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> We also recommend to save the command used to generate a figure in the LaTeX file An approach I have adopted recently is Knitr[1], so this layer of indirection goes away. With kn…

While HP's "The Machine" specifically appears to never have gone beyond the marketing phase, I think your excitement about the underlying technologies - silicon photonics combined …

Often a research university will interview many candidates, give offers to/recruit many candidates, and yet find that for each individual it recruited, there was a competing univer…

The Jacquard loom is what started [1] the punched card era. Check out this episode [2] of the podcast 99 Percent Invisible for an accessible explanation. [1] https://en.wikipedia.o…

As I commented here [1], one of my biggest issues with Zulip is that the mobile apps don't have a "jump to most recent" feature, and whenever I open the app I have to manually scro…

My research group (at MIT) also uses Zulip for messaging. While I agree with everything jremmons said (hi john), it's important to note that their mobile apps are so bad that they'…

I think this is unlikely. Part of the advantage of having built your own datapath is being able to change it on a whim; I don't see Google giving this up by agreeing to stick to so…

You should compare this to the cost of buying an FPGA. It can be cost-effective.

"If, instead, we had identified sessions using only layer 4 data, then mobile IP would have worked perfectly." Mobile IP can still work with the current infrastructure -- https://e…

You may be interested in the following: Practical BFT: http://pmg.csail.mit.edu/papers/osdi99.pdf The Night Watch: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf Genera…

If you want to see a Buran without hiking through the desert for 3 days, you can go to Technik Museum Speyer [1] - they also have other great air&space related exhibits (notably in…

This is no longer true in most of the USA (and many other countries) [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_long_tailpipe

Highways (tolls) tend to be far less profitable than rail systems (ticket sales). If the US didn't like government subsidies, we wouldn't have built all these highways.

Right, it's unclear however the context of the YouTube results. If they evaluated on links bottlenecked at the edge at 128Kbps, BBR isn't really competing with Cubic anywhere. This…

This is a delay-based scheme; it is unlikely to work well if competing with a drop-based aggressive scheme like TCP Cubic. As a result, while BBR is fantastic for deployment e.g. i…

They'd need to continue paying for their font license. "The biggest factor is that we have recurring costs: the sync server and the licensing fees for Ideal Sans, Vesper’s typeface…

Unlikely - the founding editor of The Intercept is Glenn Greenwald, one of the journalists who published the original Snowden stories.

Fair enough. Ultimately, HSR has far higher bandwidth than self-driving cars - density could be achieved either by efficient land use or by a feeder network (local transit or self-…

This would encourage sprawl-y and inefficient land use.

As vslira alluded: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Restaurant_at_the_End_of_t...

Great map! Not sure if you are aware of http://www.openrailwaymap.org - although your project includes interesting snippets ("proposed for reopening", etc)