>In thunder token, the protocol proposes a split set-up so that
transactions are confirmed very quickly, with the blockchain only being
used in the case of emergencies. The rest of the time, thunder token will
use something a little less familiar – a system of agents that follows the
direction of a
Interesting article regarding making an argument based on the values of
your opposition instead of your own. Makes sense but as is pointed out so
hard to follow through on because why argue if not because of your own
values? Where are our shared values? Are these the ones at the bottom
center o
The article lays the blame at ACK packets...
“”"
So how do Netflix customers send so much data today? The answer is mostly in
“ACK packets,” Deeth said. Signifying “acknowledgement” that data has been
received, ACK packets are part of the TCP’s (Transmission Control Protocol’s)
three-way hands
+1 for lastPass. They do an excellent job of managing passwords, including
functionality for sharing passwords with others which is pretty cool.
BTW: LastPass has a new hack to provide passwords to apps and browsers on
Android phones via accessibility functionality, unfortunately not availabl
according to
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/04/heartbleed.html
http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/55382/heartbleed-read-only-the-next-64k-and-hyping-the-threat
apparently the bug gives access to 64K chunk of ram on the server. The private
key might be in that chunk, but p
I’m content with brew these days.
And they figured out how to output a beer mug on the terminal which I still
think is pretty cool :)
On Mar 20, 2014, at 2:34 PM, cody dooderson wrote:
> I found a little blog entry on Mac package management.
> http://www.onthelambda.com/2013/10/14/the-state-of
Well said Carl!
+1 for spending some time on the ‘fundamentals’ but also an acknowledgement
that choosing the proper level of ‘fundamentals’ is also very important, and
indeed sometimes it is the outsider/maverick that makes new progress in a field
just because they don’t know the ‘proper’ wa
I am a fan of block based programming languages for younger students. And yes
I think the transition from TNG to Netlogo is pretty straightforward and
painless…
The biggest advantage I see in block languages, and this may seem minor but I
can tell you from experience it isn’t, block based la
This is exaclty how we operate at my company and I have found it to be an
incredible time saver. The alternative requires detective work to solve every
problem for every user. If everyone is using the same Vagrant box then solving
the problems of one user can be applied to all of the other use
ble .. I'll try it this evening or tomorrow.
>
> I'll also see if there's a git history command that'll help clarify things.
>
> Thans!
>
>-- Owen
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Joshua Thorp wrote:
> This looks to me like at some poin
ackspaces.github.io/test/
> and the gh-pages here, with a dummy README
> https://github.com/backspaces/test
>
> Thanks for the reinforcement, however .. I should go thru all the steps
> 1-at-a-time and see if there's anything odd there.
>
>-- Owen
>
>
> O
Owen,
Looks like you have things working just how you want them to. You can keep
working in your master branch and whenever you want to update gh-pages,
git checkout gh-pages
git merge master
done.
So long as you never merge gh-pages into master you are golden.
—joshua
On Dec 4, 2013, at 9
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uninterruptible_power_supply
pricy but worth it.
I had been so spoiled after years of using laptops as my primary computer,
that when I went back to a desktop machine I had no idea just how quick you can
lose everything. An uninterruptible power supply gives you a
This an interesting if dense approach to doing away with the password:
https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm
a little more high level: http://www.sqrl.pl/
Basically use an app on your phone or desktop to confirm your unique identity
using a cryptographic signature. One click login… No passwords
Yes in case someone missed this, a very interesting little post from
washington post titled:
How we know the NSA had access to internal Google and Yahoo cloud data
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/11/04/how-we-know-the-nsa-had-access-to-internal-google-and-yahoo-cloud-data/
http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/nov/01/snowden-nsa-files-surveillance-revelations-decoded
Why does the conversation always hinge on Snowden's morality? We all knew the
US government is rotten -- so no news there? But an individual breaking an
oath to hide this fact -- that is
Which leads to this interesting tidbit: "A garden snail has a top speed of
about 78 furlongs per fortnight."
http://www.cathedral.org/wrs/chamber/fortnight-explained.htm
On Oct 25, 2013, at 12:02 PM, "Robert J. Cordingley"
wrote:
> 1,799,884,800,000 f/f give or take, in a vacuum.
