Yeah, you're new here, aren't you? Just today there was a thread about the Dead Sea scrolls being put online thanks to the Israel museum. One of the prominent comments there is about how Israel "stole" the scrolls. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3041572
> And that, according to scientists from Hebrew University in Jerusalem, is an Achilles’ heel — or Achilles’ proboscis — through which the pests can also be poisoned.
This thread presents a great opportunity to discuss the Arab-Israeli conflict. Who wants to start?
I'm really curious why you're not using LAPACK or ScaLAPACK for this. They were created specifically so that you would get the best possible performance regardless of which language you're using or which architecture you're running on.
This really shows the problem with this model. Textbook publishers have been very successful at attracting the top authorities in their respective fields to write the textbook. Sure, anyone can rehash what's already written in any other textbook. But can Saylor get someone like Halmos or Axler to write their linear algebra textbook?
Seriously? I mean, Newton's Principia is written in Latin.