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Wouldn't that make them entirely beholden to search engines that rely on ad revenue to pay Chrome? It doesn't seem to change the underlying incentives very much.

In 2018, 53% of votes for Wisconsin State Assembly went to Democrats, and Republicans won 64% of the seats (see https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/blogs/wisconsin-voter/20... ). S…

Grades are also fraught with bias, and in a lot of cases measure compliance more than mastery of the material.

I don't think this is borne out by the data on manufacturing output: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OUTMS

The tip is for the person coming up with the rule--even rules that seem very simple will be harder to figure out than you expect.

See "Considered Harmful Essays Considered Harmful" ( http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html ) "We should stop doing X" will always be a popular essay topic, but the "X Conside…

It never attracted a giant user base. I miss Reader (especially the pre-G+ integration version) and I wish it was still around, but it's not mysterious why it got killed. If it had…

This is a very reasonable question. One way to get at the question of whether the reduction is real is to look at crimes where it's hard to game the statistics and see if they foll…

I think this should be read as "kids under 6 failed [to perform better than chance] every time"

The principled way to avoid bad worst-case performance for quicksort is to select the pivot using a median of medians approach. That gives you good asymptotic performance even for …

> A "Pareto optimal" solution is one which, given all the possibilities of action, produces the best outcome for both parties (with some negotiable surplus). This isn't quite right…

The network looks relatively anemic at first glance. I would guess that this will be a LINPACK monster, but it'll be difficult to scale applications that aren't pure linear algebra…

"Lede" is supposedly a holdover from the time when news was printed using actual metal lead type, and "lead" was accordingly shorthand for type itself. The alternate spelling avoid…

I'd say that the two communities here are just people working at opposite ends of a continuum of applications that run on large clusters. The HPC community is all the way at the en…

One possible explanation: the cost of initial IO to write your data is amortized over that data's lifetime. The early-delete penalty ensures that Amazon always makes enough on your…

If you have a lot of heavily-read data distributed across machines, you're probably constrained by available spindles rather than available storage space. So co-locating data that …

The difficulty ratings on these questions are cruel mockery.

The difficulty ratings on these questions are cruel mockery.

I was trying to build WRF from source a few years ago for a project in grad school, and the bulk of the program was one giant file that crashed gfortran when you tried to compile i…

Does it? I've always thought of a mid-life crisis as an attempt to recapture the thrills of youth, whether through a fast new car or a hot young fling or whatever. If you take him …

One of the biggest ways I became a better programmer in 2013 was essentially the opposite of this advice from item 3: "Don’t be afraid of your code. Who cares if something gets tem…

If you want to get into proper parallel numerical algorithms, most useful programs are C, C++, or Fortran, sometimes with CUDA or OpenCL kernels. I don't think I've seen any large-…

> Google does everything in a very orchestrated campaign. Bash Adwords or Search here and you will see "them" show up to defend it. I would assume this is because a lot of Google e…

I clicked through in the hope that it would say "it barely matters, just get started and fix mistakes as you go". It started off with promise when he asserted that the people askin…

If you're relying on giant corporations to engage in coordinated civil disobedience on your behalf, you're in a pretty bad place.