>
> Robert
Just wanted to +1 the SSD as a restorative for old laptops. Put one in my 5?
year old macbook pro. Really makes a difference! I also took the failed dvd
drive out. Haven't had the urge, but they do sell hard drive kits that fit in
that space. Might be a compromise for those who want to tak
Just noting, I think these are visualizations of "fire progressions" which
means that this is the equivalent of watching an animated radar map (though
perhaps less accurate?). We see where the fire was estimated to be after the
fact. Not what the fire will do.
Amazing to see the scale of the
Thanks Steve!
Very interested in these sorts of things!
FRIAM should defintely have more of a demo vibe, we have such interesting
people and projects out there!
and,
cheers!
--joshua
On Apr 24, 2013, at 4:01 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
> phellow phRIAMers -
>
> I don't know how many other
You can do Duck typing in Java via methods requiring Objects (the base class of
all other Java objects) and using reflection to test for various properties.
But it is working against the grain of the language to do so. Intersting run
down of various implementations here: http://en.wikipedia.or
Interesting a new language I hadn't hear about. But why would you name
anything Rust?
--joshua
On Apr 3, 2013, at 12:50 PM, "mar...@snoutfarm.com"
wrote:
> contrast with..
>
> https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/04/03/mozilla-and-samsung-collaborate-on-
> next-generation-web-browser-engine/
Also I doubt Owen ever said "top bit", I imagine it was probably "high-order
bit"…
I like the question though, can a bug be on purpose. Seems like it would be in
the eye of the beholder, one person's bug might be another's feature.
--joshua
On Mar 24, 2013, at 2:57 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote
I'm not a statistician but shouldn't the analysis include all of the google
services, not just the ones that have been canceled? Or would it be more valid
to say, "If they are going to cancel it, GV is living on borrowed time?"
--joshua
On Mar 22, 2013, at 11:25 AM, Robert Holmes wrote:
> Go
Probably the issue pops up when turning the wheel doesn't have the desired
effect. Without knowing more about how the car works all the user can say is
"it doesn't work", and all the mechanic can say is bring it in.
Having an idea of how things are supposed to work one or two levels down can
What I have seen of less has been all good. Having variables and functions
alone make css a lot more fun. Mixins are great with all the clean up they can
bring by abstracting things that in reality have to be dealt with in series of
one offs for different browsers.
It requires a compiler.
This is a cool little build, plexiglass prism makes a hologram like effect:
http://vimeo.com/59377788#
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Might be of interest, wish I had the time for realtime…
https://developers.google.com/drive/realtime/
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But DST is surely mandated by the government and could be undone by the
government. Why they even shifted when it occurs by a couple of weeks
recently. Well in 2005, by that royalist Bush and his congress. Looks like
these guys actually do have the power to change things.
http://www.timetem
Also surprised Owen hasn't brought Markdown into the mix here. Seems like the
perfect ASCII/monospace style for meaningful formatting.
On Mar 17, 2013, at 10:27 AM, Steve Smith wrote:
> Two things come to mind on this topic:
>Tower of Babel
>Uncanny Valley
>
> (I hope my indentation,
Hah and you get perilously close to the long standing battle of spaces or tabs?
And if tabs what should the width of a tab be?
The answer, by the way, is just say no to tabs. Spaces all the way. :)
--joshua
On Mar 17, 2013, at 9:46 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
> Python allows the developer t
But is the time change even needed? What purpose does it really serve? There
are lots of stories about it rooted in wartime/economy etc. But these things do
not seem to be valid anymore. And are they worth the collective cost?
I have to say I prefer light later in the day though.
--joshua
O
Anyone in Santa Fe have a pentalobe screwdriver for the mac book air?
I think I need to do some surgery on mine, and I'm stuck at the first step…
--joshua
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http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/
On Feb 28, 2013, at 11:13 AM, "Nicholas Thompson"
wrote:
> Eric,
>
> Your reference to EPIC2014 suggests you remember the provenance of the
> original spoof, which I am still hoping to find. But I got nothing when I
> googled epic2014. Do you remember it?
