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Also known for woodgears.ca Matthias is an international treasure. Any googlers around please help him. If you get a chance check out his recounting of RIM rise and fall. Edit: it …

I think the main reason they did not expose lower level semantics is that the wanted a drop in replacement for hdds. The second is liability: unfettered access ti arbitrary locatio…

“Eutectic alloys are also notable because they often have the lowest melting point”. Isn’t the very definition of eutectic the mix proportion that has _the lowest_ melting point?

Optical computation will never become relevant at scale. There are fundamental reasons for this: first, particle size. A photon at usable wavelengths is extremely large, much large…

If you feel that something is trivial and potentially wasting other people's time by means of wasting pixels, I think it's fine to speak up. (Explaining why something is trivial ma…

Ok, I guess I could have provided more info. Do this if you own a bicycle: hold it by the saddle perfectly straight, front of the bike forward. Make it lean on the left (no forward…

How complex can it be? If you have a bare minimum background in basic physics and control theory, and a bicycle in your hands, the qualitative reasons for balance and stability wil…

I absolutely agree, all those negative comments sound like rants from grumpy old guys. I have worked in HPC distributed storage and the problems the CoreOS people are trying to sol…

That's great news but: 900MBps != 5GB/3sec. Plus last time I checked (2 years ago) write power for flash was about 10W/GBps and growing over time. So I expect these speeds not to b…

This effectively makes forgetting one's password a crime with a lifetime jail sentence... Not bad, not bad

And will they share the data they collect so that everybody has a shot at making discoveries?

Little known implies that if you ask 100 randomly selected people if they know if it exists, what it is and what it does, a small number, say less than 10 or so (little) will know.…

I do not think he was implying that he did not fit because he's old. He implied that he did not fit because he's mature...

At this stage of things, I think it's more forward looking to open source trained models. Not only they are beginning to be the real core of future building blocks (see, e.g., trai…

I don't know why you're being down voted. The fact that the human won, makes it now so much more interesting! It surely is the best outcome possible both for human go players and G…

On the spot. I love wood and I'm a woodworker but I have yet to see a convincing way of treating wood that is exposed to weather.

Finally a post on Concept Insights :) I work on this project, feel free to ask anything.

No they cannot, and you cannot either :)

I think you missed the point. He said that the starting idea was not important, and made examples of actually important starting ideas (page rank). His point is that the execution …

IMO once all barriers (psychological and not) to quick and easy small online payments are gone, ads will not be useful anymore to content providers. A click through rate of 1/1000 …

Awesome: "fed to cattle or schoolchildren". :-)

I read it as meaning that it should be a superconductor. Why they do not mention it, I don't understand...

It's W/GBps, or if you prefer simplifying J/GB. I like the former better, power and bandwidth are handier in real life computer science.