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by saintx 6y ago
According to a speech given in 2016 by Dr. Michael Bracken, an epidemiologist from Yale University, as much as 87.5% of biomedical research is wasted or inefficient. To his point, "Waste is more than just a waste of money and resources
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by saintx 7y ago
People make a lot of noise about the missing function keys. But the keys that I miss the most on my 2018 Macbook Pro are the "E" and "SHIFT" keys.
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by saintx 11y ago
"If I were misusing a word." Just trying to help ;-)
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by saintx 11y ago
What we call "Computer Science" is the discrete analogue of differential equations. It has absolutely nothing to do with software engineering. CS programs don't teach software engineering, which can be thought of as "h
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by saintx 11y ago
Although it's a pleasant read, it doesn't take into account opportunity cost. Everything I do every day requires me not to do something else. There are valuable jobs that aren't urgent that never get done until I automate m
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by saintx 11y ago
I love the way they used color and plain English to describe that function. It would be awesome if a general app for this sort of color coded simple translation were available to help kids learn about mathematics. It'd have to be mor
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by saintx 11y ago
When a publication like The Atlantic Monthly, one of the most venerable and critically acclaimed bastions of the English language, literature, and culture, refers to them as "Legos" ( http://www.theatlantic.com/ente
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by saintx 11y ago
A good roadmap for a new distributed web should be broken down by OSI model layer, showing what protocols and technologies exist that need to be replaced, what levels of the OSI model they span, and identifies single points of failure lower
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by saintx 11y ago
The economic motivations that drive FOSS development haven't really been done justice in the peer-reviewed literature on the subject. We used to say "Money, Glory, and Fun" were the reasons, and to some extent that was and r
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by saintx 11y ago
Circa 2009, while attending graduate school at the University of Minnesota, I was a student of Dr. Nick Hopper, whose CS research team were intensely focused on ways to deanonymize TOR traffic using an impressive variety of techniques. One
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by saintx 11y ago
Freedom to assemble doesn't guarantee access to private venues. Contrary to intuition, all spaces on the Internet are private spaces.
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by saintx 12y ago
"A Source Book in Mathematics" by David Eugene Smith. ISBN 0486646904. Short description: The writings of Newton, Leibniz, Pascal, Riemann, Bernoulli, and others in a comprehensive selection of 125 treatises dating from the Renai
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by saintx 13y ago
Because there's no 'National wants a 24" Asus 1ms thin-framed LED gaming monitor, Logitech gaming controller, 5.1 surround audio, and ATS Acoustic Foam Corner Base Traps Forecasting Service'. It's logical to pick o
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by saintx 13y ago
Of course they were playing word games. Could the mixture of lawyers and cryptography possibly yield anything else?
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by saintx 13y ago
Second step is total media silence for a few news cycles.
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by saintx 13y ago
Of course, you're right about this. I think the comparison detracted from my point, and it was insensitive to people for whom cancer is not a metaphor. So, really it failed on two counts. I'm sorry about that, and am grateful f
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by saintx 13y ago
"Using token leaky buckets for congestion feedback control in packets switched networks with guaranteed boundedness of buffer queues": http://www.nt.ntnu.no/users/skoge/prost/proceedings/ecc03&#
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by saintx 13y ago
At the end of each day, in a University town, you might sit down to enjoy a meal or a cup of coffee at a local café, and strike up a conversation with a complete stranger. The two of you might find quite a lot to talk about, trading ideas a
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by saintx 13y ago
I sincerely recommend working at a large University as an alternative to this. Instead of one large company it is a constellation of large companies. They are almost always desperate for more good talent, and in many cases the innovations y
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by saintx 13y ago
"No Secrets, Anywhere"
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by saintx 13y ago
I paid for my undergraduate education (97-03) by dropping out to work as a full time consultant. Because I did this twice, it took several extra years to graduate. For grad school, I worked a full time night job and missed out on the quin
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by saintx 13y ago
Reading through many of the responses, they're almost all phrased in terms of "X does Y better than Z" comparisons, directly ignoring your amusing and insightful comment. At this point, the only thing that could save ordinary
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by saintx 13y ago
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 bs=512 Boom. Problem solved.
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by saintx 13y ago
Nothing in his editorial comes as a surprise. David Brooks remains the same neoconservative apologist that he was in the spring of 2003, when he was beating the war drums for President Bush. Show me a David Brooks editorial and I'll s
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by saintx 13y ago
The neighborhood squirrel serenades the sunrise each morning as a sort of mammalian metronome for about an hour, filling me with questions about rhythmic chanting and the mammal brain. It's like a 60 decibel woodblock, only three octaves h
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by saintx 13y ago
This was exactly my experience as well. Then I was introduced to Mirantis Fuel which uses Cobbler/Puppet to do bare metal provisioning and remote configuration.
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by saintx 13y ago
I'm curious whether you could use the 3D vertex coordinates and use principal component analysis to find an appropriate viewing angle. Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfTMmoDFXyE PCA is often overused but for this specific use ca
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by saintx 13y ago
I have a license, and my wife has a car, but I don't drive. Haven't, with some exceptions on vacations and long road trips, since about 1998. Having grown up in a rural community where driving was compulsory, I made it a goal, upon moving
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by saintx 13y ago
Going on a media counteroffensive is probably better than trying to change his name and experiencing backlash in the form of the Streisand effect. People would think that he had something to hide, which he doesn't. Going to the press show
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by saintx 13y ago
We have two in my office, and we make software completely unrelated to the domain of design or manufacturing. We recognize the value in curiosity and in engaging with new technologies, so we foster a workplace where experimentation and pla

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