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Fields Medals 2014: the maths of Avila, Bhargava, Hairer and Mirzakhani explainedtheguardian.com
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Understanding Paxos - Part 1distributedthoughts.wordpress.com
The first time I heard of the Paxos algorithm was during my bachelor's degree way back in 2004, when I participated in a Distributed Algorithms course. In the past few years Paxos came up multiple ... -
Intel memory ordering, fence instructions, and atomic operations.peeterjoot.wordpress.com
[Click here for a PDF of this post with nicer formatting] Motivation. In my recent post about memory barriers and atomics(or the PDF version here), I stated a number of times that x86 (or x86-64) w... -
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Shifts In Algorithm Designrjlipton.wordpress.com
How to find approximate page rank fast, among other things Jennifer Chayes is the current director of a research lab in Cambridge---that is Cambridge Massachusetts---for a company called Microsoft.... -
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Welcome to Paradises.telegraph.co.uk
When Germany legalised prostitution in 2002 it triggered an apparently unstoppable growth in the country’s sex industry. It’s now worth 15 billion euros a year and embraces everything from 12-storey mega-brothels to outdoor sex boxes. Nisha Lilia Diu v... -
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Exploring Racketkhinsen.wordpress.com
Over the last few months I have been exploring the Racket language for its potential as a language for computational science, and it's time to summarize my first impressions. Why Racket? There are ... - cs.ucsb.edu
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(R)?ex - A simple framework to simplify system administration and datacenter automationrexify.org
(R)?ex - manage all your boxes from a central point - Datacenter Automation and Configuration Management - benzguo.com
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Inconsolata-g font derived from Inconsolata and Inconsolata-dzleonardo-m.livejournal.com
I use the free Inconsolata font (by Raph Levien) to program and as shell font, and I like it a lot. I have seen this blog post: "Adding straight single and double quotes to Inconsolata", that offers Inconsolata-dz: http://nodnod.net/2009/feb/12... -
John F. Akers, 79, Dies; Led IBM as PCs Ascendednytimes.com
Mr. Akers became chief executive in 1985, as smaller, less expensive computers started to undercut the company’s lucrative mainframe computer business. -
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3D-printed vertebra used in spine surgerycbsnews.com
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Project Pingback - Finding customers, reinvented.projectpingback.com
Project Pingback connects you with customers who don't know you exist, but want to buy what you offer.