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The Square Root of NOT » American Scientist

Digital computers are built out of circuits that have definite, discrete states: on or off, zero or one, high voltage or low voltage. Engineers go to great lengths to make sure these circuits never settle into some intermediate condition. Quantum-mechanical systems, as it happens, offer a guarantee…

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Hasnain says:

"What I wish I knew when Learning Haskell".

Slide 36 does it for me:

Questions we ask when studying category theory

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Why am I still single?

Posted on 2013-04-14T12:51:27+0000

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The Tyranny of the Taxi Medallions

The life of a taxi driver is hard. When cabbies start a shift, they owe about $100 to their company as payment just for the opportunity drive a taxi. They might not break even until halfway through...

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learnfun and playfun: A general technique for automating NES games

Video, research paper, and software for learning how to play NES games and then automatically playing them.

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The DDoS That Almost Broke the Internet - CloudFlare blog

Welcome to the CloudFlare blog. CloudFlare provides performance and security for any website. Hundreds of thousands of websites use CloudFlare. To learn more, please visit our website.

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Online Dispute Becomes Internet-Snarling Attack

A squabble between a group battling spam and a Dutch company that hosts Web sites said to be sending it has escalated into an attack clogging up key online infrastructure worldwide.

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Hasnain says:

Cyberbunker claims that they fended off a SWAT team as well - not so difficult given that they're located inside a NATO bunker designed to withstand a 20 megaton blast and the SWAT team was using a battering ram.

Posted on 2013-03-27T14:22:27+0000