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h0h0

21 karma · joined November 10, 2011

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h0h0··on Programming is the new High School Diploma
How to improve ANYTHING: 'apply machine learning and stuff like that'
h0h0··on Dutch ISPs Refuse To Block The Pirate Bay
I signed up with XS4ALL last week. It wasn't the cheapest ISP in Amsterdam, but they have managed to stay true to their original "hacker culture". It's good to see that their owner KPN also tries to challenge this blockage.
h0h0··on Batman Equation in Google Graphs
another batman function is found as a stationary solution of the non-linear 4th order extended Fisher-Kolmogorov equation:

u_t + 10^-8 u_xxxx = 10e^-4 gamma u_xx + u - u^3

which describes the propagation of domain walls in liquid crystals

batman-ears: http://www.matmol.org/images/images/kolmo.png

h0h0··on FASTRA II: the world’s most powerful desktop supercomputer
there are several, relatively well-paid, phd positions available at the vision group ;)
h0h0··on 747's are big flying Unix hosts
When I lived with a former Airbus engineer, he explained that these systems were running 80486 processors due to their relability (in the sense that nothing unexplainable would ever happen). That being said, he also told stories of how the complexity caused software bugs to manifest themselves that often disappeared before their causes were determined.
h0h0··on ØMQ: Mission Accomplished
What HPC products use 0mq?

Would it be applicable to large-scale optimization problems, e.g. in context of machine learning?