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by svedlin 13y ago
This is an excellent idea. This could instantly create the kind of huge network effects that would surpass a lot of other mediums of exchange. Something similar is being done by Auroracoin ( http://www.auroracoin.org/ ) in Ic
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by svedlin 13y ago
Aye, "The average modal age of adult death for hunter-gatherers is 72 with a range of 68–78 years" [1] [1] http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/faculty/gurven/papers/GurvenKaplan2...
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by svedlin 13y ago
Netflix is indeed running on AWS. Some details about their back-end here: http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/12/aws-reinvent-was-awesome...
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by svedlin 14y ago
A few background links on the global decline in human health following the transition to agriculture around 10 kya: Post-pleistocene human evolution: bioarchaeology of the agricultural transition http://www.cast.uark.edu/local/icaes/confer
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by svedlin 14y ago
This is really well done. I like that the bid process stays on the current page so that the user doesn't have to go to another site to post the bid. Very quick and easy.
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by svedlin 14y ago
Nice observation. I believe there was a recent paper that touches on this topic: http://phys.org/news/2012-03-quantum-physics-matrix-efficien... http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v3/n3/full/ncomms1761.h...
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by svedlin 14y ago
Bohmian mechanics [1] is a deterministic interpretation of QM that's empirically equivalent to traditional quantum theory. However, it requires non-locality (instantaneous action across vast distances). From a recent paper [2]: "Bohmian mec
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by svedlin 14y ago
fitnize dot [...]
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Snake Oil Cures for Damaged Hearts(discovermagazine.com)
1 points by svedlin 14y ago|0 comments
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Crowdfunding initiative on its way to becoming law(portfolio.com)
2 points by svedlin 15y ago|0 comments
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IBM Busts Record for ‘Superconducting’ Quantum Computer(wired.com)
1 points by svedlin 15y ago|0 comments
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by svedlin 15y ago
You might be able to use a Google Voice account for basic call distribution and a voice mailbox or something like onebox.com or grasshopper.com for something more advanced
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Supermaterial goes superpermeable(manchester.ac.uk)
1 points by svedlin 15y ago|0 comments
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Animated map showing climate change since 1800(berkeleyearth.org)
2 points by svedlin 15y ago|0 comments
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Berkeley Earth climate data with 1.6 billion records now available(berkeleyearth.org)
1 points by svedlin 15y ago|0 comments
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by svedlin 15y ago
ElasticSearch/Lucene is pretty cool http://www.elasticsearch.org/ "Lucene supports fuzzy searches based on the Levenshtein Distance, or Edit Distance algorithm. To do a fuzzy search use the tilde, "~", symbol at the end of a Single word."
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by svedlin 15y ago
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=144937025580428 http://usdayofrage.org
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In Japan, Barcodes are an Artform(fastcompany.com)
1 points by svedlin 15y ago|0 comments
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How stress damages DNA(medicalxpress.com)
1 points by svedlin 15y ago|0 comments
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LLBMC (Low-Level Bounded Model Checker) - Analyzes C/C++ code to detect bugs(baldur.iti.uka.de)
2 points by svedlin 15y ago|0 comments
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by svedlin 15y ago
Few different options.. At the start, COBRA will last you around 18+ months, which gives you some time to make a decision. Depending on the state, "small group" plans will cover corporations that have at least 1 (or in some cases 2) employe
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An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by svedlin 15y ago|0 comments
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by svedlin 15y ago
Here is one good overview: http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~mohri/pub/bandit.pdf "[...] ε-greedy is probably the simplest and the most widely used strategy to solve the bandit problem and was first described by Watkins [24]. The ε-greedy strategy
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by svedlin 15y ago
svedlin at gmail dot com
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Managing Without Managers(schneede.se)
3 points by svedlin 15y ago|0 comments
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Southampton engineers fly the world's first 'printed' aircraft(physorg.com)
3 points by svedlin 15y ago|0 comments
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Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets(research.google.com)
1 points by svedlin 15y ago|0 comments
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America's FIRE Economy(seekingalpha.com)
1 points by svedlin 15y ago|0 comments
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"Abolishing the DNS hierarchy"(cs.columbia.edu)
2 points by svedlin 15y ago|0 comments
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by svedlin 15y ago
Interesting article. One concern is that the steep cost of the new TLDs might make it more difficult to establish a domain name that has "credibility". For instance, second-level domains under .com might eventually be seen by some consumers

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