The Book == The Phenomenology of Time?
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I'm pretty sure this is the first SF book I've read that in the largest part is based on the philosophies of Edmund Husserl (he's regarded as the founder of phenomenology).
And I'm dammed sure that Husserl's "The Phenomenology of Time" is Stephenson's inspiration for "The Book"! FWIW, I have never ever come across a book that even remotely challenges TPOT for the title of most densest, most opaque, most unreadable book ever. (The wikipedia link, as turgid as it is, is barely a 'Family Circus' synopsis of Husserl's prose).
Kudo's to Stephenson for even attempting to incorporate Husserl into SF!
The principle is also demonstrated in pari-mutuel betting at the race track too.
The crowd bets on favorite jockeys, rumours, lucky numbers, advance info, Racing Form, etc. All this gets throw into the pari-mutuel wash and in _every_ racetrack in NorthAm the crowd picks winners at a 30% rate.
This is better performance that any individual handicapper can achieve, no matter how expert...
The maximum write time is a problem with random-access disks because every time you READ a file the Linux fs updates the filesystem to indicate the access time! Do that 1000 times and your +RW disk is wasted. RAM disks on the other hand are designed to be rewirtten pretty much forever
Not so, if you can use the noatime option when mounting a disk, that is. This disables access time updating.
There are two examples here (Go and Shogi) of such games from the East, can you name similar game rules from the West that appear in games played for money?
Backgammon used to have the problem of interminably long drawn-out games. Players in clearly lost positions would play on hoping for some miracle sequence of dice rolls.
Then, in the 40's some genius at the Cavandish Club in NY invented the doubling cube, which revolutionized the game. Now if, for instance, your only chance of winning a $20 game is rolling three consecutive sets of boxcars, your gonna have to resign if your opponent doubles the stakes to $40 on you. (Do you _really_ want to bet $20 you can roll 6-6, 6-6, 6-6?)
I've often thought that introducing a doubling cube to the world of chess would end those boring end-games...
-- There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that count in binary, and those that don't.
When properly layed out, there is a _lot_ of information conveyed, which are the constants, parameters, the variables. The function 'family' can be recognized at a glance. This is a good thing.
being able to translate it into a better notation forces you to memorize it; this is a good thing
Oh. We tend to prefer comprehension not memorization at our.edu
Blocks was introduced on fresh the other day, unfortunately I don't meet the minimum system requirements -- 33.6 dialup:-(
Blocks is an anonymous distributed file transfer system designed for people with permanent ?always on? Internet connections like DSL lines or cable modems. It allows you to anonymously upload files from, and download files to the Blocks server ?network?.
Blocks uses a large disk bound cache (1-64Gb) that is protected by a 128bit block cipher using a random key based on a strong Pseudo Random Number Generator (entropy provided by user), and the cache is deleted and recreated each time the Blocks server is stopped or started. Therefore, even after a crash or abnormal termination, the disk cache cannot be used to ascertain what data has been downloaded or was being served.
When you run a Blocks server it finds and connects to a number of other Blocks servers, creating an interconnected ?network? of servers. All Blocks servers have a disk bound cache of data that is used to store data in the form of fixed size binary blocks of 64Kb.
AK Dewdney had a column in SciAm where he invented the SAC, an analog computer that sorts any finite array instantaneously...
trim the spagetti pieces proportionally to the values you want sorted
grasp all the spagetti loosely in your hand and drop lightly against a tabletop so the pieces are flush with the flat surface.
your array is now sorted!
The preprocessing can be a bitch, but the actual sort itself is near instantaneous:-)
Linux ht OS of choice for Aqua? I don`t think so
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Look at the pics: Its diplaying Microsoft.com Look at the leaflets they handed out about the Genesis2000: Running BeIA and Linux (your choice) so what will Aqua run: I guess you can choose between BeIA, WinCE (AKA MiniME) and embeddedLinux BTW: do I get this right? is this a linux only newssite now? just wondering...
bigFORTH is a native code Forth for x86 processors. MINOS is a portable GUI library for X11 and Win32, written in object oriented Forth, and includes the form editor Theseus
the Portable Forth Environment implements the ANSI Forth Standard, it is fully written in C, the newer version has a module concept, and it is fully multithreaded. Autoconf used. Tested in embedded environments.
tell me again in three years. Maybe by then it will no longer look like sad little Amiga clone. Or even more likely it will be dead and forgotten by then. I mean what is this? GUI: Amiga. Apps: GNU tools. Anything new? Well, the site is heavily slashdotted, but so far I haven`t seen anything excitingly new. Why is it that everyone has to split resources? there are quite some flavors of different operating systems ranging from Windows, OS2, BeOS, BSD, Unix in genral to Linux. All of them developed for some time now. So why this new one? Shouldn`t we concentrate on whats already there? Shall we again take the pain of going back to basics or even below with an undeveloped OS? Or should we rather stick with the ones we have now and work together to make them succeed in the upcoming years? Maybe those analysts are right and there won`t even be that many PCs around in some years and it will be mostly about IAs. Where would AtheOS fit in by then? Compared to Linux Windows and BeOS?
Hooray! Stealing is OK! Atleast Slashdot told me so. To get this down to real life: Robbing a bank is bad, but 300.000 people going out to steal some chewing gum is OK? JonKatz, think of yourself as the owner of the chewing gum factory and tell me again its OK...
All the code and documentation is available for linux and for windows.
