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by bit-player 7y ago
Author here. Thanks for waiting. It's 5,000 words and 2,000 lines of javascript, plus a few fair-size images, which may explain the long TTFB. But most of the delay is not bandwidth limits but PHP and SQL. The site runs on a creaky Wor
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The Darpa HIVE Program: Understanding Relationships with Data(aws.amazon.com)
2 points by bit-player 9y ago|0 comments
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Why It Takes So Long to Connect to a WiFi Access Point?(arxiv.org)
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Truth, Trump, and Trisectors(bit-player.org)
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How the Circle Line rogue train was caught with data(blog.data.gov.sg)
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The secret life of tweets(bit-player.org)
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Living Life on a Magnet(dx.doi.org)
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by bit-player 10y ago
(I'm the OP here.) My source for the statement that "instruments were being tuned to this scale well before the invention of logarithms" is an article by Edward Dunne and Mark McConnell, "Pianos and Continued Fractions,&
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The 39th Root of 92(bit-player.org)
217 points by bit-player 10y ago|118 comments
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A Mathematical History of Taffy Pullers(arxiv.org)
2 points by bit-player 10y ago|0 comments
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The Deconstructed Standard Model Equation(symmetrymagazine.org)
86 points by bit-player 10y ago|54 comments
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Getting to Know Julia(bit-player.org)
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Prime After Prime(bit-player.org)
127 points by bit-player 10y ago|16 comments
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Why Neurons Have Thousands of Synapses(journal.frontiersin.org)
5 points by bit-player 10y ago|0 comments
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by bit-player 10y ago
This is an important point. The Google white paper does address it, though only in the abstract: They want to maximize both capacity and IO bandwidth. One can imagine large disks with multiple independently actuated head assemblies. But qui
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Where's my petabyte disk drive?(bit-player.org)
127 points by bit-player 10y ago|100 comments
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How full are the internet's biggest tubes?(freedom-to-tinker.com)
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Installation-Driven Development(third-bit.com)
8 points by bit-player 11y ago|2 comments
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Believe It, Then Don’t: Toward a Pedagogy of Discomfort(mathenchant.wordpress.com)
29 points by bit-player 11y ago|9 comments
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Map tiling puts the New York Times archive online(open.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by bit-player 11y ago|0 comments
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New York Public Library Invites a Deep Digital Dive(nytimes.com)
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by bit-player 11y ago
PDF version here: http://bit-player.org/bph-publications/AmSci-2002-03-Hayes-N... (from the author's website)
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by bit-player 12y ago
Please note: There's a PDF available at: http://bit-player.org/bph-publications/AmSci-2001-11-Hayes-t...
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by bit-player 13y ago
Apologies to the HN community. I'm the author of the story linked to here. I'm also the jerk who pulled it off the web when I thought my site was getting the DDoS treatment. Mea culpa.
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by bit-player 13y ago
I'm the site owner. It's open again, temporarily. Somebody's script has multiple machines (many are EC2 instances) downloading the same file many times per second. That's not something I want to encourage.