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You still have the case of a list of perfect random numbers. There is nothing in the box then.
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For Groover algorithm, which is applied to the problem of search you can prove that there is no classical algorithm faster than O(N) - looking at each item in the worst case scenario.
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Grover is sqrt(n) versus n, this paper says for their problem is 1 (constant depth) versus log n: > In contrast, we show that this problem can be solved with certainty by a constant-depth quantum circuit
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Well, you are wrong about that. > Mitochondria in oocyte aging: current understanding > The oocyte is the largest cell found in multicellular organisms. Mitochondria, as the energy factories for cells, are found in high numbers in
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Biologically the best age (for a woman) to have a baby is around 19 years old. Sociologically is probably 35+. So there is an unsolvable problem here, you have to compromise one way or the other. https://www.psychologytoday.com&#
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Related article today: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/19/us/white-supremacists-sci... And two days ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/us/white-supremacists-sci..
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It goes further, a Twitter verified PhD in molecular biology calls it "deeply disturbing and unacceptable": > This study is so deeply disturbing and unacceptable. Studies that link genetics to intelligence/achievement are
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> But because kanbans were pioneered by Toyota, workers thought they had to hide their kanban cards from Musk during his visits to the factory. Half a dozen current and former Tesla workers say that supervisors in Fremont warned them th
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> On the other hand I have always lived in Northern Italy, and around half of my taxes go to the poorer regions of Italy Everybody says that, Catalonia that it pays more to Spain that it receives back, California and New York to the rest
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It will be interesting to see the left-wing/right-wing proportion. Ie: do they shill and troll both sides to increase division and reciprocal hate.
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I just noticed that yesterday, there was a segment on a TV music channel with 90-00s music, and I noticed how almost all ended in a fadeout, and how it made me feel that it's wasting my time in today fast paced world. Just like that re
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Conventional Explanations of Changes in Fertility: Mortality decline has meant that most children survive, so that families do not need to have large numbers of children to ensure one or two survivors. In addition, in modern, urban, indust
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This guy doesn't have all the screws properly tightened. Just saying...
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This kind of stuff is regularly done at LHC - they simulate the detectors and the collisions, and then compare real data against that, to both confirm that the detectors are working properly, and for searching of new physics.
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> The more north you go, the blander/crappier the food gets, mostly due to the weather. It's more complicated than that. Cultural reasons are a huge factor in why Western food is so bland: > Serving richly spiced stews wa
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The links are also broken on desktop Firefox/Chrome.
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HDF5 is quite bad and corruption prone. Parquet is gaining a lot of traction lately for this use case.
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This line of thinking leads for example to studies on differences in risk-taking behavior between genders, which then leads to people saying "of course most companies are run by man, because men being more risk-taking start more compan
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> There's also the idea that lack of women scientist "heroes" can be limiting (lack of role models) This one is a bit weird, computer guys were always "nerds" and "geeks" to stay away from.
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I worked in a tech company which was heavily biased in favor of hiring woman, there were special hiring tracks for woman where the interviews were easier and the interviewers received special training in unconscious biases, and the managers
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You forget that a typical Python Jupyter notebook will import a dozen Python packages. Versioning that it's still a major problem in the ecosystem.
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> he tried to use Mathematica to share one of his studies in a way that anyone could explore every detail of his data and methods. It didn’t work. He says that Mathematica’s owner, Wolfram Research, made it too difficult to share his wo
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Obviously people started to investigate this hack too much, so the US government forced Apple using a NSL to write a letter to Congress denying that any such hack occured. The Congress probably knows the truth, but they are also under NSL.
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> but they aren't much faster than the old ones Each year the new CPU it's about 20% faster then the old one. After 4 years, it adds up. A top Intel CPU will now deliver twice the same single-thread performance than a 5 year o
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What do you think it's more profitable to sell: one CPU with 8 cores or 2 CPUs with 4 cores? What do you think it's more profitable to sell: one CPU with many PCIe lanes that you can attach 8 GPUs to (8 NVIDIA GPUs for 1 Intel CPU
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I also thought about that. The problem with this theory is that Bloomberg says that many of it's sources are US officials.
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If Apple and Amazon can be put under a NSL gag, why wouldn't they also put Bloomberg under it? They had the whole of an year to do it.
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More likely they told Congress the truth, but the Congress is also under a national security gag and they put out a false statement about what Apple declared... Guys, you are worse than the ZeroHedge and similar conspiracy forums...
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I don't have many friends on Snapchat, but I follow a lot of celebrities. Literally the same week, 90% of them stopped posting, and it never recovered. Now it's a ghost town. People who followed friends got hit, people who follow
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It would be something Russia would do, plant a fake story to massively discredit Bloomberg. It would go with their strategy of launching so many fake stories that nobody knows anymore what to belive. The problem with this theory is that Blo

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