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Re:Theoretical Breakthrough Discovered for Random Number Generation on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @12:53PM (#11723340)
The draft paper can be found here: http://eccc.hpi-web.de/report/2015/119/
Re:The New York Times' tagged ingredient data set is now on GitHub on Friday April 29, 2016 @04:25PM (#11598525)
Here's a direct link to GitHub: https://github.com/NYTimes/ingredient-phrase-tagger

And here's a link to the dataset for anyone who'd like to peruse the raw data (~180K rows): https://putdat.com/hkdbmzK

Re:The Hi-Tech Gift Economy (2005) on Thursday April 21, 2016 @07:18AM (#11541095)
It should be mentioned that the paper was originally published in 1998. This version, from 2005, contains an update from the author, Dr. Richard Barbrook. The original paper was itself a remixed extract from The Holy Fools: a critique of the avant-garde in the age of the Net.
Re:How I investigated Uber surge pricing in D.C on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @08:15AM (#11533785)
If anyone wants to take a look at the TLC Yellow Cab dataset for December 2015 (without downloading the entire file), it can be viewed here: https://putdat.com/WgsjFsT

It's 2GB and ~11.5MM rows. That's about four trips per second!

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