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While I do not know whether or not Watson actually does this, the paper doesn't mention anything about parallelism -- I suspect that the exploitation of structured parallelism is a…

Brings new meaning to the field of computer science.

From article: "The mass of Earth dimples this fabric, much like a heavy person sitting in the middle of a trampoline." I will never imagine general relativity the same way again.

Hello HNers, Posting ads on AdWords confused me at first, and arguably still does, and I found that other people shared the sentiment. So I used machine learning to make an automat…

Or he could have pulled a Ludwig Wittgenstein and given it to the "already-corrupted" rich.

Hmm... The Wired article (linked within under "can control the universe") seemed to suggest that he solved the problem by "channeling Jesus"...which seems to misrepresent that he w…

"...couldn't really put his finger on what it was that he really wanted but couldn't just do." As an amusing literal interpretation of your metaphor, IIRC Leonardo actually painted…

I speak for myself here, but I don't think something needs to be the "Future of the World" for it to be an immensely fulfilling way to lead one's life, degree or not.

For those who enjoyed the author's story, there's plenty more in his well-written autobiography: http://www.amazon.com/Against-Odds-Autobiography-James-Dyson... .

Seconded. Link to pdf for the lazy: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn/book.pdf . And to other incarnations: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/book.html .

While I agree that it can be unstable (inference can get stuck in local maxima), latent variable models like LDA can be used to rigorously evaluate textual categories (e.g. journal…

In case you're wondering whose annotations those are, IIRC, the marginalia are from Vinod Khosla.

Independent of the elegant typesetting it produces, TeX contains well-designed notation for mathematics, reflecting the algorithmic bent of its author, Don Knuth. Mathematics doesn…

"It is only when thermal energy is not equal to gravitational work that the cloud either expands and cools or contracts and warms, a process that continues until equilibrium is rea…

Biggest impact I've found which is not directly discussed in the OP: A great package repository (e.g. CPAN) can outweigh quirks in language design (e.g. Perl spaghetti code). It se…

At any rate, whatever people might tell you about your lack of credentials, you've already set your pitching skills apart by putting this out here in front of everyone. It's surpri…

I use the basic version of PayPal for subscriptions, but I've had issues with canceling customers' subscriptions without their explicit request, and the PayPal support is horrendou…

I think product sales is a game of incomplete information in which sellers don't know what each buyer wants and buyers don't necessarily know what they want either. It seems to me …

Not to divert attention from the point he's making, but is that a MacBook he's using in the article picture?

Wonder if the old NN/g results for eye tracking still hold up: http://www.useit.com/eyetracking/ .

That said, impatience also prevents feature creep.

While anything that brings more talent into the programming world is a good thing, I find it disappointing when I see such lists encourage cursory understanding like this. While it…