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by vertak 7y ago
This along with Scott Aaronson's ( https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/ ) make for good reading on the theory of computation.
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by vertak 8y ago
@ianai you should give the book 1491 a read, it is likely exactly what you're looking for and a well written book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491:_New_Revelations_of_the_A...
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by vertak 8y ago
For personal health at the office, I think the biggest bang for your buck is to buy a water bottle that takes minimal effort to drink from (I’ve found those green sport Gatorade water bottles are prime) and sip continuously throughout the d
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by vertak 10y ago
I work remotely and sometimes interview new potential hires. Does anyone have some suggestions for how I could imitate whiteboard questions without actually having a marker and surface available to me or the candidate? It's a little aw
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Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart(nytimes.com)
1 points by vertak 10y ago|0 comments
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Pixel Perfect: Fingerprinting Canvas in HTML 5 [pdf](cseweb.ucsd.edu)
2 points by vertak 11y ago|0 comments
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by vertak 11y ago
0 people have died in the US as a result nuclear power. Chernobyl failed because its operators turned off the emergency failsafe system in order to do a test of the reactor, which was also botched. Look up the Linear no-threshold model of r
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PCLOB Report on the NSA Finds Not a Single Terrorist Thwarted by Program(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by vertak 11y ago|2 comments
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Map of Undersea Internet Cables(submarinecablemap.com)
37 points by vertak 11y ago|13 comments
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by vertak 12y ago
Does anyone know the possible legal repercussions open-sourcing a web service's API when the company doesn't explicitly grant permission? This is really neat, but could also raise the ire of a service that doesn't offer an AP
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by vertak 12y ago
How does the app gather information about your outstanding tickets? Do you have to input them by hand? Does it scrape some public database, and if so do we have to wait for you to add our city in order for us to use it?
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by vertak 12y ago
Is each user's index stored somewhere in their browser or on your servers? It would probably ease peoples' minds if they knew their history was stored locally, but I can see the performance hit that might make.
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by vertak 12y ago
If the universities are smart and look at the MOOC's not as a competitor but as a partner, then higher-ed can improve. I'm a college student now and one of our school's math classes experimented with flipped teaching. I think