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Not really if you define (as Amazon would) efficiency as order throughput and cost-per-order. Humans are typically more expensive than robots per hour: robots cost upfront and then…

Recs (therecordstream.com) is great for this. A JSON log file would be interpreted as its native record format, so you can use all of its processing tools (like recs-grep and recs-…

This is nice, simple experiment design. However, I'm really surprised they only ran this once - or indicate trial counts and indicate range/distribution. I'd be curious if video tr…

$55 million (Tepper) in 2003 was the previous price...

If this is appealing, I recommend trying RecordStreams ( http://code.google.com/p/recordstream/ ). I use it for ad hoc Big Data command line analysis almost daily.

More to the point, Berkshire Hathaway itself had only 19 employees as of the 2006 letter.

FloatingData, "How to make a US County thematic map using free tools" http://flowingdata.com/2009/11/12/how-to-make-a-us-county-th...

Consider the MOTOFONE. Fancy e-Ink display, but has battery life measured in days. Designed for the third world market, it can text message... badly, and that's it beyond good call…

I found this relevant NANOG37 (2006) presentation pretty interesting about Comcast's IP space problem: http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog37/abstracts.php?pt=MzQ5J... "Managing 100…

Checkout by Amazon, Amazon Simple Pay, Amazon Flexible Payments Service https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/index.htm ...and yet, people don't run to it.

NitroPDF does a remarkably good job translating PDF to Doc and RTF. I think the application (windows :() is better/has more output options, but they have a free web service: http:/…

Or as a pdf on the same site: http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/travel-complexity-notes...

Are you doing this on the site listed in your profile? From what I can see with a 27ms RTT request, there is a 9ms pause after the GET ACK and content -- and then only 4 full packe…

Having the body control to produce false, seemingly involuntary signals - while suppressing true involuntary signals - implies a level of physical mastery to the extent that you, l…

You replied to a comment about backing assertions up with facts, with "yet there are no homeless there". I do not live in San Diego, and "there" implies that neither do you. So let…