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I thought this was pretty awesome when I found it a couple of years ago, especially since it's multicore.

Not yet. Why don't you work on it?

https://plus.google.com/107658132793132845562/posts/ANMCqxcB...

I have a copy titled 'The Art of Strategy'. The author states that the proper translation of 'bing' was 'strategy' rather than 'war'. I asked a friend from China what he thought 'b…

Thanks. I lost my card years ago...but I don't think I forgot what it said. Maybe I can order a replacement to carry with me to show people at parties.

> Evil behavior, however precisely defined, has been and always will be with us. But from what I've heard, Zarathustra was the first to tell people of the difference so that they c…

This is so awesome to see the robots coming and not having them being programmed kill people. Thanks Jeff.

Obamba...isn't he that guy that won the Nobel Peace Prize?

And I'm not the only person on the Internet to know that what Snowden released has been 'known' to the internet community for 20+ years. A release of documents does not consititute…

I think I'm the only person on the Internet that didn't see that Miley Cyrus video.

I'll usually ask at least one question in an interview to see if the candidate will answer with "I don't know" or ramble on incoherently making something up. Guess which I prefer.

That's what options are and there are pricing models that take into account high volatility accordingly. I call them 'insurance' because that's how I see them after learning and wo…

The OP was talking about shorting so I mentioned Calls because of the buy back at the end. There's not a lot of historical BTC price data and the volatility is all over the place, …

“We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them” ― Albert Einstein ie. We are peaceful, they are not, so we must not rest lest they destroy us whil…

I'm sure the financial sector is ready to take on such a challenge.

void decide() { while(((float)rand() / RAND_MAX) > 0.00000001); push_the_button(); } int main() { decide(); } Relevant: http://www.vagrearg.org/content/edm

That was the basis of these thoughts, except for the fact that in that episode they would calculate the casualties and vaporize them; my idea is based on the pure transfer of 'weal…

Can't we just do that in a computer and pretend that things were destroyed and killed? Maybe calculate the transfer of wealth that would have occurred as a consequence of inferior …

I'm sure you could buy Call options[1] to eliminate that downside risk, if someone is willing to price and sell such an option to take that risk for you. [1] Call options[2] give y…

Silicon Spectrum is running a Kickstarter to GPL their GPU: https://www.facebook.com/siliconspectrum

For a very approachable view of Russel's thoughts and work, you can try reading his own writing: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/355 My personal favourite so far has been 'M…

Thanks, I'll take a closer look then. How do you think it would handle with rendering massive images for canvas printing, like, say 3'x2'@300dpi or bigger pixels?

@julesrms: I'm looking through the docs and can't find the answer: Do the drawing functions support anti-aliased 2d primitives (lines, circles, etc)? I'm looking for a C++ 'Canvas'…

I think I see the insides of a Lisp hiding inside ;-) http://www.juce.com/documentation/tutorials/valuetree-class