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• November 12th, 2008

  Why does putting a sleeping persons hand in water cause them to pee?

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• November 9th, 2008

  Who would you chose, wife or child?

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• October 29th, 2008

  Why do many women go crazy for like %5 of their life. Why do men put up with it?

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• October 28th, 2008

  Can a cat be shipped overnight via FedEx domestically in the US?

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• October 24th, 2008

  Where can I buy a helmet for autocross?

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• May 17th, 2009

  What is the best way to prepare a very delicious meal of instant noodles?

  I have a feeling that a recipe that would produce the best results would start something like this: 1. Open Instant Noodles 2. Gently place noodles in garbage can ...
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• May 11th, 2009

  A truck has to make deliveries in 50 cities. Can a clever computer program find the shortest, most economic round-trip route?

  This problem has been classically solved using Genetic Algorithms. Typically fitness based problems like the traveling salesman can be solved in this way. Whilst you do not exhaust all possibilities, if you generate enough children paths you end up with a very high likelihood of solving the problem with a very high level of accuracy, ie: > 99.99% while using fractions of the computing cycles that a recursion method would require. Some links: http://www.ads.tuwien.ac.at/raidl/tspga/TSPGA.html http://ai-depot.com/Articles/51/TSP.html
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• December 30th, 2008

  Why does This American Life pay $150K/year for bandwidth?

  Bandwidth is expensive. As a general rule downloading is “cheap” and uploading is “expensive”. Think of downloading as “offloading” the network and uploading as “loading up”. Using a service like Amazon S3 gives you some advantages due to sharing scaling with Amazon and its other clients. The easiest way to lower the cost of something like a podcast / streaming services like radio is to use geographically located proxies. This is complicated and expensive. S3 won’t even do this for you. In order to get this sort of “geocaching” you need to hire a company like Alexia to cache your data globally and serve it up to and end user a geographically local as possible. Super expen$ive, but worth it if you are say… Clear Channel and your bandwidth bill is in the $millions / month. It should also be noted that switching to Amazon S3 or other high end hosting services is not trival. Amazon S3 is not your typical hosting provider and you do not just get an FTP access to an apache server in the traditional sense. Amazon S3 is a framework built and resold to companies who want to use the Amazon infrastructure, the cost to deploy such a solution might even outweigh the benefit of $50k / year. Developers are expensive, also. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
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• December 30th, 2008

  What do you know about ICQ?

  2389458 its scary that i still remember that. I haven’t used it in years. ICQ was the hottness before AIM, for people who couldn’t figure out how to use bitchx.
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• December 30th, 2008

  If i was a spy what would i have in my back pack?

  just my irresistible charm, i always get other people to do the dirty work.
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