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by xioxox 11y ago
What cost is there? This benchmark shows almost the same performance for ECC memory: http://www.techspot.com/article/845-ddr3-ram-vs-ecc-memory/
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by xioxox 11y ago
How about a game like Populous? You're basically a god who intervenes in the life of his followers. There's lots of landscape generation, etc..
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by xioxox 11y ago
Really? I live in Munich. Whenever I want to travel to other large German cities, I've found flying to be much cheaper than going by train. The only reasonably priced tickets seem to be the local ones. I don't understand how peopl
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by xioxox 11y ago
The constraints from big bang nucleosynthesis (see e.g. http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Sept09/Einasto/Einasto4.h... ) say normal (baryonic) matter only makes up a small fraction of the mass in the universe
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by xioxox 11y ago
I've read a few of his books, and what they seem to have in common are the badly written endings. He doesn't seem to be able to properly wrap up a book (although I haven't read the last couple of his).
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by xioxox 11y ago
e-voting (and postal voting) is also terrible because it allows easy coercion of the voter. You can't control the environment elsewhere. In a real polling station, at least nobody else gets to sit next to the voter to make sure they vo
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by xioxox 11y ago
It's four hours by ferry, or 2 hours 45 by fast catamaran ferry, from Liverpool. It's pretty close. It used to be a big tourist destination in the Victorian age when there weren't cheap flights.
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by xioxox 11y ago
In practice, there are some nicer algorithms for doing Markov Chain Monte Carlo, such as Goodman & Weare's Affine Invariant sampler, as implemented in http://dan.iel.fm/emcee/current/ . This algorithm has
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by xioxox 11y ago
If your project uses GPL-compatible licenses, then you can use gna.org [1]. Unfortunately the website is a bit old fashioned and git isn't supported for version control, but it's fine for web and mail hosting for Free software. [1
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by xioxox 12y ago
However the carbon footprint of the code does reduce like that. It would be very wasteful in terms of energy not to optimize a widely used binary.
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by xioxox 12y ago
A lot of the problem is that PyPy isn't completely compatible with C extensions.
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Squirrel – A high-level, light-weight scripting language(squirrel-lang.org)
68 points by xioxox 12y ago|39 comments
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Identifying the source of perytons at the Parkes radio telescope(arxiv.org)
20 points by xioxox 12y ago|7 comments
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by xioxox 12y ago
Could you explain why some people failing to get a C grade should be a problem? One of the reasons to have an exam is to allow employers and universities to differentiate better and worse students. There is always going to be a range in abi
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by xioxox 12y ago
I'm a scientist who uses MCMC to sample the parameter space of a model and dataset, to get some idea of the uncertainties on the models parameters. These parameters are all continuous (albeit at the finite resolution of floating point
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by xioxox 12y ago
The system call interface in linux is actually pretty stable. You can often run old binaries (at least ELF binaries) and binaries from different distributions as long as you have the shared libraries to go with them (including glibc). You c
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by xioxox 12y ago
Some more detail here: http://www.6502.org/source/interpreters/sweet16.htm
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by xioxox 12y ago
Public funding of science and universities stimulates more innovation. The stuff you see from companies took years of research in universities before they pushed it the last few yards.
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by xioxox 12y ago
I have a Lenovo laptop and had the superfish root cert installed. I also have a "Nuance" trusted root certificate installed. It's a SHA1RSA certificate issued by Nuance, expiring in January 2040 (serial 9e ef 9d f5 9a...), th
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by xioxox 12y ago
I mainly use PowerPoint for science talks. I'd like to use Impress, but it's very buggy. It may be caused by importing PPT(X) files, but parts of slides become randomly uneditable and styles randomly don't work. The PPTX impo
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by xioxox 12y ago
I'd like to plug my Veusz scientific plotting package and python plotting module - http://home.gna.org/veusz/ - you don't have to worry about coding unless you'd like to script your plot (and the saved f
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by xioxox 12y ago
Is this kind of mixed rational/floating point sensible? It seems to be a fuzzy do-what-I-mean, not what-I-say kind of arithmetic. Surely weird differences in algorithm behaviour might occur around the 64 bit integer limit. It will also
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by xioxox 12y ago
What if the simulation of the fidelity required surpasses the energy and time available in any sensible host universe? If the slowdown in a simulation universe is say 10, then it doesn't need many nested universes before life would nev
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by xioxox 12y ago
Perhaps, like Python where you bundle the interpreter with the program. There are tools like py2app and pyinstaller which can bundle these together and include the dependencies. I don't know how big the dependencies for Julia would be,
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by xioxox 12y ago
Well, it does take 2 years less! Most people hiring PhDs in academia are aware that UK/European PhDs are going to have fewer publications, etc, than their US counterparts. It may be a bit harder to jump straight to a prize fellowship f
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by xioxox 12y ago
The app store problem is also there in various review sites. For instance, my plotting app gets quite a few satisfied users, albeit very few external contributions, but it get some extremely lousy reviews from people who've run it for
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by xioxox 12y ago
I wish these google pages wouldn't automatically assume you speak some language based on your IP address - I get mine in German without any option to switch. Aren't there standards for setting language in web browsers?
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by xioxox 12y ago
Perhaps he means encoding the data as ascii in the source is 5 times bigger than the original (i.e. 0xNN,), though I don't see why you have to write the data in the form 0xNN. Presumably you could just use a giant string, encoding non-
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Elite: Dangerous Drops Its Promised Offline Mode(gamespot.com)
1 points by xioxox 12y ago|0 comments
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by xioxox 12y ago
has never earned a dollar in its life and has no concept of what a dollar is or why that might be important to it Huh? What has earning money got to do with respect? Many people I respect don't have money as any of their main goals.

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