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And it's a shame that postulating genetic group selection is so attractive, since ISTM that this is a very plausible case of group selection of memes about male and female tasks.

Comment · 14 years ago

There's a huge difference between molecule-scale quantum chemical phenomena (as in photosynthesis) and quantum computation. Finding the former in the brain would be very cool, but it wouldn't be terribly surprising or revolutionize cognitive science the way the latter would.

Comment · 15 years ago

It's simple semantics with confusing behavior.

Comment · 15 years ago

The inconsistency is because, in the generator-expression case, the calls to f() are being interleaved with the iterations of the generator (so the closed-over variable has the 'correct' value when f() is called). If you change this by running the generator to completion first, the behavior is the same as the list case:

  In [1]: lambdas_listgen = list(((lambda: i) for i in range(10)))
  In [2]: [f() for f in lambdas_listgen]
  Out[2]: [9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9]

Comment · 15 years ago

I've done this using select.

Comment · 15 years ago

Er, RDS is (a) SQL (b) backed by EBS.

Comment · 15 years ago

`lsof' is a nice front-end to this particular usage of /proc, and also works on other Unixes (/proc is, I think, a Linux innovation, and absent at least on OS X).

Comment · 15 years ago

It requires neither.

Comment · 15 years ago

> That the US's implementation of this law is heavily lopsided in favor of the patent trolls doesn't change the fact that patents incentivize innovation. (Whether they're effective or not is another debate.)

Moving the goalposts.

Comment · 15 years ago

You can't sever a word from its connotations just by pointing out exceptions.

Comment · 15 years ago

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Comment · 15 years ago

Many instance types have 2 or 4 virtual disks (presumably on different physical disks).

Comment · 15 years ago

> calculate its Total Cost of Downtime (which probably isn't very complex for many companies)

Not complex even factoring in reputational damage?

Comment · 15 years ago

Not sure what you had in mind by "large", but instance storage goes up to 1.7TB: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/

Comment · 15 years ago

I think which physical data center "us-east-1a" etc. corresponds to differs from user to user, to load-balance given that people will probably be more likely to use 1a than the other zones.