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by syats 9y ago
Another in the series "Show HN what is it that people actually learn in their first two years of undegrad CS"
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by syats 9y ago
One more alternative to many listed here is SPARQL-Generate. A single query language that works for XML and JSON, and has syntax borrowed from SPARQL. https://ci.mines-stetienne.fr/sparql-generate/playground.htm...
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Developing Countries Are Net-Creditors to the Rest of the World [pdf](gfintegrity.org)
1 points by syats 10y ago|0 comments
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by syats 10y ago
If I may ask, why is the HN community so interested in this particular topic? I studied Math and have basic understanding of Category Theory... could someone point me to a text relating Categories and... something related to computers? Wha
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by syats 10y ago
There's some more complex and curated projects out there, among them: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page
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by syats 10y ago
"I know of an uncouth region whose librarians repudiate the vain and superstitious custom of finding a meaning in books and equate it with that of finding a meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines of one's palm ... " JL Bor
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by syats 10y ago
€30K for 6 months is a pretty low salary? Not in Germany. Not anywhere.
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by syats 10y ago
TL;DR: if highly connected nodes tend to have a given attribute, most nodes have the illusion that the majority has that attribute. It's an interesting statement, but not terribly insightful. I hope more research follows.
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by syats 10y ago
Just thought it make the thread more interesting if I mentioned the fact that Kodak used a non-standard calendar up until 1989. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
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by syats 10y ago
A must read! Don't despair if it takes you a while to read it, my guess is at least one month for someone with undergrad math understanding. It will be gratifying in the end.
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by syats 10y ago
My favorite one is, by far, "Cellular Automata: A Discrete Universe" by Andrew Ilachinski (2001). It goes deep into the juicy details and has only a limited amount of hand waving. You can probably find it in the local math/ph
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by syats 10y ago
"C14" is suspiciously similar to "CIA"... just saying.
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by syats 10y ago
Wow, this thread is full of terms and experiences I had long forgotten: IPX/SPX, null model, T plugs and their terminators, trying to make computers "see each other", hauling around CRT monitors (oh, how I envied the guy with
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by syats 10y ago
The article isn't very well written, but it does raise an interesting question. However, this question requires a clear definition of what is meant by liberal, which is a non trivial matter: http://www.theatlantic.com/p
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by syats 11y ago
"Government driving up the cost of labor" is an absurd thing to say for the CEO of a company which is expanding and who, most likely, drives around in a luxury car and owns a private airplane. Rising wages are only a problem for g
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Crypto Anarchist Manifesto (1988)(activism.net)
5 points by syats 11y ago|0 comments
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by syats 11y ago
AOL never sold hardware, but google, apple do. It's going to be worse.
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by syats 12y ago
An unfortunate name, given that Self-Organizing Map is the name for a type of Neural Network that is not being used in this application (which uses Hopfield Networks). Also, there's a big memory leak in the code... beware.