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  1. dotat.at/:/WN769 - Multi-armed bandit algorithms are superior to A/B testing. about 4 hours ago via fanf's URL logger
  2. dotat.at/:/B866G - Well-kept gardens die by pacifism: online discussions need moderators. about 8 hours ago via fanf's URL logger
  3. dotat.at/:/CDLR9 - Why do power supplies have three prongs? about 21 hours ago via fanf's URL logger
  4. dotat.at/:/GCVX7 - Cycles of life. 8:55 AM Jun 3rd via fanf's URL logger
  5. dotat.at/:/G6VWK - Five universities sharing one high-performance computing centre. 2:21 PM Jun 2nd via fanf's URL logger
  6. dotat.at/:/K7ZDW - OS X 2 X: share your Mac keyboard and mouse with Unix and VNC displays. 1:46 PM Jun 2nd via fanf's URL logger
  7. dotat.at/:/VKN8Y - Summer fruit pudding. 3:10 AM Jun 2nd via fanf's URL logger
  8. dotat.at/:/7V7LK - Fear and Loathing and Windows 8. Microsoft is "courageous". 3:00 AM Jun 2nd via fanf's URL logger
  9. "... I was profoundly stirred, as if I had swallowed an egg beater ..." 5:46 PM Jun 1st via Echofon
  10. dotat.at/:/52JGV - Being blind drunk, killing someone, and fleeing the scene is OK if you do it in a car. 4:40 PM Jun 1st via fanf's URL logger
  11. dotat.at/:/PB98G - A navel-gazing, self-serving, smug, consensual, spendthrift, remote and barely democratic excuse of an assembly. 3:40 PM Jun 1st via fanf's URL logger
  12. Web server hardware maintenance delayed to another day. 9:55 AM Jun 1st via web
  13. Do X.509 certificates containing SRV-IDs actually exist anywhere other than in RFC fantasy land? OpenSSL doesn't support them... 9:54 AM Jun 1st via web
  14. dotat.at/:/92WHJ - Calvin & Hobbes, 26 years later. 8:03 AM Jun 1st via fanf's URL logger
  15. I refer to RFC2119 as MUSTard MAYo 7:47 AM Jun 1st via web
  16. Looks like my web server will be down for hardware maintenance from 17:00 UTC 7:10 AM Jun 1st via web
  17. dotat.at/:/MHWM8 - Flame on! Government-sponsored malware. 6:53 AM Jun 1st via fanf's URL logger
  18. dotat.at/:/N57ZV - Banned words for Telegraph commenters. 6:22 AM Jun 1st via fanf's URL logger
  19. dotat.at/:/9XVPZ - Transits of Venus explained. 6:17 AM Jun 1st via fanf's URL logger
  • Name Tony Finch
  • Location Cambridge
  • Web http://dotat.at
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