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by HilbertSpace 16y ago
My ISP says I get 15 Mbps download and 2 Mbps upload, and speed tests confirm I do. For sustained flows, I get a solid 15 Mbps when downloading software from Microsoft. So the 15 Mbps is way above anything in the Netflix graph. So, the ISP
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by HilbertSpace 16y ago
You REALLY don't get it and strain to misconstrue and misunderstand. "That's... a terrible piece of rhetoric... :(" Huh? You wrote: "I don't see how I can explain that what you are saying appears to be founded in stereotype and a lack of
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by HilbertSpace 16y ago
A simple resolution for the question of this thread is easy: For now, girls tend to pursue what girls do and know that computer science (CS) is for boys and not part of what girls do. So, girls try to avoid CS in college. When they tr
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by HilbertSpace 16y ago
Maybe I should have made my explanations even longer! You are failing to 'get it': The stuff about "Mother Nature" is just an abbreviation for fundamental effects that are easy to see and seem fundamental but seem to have strong causes dif
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by HilbertSpace 16y ago
Sorry, Professor Krugman, you are more of the problem than the solution. Let's start with your: "The financial crisis of 2008 was a teachable moment, ..." Yes it was. Okay. Now, where's the teaching ? Here are three cases of lack of tea
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by HilbertSpace 16y ago
Maybe we're making some progress: So, we started with social graphs, social media, and social search (below I refer to these three as 'social X') and asked the questions about purposes, the utility of social X, and the means to the purposes
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by HilbertSpace 16y ago
Okay, in general, good. Now, for the social Internet , what are the purposes ? E.g., why do 500+ million people use Facebook? Why do so many people use Twitter? Okay, once we have thought about those old cases, assuming the huge amounts
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by HilbertSpace 16y ago
The core of game theory is just the min-max result from von Neumann and Morgenstern. Actually, just as mathematics, linear programming is a slightly stronger subject, and the min-max theorem is a simple consequence of standard results in
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Future of the *Social Internet*?
1 points by HilbertSpace 16y ago|4 comments
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Ask HN: What's next in *social* Internet?
2 points by HilbertSpace 16y ago|0 comments
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by HilbertSpace 16y ago
You mention several good points, but, net, you miss it. The most serious place you get off the track is with your "If wanting more babies were a heritable biological drive, we wouldn't see whole societies ignoring it immediately after it b
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by HilbertSpace 16y ago
Look, the "not nice to try to fool Mother Nature" is easy to understand and nothing to object to: We just admit that we do not know all about women. You'll go along with that, right? If you do actually know all about women, then hurry up
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by HilbertSpace 16y ago
You are missing it, failing to 'get it', running off in unnecessary directions, and flailing away at irrelevancies. It's simple, dirt simple: Here the shortest clear explanation: "The hand the rocks the cradle rules the world.". If you do
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by HilbertSpace 16y ago
You STILL fail to 'get it' on "helping people". I gave the example of social work for the needy. More generally the 'reason' is to hope to get security from praise from the community for the 'good' work done. The work is commonly close t
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by HilbertSpace 16y ago
You need a LOT of help understanding women! By "help people" they do NOT mean anything like what a plumber does! What they mean is more like social work helping the needy. Why? It is important to know, and some of what I wrote provides s
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by HilbertSpace 16y ago
I covered much more than a mere tautology. Friendly warning: Ignore my reasons and live to regret it strongly in most contact with females. Politically correct? Heck no. Crucial? Sadly, yes. Organic chemistry is often a prerequisite f
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by HilbertSpace 16y ago
For why so few girls major in computer science in college, below is my answer. Sorry to say this, but I have to conclude that my points below are the main ones to explain the data and so far have received too little attention on this threa
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by HilbertSpace 16y ago
For the problem 4. Monkey Beans: At each move, the number of beans in the urn falls by 1. So, after 23 + 34 - 1 = 56 moves, the number of beans in the urn will be 1. At each move, the number of white beans in the urn either stays the same o
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by HilbertSpace 16y ago
For the first problem, "1. Tidy boxes": (1) For each color, put all the cubes of that color in their own pile. So, get 10 piles, and in each pile all the cubes have the same color. (2) Arrange these piles in ascending order from left to r
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by HilbertSpace 16y ago
Garbage. Get that MESS OFF HN. That garbage is a special case of a huge ocean of related grabage that has nothing at all to do with 'math' and, instead, is some brain-dead, K-12, social, cultural, economic, WTF nonsense. Follow the money:
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by HilbertSpace 16y ago
WPI was a major reason SQL Server Express destroyed my boot partition: I'd never used WPI before, really didn't intend to be using anything like it, and, thus, didn't know WTF it was doing -- your documentation is about the first I've seen
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by HilbertSpace 16y ago
The guy is wound up and not thinking clearly. For nearly all my typing, I use a monospaced font because it makes getting vertical alignment, especially in tables, MUCH easier. Essentially all my high quality word whacking goes through Knuth
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by HilbertSpace 16y ago
He does describe an important problem, but, gee, I thought that everyone on Hacker News long since had a good solution if only as a special case of how they keep track of information more generally! :)! But, not for the first time, apparen
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by HilbertSpace 16y ago
He was one of my dissertation advisors.
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by HilbertSpace 16y ago
Well, maybe out of ambition or whatever they took some SAT prep work. I didn't for three simple reasons: (1) I was so uninformed I didn't have a clue about just what the SAT was! (2) Teachers in grade school had been so critical of me, es
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by HilbertSpace 16y ago
That CMU President was Jerry Cohon?
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by HilbertSpace 16y ago
GOOD. Of course, a Cal Tech star prof was Feynman. My understanding of his time in grad school at Princeton is that he mostly was on the floor of his dorm room talking and thinking about what became his approcah to QM. GOOD. The frosh stu
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by HilbertSpace 16y ago
Hopefully. But making an 800 on an SAT has to be tricky stuff: The first-cut explanation is that it is more than 3 standard deviations above the mean in a Gaussian distribution. I can't believe that the test is very accurate much above 70
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by HilbertSpace 16y ago
With high irony, it sounds like in the STEM subjects Cal Tech fails to 'get it' on important reality and, instead, is pursuing something not good. Uh, Job One at Cal Tech has to be 'research' and NOT "learning". For the article, sorry 'bou
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by HilbertSpace 16y ago
"What are you going to school for?" I got a Ph.D. in engineering; the program was in essentially the mathematics of operations research. So, the emphasis was on optimization and stochastic processes. The work was fully careful mathematica

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