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- Explanation of 44.1 kHz CD sampling rate http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/audio/44.1.html 39 comments
- The Price of Free Enterprise "One major problem is that there is no free market mechanism for effectively deterring environmental abuse. Even the free market itself cannot survive without strongly enforced laws against cartels." and monopolies. http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~unger/articles/freeenterprise.html 70 comments politics
- Go's Persistence of Good Ideas: Go, even without a single library, is more a fully programmable operating system than just another programming language. [PDF] http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~aho/cs6998/reports/12-12-11_deshpandesponslerweiss_go.pdf 9 comments golang
- Formal Grammar of English http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~julia/jmchapters/ch10.pdf 12 comments compsci
- The Occupy movement is continuing to gain momentum. This despite government efforts to quash it with police often equipped, and behaving as if, the non-resisting occupiers were violent terrorists. An impressive feature of the movement is the way it operates by consensus without identifiable leaders. http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~unger/articles/occupy.html 116 comments politics
- While Republicans battle enthusiastically for the presidential nomination, the Democrats concentrate on raising big bucks from big business for the campaign to re-elect the incumbent. Meanwhile, liberals, stunned by the behavior of the man they helped elect, seem paralyzed. What are their options? http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~unger/articles/wakeup.html 9 comments politics
- Worker co-ops are owned and controlled by the workers. Apart from job security (management is unlikely to fire everybody and export the work!) they tend to be happier, more efficient workplaces, and to produce better quality products. What are the problems with co-ops and how can they be solved? http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~unger/articles/workerco-ops.html 3 comments politics
- Are we so afraid of terrorists that we are willing to trash the Bill of Rights prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment? Even tho no Americans have been killed by terrorists on US soil since 9-11? Are Americans willing to condone the regular use of torture by various branches of government? http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~unger/articles/torture.html 35 comments reddit.com
- An Introduction to Asynchronous Circuit Design http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/async/publications/davis-nowick-intro-tr.pdf 12 comments programming
- The Stable Marriage Problem http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~evs/intro/stable/writeup.html 10 comments math
- Face Swapping: Automatically Replacing Faces in Photographs http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/cave/projects/face_replace/ 3 comments programming
- Apple2fpga: Reconstructing an Apple II+ on an FPGA http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~sedwards/apple2fpga/ 10 comments programming
- The Stable Marriage Problem http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~evs/intro/stable/writeup.html 28 comments programming