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Slava Kritov
Июл. 12, 2009
12:16 pm - two threads
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/com
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/com
"Lawyers aren't that different from programmers, except every lawyer in the country works on the same project, they need management approval to change anything, they all have a different target spec, and their compile/test cycle can take years.
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hobbit125 1 point 3 hours ago[-]
By your metaphor, legislators would be the programmers. Lawyers are the QA/Testing department."
Июл. 9, 2009
Июл. 7, 2009
Июл. 6, 2009
09:12 pm - Proof why people are slow
1. Assume we live in simulated reality: http://www.simulation-argument.com/f
2. Try Java x86 emulator with linux: http://www-jpc.physics.ox.ac.uk/dsldesk
3. Realize that browser within linux within x86 VM within Java within Chrome is very slow.
4. Win !
09:09 pm
"1. What is the simulation argument?
The simulation argument was set forth in a paper published in 2003. A draft of that paper had previously been circulated for a couple of years.
The argument shows that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation. A number of other consequences of this result are also discussed.
The argument has attracted a considerable amount of attention, among scientists and philosophers as well as in the media.
References:
N. Bostrom, “Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?” Philosophical Quarterly, 2003, Vol. 53, No. 211, pp. 243-255. URL: http://www.simulation-argument.com/simu
http://www.simulation-argument.com/f
08:48 pm
Browser(Java(linux(browser))): http://www-jpc.physics.ox.ac.uk/dsldesk
11:16 am - Why Incompetence Spreads through Big Organizations
from http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/ar
Promoting the people most competent at one job does not mean that they'll be better at another, according to a new simulation of hierarchical organizations.
There's a paradox at the heart of most Western organizations. The people who perform best at one level of an organization tend to be promoted on the premise that they will also be competent at another level within the organization. I imagine that most readers will have had personal experience at the way that this hypothesis fails in practice.
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Июл. 4, 2009
09:47 pm - if it would be eastern it would be koan
http://syndicated.livejournal.com/anekd
Июл. 2, 2009
10:04 pm - 23%
http://www.virology.ws/2009/06/30/m
living or dead.
10:00 pm - how a small tax can help solve the problem
This is why it was so encouraging to see congressman Peter DeFazio's proposal to tax trades in oil options and futures. DeFazio proposed a tax of 0.02% on trades in oil futures and options as a way to make up a shortfall in the federal government's highway trust fund. This tax could raise billions of dollars each year in revenue and make speculation in the oil market a more dangerous affair.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentis
09:34 pm - These days who needs people
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency found that some 1,600 current employees at American Apparel's Los Angeles factories appeared to have gained employment due to "suspect and not valid" eligibility documentation, the company said in a filing.
The probe also found that the employment eligibility of an additional 200 workers could not be verified due to discrepancies, it said.
American Apparel said it could not accurately assess the impact on its operations from losing the employees, but said it did not believe any such loss would have a materially adverse impact on financial results.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090701/us_
09:23 pm - nature > photoshop
via http://www.jamesgunn.com/evolution-fuck
09:10 pm
Gentry's fully homomorphic revelation came to him as he sat in a New York City cafe that summer. The encryption method that intrigued him allows a few multiplications or additions of encrypted data. But it suffers from an interesting handicap. Every arithmetic step unavoidably introduces small amounts of error into the encrypted data. Performing just a dozen or so computations corrupts the data to the degree that it can no longer be accurately decrypted.
Gentry's insight was to double-encrypt the data in such a way that the errors could be removed, so to speak, in the dark. By periodically unlocking the inner layer of encryption underneath an outer layer of scrambling, the cloud computer would clean up its messes as it went along, without ever seeing the secret data. It took Gentry another 15 minutes to realize that he'd just solved an epic cryptographic problem.
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/0
07:56 pm - Japanese designers move to Italy
"If your USB storage tastes lean toward the high-end of style and price then the new MNEMOSYNE 16-gigabyte USB storage cube may be the device for you. Created by Italy-based designers Toshi Satoji and Katsuya Masaki, each black cube is constructed with a unique puzzle pattern and carved from a single block of aluminum.
In order to use the USB key you need to completely disassemble the puzzle-like cube to find the USB key in the center, and then re-assemble it when finished. In addition to honing your puzzle skills, an additional hurdle will have to be overcome in the form of the device's price tag — 1,000,000 yen ($10,442)! You can find out more about the most expensive 16GB in the world here."
http://dvice.com/archives/2009/07/the-m
Triumph of form over finctionality and economics
Июл. 1, 2009
09:58 pm - Feinman ... I liked his books
09:08 pm - dolgo dumal, chesal pager
http://www.spezify.com/#/ukraine
Anticrisis girl ... progress ot varvarov k legioneram
07:55 pm - A sequence
1946: The General
If you think the Internet came out of Silicon Valley, that NASA planned the first satellite to orbit Earth, or that IBM created the modern computer—think again. Each one of these breakthroughs was conceived at RAND, a shadowy think tank in Santa Monica, California.
http://blogs.static.mentalfloss.com/blo
1984: The Punk
In his afterword to the 2000 re-release of the book, novelist Jack Womack suggests that Neuromancer may have directly influenced the way the Web developed--that it may have provided a blueprint that developers who grew up with the book consciously or subconsciously followed. Womack asks “what if the act of writing it down, in fact, brought it about?”
http://www.pcworld.com/article/167670/n
2009: The Robot Geisha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo-gGes6
Июн. 29, 2009
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