alepper

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by alepper 10y ago
Does this definitely extend to UK academics? They mention a .edu address is required, and I didn't hear back after applying with a .ac.uk address.
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by alepper 11y ago
If you're based in the UK and interested in research software, you might want to look into 'The UK Community of Research Software Engineers'[1] and The Software Sustainability Institute[2]. From what I've seen, the latte
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by alepper 11y ago
I'm looking at something similar at the moment, but in agricultural areas where line-of-sight is inhibited only by foliage and terrain. For my purpose, it's OK to collect an SD card every so often, but I've toyed with the ide
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Volunteers aid pioneering Edsac computer rebuild(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by alepper 11y ago|0 comments
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[She] met Alexander Grothendieck on January 2, 2012 [pdf](math.utah.edu)
1 points by alepper 11y ago|0 comments
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Gadget 'allergy': French woman wins disability grant(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by alepper 11y ago|0 comments
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by alepper 11y ago
> I hope the published version in 2008 had it The published version has headings: Latitude, Latin name, Modern name and date of Roman foundation, Axis, Amplitude at solstice, Published research. Still no map, though.
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by alepper 11y ago
Constraints on template types are useful outside of metaprogramming proper. For example, the standard library already specifies classes of iterators dependent on e.g. the direction(s) in which they may be advanced.
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by alepper 11y ago
n.b. it's a double-pointer. The /called/ code probably allocates a dns_name_t itself, updating the /callee's/ pointer. If the callee's pointer isn't NULL, there's a chance overwriting it will cau
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by alepper 11y ago
I got a free copy of the lot back around 2003, but when I looked recently they've officially switched to printing on demand (priced at ~cost) via Lulu. I first got them for hobbyist operating system development - their residual utility
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by alepper 11y ago
From the paper[1], it sounds like the same linear motion with the film wrapping around to the top: > The sphere is dipped with > its north pole pointing downward. The maximum error on the > northern hemisphere is with
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by alepper 11y ago
You might find (Typed) Racket interesting - it offers the features you mention, and is a delight to work with.
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by alepper 11y ago
I have this kicking around from some experiments a month or two ago: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-image-extra-virtual sudo reboot echo options nouveau modeset=0 | sudo tee -a /etc&#x2
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by alepper 12y ago
You're right, sorry. I responded to 'why round?' but missed that comment.
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by alepper 12y ago
The clue's here: > What is the `uniform' distribution we want, anyway? It is obviously not the uniform discrete distribution on the finite set of floating-point numbers in [0, 1] -- that would be silly. For our `uniform'
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by alepper 12y ago
No, the standard requires they appear in their order of declaration.
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by alepper 12y ago
Correct link: http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/camera-2.0/
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by alepper 12y ago
Relatedly, 'The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger' is a great little book. I don't see sense in retreading existing reviews, but I think it would offer something of interest f
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Why 72% of Codecademy Users Never Finished(medium.com)
3 points by alepper 12y ago|0 comments
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by alepper 12y ago
http://www.routeviews.org provides access to live and snapshot BGP data.
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by alepper 12y ago
From the icons, it looks like this may be using Geogebra[1] under the hood. It's a really polished little tool for exploring geometry. [1] http://www.geogebra.org/cms/en/
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by alepper 12y ago
Try sketching the call graph of e.g. fibonacci 5.
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Inferno Part 0: Namespaces(debu.gs)
1 points by alepper 12y ago|0 comments
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by alepper 12y ago
I'm curious - it seems a little around-the-houses to have to use an approximation to erf when it's not obviously relevant. Why not just use an alternative sigmoid (e.g. the logistic function) or whatever the trigonometric solution
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by alepper 13y ago
Julia Evans at http://jvns.ca has a distinctive style that I enjoy.
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by alepper 13y ago
> Does anyone remember what it was called? Accelerators? http://ie.microsoft.com/activities/en-en/Default.aspx
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by alepper 13y ago
Looks like: IPv6 addresses for NS (nameserver) and MX (mail exchange) records, and root and www subdomain. Looks to check DNS responds to queries over IPv6, too. Easy mode to get at least four stars: enable IPv6 with a free Cloudflare accou
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by alepper 13y ago
I used it to take a contact database for a series of seminars around the country and allocate participants to the geographically-appropriate venue.
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Announcing The Matasano/Square CTF(matasano.com)
297 points by alepper 13y ago|72 comments
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by alepper 13y ago
300,000,000 / 7,000,000,000 = 3 / 70, or a little less than half (3.5 / 70) of 10% (7 / 70). About 4%.

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