2009 - Data Science Current

Self and Self: Whys and Wherefores (2009) [video]

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JUNE 24, 2024

(September 30, 2009) David Unger, from IBM Research, discusses how his experience in computer science has led him to the conclusion that even if your ideas s.

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Do We Need a 37-Cent Coin? (2009)

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

A young economist I know, Patrick DeJarnette, believes a much more radical change in currency is warranted. Here is what Patrick writes: Late one night I was curious how efficient the “penny, nickel, dime, quarter” system was, so I wrote a little script to compare all possible 4-coin systems, with the following stipulations:

Six top Alzheimer's researchers accused of fraud

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OCTOBER 20, 2024

@moreisdifferent: List of high-level Alzheimer's researchers accused of credible fraud:ð§µ #1 - Marc Tessier-Lavigne Genentech pointed out problems in his 2009 Nature paper in 2012. After an expose by @tab_delete, he.â¦

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How not to sort by average rating (2009)

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OCTOBER 25, 2024

Users are rating items on your website. How do you know what the highest-rated items are?

Popular Science Magazine Archives May 1872-March 2009

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.

The history of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (2009)

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AUGUST 13, 2024

Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is one of those ideas that had been building for a very long time, and became a practical reality when the appearance of mass market applications coincided with the availability of efficient software and electronic technologies.

The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to "The Office" (2009)

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AUGUST 10, 2024

My neighbor introduced me to The Office back in 2005. Since then, I’ve watched every episode of both the British and American versions. I’ve watched the show obsessively because I&#8217…

Consciousness and Anaesthesia (2009)

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JUNE 14, 2023

When we are anesthetized, we expect consciousness to vanish. But does it always? Although anesthesia undoubtedly induces unresponsiveness and amnesia, the extent to which it causes unconsciousness is harder to establish. For instance, certain anesthetics.

Extinct goat was cold-blooded (2009)

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OCTOBER 13, 2023

(PhysOrg.com) -- An extinct goat that lived on a barren Mediterranean island survived for millions of years by reducing in size and by becoming cold-blooded, which has never before been discovered in mammals.

How fast can a human possibly run 100 meters?

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JULY 22, 2024

seconds, set in 2009. The all-time record is Usain Bolt's 9.58 What is the fastest time, ultimately, for an ideal human body?

How long does Apple support Mac firmware?

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AUGUST 6, 2024

Results from 40 different models since 2009. How long does Apple continue to provide firmware updates for a model once it has been introduced?

Leveraging ANOVA and Kruskal-Wallis Tests to Analyze the Impact of the Great Recession on Housing Prices

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The years 2007 to 2009 marked a tumultuous time for the US housing market. In the world of real estate, numerous factors influence property prices. The economy, market demand, location, and even the year a property is sold can play significant roles.

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Private space-junk probe snaps historic photo of discarded rocket in orbit

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APRIL 27, 2024

The private ADRAS-J probe snapped an epic, up-close image of its rendezvous target, a Japanese rocket stage that's been circling Earth since 2009.

Unlocking a Gary TL-15 Round-Door Safe (2009)

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JULY 2, 2024

Many characteristics of a safe and its lock can be determined by the safecracker even when no published or personal records can be found. Often, a logical approach is enough to.

In Praise of Difficult Children (2009)

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JANUARY 20, 2024

It isn’t simply that rules are made to be broken: the rules tell you that there is something to break. If there was no.

How to solve the "Mastermind" guessing game? (2009)

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JANUARY 12, 2024

How would you create an algorithm to solve the following puzzle, "Mastermind"? Your Your opponent has chosen four different colours from a set of six (yellow, blue, green, red, orange, purple).

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The world of Yakuza fan magazines (2009)

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

By Jake Adelstein TOKYO: The Japanese mafia, better known as the yakuza, has been the subject of fan magazines for decades.

Kernel.org servers infected with backdoors for two years from 2009

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MAY 15, 2024

Ebury backdoors SSH servers in hosting providers, giving the malware extraordinary reach.

