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I was puzzled by the statement that he didn't learn much from the classes he took in formal logic.

>(Consider "I don't know if I learned anything from them. " Footnote: 1 "In practice formal logic is not much use,..." )

This guy has programmed massive amounts of LISP code, and written books about LISP.

How can he say that his training in formal logic didn't take him anywhere?

If I remember right, this joke is also told in the Hollywood drug-flick "Traffic", from 2000 or so. In the movie, the burnt-out drug czar of the old US administration mentions this joke to his ambitious successor, played by Michael Douglas.

You are wrong here. "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" is by Steven Covey. However, she said her favorite writer of management books is Peter Drucker, who described "Seven Sources of Innovation" http://snakecoffee.wordpress.com/2006/04/30/peter-druckers-s..., praising Japanese companies

...And does anyone have a link to Larry Wall's talk? ("state of the onion").I'd like to know why there was a steaming toy penguin on the stage. https://twitter.com/merlyn/statuses/226149752440500227

Your post is so wrong that it is almost trolling. Just some counterexamples.

The Fukushima Mark-1 reactors are of very dangerous design, and that is well-known. (For example their containment is perforated at key positions, by design)

Ambient radioactivity is so high in central Japan that it should definitely be considered a hazard (just search on Youtube for Japanese people filming themselves walking around with Geiger counters and measuring the signal, e.g Youtube user "Chanbukimi"). Government ignores it or plays it down.

Exremely radioactive "radiotrophic funghus" (see Wikipedia) is everywhere in the Fukushima area and even in Tokyo.

Cancer risks by long-term low-dose radioactive exposure are even higher than estimated by the models promoted by governmental regulatory bodies. Risks are higher for children and women in particular, and simple back of the envelope calculations can show this convincingly (to me, that is).

The whole food chain in Japan is messed up for the foreseeable future, and this holds for Pacific seafood as well. Young Tuna fish catched in the San Diego area are slightly radioactive, although these fish are so young that they could not have stayed in radioactive seawater near Japan for more than a couple of months, and they are still contaminated.

There is much more contamination to come as the radioactivity spreads just by natural mass transfer processes (water cycle, carbon cycle).

I for one am very pessimistic.

in Germany : Chemnitz Linux Days / Chemnitzer Linux Tage. Happen usually on a weekend in March. Entrance fee is 8 Euros. Great value, very nerdy, never sold out,

http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2012/info/index?cookielang=e...

Quoting from a forum thread:

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=59896&...

So as I understand it in order to be able to access a public dataset I create a new EBS volume and attach it to a given instance for use.

So if a dataset were 200GB in size I'd be charged against my storage usage for 200GB / month.

Is this correct?

Is there a way to do a read-only access to the data from within an instance that doesn't count against my storage usage?

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Here is an answer from Amazon support, April 2011:

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Hello,

You are correct, in order to use a public data set you will have to create an EBS volume with the corresponding snapshot and attach it to an instance. There is currently no option for read-only access.

Sincerely,

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I've played around with some of the datasets and it ended up being fairly costly....

What do you think about "grid computing" concepts? Are they too academic? outdated? more/less general? Is your architecture a different approach or just a variation on the theme, a special case?

Will there be a chapter about how your preferred architecture compares to in-memory databases technologies? SAP has been creating a lot of marketing hype on this in the last years. Indeed I think a lot of business problems can be solved by cramming more RAM into centralized servers. Yesterday's big-data problems are now routine if you have a dozens-of gigabytes of RAM machine available.

Or is this question not applicable at all (because the architecture makes no assumptions on the type of data storage); the requirements and usage scenarios are completely different?

How was the work split up between you and the co-author?

I live near Berlin. There is much wisdom in this essay on startups written by Paul Graham in 2006:

http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html

Quote: "I think you only need two kinds of people to create a technology hub: rich people and nerds. "

Regarding Nerds: There are certainly a lot of nerds in Berlin. Are they elite technology geeks? Maybe. But lots of such nerds are willing to move to Berlin. Check passed.

Regarding Rich people/investors: There are actually relatively few rich people in Berlin. (Berlin is so cheap for a reason: it is a very poor city). So this key success factor is still underrepresented. Check NOT passed.

Just sayin'.

Don't expect too much.

In the EU, it is legal to mix different olive oils. Similarly, I think may be legal to mix honeys from different places of origin. So use n% american honey, (100-n)% non-american honey and supermarkets might still sell it under a brand name which has "American" in its name, e.g. "Sunlit Meadows True American Wildflower Honey" and in the fine print it might say "Contains a blend of American and Non-American Honeys". To make it untraceable and hide the weight fractions of the ingredients, ultra filtering helps such that n = 0.05 (= 5%).

To my understanding, the German version of the law that was passed says:

The guarantees are basically possible, but they are still optional.

Whatever the ESFS contract says, and whatever the EFSF Bureaucrats might decide: before any real money flows from Germany to Greece, the German parliament (or a parl. committee) will have to approve this a second time.