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    Project Natal: Milo - E3 Stage Demo, Virtual Human

    Instead of being skeptical, think of it this way. If this really works, then we can expect a much better version of Virtua Girl (not to mention cheaper than the real version).
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    Why Is Information Theory So Confusing?

    Information theory attempts to ask certain questions like : A] What does it mean for an information to be useful? How can I measure it? B] Given that there is a noisy medium for this information to be communicated through, what should be the pre-requisites for this medium? C] How can I find...
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    Google Trends: CS-related phrases at an all-time low

    Hmm, first few links for me http://www.samba.org/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samba_(software) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samba_(disambiguation) us1.samba.org/samba/what_is_samba.html us1.samba.org/samba/ 5/9 seems significant to me. Even if you don't consider sub-links, it still is 3/6 (Ignoring the...
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    Algabreic Manipulation of Sigma Notation

    I have made a small edit to that wiki page now. That should clear things up a bit. -- AI
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    How Does Numerov's Method Solve Differential Equations?

    Google Search gives this as the first link : http://rkb.home.cern.ch/rkb/AN16pp/node194.html -- AI
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    Medical How Does the New Bionic Eye Technology Restore Vision?

    http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn11200?DCMP=Matt_Sparkes&nsref=bionic-eye Title : Better 'bionic eye' offers new hope of restored vision A tiny electronic pad is placed onto the retina of one eye, so that the electrodes are in direct contact with the ganglion cells. Each of the...
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    Is a Teraflop Chip the Future of Desktop Computing?

    These chips are for systems that yield themselves to high degree of parallelism. We do have a lot of stuff available for parallel programming what with the MPI(http://www.cspi.com/multicomputer/products/mpi/mpi.htm), Star-P(http://www.interactivesupercomputing.com/products/ ) and...
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    What is the Best Notepad Replacement with Syntax Highlighting?

    Notepad++ http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm -- AI
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    Java How to get Color from RGB value in JAVA

    Color Class in Java ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Color public Color(float r, float g, float b, float a) Creates an sRGB color with the specified red, green, blue, and alpha values in the range (0.0 - 1.0)...
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    Learn Category Theory: Best Introductory Books & Articles w/ Physics Examples

    I learned some category theory from a book called "The Joy Of Cats" by Adamek, Herrlich and Strecker. Its a fairly decent book. But then i also had a good instructor to go along, so i am not sure, how good it might be for self study. -- AI
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    Java How do you use Java's Hashtable?

    There are fast MD5 implementations available. Combine that with toString function to MyObject and i think you can get something what you are looking for. -- AI
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    Learn How to Compile and Run C Code on Ubuntu | Helpful Tips and Tutorials

    . refers to current working directory. When you compile your code without giving the object file name, i.e gcc code.c the default object code is dumped into a file called a.out in your current working directory. Therefore for execution of that code, you give the "path" as ./a.out. Say if...
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    Java How do you use Java's Hashtable?

    Hashtables in java are more generic than what one normally thinks of hashtables as. So instead of key being just numbers, you can use any object. Btw, integers are also objects so you can use them normally as you would (though you would need the "Integer" wrapper class instead of the normal...
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    What's the correct term for it?

    Hmm, technically f(a) cannot be equal to g(h(a)) unless codomain(f) = codomain(g).
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    Cleaning Laptop Screen: What to Use?

    Dry Soft Woollen Cloth?
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