Quantum Soccer (2009)

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MARCH 12, 2024

Illustrations for Border Guards by Greg Egan

This Boat Don't Float (2009)

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AUGUST 19, 2023

Dreaming of a Huck Finn-style adventure on the Mississippi, a young couple are instead afoul of the law.

It's easy to underprice your product (2009)

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JULY 18, 2023

What's the right price for your product? According to Steve Blank, it's apparently $0. And it's also $1 million. Listen to this wonderful story to learn how Steve uses these two prices to create a bounding box around the highest price customers will pay for a product. And see why he thinks "It's very…

My Visit to Deep Springs College (2009)

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

You should neither trust outward appearances, nor let them intimidate you. There is always a discord between the appearance that a person or organization projects, and their actual nature. For this reason, always be careful about the people and organizations in whom you place your trust.

Victorian Artistic Printing (2009)

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AUGUST 14, 2024

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A Day Job Is So Much Easier Than Entrepreneurship

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JUNE 25, 2024

I've been running a lifestyle business, this site, since I started it in 2009. You know what's easier than entrepreneurship? A day job. I say this with emphasis after not having a day job since 2012! But let's go back to September 2012, three months after I left banking for good. I decided to focus

Five-Disk Floppy Raid: 4MB of Blistering Fast Storage (2009)

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

A “Floppy RAID” might sound like the title of a frustrating niche adult movie, but it isn’t. Instead, it is a homebrew project by Daniel Blade Olson* which cobbles together five 3.5” floppy drives into a redundant disk array. RAID means either extra speed or extra data security, but Olson’s version offers neither. The setup […]

If You Don't Change the UI, Nobody Notices (2009)

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MARCH 23, 2024

I saw a screenshot a few days ago that made me think Windows 7 Beta might actually be worth checking out. That's right, Microsoft finally improved the calculator app! We've been complaining for years that Microsoft ships new operating systems with the same boring old default applets the previous version

Recreating the THX Deep Note (2009)

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

We dissect the building blocks of the infamous THX Deep Sound and recreate it by synthesizing the sound in Supercollider programming environment.

How to save an old printer from the e-waste pile with a Raspberry Pi

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JUNE 12, 2024

A family member has a Canon PIXMA MP250 printer, originally released in 2009. It has been a very reliable piece of hardware, especially for a printer. Then came Windows 10. The printer would not work out of the box with it and the official drivers got stuck during installation.

Satoshi – Sirius emails 2009-2011

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

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NASA Made the Hubble Telescope to Be Remade

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

On five space-shuttle servicing missions between 1993 and 2009, 16 spacewalkers replaced every major component except the telescope’s mirrors and outer skin. A series of maintenance workstations on the telescope’s outer surface ensured astronauts could have ready access to crucial telescope parts.

Major Alzheimer paper retracted by former Stanford president after a decade

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DECEMBER 31, 2023

A 2009 study, cited as a “key scientific discovery” by Genentech as it sought a higher valuation, has now been retracted by former University head Marc Tessier-Lavigne. It is his fourth retraction in as many months.

Tail Recursion Elimination (2009)

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MAY 25, 2024

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POSIX v. reality: A position on O_PONIES (2009)

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NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Sure, programmers (especially operating systems programmers) love their specifications. Clean, well-defined interfaces are a key element of scalable software development. But what is it about file systems, POSIX, and when file data is guaranteed to hit permanent storage that brings out the POSIX fundamentalist in all of us?

Be sceptical of your own work (2009)

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AUGUST 15, 2023

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field. Niels Bohr) If you unexpectedly find a problem solving itself almost effortlessly, and you can’t quite …

The real realtime preemption end game

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

For much of that time, it has seemed like only a little more work was needed to get across the finish line; thus we ran headlines like the realtime preemption endgame — in 2009. The addition of realtime support to Linux is a long story; it first shows up in LWN in 2004.

