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by thomasjames 10y ago
Yes, it is very unfortunate. This first started happening yesterday (for me), and I was kind of bummed that it didn't open in Firefox like it used to. It is stuff like this that lends credence to the EU's issues with Google. I am
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by thomasjames 11y ago
A problem to prepare talented probability students for the realities of the kinds of probabilities actuaries actually calculate for a living...
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by thomasjames 11y ago
I'm really looking forward to hearing just how loudly Dave facepalms in light of this development coming out of France.
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by thomasjames 11y ago
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/10/20/bernie_san...
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by thomasjames 11y ago
Direct wealth taxes at the federal level are considered unconstitutional unless they are carried out in proportion to each individual state's wealth. It is a really strange aspect of constitutional law that may prove complicated for th
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by thomasjames 11y ago
Postcard steganography. Would be downright devious.
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by thomasjames 11y ago
Was there any thought to having line discipline as the voting system? As in voting on entries into the terminal up until the first new line character? It would increase the likelihood of having sensible inputs since interacting with a termi
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by thomasjames 11y ago
Yes, I kept reading trying to figure out what the meat was here. Medium scale HPC initiative at _Stanford_?
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by thomasjames 11y ago
For actual journalism on the internet, it is worth going to shared common sources. I almost always rely on Reuters and AP. Since they are cited so often by downstream media, which is a major part of their business model, their content is--b
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by thomasjames 11y ago
The main benefit optical interconnects aim to provide is not about the speed with which photons propagate, which as you point out is not all that much faster than electrons in copper, but it is about bandwidth. Propagation speed of course a
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by thomasjames 11y ago
The async keyword is used in coroutine declarations, so it wouldn't be valid syntax.
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Will there ever be another Red Hat?(forbes.com)
73 points by thomasjames 11y ago|63 comments
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by thomasjames 11y ago
They join the military for a variety of reasons, which may or may not have involved any feelings about any conflict at hand much less the media. The reason they go to war, however, is because of old men.
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by thomasjames 11y ago
I worked for a CFD HPC company for about two years doing a mix of traditional engineering and programming, and I realized that I like programming and learning about computer architecture way more than the mechanics. So I went back to school
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by thomasjames 11y ago
Point well taken. They are not numerically unstable in the sense that the term is most often used with ill conditioned matrices or floating point weirdness, but yes, they are significantly oversimplified and will not converge with reality i
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by thomasjames 11y ago
This was at Nvidia GTC 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d8-sBVkZJY My guess is that the ray tracing used in the post above is equally time consuming as (if not more than) the fluid simulation.
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by thomasjames 11y ago
Small world, I used to work for an industrial CFD company, and one of my tasks was estimating the computational effort required for a given simulation (which depended on the specific characteristics of our turbulence model). I was mostly do
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by thomasjames 11y ago
The truth about all flow and especially turbulence is that it is not hard to make it look convincing to the human eye. Capturing the motion on various length scales and presenting it in a plausible way is not all that computationally intens
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by thomasjames 12y ago
This reads like an Adam Curtis documentary (a good thing), and several of the episodes of more famous documentaries touch upon some of the themes here. The episode of "Pandora's Box" called "The Engineer's Plot&quot
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by thomasjames 12y ago
They have been trying to improve the exact specification of RPython since David Beazley sorta called the project out on the fact that, for a time early in the development of PyPy, RPython was basically whatever subset of Python survived the
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by thomasjames 12y ago
Not trying to be pedantic, I just want to know if recurse is now an accepted word. Any thoughts? Sources seem to vary, and I know as a young field CS forms new words fairly often still, but it is clear historically that the verb base of &qu
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by thomasjames 12y ago
That is beautiful. Thank you for putting that together. Haha, I'm just glad someone got my humor!
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by thomasjames 12y ago
I think using a pre-existing software service as a base instead of a massive handmade distributed system may not be a bad idea for the USG. Remember the healthcare.gov rollout? Although it is certainly a government contract to a private cor
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by thomasjames 12y ago
If anyone is interested in the history of long-distance telephony in the US, the PBS documentary "Transistorized!" ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381663/ ) ( https://www.youtube.com/playlist
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by thomasjames 12y ago
Yup, ever since I started using XML for every task imaginable I never looked back.
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by thomasjames 12y ago
"There are too many competing standards for x, so we are proud to announce a new standard, which will supersede all existing x standards and unify everything." -The founders of every competing standard ever introduced for anything
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by thomasjames 12y ago
The article makes it seem like this technology will completely replace copper, which is obviously untrue. Silicon photonics for use in interconnects in multicores, though, is very promising purely from the perspective of bandwidth. HP and I
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by thomasjames 12y ago
I shared this from Henrik Forsten's blog. It is worth reading all his other articles, too, if you are interested in computer architecture, electronics, programming or math. He has a very wide range of interests.
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Making an embedded Linux computer(hforsten.com)
243 points by thomasjames 12y ago|21 comments
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Fedora 21 will use Wayland as its default display server(lists.fedoraproject.org)
10 points by thomasjames 12y ago|1 comments

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