valhalla

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by valhalla 10y ago
Could a D-Wave be used to perform Shor's algorithm? I remember reading a long time ago that In-Q-Tel and an unnamed 3-letter agency had invested in D-Wave
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The World's Most Efficient Languages(theatlantic.com)
1 points by valhalla 10y ago|0 comments
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by valhalla 10y ago
I agree. It wouldn't surprise me if Reddit's initial subreddits were narrow and reflected the interests of the founders and early employees – they created a proto-listserv for people like them and it grew from there
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by valhalla 10y ago
I think it's important to remember that none of these startups were as popular now as in the beginning. This is obvious, but it's hard too think back to the late-90s and put ourselves in the metapsychology of a user who was evange
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by valhalla 10y ago
I disagree completely. Uber's inception/success was partly because of existing taxi services' "barriers to entry". Medallions were worth about $1 million each when Uber started in NYC ( http://bloom.bg&#x2
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by valhalla 10y ago
That may be true. I'd imagine that a cheap median price and solid service will depend on the scale of Swift's supply side. Assuming there's plenty of demand (lots of Uber, Lyft customers switching over) then Uber's drive
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An Exciting History of Drywall(theatlantic.com)
2 points by valhalla 10y ago|1 comments
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by valhalla 10y ago
Steven Pinker wrote about the distribution you mention in 2002 in the "Blank Slate". I'd highly recommend it to anyone who's interested in neuroscience and assumptions about human nature that underly political discourse
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Robots Are Invading Malls (and Sidewalks) Near You(technologyreview.com)
1 points by valhalla 10y ago|0 comments
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by valhalla 10y ago
Does anyone live in a city (within the US) that takes a similar approach to GDS? I live in SF and developers usually create their own apps for services (Like MUNI/BART) but the city seems to have a mix of good and bad UX when it comes
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by valhalla 10y ago
According to the article, they ran simulations and it only provided a .2% increase in likelihood of a breach
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Why Autocorrect for Passwords Is a Great Idea(technologyreview.com)
1 points by valhalla 10y ago|3 comments
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by valhalla 11y ago
November 29th 2013 (A week after the Xbox One release) 1 Bitcoin == $1216.73. By December the same year the price "[had] crashed to $600, rebounded to $1,000, crashed again to the $500 range. Stabilized to the ~$650–$800 range." H
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by valhalla 11y ago
If the Microsoft was liquidating bit coin the way planetjones describes, it was probably too inconvenient since the exchange rate (Bitcoin to $) would fluctuate so unpredictably and wildy (at times) there was no way to reliably exchange bit
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by valhalla 11y ago
Here are some trending Yahoo! searches I texted to friends in July '15: Buffalo Wild Wings| Janet Jackson | Mega Millions | Type 2 Diabetes |
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by valhalla 11y ago
I actually thought MM had the right idea at first re: Yahoo! being a low-brow web entertainment portal. At one time Gweneth Paltrow was going to have her own lifestyle blog/website on Yahoo!. Even though anybody reading this comment or
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by valhalla 11y ago
That's more correlation than causation. I'd imagine it's because in 2016, it's socially acceptable to be a bit "kinky" so more people are willing to be open and honest about it. When researchers ask people abou
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A Trip Through Amazon’s First Physical Store(nytimes.com)
3 points by valhalla 11y ago|0 comments
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by valhalla 11y ago
If anyone's curious about Network Science/Graph Theory in general here's a free online textbook used by a grad student friend of mine http://barabasilab.neu.edu/networksciencebook/downlPDF.html
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by valhalla 11y ago
I've never used Slack before, but I'm surprised only 25% of people see it as a distraction. I understand its appeal versus email (Paul Graham wrote about reinventing email in his "Frighteningly Ambitious Startups" essay)
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Big Data Analysis Is Changing the Nature of Sports Science(technologyreview.com)
2 points by valhalla 11y ago|0 comments
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Regulating Cannabis: The Right Way to Do Drugs(economist.com)
1 points by valhalla 11y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft Bets That Bitcoin-Style Blockchains Will Be Big Business(technologyreview.com)
3 points by valhalla 11y ago|0 comments
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The Most-Edited Wikipedia Pages Over the Last 15 Years(fivethirtyeight.com)
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by valhalla 11y ago
Is that the reason they've been using the barges for landing? I'd always assumed they were just being extra cautious since it could endanger civilians or crew if the reusable stage was supposed to land on solid earth. I'd ima
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How Facebook and Google’s Plans to Boost Internet Access Advanced in 2015(technologyreview.com)
2 points by valhalla 11y ago|0 comments
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by valhalla 11y ago
I'm a young millennial and even though Google was more or less my first search engine/portal (I used Alta Vista until my 1st grade teacher showed me Google around '99) I also have fond memories of Yahoo!. I won a Final Four b
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by valhalla 11y ago
pdf of the research paper for the curious http://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.02206v1.pdf
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by valhalla 11y ago
The New York Times talked about it too: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/business/dealbook/how-mark...
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A Cloud-Free Satellite Map of Earth(technologyreview.com)
1 points by valhalla 11y ago|0 comments

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