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by rbabich 4y ago
Look past the silly title, and pick up a copy of "Baby 411": https://www.amazon.com/dp/1889392723/ It's coauthored by a pediatrician, so the recommendations are evidence-based, but it's also pr
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by rbabich 4y ago
A graphic in the middle of the video suggested that the herbicide being used (in one particular case) was acetic acid, i.e. vinegar.
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by rbabich 11y ago
> maybe Adobe Illustrator uses it? Yep: http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/06/23/two-steps-adobe-illu...
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by rbabich 13y ago
think.com used to be Thinking Machines. When they folded, their data-mining software business was sold off to Oracle, along with the domain: http://www.informationweek.com/oracle-buys-data-mining-techn...
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by rbabich 14y ago
That was a straw man (sorry). There's also the overhead of maintaining consistency, synchronizing metadata, etc. I don't think assuming 0.1% CPU overhead for Lustre is a terrible estimate, but even if it were much lower, the argument woul
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by rbabich 14y ago
There are a couple of (related) reasons. The first thing to recognize is that systems such as this one are designed for parallel workloads where all processes are running in lockstep, communicating via MPI with frequent barriers. This is
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by rbabich 15y ago
As an author of that paper, I can tell you that the code generator was rather simple and mainly used to perform loop unrolling, avoid explicit indexing, and replicate bits of code that couldn't quite be encapsulated in inline functions. It
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by rbabich 15y ago
August 2007 - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4291933
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by rbabich 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_series See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenos_paradox (Hint: It's not really a paradox.)
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by rbabich 16y ago
Of the responses so far, this one is closest to being correct. Rather than "asymptotically approaching zero," however, the height of the bounce will quickly converge precisely to zero. Assume that the previous bounce (up and back down) to
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by rbabich 16y ago
Posted a few months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1291580
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by rbabich 16y ago
I can't say I've tried it, but shouldn't this be enough to avoid the optimization? volatile int i=1; while (i) { }
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by rbabich 17y ago
"Your eyes suck at blue": http://nfggames.com/games/ntsc/visual.shtm
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by rbabich 17y ago
It's worth noting that the Red Cross generally ranks highly when it comes to efficiency (i.e., low overhead): http://www.charitywatch.org/toprated.html#humanserv Of course, this has a lot to do with economies of scale, and "low overhead"
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by rbabich 17y ago
I'm getting the same thing, which isn't surprising since I'm using Opera. In general, I think it's fine to say "browser not supported" if that's the case, but it's nice to have a "Try anyway" link. There are too many sites that work fine
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by rbabich 18y ago
Things haven't changed much. I grew up in Trafford (it's not often I can expect someone to know where that is) and inevitably find myself at Monroeville Mall every year during the holidays.
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by rbabich 19y ago
There are also two other physicists already in congress, Rush Holt (D-NJ) and Vernon Ehlers (R-MI).