Bakkot

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by Bakkot 14y ago
On any other problem whatsoever, people would readily grant that having the developers understand the problem domain confers an advantage. I don't see why this should be any different.
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by Bakkot 14y ago
I'm 20 and can never recall having had the experience the OP describes.
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by Bakkot 14y ago
Hasn't SymPy done this for a while? http://docs.sympy.org/0.7.2-py3k/modules/physics/quantum/ind...
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by Bakkot 14y ago
Also http://lesswrong.com/user/aaronsw/overview/
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by Bakkot 14y ago
I was hoping this would be from in-game mechanics. Just drawing isn't that impressive.
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by Bakkot 14y ago
... I'm sorry, how levying taxes against the Constitution?
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by Bakkot 14y ago
Quantum computers have a fairly well-studied mathematical abstraction about which we can reason quite well. Algorithms for quantum computers exist which will break RSA; no similar algorithms exist to break AES. And the link actually only ap
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by Bakkot 14y ago
Prefacing this, I'm largely with Jason Scott on this (and most issues). That said: The deletionist argument is not and has never been been that it's going to save storage or bandwidth. (Generally, it's about it being difficult to keep up th
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by Bakkot 14y ago
The thing to ask yourself in these situations: Which is more likely - coincidence, or that all of science is wrong? Because make no mistake, nothing less is required for exorcism or homeopathy or astrology to work. Hint: It's the first one.
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by Bakkot 14y ago
Easy enough to make it return instantly when switching to the current user. This would still allow for someone to crack their own password (a problem if someone has access to the database without having the password, say by an SQL injection
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by Bakkot 14y ago
View all pages: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/11/google-spanner-... Also: > “We can commit data at two different locations — say the West Coast [of the United States] and Europe — and still have some agreed upon ordering b
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by Bakkot 14y ago
It seems to me that creating several dozen subscription plans on Stripe is indicative of a deeper problem: that you have several dozen different prices consumers end up paying. How about instead you advertise the prices that consumers will
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by Bakkot 14y ago
I assumed it was intentionally ambiguous (like a lot of problem statements in practice), to see how the interviewees respond. There are a few interesting interpretations, some of which are obviously exponential time, infinite time, or impos
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by Bakkot 14y ago
Of course it can. Google can obfuscate it if they like (presumably quite well, being Google), but ultimately it's just data on the machine. Malware has just as ready access to that as everything else.
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by Bakkot 14y ago
Which is why I donate to the EFF.
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by Bakkot 14y ago
You should let Jason Scott know about this. He's been pushing a similar project for MAME. http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3685
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by Bakkot 14y ago
Several months old, but still worth a read - especially for the end of Mystical's comment, where he discusses the different optimizations performed by different compilers. Particularly interesting is the Intel Compiler, which effectively op
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by Bakkot 14y ago
I find it interesting that they still provide payment breakdowns by platform... and that Linux and Mac OS are still so much higher than Windows. When those two were paying for games it was obvious why that should be, since games on Linux ar
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by Bakkot 14y ago
> Of course, this really only works well for numbers with prime factors drawn from the set {2, 3, 5, 7}. So express the number as a sum of numbers with factors drawn from that set, and draw a several diagrams, one for each summand. A qu
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by Bakkot 14y ago
Those approaches are increasingly well-studied and a lot of them (Grover's algorithm, anyone?) look an awful lot like magic. (For people who don't want to look that up, Grover's algorithm does searches on unsorted databases in root-n time,
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by Bakkot 14y ago
I'm not sure, honestly: I imagine the differential of a new design varies depending on how users come across it. If when not being featured Dwellable mostly gets new installs from word-of-mouth, say, I bet that the new design doesn't have a
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by Bakkot 14y ago
Of course this doesn't mean markets aren't within some small constant factor of being perfectly efficient.
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by Bakkot 14y ago
It likely didn't exist yet. These things take time.
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by Bakkot 14y ago
The context on the 'maybe you shouldn't be doing it' quote is that Google is not going to disobey court orders to protect your privacy. It was never Google's responsibility. Please let's move on from this particular dead horse.
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by Bakkot 14y ago
The basic premise of your post is that people only use technology to do work. To put it lightly, this has not been my experience.
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by Bakkot 14y ago
They could, but honestly they should just be more insistent that project founders make more use of the existing tools. They provide a way to say there's a limited number of awards available at a given tier; if you're not going to be able to
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by Bakkot 14y ago
Infinity is not a number . There is no room 'n+infinity'. There's just not such a room, anywhere, even in principle. Each guest n can move to room n+1 because the guest there is moving to n+2. This works. That's the point. And you couldn't
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by Bakkot 14y ago
> A strong AI can certainly do this. A strong AI can say something different than the thing it's about to say? That's a neat trick. Not a part of any definition of strong AI I've ever heard, though. Could a human do it?
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by Bakkot 14y ago
No, last week's was root only, operated by searching through RAM for various keys, and was notable for displaying passwords for every logged-in user , which this will not do.
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by Bakkot 14y ago
> I believe your idea of consciousness is that it is an emergent phenomenon that arises from simpler processes, much like how biology arises from the simple laws of QM. Is this correct? I wouldn't call that a definition. Here's a workin

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