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These are a great read... The Usenet FAQ archive has all of them available: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ai-faq/neural-nets/part1/ http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ai-faq/neural-nets/part2/ ht…

A Coder in Courierland: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/3/19/133129/548

(author here) danielh was pretty much spot-on... The lyrics are stored with a time offset and indentation level (sort of like a player-piano roll) and the list of tweets is updated…

Ha! Me too... and I built the site :) I actually had to triple check with the various lyrics sites when I was coding it. I kept thinking there was no way these were the correct lyr…

Thanks for all the feedback, Dave. I just deployed a bunch of updates that address the bugs you found -- yeah... I'll confess... they were bugs :)

Hi Dave, The bug you noticed is a little perplexing since I developed the site on a 13" MacBook. If you have a moment, I'd love to know more about the system where you saw this beh…

That's a great idea. We're talking with some potential sponsors now so perhaps this could be an avenue for a matching-funds type of fundraiser... I'll follow up with email. Thanks!…

Thanks! It's for a good cause too. We were expecting a softer launch but once Lance Armstrong mentioned us, we were off to the races. Fortunately our little xen instance has held u…

The source code is on github: http://github.com/igrigorik/rb-pagerank/tree/master

This research seems to indicate that ADHD is actually a feature of childhood, rather than a bug to be fixed.

No, You're spot on. The author states that this is "an unmodified picture, straight off the digicam". Unfortunately for his test, this means the light passed through a Bayer filter…

Obviously, we'd have to consult an Unfrozen Caveman Constitutional Lawyer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfrozen_Caveman_Lawyer

We've been hearing lately that "the kids" prefer the degraded sound quality of MP3 files: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=511615 Anyone want to bet that, a year or two from now…

The article doesn't fully explain "front running", so here's Wikipedia's take: ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_running ) Front running is the illegal practice of a stock broke…

The problem, really, is that Apple no longer sells a professional laptop Unless your profession is laptop tinkering, this statement is absurd. Clearly Apple believes that more "pro…

There's a forked version available at: http://github.com/rentzsch/clicktoflash/tree/master

The research calls into question decision-making bodies that operate by consensus, Berns said. For example, in the U.S. legal system, many cases are decided by the unanimous judgme…

Their terms of service still seem to forbid any interesting uses of the search results: "You agree that you will not, and you will not permit your users or other third parties to: …