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by sg0 7y ago
Since Google has named it 'confidential mode' and not 'secured mode', it is evident (to me at least, the word `confidential` means `me, you and anyone else you tell`) that there is no encryption. I won't use Gmail a
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by sg0 7y ago
SW has a tendency to describe features of a person which I find utterly fascinating (for eg: 'Turing used to giggle a lot', now compare that with the somber depiction of Turing in 'The Imitation Game'). In the write up o
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by sg0 7y ago
My adviser had suggested me a fantastic book for bedside reading - "Algorithmics: The Spirit of Computing" by David Harel ( https://www.amazon.com/Algorithmics-Spirit-Computing-David-H... ).
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by sg0 7y ago
I really like this article, although I don't fully understand most of the parts, mainly because I don't know much about brokerage and investment. But, I am joining the workforce soon, and it behooves me to have some grasp on these
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by sg0 7y ago
May be off topic, but is this the reason why BoFA does not need us to issue a travel advisory? Because they are getting our location data and can flag fraud?
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by sg0 7y ago
This reminds me when I was roaming around Annapolis, MD, I spotted one of the many markers around the historic downtown, about how utility workers stumbled upon clay pipes when they were servicing underground water pipes.
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by sg0 8y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I basically wanted to know if database systems could make use of existing distributed-memory HPC programming models, and it seems that there is a possibility, however engineering efforts might be significant.
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by sg0 8y ago
I am following your discussions on the GraphBLAS email list. Are you interested in the distributed-memory API of GraphBLAS (for clusters, typically over MPI) or can you make use of it if it were available (you may know, CombBLAS already has
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by sg0 8y ago
I just realized upon reading this that I might have car sickness too (and that it's a real thing). It's worse if I sit at the back, usually its a concoction of strange feelings, mild nausea, weird pangs of pain...
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by sg0 8y ago
Community detection in uncovering fake news FTW!
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by sg0 8y ago
"I did write some code in Java once, but the code was in C and Lisp (I simply happened to be in Java at the time ;-)" - heh
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by sg0 8y ago
Indeed it was misleading. "The basis for vaccination began in 1796 when an English doctor named Edward Jenner observed that milkmaids who had gotten cowpox did not show any symptoms of smallpox after variolation. The first experiment
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by sg0 8y ago
Getting job through LinkedIn, does that ever happen? For the past many many months, LinkedIn has been consistently sending me one job posting - "Data Center Operations Intern at Amazon, Boardman, OR".
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by sg0 8y ago
One reason Patanjali products are popular is because they are significantly cheaper than alternatives from Unilever or similar companies. With demonetization in India, middle class is still experiencing cash woes (and have less faith in the
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by sg0 8y ago
About "reality distortion field": https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Reality_Distorti...
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by sg0 8y ago
I have used this mail forwarding service thrice and every time I have wondered what prevents me from forwarding my annoying neighbors' mails to Denali National Park. The answer is, fear of jail time.
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by sg0 8y ago
I've seen consultants in Houston enticing Masters students or spouses of H1-B holders (holding some technology degree) with H1-B promises [Masters students on F1 visa are good targets, because they can work for 12 months if their Optio
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by sg0 8y ago
Very true, I recently bought the book ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596007191/ ), and my at-home productivity is all time low. I crack up every time remembering -- "I Invented Burrell" ( https:
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by sg0 8y ago
Similar to FB Newsfeed recently introducing an "i"-circle for posts by news organizations (QED), that sort of helps to verify the source, we need something similar in Google search results (that would probably make it challenging
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by sg0 8y ago
These are the ones right next to me now: 1. Design Patterns (GoF) - This book is all about design, someday I aim to really understand all the patterns. 2. High Performance Parallelism Pearls Volume 2 (Reinders/Jeffers) - There are coup
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by sg0 8y ago
This is a case of government authorized genocide. I just don't understand how shifting blame toward Facebook as a data sharing platform solves the problem. If someone sends hate filled letters to public via USPS, is USPS complicit? Yes
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by sg0 8y ago
Before Netflix stopped showing the number of stars next to content, I used to sort of depend on it for choosing a movie. In fact, I sort of miss it now, and spend more time sifting through content undecided. That's because I am clueles
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by sg0 9y ago
I'm paranoid when I'm on a bike. Any road with a dedicated bike lane may be classified as bike-friendly, but I can't consider it so if cars are on the same road. IMO, the only bike-friendly routes are where there are no cars.
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Somebody Else's Dream(sinews.siam.org)
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by sg0 9y ago
Reading this somehow reminded me of Tokyo Story - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046438/?ref_=nv_sr_1
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by sg0 9y ago
This is endemic with SO. Particularly, I am not happy with the Python community of SO either. Couple of months back, my wife who is a student and very new to Python (and had to quickly prototype an intermediate part of a Genome Assembler as
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by sg0 9y ago
Well, this news that came out last year is somewhat relevant. MD Anderson Cancer Center's IBM Watson project failed, with $62 million paid to IBM and PwC for essentially no results. However, I don't blame IBM, I blame people who d
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by sg0 9y ago
If office issued electronic devices (which presumably have to undergo routine organization-specific scrutiny, and may contain non-public info) are snatched by the TSA for random sniffing, why can't an organization sue the TSA for compr
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by sg0 9y ago
I can imagine a Netflix movie about the Colonel with Jack Black playing the role.
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by sg0 9y ago
I was just seeing "The Falcon and the Snowman" ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087231/?ref_=nv_sr_1 ) on Hulu, where David Suchet plays the wily Russian agent Alex (his father's side of family is origi

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