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Not really. Complexity theory deals with many different forms of computation, from Turing Machines to RAM models to circuits to quantum computers. These are all particular concrete…

You are confusing cost and price. The cost of education has risen at a pace comparable to other labor intensive fields. But the price has sky-rocketed due to decreased state suppor…

Or he's discovered a new kind of sucker, cf. homeopathy.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irony

"I wouldn't call someone an enemy and really mean it unless that enemy was deliberately trying to harm me or my family." I didn't literally call them the enemy, I put it in scary q…

What in the world are you talking about? Politicians blackmailing each other for personal gain is unethical. And I'm pretty sure that "the electorate" doesn't qualify as a "governm…

Anyone bribing governmental officials for personal profit is "the enemy". Edit: It's in the article. Stratfor gathers information using paid informants, including government offici…

There is a difference between reproducibility and repeatability. Reproduction is an independent experiment producing commensurate results. Repetition is the same lab repeating the …

Or it could just be a typo on the brand new webpage of a brand new project. Which it obviously is if you look at their explanation of CAP.

"I'd like to see how they pull that off when a node goes down. I guess in "well-administered" data centers, nodes don't go down." They offer f-fault tolerance. They can have f node…

That blog is quite wrong about partition tolerance. First, the definition is just bizarre: "Handling a crashed machine counts as partition-tolerance. (Update: I was wrong about thi…

These are non-fungible goods.

Not if you build the GC with --enable-redirect-malloc to use with existing libraries/code bases. Which should be fine because, after all, this is a "conservative" garbage collector…

To be clearer: safety is no longer compositional in this system. To safely use the Boehm garbage collector, it's not sufficient that my own code doesn't use "disguised" pointers: I…

The point is that this garbage collector is unsound. It may collect memory that is still in use. That's bad.