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Sleep Boosts Creativity by 33%

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 10/12/2008

I can attest to this. The amount of ideas I get either just waking up, in the middle of the night, or right before I go to sleep is ridiculous. (see comment)

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This is the kind of man Barack Obama is...

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 10/07/2008

His first book is also very good. It displays his deep understanding of race relations in America. People were surprised by the speech he gave on race back in the primary, but they really wouldn't have been if they had read his book. Great story. It d … (see comment)

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Stanford Engineering Launches Free Computer Science Classes

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 09/19/2008

Many thanks for the link. (see comment)

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Stanford Engineering Launches Free Computer Science Classes

Comment in News (2 diggs, 1 reply) - on 09/19/2008

What I really want to find is some quantum mechanics lectures on the internet. MIT's lecture notes are available, but no video lectures. :( I'm doing EE and I'm doing research in semiconductors but I really don't know enough QM to be as effective as I c … (see comment)

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Europe Gets Prison Break Fix via BitTorrent

Comment in News (9 diggs, 1 reply) - on 09/11/2008

I've been saying this for years. The majority of TV pirates do so because the shows are not available in their country or are available but follow a stupid schedule and/or huge delays. If TV studios offered international downloads for money the piracy r … (see comment)

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Lose your house, lose your vote

Comment in News (2 diggs, 0 replies) - on 09/11/2008

Democrats aim to get people registered to vote. Republicans aim to remove registered voters. :/ (see comment)

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F1 Spa 2008 : Hamilton penalised, Massa handed win - F1

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 09/08/2008

After reading James Allen's GP Verdict the punishment seems slightly less outrageous than I thought at the time. http://www.itv-f1.com/Feature.aspx?Type=James_Alle ... However, I am a Ferrari fan and I didn't think they receive preferential treatment. U … (see comment)

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Intel Ready to Announce Six-Core Chip

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 09/05/2008

They need to fix programs first. I'm running a MATLAB function atm that takes 9 hours on a Intel Pentium 4 3 Ghz and takes 'only' 7 hours on a Intel Xeon Quad Core of with a similar clock. (see comment)

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A Chinese Challenge to Intel

Comment in News (2 diggs, 0 replies) - on 09/03/2008

I emailed the author and now they have corrected it. (see comment)

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A Chinese Challenge to Intel

Comment in News (3 diggs, 1 reply) - on 09/03/2008

ST Microelectronics are not a Swiss company. I work for them. We're a European based multinational and make a very wide variety of integrated circuits from flash memory to MEMS. STMicroelectronics was created in 1987 by the merger of SGS Microelettroni … (see comment)

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Robert J. Elisberg: The Worst Vice-Presidential Nominee in U

Comment in News (4 diggs, 0 replies) - on 08/30/2008

Great analysis Mr. Elisberg. McCain has seriously shot himself in the foot over this as the only argument he was getting any track with was the inexperience of Obama (which is bull) but with having someone as inexperienced as her on the ticket he can no … (see comment)

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Origin Of High Energy Emission From Crab Nebula Identified

Comment in News (3 diggs, 0 replies) - on 08/30/2008

The actual link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/08082 ... (see comment)

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Top 10 Jet Fighters: Military Channel [pics]

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 08/28/2008

The Hurricane was also incredibly easy to fix. With the Spitfire they had to bolt on new metal to fix it when it got shot up. The Hurricane, however, they only needed to patch on some new fabric. My Grandfather was a ground mechanic during WW2 in the U … (see comment)

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Bell Labs Kills Fundamental Physics Research

Comment in News (4 diggs, 0 replies) - on 08/28/2008

What a shame. (see comment)

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How MythBusters Will Shut Up Moon Conspiracy Theorists 2nite

Comment in News (3 diggs, 2 replies) - on 08/28/2008

There's an even simpler explanation: don't you think the Soviets would have been the first to accuse America of faking the moon landings if they believed that they couldn't have reached the Moon? The Soviets obviously knew the Moon landings happened, el … (see comment)

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Nanoantenna Arrays Seen As Possible Solar Cell Replacement

Comment in News (9 diggs, 0 replies) - on 08/12/2008

Won't work unless they work out how to make super high frequency rectifiers which is going to be a hard thing to do. The energy can be received perfectly fine but actually getting anything with a DC level greater than zero is the hard part. They should … (see comment)

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Will Gaming Ever Become a Popular Spectator Sport?

Comment in News (-1 diggs, 1 reply) - on 08/07/2008

CGS is just a terribly bad gaming event. If you want to see the potential gaming has as a spectator sport, watch something like ESWC q3 and CS 1.6 events -they're are huge and intense to watch. CGS is terribly done and overly commercialised, not to ment … (see comment)

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A camera that's more like an eye

Comment in News (-2 diggs, 0 replies) - on 08/07/2008

Camera still won't replicate what humans actually see. You can make a camera with a better lens than the eye, better dynamic range, better in every physical performance metric but it still will not be as good as the eye. Why? Because no image processin … (see comment)

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