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by foo2312 9y ago
I don't think that's an accurate representation of what the estimates are at the link. In particular, the linked page lists undergraduate tuition and fees at $45014/academic year, living expenses at $2100/month (x9 mont
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Foreign Policy – The Secret History of the Russian Consulate in San Francisco(foreignpolicy.com)
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ALMA Finds Compelling Evidence for Pair of Infant Planets Around Young Star(public.nrao.edu)
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For Some Top Nonprofits, Changing the World Begins in Seattle(nytimes.com)
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Some scientists fear superintelligent machines could pose a threat to humanity(washingtonpost.com)
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by foo2312 11y ago
You may be interested in Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe, by George Dyson. Some additional discussion which you may find relevant is also available at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=697967
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by foo2312 12y ago
It may seem a bit silly to add this, but I think it is good to link the reference for those who may not have seen it before: Even compiling from source, one also has to trust the compiler... (see, e.g. the classic http://cm.bell-
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OpenWebRTC.io: open source WebRTC framework, with iOS App Store implementation(openwebrtc.io)
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by foo2312 12y ago
One thing which might be of (tangential) interest here is the novel The Songs of Distant Earth, by Arthur C. Clarke, where the replenishment of this sort of ice buffer plays a prominent role in the plot.
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A virtual universe(nature.com)
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CNN article: "Meet the 'NeRD,' the Navy's new e-Reader"(cnn.com)
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by foo2312 12y ago
Perhaps also of interest in this context is the work of Gordon Novak ( http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/novak/ ) in the 1970s, related to AI/NLP interpretation of elementary physics problems [1]. [1] http:/
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by foo2312 12y ago
As far as I am aware, Apple does not seem to have a policy preventing this type of work. There was a fairly well-publicized release of an experimental codebase from Ericsson: http://labs.ericsson.com/apps/bowser , whic
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by foo2312 13y ago
A quick way to apparently find hardware model/revision information (OSX 10.8.5): Select "About this Mac" from the apple menu, and click on "More info..." Click on "System Report" and select the SATA/S