For those interested in tech companies shooting themselves in the foot, no one
does it like Adobe:
Adobe Director is back!
http://www.adobe.com/products/director.html
Publish 3d content to iOS devices!!!
… and pay Adobe 10% of your revenue on the App store!!!
(but only if your revenue excee
Very good advice and nice explanation Owen, thanks!
On Feb 7, 2013, at 8:29 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
> Just an observation: Things are Getting More Complicated .. when it
> comes to computing.
>
> I have two friends, both quite bright in terms of computing. One a
> PC, the other a Mac user. Bo
For our mac user friends I just came across this neat little command: purge
It apparently frees up memory in caches. See this:
http://osxdaily.com/2012/04/24/free-up-inactive-memory-in-mac-os-x-with-purge-command/
--joshua
On Feb 7, 2013, at 7:35 PM, Merle Lefkoff wrote:
> Hi Nick. Tried to
Interesting, but the big difference here would be that Mac and Linux come with
python installed where windows doesn't. So updating windows isn't likely to
have as big an impact, since presumably you are including python in you
windows installer and not in you mac or linux one. Or am I wrong?
Nick it sounds like you are on the right track.
I would look at the RAM (memory) consumption first. If you can avoid filling
it up, thus causing your computer to swap to disk, your computer will probably
run a lot better. Easier said than done! But finding these background tasks
that you do
lol
On Jan 16, 2013, at 2:49 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
> Couldn't have said it better myself.
>
> --Doug
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Eric Charles wrote:
> Nick,
> It is a distillation / satire of several of the threads that I only skimmed
> briefly over the past few months. Doug
Yeah I agree with this, but hard drives do fail so data should be on multiple
drives and should also be located in more than one location so a fire or theft
doesn't lead to losing everything.
Not that I follow this in practice but in theory…
--joshua
On Jan 15, 2013, at 10:10 AM, Joseph Spind
I would say 300GB still seems to be a lot of data for the cloud. S3 quotes
28.50 a month just for the storage with ~5 bucks a month if you do around 50GB
up and 50 GB down per month which is probably actually more than you are likely
to be doing.
Their glacier product which does not have the s
Guess I was the one perpetuating an empty argument…. Don't get mad there
wasn't anyone at home.
;)
--joshua
On Jan 14, 2013, at 12:08 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
> > Joshua Thorp
>> We would never say the python script was incompetent.
> Would you say IBM Watson/De
"... I wonder if being incompetent violates Google's official corporate policy?
"
Hah, good one. Made me laugh. Tough having people handle the job of a python
script. We would never say the python script was incompetent. Google probably
better go back to that method of customer support… As
Which was the second generation of programmers?
On Nov 7, 2012, at 8:46 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:
> Nifty: Udacity has a HTML5/JS/CSS class that builds a game as the structure
> of the class.
>
> That's interesting to me because I found so many of the second generation of
> programmers got int
Cool from a different perspective. Discrete game of life implemented in the
discrete game of life. Its turtles all the way the down…
http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/05/turtles-all-the-way-down-or-gliders-or-glider-turtles/
--joshua
On Oct 12, 2012, at 11:12 PM, Russ Abbott wrote:
> Yes. Very co
. Cordingley wrote:
> ...and I guess (base) n can be rational, irrational or even imaginary.
> Thanks
> Robert
>
> On 10/8/12 12:02 PM, Joshua Thorp wrote:
>> I think you just replace '9' with 'n-1' in Dean or Frank's answer and you
>> have a gener
I think you just replace '9' with 'n-1' in Dean or Frank's answer and you have
a general proof, for n>=2.
I suppose you may need to convince yourself that a number like n^k - 1 ==
(n-1)*n^(k-1) + (n-1)*n^(k-2) + … + (n-1)*(k-k).
