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by Dilpil 17y ago
I am always amazed at textbooks that introduce axioms and then later (or never!) show why they are interesting. Do any mathematicians actually think in this way?
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by Dilpil 17y ago
In practice, how much of this article is about informing business folk and how much is about patting ourselves on the back?
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by Dilpil 17y ago
It has been posted many times, but it is a classic- and highly relevant to many of us here on HN.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
So the way to resolve this would be to calculate the total users for each browser each year, and scale that entire ring outwards.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
The countries on the list are there more for "Screw you" reasons than actual security. That is why Cuba is on the list, and possibly first.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Cool stuff, but it would be cooler with more context as to what each graph represented.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Would mixing two very different gene pools necessarily take the maximum of positive traits from each parent? Couldn't it possibly take the average or even minimum? Natural selection operates only by influencing who mates- it does not impac
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Who says the firms are led by suits? Many of the founders of these firms are math or CS phds.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
But of course, this tells us that they are even worse than we thought, yet they still haven't released it so they must be even worse than that , and so on and so forth.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Hmm, doesn't word wrap for me, and is unreadable as a result.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
A bit ironic, as the entire premise of a bank is essentially to do this, but regulated, on a larger scale. Assuming it was really a loan.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
What I would really like to do is view other peoples courses, I cannot immediately see how.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Might I add that there are plenty of people on the production side who are thrilled to make overproduced pop music, and that type music would not vanish either.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
But what are the relative probabilities that each method will result in exactly one good employee?
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Speaking of the mario competition, is there a way to watch videos of submissions?
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by Dilpil 17y ago
If it is shown that often, it will lose its impact. Showing it only once, especially if the cause is listed, evokes a much stronger sense of shame.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
It is unlikely that any sort of n element list would.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Will you really not notice any performance degradation from anti virus? Really?
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Actually, most of us have not memorized the solution to every problem. We are simply more able and willing to apply logic to situations involving computer problems.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Why should medical care be a higher priority than food?
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by Dilpil 17y ago
I would really like to see a competition where teams write opposing AIs for UAVs and the UAVs duke it out.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
I wonder how much of this increase is due to the way unemployment is calculated. When workers stop looking for a job, they are no longer counted as unemployed. When they start looking for a job, I assume they are once again counted. Given
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by Dilpil 17y ago
I find it hard to believe that a project of this magnitude has so little fault tolerance.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
And judging by the info-graphic, there isn't much correlation here either.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
I see about 5 of these articles a week. Whats the point? Are any of us going to change our behavior based on slight correlations reported in non scientific journals? Do the social and life sciences really experience breakthroughs every w
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Wow. Where can I buy one?
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Wow, that matchmaking service sounds pretty intense. They literally ask women out for you.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
If they split, you are best off stealing. If they steal, you are best off stealing.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
My favorite gcc trick is to compile and run the following two line, and then try to reconcile the results. x = 7; printf("%d %d %d",x++,++x,x++); x = 7; printf("%d %d %d",x++,x=2,x++); Go ahead, try it, run it, and explain the output.

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