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Governments tend to have quite a bit of money.

Here's an example of "use in anger", https://gitlab.com/jjg/lcrp/blob/master/lcrp.c#L159 -- the algorithm used needs the array to have at least 3 el…

Everything interesting has been touched :-) I'd recommend looking at l1-minimisation methods (which seek sparse solutions) and how best GPUs can be used for those problems.

This can be an advantage: a hands-on PITA manager gets so obsessed with Jira configuration that he leaves the devs alone, so we can get on with some work.

Absolutely not. Karl Weierstrass didn't really get started until he was 40.

Interesting comment on that thread. Since all Australian SSL certs are now compromised (we must assume that), shouldn't all Australian certifying authorities be de-trusted?

Once you're past the "basic vocabulary" stage, watch films in French, but with the French subtitles.

Most languages can access C without much hassle (Ruby, Python, ...), F77 predates this, and while you can combine C and F77 for a particular compiler, it is a painful and unrewarding task (and the res…

From outside, one might think that the notation is universal and unchanging, nothing could be further from the truth: each field has its own take, its own conventions. One even finds groups within a…

I was going to try out Rust, then I saw this on the download page curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh Really?

Reg: What's the point of fighting for his right to have babies, when he can't have babies? Francis: It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression. Reg: It's symbolic of his struggle…

A good question which could also be asked of 30% of HN articles

Barriers to trade like "no chlorine-washed chicken", mmmm

Not so easy with those powerful texting thumbs

Indeed, "audacious" is not word I'd use for these kind of games, "lazy", "shooting fish in a barrel" would be closer.

That seems an odd thing to want to change. Do you also move proximal punctuation inside the quotes, AE-style?

I’ve always imagined that the adjective was needed because under a desk somewhere, perhaps pedal powered, was a “small hadron collider” Robert E. A. Harvey, Comment on The Register, 28th December 2011…

Same with the motorbikes, OK till you try to turn a corner. But that's kind-of unfair, since on long straight US roads that's not really a disadvantage.

If you value your privacy, use cash.

http://blog.geomblog.org/2013/01/a-sampling-gem-sampling-fro... …

I heard "On y go" in Paris, made me laugh.

In the UK, we have "twerly" (derived from the free bus trips available to pensioners, but only after 10am, hence "Am I too early?")

Sensible and honest advice like this saves lives

Underdogs with nuclear weapons?

Allow install of Windows onto a partition and not overwrite the MBR

They were Wittgenstein's, the "Letters to C. K. Ogden with Comments on the English Translation of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" includes detailed notes on their typographic treatm…

That costs a sort, better to use the Kahan summation formula https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahan_summation_algorithm …

Football-field size, surely

Matlab's fine, but Excel has (had?) some serious defects in the basic statistical functions, in particular, it coundn't reliably calculate a standard deviation.