synacksynack

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by synacksynack 4y ago
http://www.realtransit.org/nec7.php has some interesting charts and analysis of the speed limits on the various segments of the Northeast Corridor. Note that the values shown are not necessarily what it achieves in practice
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Product placements may soon be added to classic films(bbc.com)
3 points by synacksynack 5y ago|1 comments
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by synacksynack 6y ago
Not a book, but https://hackattic.com/ is in this vein. It's not the standard coding challenge website it may seem to be, instead a collection of small projects representative of the core ideas underlying "real wo
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by synacksynack 10y ago
Summit and Sierra are two planned DOE machines with hardware developed in collaboration with IBM and Nvidia. They're slated to feature Volta GPU, a generation past P100's Pascal. More details here: https://www.olcf.orn
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What Happens Next Will Amaze You(idlewords.com)
753 points by synacksynack 11y ago|281 comments
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by synacksynack 11y ago
To corroborate its seriousness, I actually had a ticket issued to BER in 2012 that was changed to TXL about a month before the flight.
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Green Arabia(idlewords.com)
6 points by synacksynack 12y ago|0 comments
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Adaptive Clocking in AMD’s Steamroller(realworldtech.com)
44 points by synacksynack 12y ago|13 comments
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by synacksynack 13y ago
As far as JavaScript performance goes, they seem on par according to their own benchmarks at http://arewefastyet.com/ .
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by synacksynack 13y ago
Another worthwhile list to look at is the Green500 [1], which ranks machines based on MFLOPS/Watt. With the exception of a few GPU and Xeon Phi heavy machines at the top, the high end is dominated by IBM's Blue Gene machines. [1]
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AnandTech: The Windows RT Review(anandtech.com)
4 points by synacksynack 14y ago|0 comments
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Mitt Romney: The Great Deformer(thedailybeast.com)
3 points by synacksynack 14y ago|0 comments
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The College-Cost Calamity(economist.com)
61 points by synacksynack 14y ago|80 comments
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What Guide Books Tell Foreign Visitors to the U.S.(theatlantic.com)
168 points by synacksynack 14y ago|155 comments
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Hunting Down My Son's Killer(matt.might.net)
1139 points by synacksynack 14y ago|318 comments
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Once global leaders, Japanese electronics firms are tumbling(economist.com)
5 points by synacksynack 15y ago|0 comments
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What High School is Worth on the Free Market(economist.com)
2 points by synacksynack 15y ago|0 comments
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by synacksynack 15y ago
There seems to be a lot available for multimedia with C++. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh45275...
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Behind Intel's New Random-Number Generator(spectrum.ieee.org)
170 points by synacksynack 15y ago|39 comments
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by synacksynack 15y ago
Menkes van den Briel did some work on airplane boarding. He has really nice explanations and videos here: http://leeds-faculty.colorado.edu/vandenbr/projects/boarding...
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by synacksynack 15y ago
The arrow operator and identifiers with leading underscores seem to be glossed over or skipped fairly often in education. It's intimidating to look at code that uses them if you don't know what they are.
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by synacksynack 15y ago
I bet there's a market in the opposite, too.
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by synacksynack 16y ago
Here's the friendly version of the official announcement: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/products/professional-grade/thinkp...
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Amazon Prime Now Includes Free Instant Videos(amazon.com)
2 points by synacksynack 16y ago|0 comments
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by synacksynack 16y ago
Here's a Greasemonkey script for unfriend notifications. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/58852
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by synacksynack 16y ago
CDARS is a simplified way to do that with CDs, essentially distributing amounts past the FDIC limits into different banks behind the scenes, so that you only have to deal with one account, but get insurance on the entire amount. http://www
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by synacksynack 16y ago
Racket has a similar sort of tutorial in its official documentation. http://docs.racket-lang.org/more/
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by synacksynack 16y ago
Twinings Earl Grey and San Pellegrino do it for me.
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by synacksynack 16y ago
Michaek Spivak's "Calculus" is pretty great for learning real analysis. The other canonical text is "Principles of Mathematical Analysis" by Walter Rudin, which I've never used, but is purported to be of the same quality.
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by synacksynack 16y ago
I used this template when I redid my résumé a few months back. I like how it does away with those extraneous bullets and lines found on many résumés; it is uncluttered, elegant, and very readable.

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