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Inequality AOL chief cuts 401(k) benefits, blames Obamacare and two “distressed babies” New Study Finds China Manufacturing Costs Rising to US Level Sochi Don't let dangerous water touch your face NBC story 100% fraudulent Error detection and correction Forward error correction Hamming codes "can detect up to two-bit errors or correct one-bit errors without detection of uncorrected errors. By contrast, the simple parity code cannot correct errors, and can detect only an odd number of bits in error. Hamming codes are perfect codes, that is, they achieve the highest possible rate for codes with their block length and minimum distance 3." "Due to the limited redundancy that Hamming codes add to the data, they can only detect and correct errors when the error rate is low. This is the case in computer memory (ECC memory), where bit errors are extremely rare and Hamming codes are widely used." "Hamming codes can be extended by an extra parity b...

D-Wave Google Races Quantum Computer Against Its Own Web Empire :  "NASA, like Google, is running some early tests on the computer to better understand what kind of problems it can and cannot solve" How D-Wave Could Make Or Break Quantum Computing D-Wave "Maybe it doesn't really matter if the company's machine is actually a quantum computer or not […] if people find it useful" Scientists "they don’t publish data on the foundations of their system because they can’t" "It’s on D-Wave […] to finally reduce its processor down to two qubits and show him otherwise"

Dunkelweizen "A dark take on the German wheat theme" "addition of dark malts" AMZN results and profits Their revenues are going up quite nicely: 74b/61b/48b/34b (yearly) But they keep their income relatively very low: 274m/-39m/631m/1.15b (yearly) Movies, or evidence that comedies, by and large, suck? (But why?) We're the millers  (47% RT) Ed wood  (92% RT) Last Vegas  (46% RT) American hustler  (93% RT) Double blind mp3 tests Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition @dpp 's review Main downside (or showstopper, depending on who you ask): RAM maxes out at 8 GB. Also has the largest available SSD option is 256 GB. Retro-signs Don't honk (see on the right) Railroad crossing (see on the right)