing (2014)(medium.com)
2 points by sriku 10y ago|0 comments
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by sriku 10y ago
Would like to read the book to know more. While the criticisms of "we're wrong headed to try this" might be valid, I don't know if anyone really has a better idea of what would be the "right headed" direction t
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EclairJS: Accessing Apache Spark from Node.js(eclairjs.github.io)
3 points by sriku 10y ago|0 comments
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by sriku 10y ago
When considering a single photon the classical explanation certainly fails. However, this is different from the claim that an effect perceived at macro levels cannot be explained by classical theory and only by quantum mechanics. The paper&
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by sriku 10y ago
I've once heard a statement that polarization can only have a quantum explanation. The effect is that when you have two polarizers at right angles, no light gets through, but when you insert another polarizer at, say, 45 degrees to t
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Wolfram Data Science Platform (coming Soon)(wolfram.com)
8 points by sriku 10y ago|0 comments
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by sriku 10y ago
Been using async/await like sweetjs macro "task" in production for around 1.5yrs ( https://github.com/srikumarks/cspjs ). This code would read - task getUsersWithFriends() { users <- getUs
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by sriku 11y ago
Given the state of the software industry, your fear of any TDH gaining the ability to create literal bugs by typing in a program is indeed well founded.
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by sriku 11y ago
Interesting comparison. While the article relates the two at a somewhat meta level, I've often had this fairly visceral feeling that programming in lisp or haskell is like folding an origami figure. The strange bit is that I don't
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by sriku 11y ago
Paul Graham's startup (way back) did this and he claims it was a competitive advantage. These days it doesn't feel like this approach offers enough.
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Project Comradre – Multiperson augmented reality project at Microsoft lab(cnet.com)
3 points by sriku 11y ago|0 comments

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