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May be referring not to LQCD relying on approximate analytical methods but some of the other non-perturbative methods? Example would be trying to apply homotopy analysis method (HA…

"is it more natural read for people familiar with writing functional programs? (am I permanently "broken" due to my familiarity with imperative programing?)" As just one person who…

Recently came back and hero'd a character for old times sake. The people who still play are a good crew and very welcoming of anyone who wants to play. It's a different game with f…

Would like to hear more about these 20x ROI stock picks.

Interesting, thanks for the links! I've done your typical ANN 101 training in the past so have a good mental model for back-propagation. Modelling the actual nonlinear dynamics of …

It's interesting since Hinton's approach seems to be more inspired by the computational geometry aspects of vision (reverse computer graphics, invariant representations) and workin…

That's what came to mind first for me as well, but I think it's important to note that 'mindfulness' as defined in the paper is a specific type of "thinking harder". I wonder if th…

I think this is a valid concern, but as JS engines start implementing more and more of the rich web client working drafts like FileAPI ( http://www.w3.org/TR/FileAPI/ ), those same…

This post really really resonates with the thoughts bouncing around in my head currently. In the current environment (at least where I am) of well-funded startups with no shortage …

It might be worthwhile to take a look at certain types of game engine architectures. Since modularity is one of the keypoints of how this editor/game engine work so well together, …

Cool! Since the startup I work for has been acquired I've been working downtown and lamenting the lack of such things. I'd like to check out your spot sometime! There's also an int…

Interesting! This seems like something that might work well with 3.0's function annotation support with the ability to specify that the handler's input argument conform to either a…

Ah no asterisk means nothing to replace, makes sense. Excited for 2.6 and scripting. Has much changed on the scripting side since the 2.2-scripting branch?

I had the pleasure of using the out of the box pdf2txt tool just yesterday. Worked pretty well for extracting some governmental data released (i.e. buried) inside of a PDF!

Agreed. I think I just wanted it to be cooler than it was :)

And from that Wikipedia article, it appears they have some applications in mining. Maybe that's related to the salt mining comments above?

The image displayed in the article looks reminiscent of a Voronoi diagram. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voronoi_diagram

I wish I could remember where I read this, or that my Google-fu was strong today, but not too long ago I read an article or mailing list post about (far-future) plans to get away f…

Linear algebra is one of my favorite subjects. Of all the math I used while still in physics, linear algebra ended up being the most practical for solving everyday problems in othe…

Syslog implementations like syslog-ng support both TCP and UDP relaying of all log data on a machine to a centralized Syslog server, and can even bypass storing those logs to the s…

I think there might also be another selection bias here, in that StackOverflow might be a bit self-selecting for developers who know their stuff. It's hard to say what this says ab…

Wow, thanks for posting this. I was equally inspired during undergrad and grad school by Feynman's "unusual tools", and ended up checking out a copy of Advanced Calculus by Woods w…