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Two years ago almost to the day, I announced my retirement as Chief D-Wave Skeptic. But—as many readers predicted at the time—recent events (and the contents of my inbox!) have given me no choice except to resume my post. In an all-too-familiar pattern, multiple rounds of D-Wave-related hype have made it all over the world [...]
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BMX biking became a phenomenon in the 1970s as kids started imitating off-road motocross races with their own bicycles. By the middle of the decade, BMX racing was an organized sport, and bicycle companies were designing bikes specifically for BMX competitions. But the success of one of those brands can be traced back to one specific moment: the day Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extraterrestrial premiered in theaters. That brand was Kuwahara.Kuwahara, along with a group of local bikers from
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In a sub-thread on Reddit about the advantages of IntelliJ vs. Eclipse, Moerderhai wrote,
...So I tried this Intellij thing that the moody guy who rode a Ducati really liked....
Moerderhai was then enlightened, he found a chickadee that laid golden eggs, rainbows and unicorns began wandering through his cubicle, and so on.
(I don't know why I found this amusing.)
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Mechanical Engineer Jeff Landrum makes a great case for why today's desktop 3D printers are more akin to early Altair 8800 computers than the Apple II. He cites the same challenges facing 3D printer adoption that we've discussed, listing mechanical and software hurdles such as infill algorithms and user-friendly interfaces that need to be improved before 3D printers can be viable consumer products.
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Yesterday was the second day at the Big data: theoretical and practical challenges - May, 14-15, 2013 - IHP, Paris. A big thank you to both Francis Bach and Michael Jordan for organizing the meeting. Francis tells me the slides will be available at some in time so we can come back to specifics of some presentations but for the time being, here are just a few notes that drew my attention because of their relevance to some of the subjects we discussed here
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In his book Let Over Lambda, Doug Hoyte says Lisp is the result of taking syntax away, Perl is the result of taking syntax all the way. Lisp practically has no syntax. It simply has parenthesized expressions. This makes it…Read more ›
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The heart of Google’s product line is search, and there can no longer be any doubt that Google Now is the future of the company's efforts. At the first day of Google I/O, the search giant cavorted itself like it was putting on a real developer conference. There were developer console updates, new tools, and APIs. Still, things came back to Google Now, and that’s no surprise.The Search app on Android received an update, which was demoed on stage. Along with some new info cards, Google Now
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Can we help avoid parallel repetition of mistakes? Irit Dinur has recently again shown a wonderful skill at re-conceptualizing an area that had seemingly been well worked out. A notable previous instance was her re-casting the proof of the PCP Theorem as a progressive amplification. Now she and David Steurer have posted a new paper […]
