Wrap your head around this one: http://math.andrej.com/2007/09/28/seemingly-impossible-funct... Also, I'd recommend taking a look at Magma: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magma_computer_algebra_system
Has anyone tried Gimp for OS X? http://www.gimp.org/downloads/
But you can't actually simulate a TM on any machine with a fixed amount of memory. And any "special purpose" computing hardware would have at least a little memory. So I don't think that distinction works. Unless it…
The best mirror I could find (nyud.net and Google let me down): http://substancedigital.com/2012/10/21/nokias-price-for-excl...
Could you explain what you mean by "to a lesser extent Android"? Android lets apps add widgets to the home screen, replace the home screen, replace the browser, run arbitrary background tasks, and so forth. You can even…
I'm a little disappointed that Wirth doesn't mention one of the key reasons that financial institutions use decimal floating point: that binary floating point can't produce exact representations of powers of 10, such as…
You can turn the pages using the volume buttons (enabled from Settings on the home screen). I reallly love that feature.
This is one of the best critiques so far of the decision. There are two sides to this trial. On the one side is the emotional appeal: Samsung copied Apple, and documents detail the extent to which Samsung imitated the…
Click on the "More" link at the bottom.
Here's the ruling: http://www.scribd.com/doc/98367038/Galaxy-Tab-Injunction-Rul... The injunction is being granted based on this patent: http://www.google.com/patents/USD504889 It's a design patent granted in 2005 for…
This article is missing a couple of facts: First, Apple has been designing its own "Ax" series of ARM chips with its purchase of PA Semi, currently with the A5/A5X. If Apple switched to an Intel chip, they would no…
I looked twice to verify that she needed the wheelchair. I'm not quite sure why Pike wrote this. Was he afraid that the wheelchair concealed a weapon of some sort? But how can you visually verify that a person needs a…
I'm not quite sure what the issue is here. It turns out that the author modeled the domain incorrectly. At least that incorrect model is completely explicit in the code. If it weren't spelled out explicitly, the…
This was fun! (I only did the first two paragraphs.)
You are thinking of "homophone" rather than "homonym." Baseball bat and vampire bat are homonyms.
At runtime init, Go programs attempt to reserve 512mb of RAM. If they can’t do this, they crash. Go needs the space because it is garbage collected - presumably, all GC languages, or any program that takes a similar…
Facebook's testing practices and culture of developer accountability help to prevent serious bugs from being rolled out in production code. When a developer's code disrupts the website and necessitates a post-deployment…
I was interested in his response to the question, "What you dislike the most about Lisp?" I must say that the lack of static typing really gets in the way on larger projects. Being able to confidently change datatypes…
Here's the most interesting link I found after a few minutes of clicking (obligatory: I am not a doctor): http://saveourbones.com/calcium-heart-attack/
Google for the following phrase to find the site: "Run unmodified Access applications, right inside a web browser." (Edited to remove link to not affect Google juice)
Scott Aaronson recently wrote an informative article about his trip to D-Wave: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=954 Most interesting to me: "Geordie presented graphs that showed D-Wave’s quantum annealer solving its…
Reference counting does have runtime overhead, though. Incrementing and decrementing references as a reference gets passed around isn't free. If you have many small objects, the reference count itself may become a…
Andy Hertzfeld used this same trick on the original Macintosh, in a move he called his "worst blunder": http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...
The paper tells us that Brzustowski and Burgeil already showed that a loss is forced for alternating S and Z pieces. But it is easy to see that you can get 1 line with S and Z simply by putting the thick part in the…
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/puny "slight or inferior in power, size, or importance" In this case, they meant power, as in computational power.
Wrap your head around this one: http://math.andrej.com/2007/09/28/seemingly-impossible-funct... Also, I'd recommend taking a look at Magma: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magma_computer_algebra_system
Has anyone tried Gimp for OS X? http://www.gimp.org/downloads/
But you can't actually simulate a TM on any machine with a fixed amount of memory. And any "special purpose" computing hardware would have at least a little memory. So I don't think that distinction works. Unless it…
The best mirror I could find (nyud.net and Google let me down): http://substancedigital.com/2012/10/21/nokias-price-for-excl...
Could you explain what you mean by "to a lesser extent Android"? Android lets apps add widgets to the home screen, replace the home screen, replace the browser, run arbitrary background tasks, and so forth. You can even…
I'm a little disappointed that Wirth doesn't mention one of the key reasons that financial institutions use decimal floating point: that binary floating point can't produce exact representations of powers of 10, such as…
You can turn the pages using the volume buttons (enabled from Settings on the home screen). I reallly love that feature.
This is one of the best critiques so far of the decision. There are two sides to this trial. On the one side is the emotional appeal: Samsung copied Apple, and documents detail the extent to which Samsung imitated the…
Click on the "More" link at the bottom.
Here's the ruling: http://www.scribd.com/doc/98367038/Galaxy-Tab-Injunction-Rul... The injunction is being granted based on this patent: http://www.google.com/patents/USD504889 It's a design patent granted in 2005 for…
This article is missing a couple of facts: First, Apple has been designing its own "Ax" series of ARM chips with its purchase of PA Semi, currently with the A5/A5X. If Apple switched to an Intel chip, they would no…
I looked twice to verify that she needed the wheelchair. I'm not quite sure why Pike wrote this. Was he afraid that the wheelchair concealed a weapon of some sort? But how can you visually verify that a person needs a…
I'm not quite sure what the issue is here. It turns out that the author modeled the domain incorrectly. At least that incorrect model is completely explicit in the code. If it weren't spelled out explicitly, the…
This was fun! (I only did the first two paragraphs.)
You are thinking of "homophone" rather than "homonym." Baseball bat and vampire bat are homonyms.
At runtime init, Go programs attempt to reserve 512mb of RAM. If they can’t do this, they crash. Go needs the space because it is garbage collected - presumably, all GC languages, or any program that takes a similar…
Facebook's testing practices and culture of developer accountability help to prevent serious bugs from being rolled out in production code. When a developer's code disrupts the website and necessitates a post-deployment…
I was interested in his response to the question, "What you dislike the most about Lisp?" I must say that the lack of static typing really gets in the way on larger projects. Being able to confidently change datatypes…
Here's the most interesting link I found after a few minutes of clicking (obligatory: I am not a doctor): http://saveourbones.com/calcium-heart-attack/
Google for the following phrase to find the site: "Run unmodified Access applications, right inside a web browser." (Edited to remove link to not affect Google juice)
Scott Aaronson recently wrote an informative article about his trip to D-Wave: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=954 Most interesting to me: "Geordie presented graphs that showed D-Wave’s quantum annealer solving its…
Reference counting does have runtime overhead, though. Incrementing and decrementing references as a reference gets passed around isn't free. If you have many small objects, the reference count itself may become a…
Andy Hertzfeld used this same trick on the original Macintosh, in a move he called his "worst blunder": http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...
The paper tells us that Brzustowski and Burgeil already showed that a loss is forced for alternating S and Z pieces. But it is easy to see that you can get 1 line with S and Z simply by putting the thick part in the…
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/puny "slight or inferior in power, size, or importance" In this case, they meant power, as in computational power.