A bit of windows and linux zealotrry here I presume? Why limiting it to those two in your article Hemos? Arent there other operating systems out there that might be going to support this device as the specifications etc have been GPLed? After all thats the point of the GPL, isn`t it?
I dont get it: all the stuff thats inside the PS is proprietary, copyrighted and presumably covered by patents. So how can someone hack that stuff and GPL it? I honestly dont understand how this should legally work. Come on, enlighten me.
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I'm pretty sure this is the first SF book I've read that in the largest part is based on the philosophies of Edmund Husserl (he's regarded as the founder of phenomenology).
And I'm dammed sure that Husserl's "The Phenomenology of Time" is Stephenson's inspiration for "The Book"! FWIW, I have never ever come across a book that even remotely challenges TPOT for the title of most densest, most opaque, most unreadable book ever. (The wikipedia link, as turgid as it is, is barely a 'Family Circus' synopsis of Husserl's prose).
Kudo's to Stephenson for even attempting to incorporate Husserl into SF!
Wish I could say the same.
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/sys related?
2.6 doesn't recognize my software RAID mirrors. I'm missing some configuration quirk and need a clue
Anyone else seen this problem? Is it
Thanks.
The principle is also demonstrated in pari-mutuel betting at the race track too.
The crowd bets on favorite jockeys, rumours, lucky numbers, advance info, Racing Form, etc. All this gets throw into the pari-mutuel wash and in _every_ racetrack in NorthAm the crowd picks winners at a 30% rate.
This is better performance that any individual handicapper can achieve, no matter how expert...
The maximum write time is a problem with random-access disks because every time you READ a file the Linux fs updates the filesystem to indicate the access time! Do that 1000 times and your +RW disk is wasted. RAM disks on the other hand are designed to be rewirtten pretty much forever
Not so, if you can use the noatime option when mounting a disk, that is. This disables access time updating.
man mount
For something a bit different different you could try Forth, which excels in small footprint devices.
I've seen a full IDE in 16k (k as in kilo) bytes
For palm, there's Quartus Forth
Backgammon used to have the problem of interminably long drawn-out games. Players in clearly lost positions would play on hoping for some miracle sequence of dice rolls.
Then, in the 40's some genius at the Cavandish Club in NY invented the doubling cube, which revolutionized the game. Now if, for instance, your only chance of winning a $20 game is rolling three consecutive sets of boxcars, your gonna have to resign if your opponent doubles the stakes to $40 on you. (Do you _really_ want to bet $20 you can roll 6-6, 6-6, 6-6?)
I've often thought that introducing a doubling cube to the world of chess would end those boring end-games...
-- There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that count in binary, and those that don't.
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(links from NTK )
...I can't stress highly enough the importance of off-site backups in any responsible contigency plan
Great novel by Bruce Sterling about hacking and tornados!
being able to translate it into a better notation forces you to memorize it; this is a good thing
Oh. We tend to prefer comprehension not memorization at our
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lessse,
s igma2/sigma1)(x1-mu1)}/(sigma2 sqrt(1-rho^2))]^2)
w(x2|x1) = (1/(sqrt(2pi)(1-rho^2)sigma2))e(-1/2[x2-{mu2+rho(
hmmm, yes, this _is_ the conditional bivariate normal probability function (right?)
P.
(who should be doing stats assgt right now)
'nuff said!
look for an app called RPN Calc,
it has a really well thought out interface
So much for the Yilmaz variant of General Relativity,
which predicts that black holes do not exist
more...
Actually, I think rpm uses cpio rather than tar.
Think of cpio as the bastard mutated spawn of dd and cp
The preprocessing can be a bitch, but the actual sort itself is near instantaneous
Look at the pics: Its diplaying Microsoft.com Look at the leaflets they handed out about the Genesis2000: Running BeIA and Linux (your choice) so what will Aqua run: I guess you can choose between BeIA, WinCE (AKA MiniME) and embeddedLinux BTW: do I get this right? is this a linux only newssite now? just wondering...
bigFORTH+MINOS
tell me again in three years. Maybe by then it will no longer look like sad little Amiga clone. Or even more likely it will be dead and forgotten by then. I mean what is this? GUI: Amiga. Apps: GNU tools. Anything new? Well, the site is heavily slashdotted, but so far I haven`t seen anything excitingly new. Why is it that everyone has to split resources? there are quite some flavors of different operating systems ranging from Windows, OS2, BeOS, BSD, Unix in genral to Linux. All of them developed for some time now. So why this new one? Shouldn`t we concentrate on whats already there? Shall we again take the pain of going back to basics or even below with an undeveloped OS? Or should we rather stick with the ones we have now and work together to make them succeed in the upcoming years? Maybe those analysts are right and there won`t even be that many PCs around in some years and it will be mostly about IAs. Where would AtheOS fit in by then? Compared to Linux Windows and BeOS?
Hooray! Stealing is OK! Atleast Slashdot told me so. To get this down to real life: Robbing a bank is bad, but 300.000 people going out to steal some chewing gum is OK? JonKatz, think of yourself as the owner of the chewing gum factory and tell me again its OK...
A bit of windows and linux zealotrry here I presume? Why limiting it to those two in your article Hemos? Arent there other operating systems out there that might be going to support this device as the specifications etc have been GPLed? After all thats the point of the GPL, isn`t it?
Crytonomicon by Neal Stephenson: Data Havens and Cryptography all the way.
I dont get it: all the stuff thats inside the PS is proprietary, copyrighted and presumably covered by patents. So how can someone hack that stuff and GPL it? I honestly dont understand how this should legally work. Come on, enlighten me.