--joshua
On Oct 8, 2012, at 11:37 AM, Robert J. Cordingley wrot
The site I've been working on this summer just went live on youtube:
The live debate stream should be available there this evening (if everything
goes right!).
http://www.youtube.com/thevoiceof
Check it out.
Also on yahoo and aol:
http://news.yahoo.com/thevoiceof/
http://thevoiceof.aol.com/
But how do we know this? How would you expect a non-extemist to be heard? Its
not like a non-extremist is going to blow up an extremist group… Sort of by
definition.
Plenty of people have spoken out against the events this week. But what more
can they do? The bombs are news worthy. The pe
Ugh. But can you appeal the thinking of a jury?
On Aug 29, 2012, at 3:37 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
> The plot thickens:
>
> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120828225612963
>
> The jury foreman describes (in a youtubed interview) his solution to the
> "prior art" problems which con
FRIAM or WEDTECH?
I'm guessing *TECH
;)
I've never known Friam to move...
--joshua
On Aug 26, 2012, at 12:10 PM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
> I'm open to either day.
>
> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Edward Angel wrote:
> Is there any sentiment for moving FRIAM to Tue or Thu this week?
>
> Ed
This one is for Owen but others may find it interesting:
http://jsfiddle.net/
Lets you explore javascript frameworks with JS (or coffeescript), HTML, CSS
and result panels in a webpage…
Pretty awesome.
--joshau
FRIAM Applied Comple
Anyone else notice that closing the tabs in your browser in the evening is like
popping your day's stack of problems, questions, and diversions?
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This sounds right to me. There is a lot of finger wagging at Iran for not
having domestic capacity for petroleum refinement even though they are a crude
exporter. So I guess capacity works both ways. The other thing I know is
currently a hot topic is natural gas production. I believe the US
We gave up on TV about 8 years ago. Haven't looked back. Of course I care
very little for sports and only miss it for big political moments like state of
the union or presidential debates.
I have noticed that my tolerance for advertisements is very low and watching TV
at the in-laws house can
Very interesting, running a cloud based windows machine on your iPad.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/23/technology/personaltech/onlive-desktop-plus-puts-windows-7-on-the-ipad-in-blazing-speed-state-of-the-art.html
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Thanks Roger, interesting paper.
I have always been fascinated at the relationship between the language of a
mathematics and corresponding science that can be described with it.
--joshua
On Jan 23, 2012, at 11:43 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
> http://geocalc.clas.asu.edu/pdf/OerstedMedalLectur
Interesting article about the need for privacy in the creative workplace.
--joshua
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What is the stunt?
Is it just suppressing the warning message?
--joshua
On Dec 12, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
> It's flagged as possibly not from you in the gmail web interface.
>
> -- rec --
>
>
> And Minimalist,
If you use multiple computers, multiple browsers or want to access your
bookmarks from a friends computer this service can be useful.
I've been using trunk.ly. Nothing special that I notice but works as a
replacement for how I was using delicious.
--joshua
On Oct 4, 2011, at 11:58 AM, Nic
Don't you think Apple has been rewarded for all of these things? What more do
they need?
On Aug 10, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:
> Interesting quote from the URL you posted:
> Ultimately, the U.S. Department of Justice intervened, forcing Microsoft to
> sell the patents it bought a
> (mail, contacts, calendar, music, bookmarks, ...)
Which of these didn't google have in the cloud before apple? ;)
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Can we record this one on video? I think it will be historic. And I can't
make it. :(
--joshua
On May 23, 2011, at 1:46 PM, Edward Angel wrote:
> Were going to have another wedtech roundtable this Wed at noon that will
> focus on doing agent based models using modern shader-based OpenGL
** today **
TITLE: DATA SHARING FOR NEW MEXICO POTTERY TYPOLOGIES
SPEAKER: Dr. Eric Blinman, Director, Office of Archaeological Studies New
Mexico
Wednesday August 11, 12.30p
Santa Fe Complex Commons, 632 Agua Fria Street
Lunch will be available for purchase for $7
ABSTRACT: The study of a
velopers licence and *a Mac computer. *Suddenly the
>price goes up considerably (particularly for those of us in Windows-land or
>Linux-land)I'm not aware of any iPhone dev environment that runs on
>anything other than Mac.
