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  1. India is not part of far east. It is part of the Indian subcontinent (the new term from SDOTUS is "South Asia").

  2. Even before that, Burrough B5700s came with their entire operating system printed on line printer. All of it was in Algol. One could go through (and some did) to see if some programs are DS6 ing (same as IBM Mainframe ABEND). B5xxx/B6xxx did not have von Neumann architecture. Eachn memory would have a three bit identifier as to what kind of location it is - an instruction, data, pointer, etc. So yes open source was there even before 1980.

  3. Re:Idiots make thigns worse on 'Women At Microsoft Are Sexualized By Their Male Managers,' Lawsuit Alleges (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Mr. Bill Gates was supposed to have said , back when M$ was quite small but was already public, that he would like to pay less to women employees. This was in biography of Mr. Gates that was written ca. 1992-94.

  4. Re:Using the cloud makes more sense... on China Overtakes US In Latest Top 500 Supercomputer List (enterprisecloudnews.com) · · Score: 1

    problems have to be reformulated and new algorithms with tight asymptotic bounds need to be employed while pushing down the constants hidden in big O/Theta notation with highly tuned implementation. All old codes which are currently employed in scientific computing at national labs and/or universities were written with a different computational model in mind.

  5. Re:Using the cloud makes more sense... on China Overtakes US In Latest Top 500 Supercomputer List (enterprisecloudnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Absolutely correct. Graph 500 benchmarks are also important.

  6. Re: MODERATORS & GOOGLE ARE CENSORING POSTS.. on YouTube Alters Algorithm To Promote News, Penalize Vegas Shooting Conspiracy Theories (usatoday.com) · · Score: 0

    After 1857 first war independence by India, UK banned all firearms in Indian hands. They ruled India for another 90 years. An estimated 20 million people died in Bengal and other places due to famines which were avoidable.

  7. Re:Brexit is the right decision. on EU Presidency Calls For Massive Internet Filtering, Leaked Document Shows (edri.org) · · Score: 1

    Also Opium Wars. British were brutish.

  8. Re:Brexit is the right decision. on EU Presidency Calls For Massive Internet Filtering, Leaked Document Shows (edri.org) · · Score: 1

    Not people of the Indian subcontinent. Not in modern history.

  9. Re: Sooner it goes, the better on EU Presidency Calls For Massive Internet Filtering, Leaked Document Shows (edri.org) · · Score: 1

    Indians do like it. Payback time or karma as they would call it.

  10. Re:I struggle with this... on Does the World Need Polymaths? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Right on the dot. One area which is under-appreciated is Industrial Engineering - it spans systems (as in complex systems and their dynamics mostly Jay W. Forrester and the likes), Operations Research (Game Theory, Linear Programming), Production Planning and Scheduling, Facilities Planning, Labor Relations, Value Engineering, Supply Chain Theory (which was MRP and BoM from Joe Orlicky) and even Marketing and Sales, Corporate Financial Planning, basics of Banking, Strategic Planning etc. The field is called Management Science. Most of the SIAM fellows can be considered to be at least {Duo,Tri}maths, if not Polymaths.

  11. Re:We need meta-level polymaths on Does the World Need Polymaths? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Do history majors have a requirement to do history of mathematics including Godel's theorems (at a reasonably deeper level), Church-Turing hypothesis, Turing Machines? Then yes, if not, no.

  12. Re:Jacks-of-all-Trades original quotation on Does the World Need Polymaths? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    ... Artificial intelligence research needs knowledge computer science, mathematics, neuroscience, psychology, and the natural world.

    Actually even more than that. AI needs Linguistics, Philosophy of Mathematics, Mathematical Logic, Ontology and some amount analytic philosophy. The way it works is to lift the specific domain problems to one level of higher abstraction, solve the abstract problem, and project the solution back onto the domain problem. For example, systems of linear equations need to be solved, some or all eigenvalues need to be computed, a few entries in the inverse need to be computed, singular value decomposition needs to be computed, fast GAXPY operation (explicit solution of CFD), etc. The only thing we know how to do today (and forever) is how to solve a system of linear equations. Only in very controlled cases, one can find closes form solutions for non-linear sets of equations, or solutions to Differential Equations or PDEs.

