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   by teraflop 16y ago

   Cortex didn't out him, he outed himself and cortex confirmed it. My assumption is that cortex asked for permission first. I'm not in on what happened behind the scenes in this particular case, but I've been hanging around MeFi for a while,
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   by teraflop 16y ago

   This thread is not complete without a link to Paul Krugman's paper, "The Theory of Interstellar Trade". Abstract: This paper extends interplanetary trade theory to an interstellar setting. It is chiefly concerned with the following questio
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   by teraflop 16y ago

   > Read captions from the livestreamed sessions in real-time. Plus, to make sure all our content is accessible, all remaining videos will also be captioned. For international developers, captions will be machine translated to all languag
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   by teraflop 16y ago

   There's a free, official tool to convert EPUB into Kindle-optimized MOBI format. http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000...
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   by teraflop 16y ago

   That's certainly an unorthodox view. As far as I can make out from that post and the rest of your blog, you seem to reject Newtonian gravitation in favor of Kepler's laws of planetary orbits. How does your model account for the perturbation
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   by teraflop 16y ago

   This "efficient" algorithm takes O(n^2) time (where n is the number of grid squares) because it has to repeatedly remove elements from the middle of a list. It can easily be improved to O(n) by simply shuffling the list once and traversing
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   by teraflop 16y ago

   I remember seeing this when it showed up on Reddit a couple months ago. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8137688?dopt=Abstract
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   by teraflop 16y ago

   One request per server instance. The change allows multiple threads to run in each instance, so now your code has to be threadsafe.
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   by teraflop 16y ago

   Is there any reason to believe that this actually happened and isn't just an Apple employee feeding PR fluff to MacRumors? It's essentially unverifiable.
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    by teraflop 16y ago

    Dropbox: http://www.dropbox.com/jobs/challenges
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    by teraflop 16y ago

    > Furthermore, my ISP changes my IP address very frequently (my guess would be about every 48 hours), and even if it was static, I would not have had the same IP for a very long time (moved frequently, etc). This isn't true for everyone
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    by teraflop 16y ago

    Chrome is packaged with a PDF plugin, which is as close to "native support" as makes no difference IMO.
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    by teraflop 16y ago

    There's a high-level overview in this paper from AI Magazine, Fall 2010: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs124/AIMagzine-DeepQA.pdf
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    by teraflop 16y ago

    There's a great discussion of this project in Deep Time by Gregory Benford, which is where I first learned about it. http://www.amazon.com/Deep-Time-Humanity-Communicates-Millen...
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    by teraflop 16y ago

    I wouldn't bet on it. In the "preview" round, Watson seemed to come up with its answers more or less instantaneously. (Or at least, before the host finished reading the question.) My guess is the limiting factor is the quality of the underl
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    by teraflop 16y ago

    Yep, here are the frequencies and technical specifications: http://english.aljazeera.net/watchaje/20091022172112636517.h...
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    by teraflop 16y ago

    This is different. http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-leaves-the-interne...
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    by teraflop 16y ago

    "The ACM, in common with other organizers, requires those who have papers published in its journals and conferences to sign over the copyright to them. This means that you can’t republish a paper elsewhere and that the ACM can charge for y
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    by teraflop 16y ago

    Once you click that "allow permissions" button, an applet is pretty much exactly like any other Java application. It has all the permissions it wants, up to and including running native code. The paid version gives you the option to run it
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    by teraflop 16y ago

    I'm not sure it's entirely useless. By comparing the traffic patterns before and after removing the tollbooth, you could probably quantify pretty accurately the influence it had on the traffic patterns, and then apply that to refine your mo
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    by teraflop 16y ago

    > You can always leave. They're called feet: use them. Context is important. This was posted about a week after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans.