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Is this a similar concept to compartmentalized consensus? https://mwhittaker.github.io/publications/compartmentalized_...

Repo for the TodoMVC demo: https://github.com/swannodette/om-next-demo

Morse code instructional video from the US Army: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li8Hiwbc664

A series of CIA memos describes how Israeli Mossad agents posed as American spies to recruit members of the terrorist organization Jundallah to fight their covert war against Iran: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/13/false_flag

Concerning sampling and aliasing, you might find this video series from xipf interesting: http://www.xiph.org/video/

Except that the government has a monopoly on force. If a private company harms you, there are often civil and potentially criminal concequences. If the government uses your private data against you and violates your rights, who do you turn to?

Earthflight has similarly beautiful footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIKnol2i850

The same is true of arithmetic coding, which separates the probability model from the encoding process. Feed an arithmetic coder a stream of random bits and it will efficiently sample from your model. See section 6.3: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itprnn/ps/105.124....

Here's a list of predictions: http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Austrian_predictions

Just to clarify, Austrians define monetary deflation as a contraction in the total supply of a given money. In this case, it would mean a decrease in the total number of Bitcoins.

I've participated in the political process in Texas and I'm not sure that this is true. Take for example HB 80: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/83R/billtext/pdf/HB00...

> Law enforcement officers could only use drones while executing a search warrant or if they had probable cause to believe someone is committing a felony, and firefighters can only use drones for fighting fire or to rescue a person whose life is “in imminent danger.” Texas’ border-patrolling Predator drones are exempt within 25 miles of the Mexican border. There are additional penalties for possession, display or distribution of data captured by an illegally flown drone. Gooden said the goal is to protect Texans’ privacy.

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-02/privacy-and...

> the initial Bayesian analysis was plain wrong

The initial analysis used Fisher's Exact Test, which is a frequentist rather than a Bayesian method.

Note that the Marketplace Fairness Act has been reintroduced in the Senate: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/13/us-usa-tax-online-...

“For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise.” —Plato, Phaedrus

From my father (who can read/write Sanskrit):

I'll add that at the University of Chicago, someone noted that modern linguistics really had its launch when German philologists in the 19th century encountered Sanskrit and the Sanskrit grammarians. Not just in grammar itself, but in phonemics as well.

Wikipedia appears to verify in part:

"This body of work became known in 19th century Europe, where it influenced modern linguistics initially through Franz Bopp, who mainly looked at Pāṇini [most famous Sanskrit grammarian]. Subsequently, a wider body of work influenced Sanskrit scholars such as Ferdinand de Saussure, Leonard Bloomfield, and Roman Jakobson. Frits Staal discussed the possible European impact of Indian ideas on language. After outlining the various aspects of the contact, Staal posits the theory that the idea of formal rules in language, first proposed by de Saussure in 1894, and finally developed by Chomsky in 1957, based on which formal rules were also introduced in computational languages, may indeed lie in the European exposure to the formal rules of Paninian grammar. In particular, de Saussure, who lectured on Sanskrit for three decades, may have been influenced by Pāṇini and Bhartrihari; his idea of the unity of signifier-signified in the sign is somewhat similar to the notion of Sphoṭa. More importantly, the very idea that formal rules can be applied to areas outside of logic or mathematics, may itself have been catalyzed by Europe's contact with the work of Sanskrit grammarians." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_linguistics#India

Here's a superior Bayesian solution: http://masanjin.net/blog/how-to-rank-products-based-on-user-...

Here's the text of the standard: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips180-4/fips-180-4....

Raptor codes require O(1) time to generate an encoding symbol. Decoding a message of length k with a belief propagation decoding algorithm require O(k) time for the appropriate choice of inner/outer codes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor_code#Computational_compl... See also: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itprnn/ps/555.573....

With large enough blocks and efficient coding, the noisy-channel coding theorem guarantees nearly error-free transmission rates up to the maximum possible channel capacity. Modern LDPC, Raptor, and Turbo codes can get very close (to within 0.0045dB) of this Shannon limit, meaning that far from being less efficient, FEC allows for maximal bandwidth efficiency.

RaptorQ codes, an efficient fountain code implementation, have a relative reception overhead of K+2 symbols with probability of 99.9999%. See: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-rmt-bb-fec-raptorq-06

According to Namecheap customer service, GoDaddy is blocking whois requests, forcing whois information to be entered manually. Due to the large number of recent domain transfers, this is slowing down the transfer rate.

.com domains appear to be blocked, but not .me domains.

If you're using Homebrew on OS X, here's a formula to install Shen 1.7: https://github.com/hadronzoo/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Fo...

Shen was designed to not only run on Common Lisps like Qi, but also on Javascript (released mid-October) and Scheme. Practically all Qi programs will run in Shen, but not all Shen programs will run in Qi.

This paper, Secure Data Deduplication, has an overview and a security analysis: http://www.ssrc.ucsc.edu/Papers/storer-storagess08.pdf

I think nomagraphs could be very useful in realtime dashboards, where one needs to convey several interrelated values and their relationships simultaneously. Moreover, many engineers prefer nomographs because they're actually faster and more intuitive than trying to solve a problem with a computer. That's why they teach you how to use psychrometric charts in thermodynamics and Smith charts in antenna design (or at least I was taught both ~8 years ago).

I'm surprised the author didn't mention the Smith chart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_chart

Just a historical note: common Western belief in a flat earth is a nineteenth-century myth popularized by Washington Irving and Antoine-Jean Letronne. Since Pythagoras, to my knowledge only Lactantius (c. 245–325) and Cosmas Indicopleustes (first half of the sixth century) publicly argued that the earth is flat. Lactantius was considered a heretic for his Manichaean worldview and Cosmas did not intend his model, which was sharply criticized by his contemporary John Philoponus, to be taken literally.

If Google is filtering those pages, here's an earlier version of that chapter: http://omega.albany.edu:8008/ETJ-PS/cc10i.ps

I also have one for Matlab/Octave that allows you to change to door count to get a better feel for what's going on: https://gist.github.com/411593