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No user record in our sample, but PopePompous has activity below (stories or comments). Likely we have partial data — the full bulk-load will fill profiles in.
No user record in our sample, but PopePompous has activity below (stories or comments). Likely we have partial data — the full bulk-load will fill profiles in.
Tasker can be combined with Termux, to allow scripts to be run in response to events like battery charging etc. The combo is very powerful.
From the article: "The newly formed million-processor-core ‘Spiking Neural Network Architecture’ or ‘SpiNNaker’ machine is capable of completing more than 200 million million actions per second, with each of its chips…
Yes, I've switched to the HTML version permanently, and I hope others do the same. Maybe if Google sees enough people switching to HTML, they'll get an idea of how popular their new version is.
I think characterizing the Challenger launch decision as murder is unfair. At worst it was manslaughter.
Many, many things are impossible. Try solving the halting problem, for example.
I agree with everything you said. But just as important as the technical leap was the business model improvement. Before the iPhone, at least in the US, carriers dictated what functions could and could not be present in…
"state machines" - nice pun in this context.
Perhaps the video should start at 01:59 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlfIVEy_YOA&t=1m59s
Yes. If you report a spectacular result, and it is not proven wrong within ~5 years, its effect on your career is almost the same as if the result had been correct. The unfortunate thing for these folks is that their…
I think your estimate of 99% is a wee bit high. At least in the field I'm familiar with, astronomy, the idea of using Excel for any serious computation or design would be met with laughter.
Science publication is moving (very, very, very slowly) towards a model where instead of a final, polished traditional paper, the raw data along with the software tools and interpretation is published. In principle this…
Also, the persons most comfortable with a radically different publishing model like PR are apt to be young researchers, but they are the ones most in need of establishing a reputation by publishing in established,…
As far as I can tell, the only advantage Siri has over Google Assistant is its integration with Wolfram Alpha. If you ask Siri "What is the angular diameter of Mars?" it will tell you the current angular diameter of…
GNURoot Debian is broken in Android Oreo, and nobody seems to be in any hurry to fix that. Termux still works well, though.
I grew up in Des Moines, 50ish years ago, and at that time the downtown area was a dirty, depressing dump that most people only ventured to if they had to go to court. Now the downtown area is one of the most fun parts…
Des Moines + its suburbs has a population of 400,000 to 600,000 depending on just where you stop counting suburbs . It's a really nice town.
I cannot explain how I form the sentences I speak. I still find speaking useful.
They might have trouble selling their chips. They optimize far more towards performance over price than Qualcomm does. Apple can afford to do that, because of its high profit margins. Potential buyers probably couldn't…
Sorry - It was ignorance.
The Ig Nobel Prize people really should honor this group.
It's depressing to see adults participate in such a stupid publicity stunt. Their silly clock was at 7 minutes to midnight during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Does anyone think we're in a more dangerous moment now than we…
Another big problem is that 401Ks have a "longevity risk". Saving as an individual, you must save enough to handle the very remote possibility that you will live past age 100. A pension fund, on the other hand, can…
The neo900 is so late that it doesn't really matter at this point whether it is ever released at all. You'll have to be a pretty hardcore fan to pay about $1000 for a phone with amateur software and circa 2011 hardware…
I used core memory in machines during the 1970s (primarily Data General Novas). There was no problem with physical shock, but we did get errors during strong thunderstorms. Back then, when I was in highschool, I was…
Farsi has plenty of cognates with English too. My favorite is "Behtar" which means better. The nice twist is that "Beh" means good, so "Behtar" literally means "gooder". English, or some earlier language that became…