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  1. Cool name of author on The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 2

    Her name sounds like a comic book super hero. Cold Fury?

  2. Still going strong, huge community! on If Java Wasn't Cool 10 Years Ago, What About Now? · · Score: 1

    My workplace provides Java consultants for hire, and is doing quite well.
    Recruiters are in contact with me every week.
    The amount of Open Source Java software available and actively developed, especially libraries, is amazing!
    All Android apps are Java-based too.

    To balance this out, some of my colleagues and I are looking into other languages and consider ourselves polyglot programmers, not Java-only.
    Especially other languages on the JVM like Groovy and Scala are popular.

  3. Android Studio best there is on Google Android Studio Vs. Eclipse: Which Fits Your Needs? · · Score: 1

    I've been an Android developer for three years now. Android Studio has impressed me very much and I've used it every day for the last six months.
    It's miles ahead of Eclipse in terms of useability and features.
    Android Studio actually makes the coding more fun, as I don't have to spend so much time on the boring and annoying bits!
    The second place goes to Intellij IDEA, in my opinion.

    I can see no reason to use Eclipse unless you need C-language support for NDK development.
    Eclipse doesn't integrate with Google's new Gradle-based build tools for Android. It blows the old ant-based build-tools out of the water.
    If you're still using the old on ant/maven build tools for Android, you have a enjoyable experience to look forward to after migrating :)

  4. Re:test10 crashes with "head -1 /proc/net/tcp" on Linux 2.6.0-test11 Kernel Released · · Score: 1

    Yes,
    I have an AMD duron type 8 CPU and I'm running kernel 2.6.0-test11.
    I have the same behaviour - head -1 ... tcp crashes my system badly.
    I haven't experienced any other problems than this one.

  5. subsymbolic AI [Re:Well, that depends] on Supportive Courses for Bioinformatics? · · Score: 1

    For the question about subsymbolic AI:

    The field of AI is divided into subsymbolic and symbolic AI, where the symbolic AI guys are working with formulas in logic and programming in prolog, typically, and the subsymbolic AI guys are programming in Lisp and working on neural networks, genetic algorithms and genetic programming.

  6. Re:Master's degree on Supportive Courses for Bioinformatics? · · Score: 1

    I am planning to take a one year depth-study of bioinformatics, similar to the programme in London (url), but this one year of study is not much, and I'm thinking I should choose courses wisely to support this specialization in bioinformatics.

  7. Re:ask a professor on Supportive Courses for Bioinformatics? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I know. I asked the appropriate counselor, and his predecessor, but they didn't know.

    I've also tried asking the (only) professor I cand find working on bioinformatics at my University, but she's never available and doesn't reply to my email :(

  8. Re:Well, that depends on Supportive Courses for Bioinformatics? · · Score: 1

    My background is mathematics (with some physics and chemistry) and computer science mostly. I think I know English well enough, all my textbooks are in English.

    I have a detailed list at http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~perchrh/courses.html

    I'm not going for Computational Chemistry.