>
>Regards,
>Saul
>
>On 13 April 2010 02:53
Apple has already limited the languages allowed onto the iPhone to these four.
Beyond running JS in the safari browser they do not allow end users to have
programmatic access to the phone (though the developers license is only $99, a
cheap price to pay for a kid to get to develop for the phone,
In a particularly tortured debate with a "water boarding makes us safer"
advocate, Marc Thiessen, Jon Stewart argues "Complex Adaptive System" as a
reason not to torture, due to unforeseen consequences. Its a half hour I'll
never get back, so you are warned, but it is interesting to hear CAS
I have been using Snow Leopard since it came out. I have had to replace every
part of my development environment (okay, not vi) to make things work. The 64
bit/32 bit stuff is a problem when using native libraries in Java. If the
library hasn't made the transition your java may have to move
Nice blog Robert, looks like a "must follow" for me.
--joshua
On Mar 9, 2010, at 6:13 PM, Robert Holmes wrote:
> I'm having way too much fun with Google's public data explorer. For example,
> Here's some interesting facts about causes of death in the US that I came up
> with after 10 minut
like features and versioning.
>
> Nick
>
> Nicholas S. Thompson
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
> Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
> http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe]
>
>
>
The android phone doesn't make the list?
Owen's point is taken about the lack of total integration. Apple would never
let that happen to their products. Android does have a good set of
integrations and some glaring omissions like read only integration with google
docs. It is a good test of y
I don't know anything about cladistics, so I don't know whether this
fits with it.
ABMs can have many different parents, often not directly known. I'm
not sure parentage in any strict sense would be a particularly good
approach. Better would be to identify separate patterns in how the
A
Amazon's S3 storage system was down for 8 hours due to a few bad
pieces of gossip (flipped bits resulting in well formed but untrue
pieces of information) passed between their servers. This bad
information resulted in a catastrophic cascade of gossip that lead to
a complete shut down of th
You can also look at this as being undefined for the point, but
defined for an interval on the curve which is arbitrarily close to
that point.
--joshua
On Jul 9, 2008, at 10:37 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
In differential geometry a curve with a given parameterization has a
velocity at a
Can anyone think of a movie or scene in a movie that exemplifies
complexity science themes, such as many interacting parts with
emergent patterns, non-linear behaviors, self organizing, etc.
Any thoughts?
--joshua
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Too bad it is slash dotted...
Very exciting.
--joshua
On May 9, 2008, at 12:20 PM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
>> From /. this morning:
>
> The Processing API is now partially implemented in Javascript by
> John Resig.
> wow. This could allow for some very speedy development times for web-
> bas
Any time when I could drop by to check the things out? I'll take the
other linux computer if it hasn't gone yet.
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On Apr 26, 2008, at 11:31 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry if this is off-topic.
I'm c
What is the theme for the BarCamp?
On Mar 4, 2008, at 9:13 AM, Don Begley wrote:
> Those of you who are participating in the barcamp this weekend: the
> password for the wiki is c4mp. Please feel free to update the pages
> with information about yourselves and your presentations. we'll use
> t
http://barcamp.org/BarCampSantaFe
On Mar 4, 2008, at 9:47 AM, Patrick Reilly wrote:
> Can someone send me a link to the wiki?
>
>
> On Mar 4, 2008, at 8:13 AM, Don Begley wrote:
>
>> Those of you who are participating in the barcamp this weekend: the
>> password for the wiki is c4mp. Please feel
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] OLPC in Santa Fe
I received one on Friday afternoon. I am incredibly impressed with
the computer a
On Dec 23, 2007, at 2:24 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:
I have not been able to connect to my home WiFi net because,
according to the OLPC website, the software does not yet allow
connections to a WAP router. Can that be fixed?
Is that a WPA router? If so there looks like there may be progress
I've really enjoyed using Processing. The latest versions now allow
multiple sketches open at once and have really made their IDE tool
very fun to use. I think it makes Java a lot more fun, though it is
trailing the Java curve, I think it is up to Java 1.4 now..