What DNS Is Not (2009)

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

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I raced a homing pigeon against the Internet [video]

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AUGUST 28, 2023

It hasn't been tested since 2009!Thanks Bird beats Internet. Or does it? Thanks to 45Drives for paying for my flight to Canada. You can check them out here: https:/.

The disappointingly ongoing success of WvDial (2009)

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JULY 4, 2023

For those who don't know, I'm one of the original two authors of WvDial (Oh yes, that's a real Wikipedia link!). back in 1998. WvDial and.

Design Is an Island – By Kent Beck

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MARCH 20, 2024

First published April 2009. This was a period when I was working consistently on the material that would become, a decade and a half later, Tidy First? If design is responsive motion in a space of all possible designs, then some designs are acceptable and some are not. Designing, then, is like walking an island.

Tech Trend: Shanzhai (2009)

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JANUARY 24, 2024

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On being wrong about AI

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

This time it's some rationalist AI doomers, ridiculing me for a podcast I did with Eliezer Yudkowsky way back in 2009, one that I knew even then was a p**s-poor performance on my part. I'm being attacked on Twitter for. no, none of the things you think. The rationalists are reminding the world that…

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Untangling Spaghetti: Debugging Non-Terminating Object Programs (2009)

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APRIL 22, 2024

Make an understandable mess, fix the bug, then make it easier to understand

Leaving Haskell Behind

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AUGUST 24, 2023

For almost a complete decade—starting with discovering Haskell in about 2009 and right up until switching to a job where I used primarily.

An Approach to Sound Synthesis with L-Systems

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JANUARY 10, 2024

An early obsession of mine when I was first learning about music tech was a paper by Stelios Manousakis titled âNon-Standard Sound Synthesis with L-Systems,â published 2009 in Leonardo Music Journal.

Self and Self: Whys and Wherefores (2009) [video]

Do We Need a 37-Cent Coin? (2009)

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Six top Alzheimer's researchers accused of fraud

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How not to sort by average rating (2009)

Popular Science Magazine Archives May 1872-March 2009

The history of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (2009)

The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to "The Office" (2009)

Consciousness and Anaesthesia (2009)

Extinct goat was cold-blooded (2009)

How fast can a human possibly run 100 meters?

How long does Apple support Mac firmware?

Leveraging ANOVA and Kruskal-Wallis Tests to Analyze the Impact of the Great Recession on Housing Prices

Private space-junk probe snaps historic photo of discarded rocket in orbit

Unlocking a Gary TL-15 Round-Door Safe (2009)

In Praise of Difficult Children (2009)

How to solve the "Mastermind" guessing game? (2009)

The world of Yakuza fan magazines (2009)

Kernel.org servers infected with backdoors for two years from 2009

Quantum Soccer (2009)

This Boat Don't Float (2009)

It's easy to underprice your product (2009)

My Visit to Deep Springs College (2009)

Victorian Artistic Printing (2009)

A Day Job Is So Much Easier Than Entrepreneurship

Five-Disk Floppy Raid: 4MB of Blistering Fast Storage (2009)

If You Don't Change the UI, Nobody Notices (2009)

Recreating the THX Deep Note (2009)

How to save an old printer from the e-waste pile with a Raspberry Pi

Satoshi – Sirius emails 2009-2011

NASA Made the Hubble Telescope to Be Remade

Major Alzheimer paper retracted by former Stanford president after a decade

Tail Recursion Elimination (2009)

POSIX v. reality: A position on O_PONIES (2009)

Be sceptical of your own work (2009)

The real realtime preemption end game

What DNS Is Not (2009)

I raced a homing pigeon against the Internet [video]

The disappointingly ongoing success of WvDial (2009)

Design Is an Island – By Kent Beck

Tech Trend: Shanzhai (2009)

On being wrong about AI

Untangling Spaghetti: Debugging Non-Terminating Object Programs (2009)

Leaving Haskell Behind

An Approach to Sound Synthesis with L-Systems

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