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by poulson 12y ago
Academic research is funded through taxpayer money, and, as an academic, I can assure you that much of it has a much lower impact than many open source projects.
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by poulson 12y ago
I have no idea who those three people were. I do agree that "unprofessional" is a good way to describe their behavior. I emailed a few colleagues about it but it was all too strange to speak publicly about. There was also a bit of
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by poulson 12y ago
I had a somewhat similar experience the day shellshock was announced on a layover in Atlanta flying between two different universities. I had been browsing the news and coding for maybe an hour after dinner at the battery-charging station i
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by poulson 12y ago
Good point. So it would seem to be hard to find solutions for 6, 10, 12, etc. colors. Have you given any thought to how to solve those cases?
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by poulson 12y ago
Thanks for the link! There is even a nice discussion of the explicit solutions for Inverter up to 7x7's on the page: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LightsOutPuzzle.html Almost nothing about the solver would need to c
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by poulson 12y ago
I've manually verified that the binary matrix printed out by the following Octave/MATLAB routine provides solutions to Inverter. (NOTE: You may want to use the gflineq.m implementation from http://lost-contact.mit.edu&#
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by poulson 12y ago
A more effective approach might be to maintain a peer-reviewed ranking of various large tech companies based upon their patent history and to semi-regularly publicly base your employment decisions upon said list.
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by poulson 12y ago
Or, "Brian builds distributed-memory computers". Despite the misleading title, I think such a project would be a great tool for a parallel computing class. Such a machine would be roughly the same cost as a textbook and would be m
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by poulson 12y ago
Was there a typo in your message? Why would you be unable to afford a home that you could immediately put down a 33% down payment in cash for?
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by poulson 12y ago
Even if one buys the (demonstrably false) claim that all real-world problems are sparse, most sparse techniques (especially sparse-direct, and, to a limited degree, Krylov subspace methods) boil down to dense linear algebra on smaller matri
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Why We Fear Google(faz.net)
1 points by poulson 12y ago|0 comments
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by poulson 12y ago
The bug was apparently fixed on April 17. I was unable to reproduce the problem on my updated Ubuntu 14.04 installation.
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Lavabit appeal confirms original ruling [pdf](pdfserver.amlaw.com)
95 points by poulson 12y ago|53 comments
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by poulson 12y ago
What makes satellite communication special? Is it okay to monitor the CEO of every communication company? If so, is it any different for non-US governments to monitor the CEO's of US tech companies?
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by poulson 13y ago
I stand corrected. Thank you for clarifying.
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by poulson 13y ago
The second paragraph of the article claims that companies knew about "upstream" collection as well. This is, from my understanding, the main point, as the Google engineer Brandon Downey issued the very harsh statement, and I quote
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by poulson 13y ago
Making contributing code more fun will almost certainly lead to projects receiving more contributions.
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by poulson 13y ago
According to the Fastmail webpage, they do support (optional) two-factor authentication: https://www.fastmail.fm/signup/personal.html
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by poulson 13y ago
This makes me wonder how Greenwald, Gellman, and Poitras come to a consensus on what to hold back. Clearly they all have access to the data and it would be possible (read: very likely) for them to disagree on what should and should not be w
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by poulson 13y ago
Is there any legal protection for users' reading lists in libraries? Because it would be wonderful if someone could set up a legal online library which would extend such protections onto the internet.
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by poulson 13y ago
Does anyone have a link to the transcript? The echo is really hard to ignore in the video.
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by poulson 13y ago
I can't edit my original post, but, for what it's worth, I received a very real response from my colleagues.
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by poulson 13y ago
I think that this leak will have the biggest effect. It bothered me enough that I emailed the entire college of computing at my university (I am a junior faculty member) to argue for setting ethical boundaries for big data projects, but, al
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by poulson 13y ago
Imagine how misleading advertisements can be on this platform: since your friends won't be explicitly attaching their names to their posts, you would never know if something was inserted by an advertiser.
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by poulson 13y ago
Any idea what optimization flags were used? It's rather strange that they're not reported. I would be surprised if GCC 4.8 was that far from optimal with -O3.
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by poulson 13y ago
Interesting. As an active (but young) researcher in distributed-memory computing, I wouldn't say that the funding has been turned off. I would instead argue that many-core/GPU/MIC and MapReduce approaches took over as the par
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by poulson 13y ago
In this speech on the history of Linux from 2001 [1], Linus makes it clear that he views the viral nature of the GPL to be a crucial component of Linux's success. He likens it to allowing evolution to take place. I'm not sure when
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by poulson 13y ago
This unfortunately doesn't support the use case of simply wanting to personally back up the screencasts sent to showterm.io.
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by poulson 13y ago
I'm in the exact same position. It's quite frustrating. EDIT: I turned my frustration into a $100 donation to his legal defense. I hope that more people do the same.
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by poulson 13y ago
The fact that lavabit unexpectedly went down last night (and is still down) without them announcing it beforehand, or saying when it will be back up, is really annoying me right now.

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