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Re:PigPaxos: Removing the Scalability Bottlenecks in Paxos on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @02:13PM (#22619581)
Is this a similar concept to compartmentalized consensus? https://mwhittaker.github.io/publications/compartmentalized_...
Re:Om Next demo at ClojureNYC [video] on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @10:07PM (#10301304)
Re:Show HN: Morse code radio [audio] on Friday July 04, 2014 @11:47PM (#7990959)
Morse code instructional video from the US Army: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li8Hiwbc664
Re:Governments admit to faking terrorism: a list on Monday December 09, 2013 @06:10PM (#6877749)
A series of CIA memos describes how Israeli Mossad agents posed as American spies to recruit members of the terrorist organization Jundallah to fight their covert war against Iran: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/13/false_flag
Concerning sampling and aliasing, you might find this video series from xipf interesting: http://www.xiph.org/video/
Re:Meet the Private Companies Helping Cops Spy on Protesters on Friday October 25, 2013 @07:52PM (#6615498)
Except that the government has a monopoly on force. If a private company harms you, there are often civil and potentially criminal concequences. If the government uses your private data against you and violates your rights, who do you turn to?
Re:Go Pro on a soaring eagle [video] on Thursday September 19, 2013 @11:58AM (#6412434)
Earthflight has similarly beautiful footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIKnol2i850
Re:Lossless decompression and the generation of random samples on Thursday August 08, 2013 @07:53AM (#6178322)
The same is true of arithmetic coding, which separates the probability model from the encoding process. Feed an arithmetic coder a stream of random bits and it will efficiently sample from your model. See section 6.3: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itprnn/ps/105.124....
Re:Building a Better Bitcoin on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @12:38PM (#5519268)
Re:Building a Better Bitcoin on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @12:37PM (#5519252)
Just to clarify, Austrians define monetary deflation as a contraction in the total supply of a given money. In this case, it would mean a decrease in the total number of Bitcoins.
Re:Texas Declares War on Drones on Saturday March 02, 2013 @01:56AM (#5308789)
I've participated in the political process in Texas and I'm not sure that this is true. Take for example HB 80: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/83R/billtext/pdf/HB00...
Re:Texas Declares War on Drones on Saturday March 02, 2013 @01:39AM (#5308751)
> Law enforcement officers could only use drones while executing a search warrant or if they had probable cause to believe someone is committing a felony, and firefighters can only use drones for fighting fire or to rescue a person whose life is “in imminent danger.” Texas’ border-patrolling Predator drones are exempt within 25 miles of the Mexican border. There are additional penalties for possession, display or distribution of data captured by an illegally flown drone. Gooden said the goal is to protect Texans’ privacy.

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-02/privacy-and...

Re:Court of Appeal bans Bayesian probability on Monday February 25, 2013 @10:39AM (#5279405)
> the initial Bayesian analysis was plain wrong

The initial analysis used Fisher's Exact Test, which is a frequentist rather than a Bayesian method.

Re:Amazon joins Walmart in push for online sales tax on Thursday February 14, 2013 @01:24PM (#5220972)
Note that the Marketplace Fairness Act has been reintroduced in the Senate: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/13/us-usa-tax-online-...

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