I've not tried nodebox bu
Very interesting "nerd's spreadsheet" and a potential big win for
IronPython/.NET
A spreadsheet that is round tripped with equivalent Ironpython code
(changes made to code or spreadsheet show up in the other view).
Which can then be served up on the web as an application simply by
savin
enough for our purposes. It
could use a little extra punch for the machine vision/model combo.
Anyone know what a desktop PC equivalent would look like?
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Really pretty cool, the globe becomes planetarium:
http://www.ogleearth.com/2007/08/putting_google.html
Interesting bit about the potential for real time event tracking in
google earth with kmls.
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Interesting article in National Geographic:
http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0707/feature5/
From slashdot with interesting commentary:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/07/05/1244224.shtml
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t I
want available on any computer I come in contact with -- such as
model output or more importantly digital photos, mp3s, and videos?
I think a wed-tech talk would be very welcome.
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On Apr 26, 2007, at 8:01 AM, Marko A.
Then there is Euler's Formula which gives: e^(i*PI) + 1 = 0
<>
http://agutie.homestead.com/files/Eulerformula.htm
For more about the formula, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Euler_formula
--joshua
On Dec 6, 2006, at 11:33 AM, Martin C. Martin wrote:
Pi shows up in many areas that hav
An intreresting project to create an automated news cast:
www.newsatseven.com
Brings news articles delivered by avatars from a 3D shooter game
together with stock video footage and commentary plucked from the
blogosphere. Can fall flat but can also be fairly interesting.
--joshua
I was quite surprised that when I voted using this system, the machine actually reported that I had voted for and against an amendment (I had filled in the wrong bubble by mistake and figured I could at least burn my vote on this issue by filling in the other bubble -- perhaps a wrong headed move
Another flame war! Why can't we all just get along? Just kidding...
I have been using linux since 1995. First slackware on desktop and
thinkpad (the vintage butterfly keyboard model), then a sony vaio
with an old defunct distro called "storm" based on Debian which had
probably one of the
http://tinyurl.com/sbgw9
The New York Times has an interesting graphic showing party
affiliation of those who were 20 in a given year. Interesting
cyclical nature. Apparantly the most republican age group right now
is 36...
--joshua
=
I came across this interesting doc on garbage collection in java:
http://java.sun.com/docs/hotspot/gc5.0/gc_tuning_5.html
which notes:
"""
...virtual machines for the JavaTM platform up to and including
version 1.3.1 do not have parallel garbage collection, so the impact
of garbage collection
Guess I better start putting my name on my code!But I have to say this is really cool. For instance I was reading about a fast inverse square root method that uses the magic number:0x5f3759dfwhich was improved by Chris Lamont to use the number:0x5f375a86both of which reveal a whole set of interest
? On Sep 20, 2006, at 10:42 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote:It must be working for the Republicans. Bush's approval rating popped back up to 44% recently. I contend that if that many people actually approve of Bush, then America deserves him. On 9/20/06, Joshua Thorp <[EMAIL PROTECTED
...Statistics
Interesting blog piece on bias and data massaging in political
science articles.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2006_09/009531.php
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Hear, Hear!
--joshua
On Sep 17, 2006, at 12:58 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
> A FRIAM'er appears in this Sunday's paper:
> http://216.17.87.51/ee/newmexican/?
> token=23ac7d3bcf4ea3a3a9e79f99a365cf3e
> or http://tinyurl.com/m3xom
> Click on Section F, Then on the right column or on the
> "Backtrack
On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:17 AM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:While possible, the idea that university or hobby software can be better than software developed by a multi-billion dollar corporations doesn't jump out as a likely scenario. Interoperability is God, and failing to provide it is a fine reason
Sorry Jochen just got to reading this yesterday though I opened it
when I sent it. Forgot where I had gotten it from!
The hive mind strikes again!
--joshua
On Jun 15, 2006, at 1:39 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
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> Collective efforts vs. individual creativity:
>
> The Hazards of the New Online Co
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