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by tjr 10y ago
Is there a way to find out of there are any "scoopers" in your area before subscribing?
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by tjr 10y ago
While I do imagine that Robert Fano's name is familiar to many who have studied computer science, the original article title (which I submitted) was a bit more descriptive; the HN moderators changed it.
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Robert Fano has died(eecs.mit.edu)
204 points by tjr 10y ago|26 comments
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by tjr 10y ago
LinkedIn has roughly 10k employees What do they do that makes use of 10k employees?
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by tjr 10y ago
No matter what science people tell you, music is not math. It's much more complex than that. :) After three semesters of majoring in music, I made things easier for myself as a student and switched to computer science, with a hefty d
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by tjr 10y ago
I distinctly remember when "whenever I wanted to search something" I just visited altavista.digital.com. And then, somewhat reluctantly, altavista.com. Granted, they did not have anywhere near the deep and broad reach that Google
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by tjr 10y ago
I was about 8 when I saw my mom's copy of this: https://www.amazon.com/Prof-McSquareds-Calculus-Primer-Inter... It was years before I started to actually understand the math, but I could hardly wait to get to calculus
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by tjr 10y ago
Stupid question, I imagine... I thought that Facebook users subscribe to the posting feeds of individuals and organizations of their own choosing. Would not the resulting custom feed be comprised of articles from sources which that particul
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System harnesses thousands of network cameras for public safety(purdue.edu)
1 points by tjr 10y ago|0 comments
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by tjr 11y ago
Perhaps the cartoonist was fired, not for offending someone, but for lack of mathematical rigor?
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by tjr 11y ago
We may be coming back to the "old internet" mentality where we don't write anything we wouldn't want on a poster stuck up in a public place. I'm perplexed that anyone ever left that mentality. As an internet user
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by tjr 11y ago
I'd be more impressed if they had trained it on Kenny G and Pat Metheny liked the results.
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by tjr 11y ago
I am currently developing an avionics network analysis tool in C#. A colleague built something similar (for a different avionics platform) in Java. The job isn't all C# by any means, but language choice is flexible, and C# was a good f
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by tjr 11y ago
It's required in avionics software. Ideally 100% of the code in an avionics component will be executed in testing, but whatever isn't needs to be explained as to why it's acceptable to have been missed.
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by tjr 11y ago
I never had a Video Toaster, but started using an Amiga fully expecting to continue learning the computer programming I had begun on an Apple II, and ended up doing 3D animation and video production for a few years instead before finding my
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by tjr 11y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by tjr 11y ago
What would you recommend? What do you think an ideal solution would look like?
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Confused by license compatibility? A new article by Richard Stallman may help(fsf.org)
3 points by tjr 11y ago|0 comments
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by tjr 11y ago
They also link to this: http://www.skilledtests.com/wiki/List_of_Independent_Statusn...
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by tjr 11y ago
Must be implying that Stanford is no longer around in 20002.
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What’s Apple’s competitive edge going forward?(blogs.harvard.edu)
1 points by tjr 11y ago|1 comments
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Go big or go home? (choosing an employer)(blogs.harvard.edu)
1 points by tjr 11y ago|0 comments
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Good rant on the current state of web development tools(blogs.harvard.edu)
37 points by tjr 11y ago|12 comments
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by tjr 11y ago
I've noticed that too. Does someone flagging the story work against the story's points? Either 1-to-1 point reduction, or apply some sort of fractional multiplier to the point value of upvotes, perhaps?
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by tjr 11y ago
This sort of thing was mentioned in an early talk given by someone at Google Translate. (Sorry, I have neither the link nor the name of the person handy.) As it makes use of parallel corpora, there were examples of documents mentioning (say
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How Does Type of Toy Affect Quantity, Quality of Language in Infant Playtime?(media.jamanetwork.com)
2 points by tjr 11y ago|0 comments
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by tjr 11y ago
What sort of application might be good to build for learning ML?
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by tjr 11y ago
Seymour Papert, in The Children's Machine : [O]n my reckoning, the fraction of human knowledge that is in the curriculum is well under a millionth and diminishing fast. I simply cannot escape from the question: Why that millionth in
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by tjr 11y ago
You might find this interesting: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0674566769/
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by tjr 11y ago
You could go to your bank (or whatever bank you like) and ask them to determine how much of a house loan you would qualify for.

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