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Asynchronous Cellular Automata in Erlang(eric_rollins.home.mindspring.com)
2 points by albertcardona 16y ago|0 comments
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Conway's Game of Life in Erlang(github.com)
6 points by albertcardona 16y ago|0 comments
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by albertcardona 16y ago
Don't miss the silicon retina cameras by Tobi Delbruck, used for the pencil balancer: http://siliconretina.ini.uzh.ch
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Pencil balancer in 2D, using very fast silicon retina cameras(ini.uzh.ch)
24 points by albertcardona 16y ago|3 comments
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by albertcardona 16y ago
Pencil balancer in 2D, using very fast silicon retina cameras: http://www.ini.uzh.ch/~conradt/Projects/PencilBalancer/ (The cameras: http://siliconretina.ini.uzh.ch )
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by albertcardona 16y ago
It has a search function. I has example code and comments. Just like http://php.net did and which gave it enormous popularity and ease of use. What the docs don't explain a comment or an example clear it up. The clojuredocs author knows t
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How a programming language documentation ought to look like: clojuredocs(clojuredocs.org)
83 points by albertcardona 16y ago|34 comments
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by albertcardona 16y ago
With Google Chrome and other browsers reading PDFs directly inside the browser, there isn't much point for scribd as an embedded reader.
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Quantitative easying explained(jwz.livejournal.com)
28 points by albertcardona 16y ago|39 comments
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by albertcardona 16y ago
... but a certain precision of thought that is easiest to teach just by teaching students to program. Thank you, you have just pointed out a likely cause for my improvement in writing scientific papers. I learned how to program.
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Dr. Tae: Depersonalization 101 (at University)(drtae.org)
1 points by albertcardona 16y ago|0 comments
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by albertcardona 16y ago
The actual letter from Prof. John Sedat and others, UCSF: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ost...
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by albertcardona 16y ago
Regarding the "if thr wr any", and the rise of Haskell and Clojure, I wonder whether such caveat applies any longer. As for content of the Python IAQ, I've enjoyed learning about two python idioms I had never known possible: 1. The ternary
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The Python IAQ: Infrequently Answered Questions(norvig.com)
83 points by albertcardona 16y ago|36 comments
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by albertcardona 16y ago
Meta: interesting that you think HN will exist in a recognizable form by 2028. 18 years ago, the web looked very different. I wonder what will we call "web" in 2028.
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by albertcardona 16y ago
Fantastic read. One sample: " It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance. It is hard work – the only kind of work that I find palatable." (The An
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by albertcardona 16y ago
GTK is trying to get there. Gimp was ported to MacOSX GTK--haven't checked in a while the state of the port. The Inkscape dev team at least has high hopes that GTK will become stable for MacOSX. http://gtk-osx.sourceforge.net/
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by albertcardona 16y ago
I did a reverse job application once. I put a "hire me" link in my webpage, leading to 3 sentences about what I wanted. It worked--the webpage presented a small piece of software, and I was hired to write a bigger version of it. It led to m
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by albertcardona 16y ago
A few weeks ago I visited the Acropolis in Athens for the first time. To know that, about 25 centuries ago, Euripides and Sophocles presented their premiers in there, at the theater of Dionysos, suddenly gave a pile of rubble an extraordina
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by albertcardona 16y ago
That reads like "Slaughterhouse five" by Vonnegut.
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by albertcardona 16y ago
Eric sounds like a Hari Seldon[1] trying not to disclose too much. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory_(fictional)
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The upside of slackers [in yeast colonies](plosbiology.org)
1 points by albertcardona 16y ago|0 comments
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by albertcardona 16y ago
NAND gates is what neuromorphic engineers use to build circuits that can compute and end up emulating the function of an integrate-and-fire neuron.
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by albertcardona 16y ago
... and the rest generated by incinerating waste (which produces far less carbon than piling it up in dumps) Anybody care to explain how is that possible?
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Intercontinental autonomous challenge (Italy to China)(viac.vislab.it)
3 points by albertcardona 16y ago|0 comments
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Intuitive Understanding Of Euler’s Formula(betterexplained.com)
5 points by albertcardona 16y ago|0 comments
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by albertcardona 16y ago
91% of HIV strains means we are 91% of the way to complete eradication. That is inaccurate. Current antiviral agents remove most (as in over 90%) of the HIV viral particles from the blood of a patient. But then after weeks or months the v
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by albertcardona 16y ago
The Journal of Brain Research does that, and did so for decades. But there is a bias: only papers with good reviews are published. What happens to good papers with bad reviews is that they don't get published, or get published elsewhere.
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Pseudo-work does not equal work(calnewport.com)
1 points by albertcardona 16y ago|0 comments
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by albertcardona 16y ago
“They say historians peak in their 50s, once they’ve accumulated enough knowledge and wisdom to know what to look for,” says Mr. Rogoff. “By contrast, economists seem to peak much earlier. It’s hard to find an important paper written by an

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