  13. Re: The West is screwed on Amateur Drone Lands On British Air Carrier, Wired Reviews Anti-Drone Technology (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually Chinese got it from India by the budhdhist monks. "kara" is samskrutam for hand, and "te" means empty.

  14. Re: Throw them in the trash... on Ask Slashdot: What Can You Do With Old Coaxial Cable? · · Score: 1

    ...enjoy wating... Is it "...enjoy waiting..." or "...enjoy wasting..."? Make up your mind already. You are wasting my time while I wait for your answer!

  15. Re:Samsung celebrated with fireworks on Samsung Ends Intel's 2-decade-plus Reign in Microchips (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately that is not much of a relief to Intel. Samsung has a 2.5 to 1 better profit margins than Intel. That is the rub. How would Intel be able to keep investing in upgradation and R&D. Samsung: Income $7.2 billion on Sales of $15.8 billion Intel: Income $2.8 billion on sales of $14.8 billion What say?

  16. Re:Not one engineer or scientist??? on Concern Over India PM's Silicon Valley Visit · · Score: 1

    There are at leat two from STEM - one CS professor and another Science and Technology Policy and Management (but from Kennedy School of Government, hAvaD).

  17. Re:Only a few uptight Indians are concerned on Concern Over India PM's Silicon Valley Visit · · Score: 1

    Sorry that should have gone under another post. I am posting under there too.

  18. Re:Only a few uptight Indians are concerned on Concern Over India PM's Silicon Valley Visit · · Score: 1

    No. there are a couple. One CS professor and another Science and Techonology Policy and Management (but from Kennedy School of Government, hAvaD).

  19. Re:The next big threat on Concern Over India PM's Silicon Valley Visit · · Score: 1

    ... but first they should repatriate all their countryman working in the US IT industry.

    Why is that pre-condition? A majority of those have chosen to become naturalized. So you are saying that they are second class citizens and should not critique the policies of their government? They have the same rights as any born citizen unless they are stripped of their citizenship. I don't wanting to improve the conditions of their country - even if it is not the country they are born in - is not treason. They are doing their duty as conscientious citizens.

  20. Re:Digital India? on Concern Over India PM's Silicon Valley Visit · · Score: 1

    "Swacch Bharat Abihyan" and "Toilets in every school" were both spear headed by Modi and his government. You know most Indians are vegetarian both by choice (they don't want to harm animals). Most eat meat only once a week? There is lot of fibre in the diet and they do excrete large amount of the fibre. Wher as in the US, the grass/corn is fed to animals in the factory farms with an seven fold reduction in efficiency, several fold increase in water usage with the factory farm waste released into ground water and other water sources. Yes, every house is as sterile as a hospital, nobody cooking at home but eat out most meals out in a restaurant if rich or McDonalds in the inner cities where the factory farmed animals end up along with factory trawler caught fish and most of them end up needing multiple heart bypass surgeries and suffer from diabetes and obesity which are sometimes caused due to life styles. If somebody says that is wrong, please reduce meat intake to save environment as well as not to overload our fragile healthcare systemn and everybody gets upset that they are being dictated to. We Americans are the most hypocritical second only to the British.

  21. Re:Wonder if he is going to rape... on Concern Over India PM's Silicon Valley Visit · · Score: 1

    One in every 5-6 college going women in the US were sexually harassed and date raped.

  22. Re:Thanks USA on Concern Over India PM's Silicon Valley Visit · · Score: 1

    You didn't get the sarcasm I guess.

  23. Re:Lesson: Licensing costs suck on PayPal To Replace VMware With OpenStack · · Score: 1

    I think you are forgetting that it was IBM who invented commercial VM OS.

  24. Re:That and... on Minority Report's Legacy of Terrible Interfaces · · Score: 1

    India?

  25. Re:Descriptive entropy on Astronomers Discover a Group of Quasars 4 Billion Light Years Across · · Score: 1

    In other words, is it the size of this clump which causes the excitement?