JacobEdelman

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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
Did they build something that can break P=NP? No. If I'm right then I'll look smart and if I'm wrong than I'll be too excited to care. Also, if I'm wrong I have to go to a quite retreat somewhere and rethink the nat
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
Scott Aaronson looks at possible ways to solve NP-Complete problems using physics and argues that it isn't really possible. Link: http://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/npcomplete.pdf
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
From what I've read (which isn't a whole lot I admit) we've built small pieces that may possible be able to construct a memcomputer when put together but for whatever engineering reasons we haven’t actually built one. I doubt
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
We don't know if we can build UMM's. This does seem to strongly contradict a lot of ideas that no computational system in the physical world will be able to beat a Turing Machine exponentially. In a way UMM's right now are ju
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
Only if it can actually be made. It seems unlikely that it could be.
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
They can't actually build a memcomputer. I for one doubt that it is possible.
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
In many areas this paper seems to be over stating its findings. They imply heavily that memcomputing must exist and talk about the human brain and neurology in a manner that really has no place in this kind of paper.
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
Well, we don't know if we can build UMM's. This does seem to strongly contradict a lot of ideas that no computational system in the physical world will be able to beat a Turing Machine exponentially. In a way UMM's right now
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
Without Exponential Information Overhead I don't think any of it really works. I mean, that's the part that seems hard to believe. I think they get the sums based off each element being able to store data in relation to other elem
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
Eh, frankly it just seems like its google slipping up. If only a few hundred bitly links have viruses I'm impressed (I'm sure there are more but the percentage still doesn't seem that bad).
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Princeton Web Privacy and Transparency Conference Live Stream(mediacentrallive.princeton.edu)
2 points by JacobEdelman 12y ago|1 comments
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
Ummm... that's almost the main point of the DMCA. Among other things the DMCA made it illegal to facilitate copyright theft. This has lead to several major cases including ones where attempts have been made to have scholarly papers cen
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
Legally speaking a 5 second clip is fine but a 20 second clip is beginning to push it and several of them from the same franchise... I'm not saying it should be this way btu the fx in a movie is a form of art and thus can be copyrighte
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
True, but an alternative system can be built outside of the Bitcoin Blockchain to feasibly do the same thing. (such as https://www.ethereum.org/ )
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
"Beyond lobbying the companies, there is little law enforcement can do without congressional action. " Wait, what? Even with the privacy Apple and Google are offering there are huge amounts of ways to access data useful to law enf
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
This would be great except the 2 cent transfer cost seems high.
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Ask HN: What trustworthy sources of general news do you use?
4 points by JacobEdelman 12y ago|9 comments
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
I might be alone in this but I found it easy to navigate. I'm on a laptop but I expect this would be really nice on a tablet.
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
Is it just me or is the main reason this is being upvoted so much is because Linus said something without a bad attitude? This isn't a rhetorical question, I honestly want to know.
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
I am happy to see this as since Gnome 3 came out distros only seem to have been leaving Gnome.
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
I feel like this article is a bit one sided. It doesn't ever state NJ's case against the students and draws strong parallels to Aaron Swartz (a hero to many people). A lot of the time these parallels seem to be weak, the student w
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
One part of me was thinking who has the time and money to go and buy a tank but another part just kept thinking about how the US supposedly has a huge amount of tanks they are not using...
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
I find it sad that they won't make any changes to python that break backwards compatibility from now till 2023 or beyond. I mean, I'm all for maintaining backwards compatibility but if a language wants to evolve it has to be willi
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
You are willing to go through that much effort to download a single package? Sure I love my privacy and security but I have never had a problem on Ubuntu with that. If I ever have to do something particularly sensitive setting up a virtual
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
Anyone know how long these bugs have been around or if they have been exploited?
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Hypercomputation(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by JacobEdelman 12y ago|0 comments
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
Notch has done it. By leaving mojang he can no longer be blamed for any major disasters and has already achieved a place of honor in nerd communities. And now he does what every nerd dreams of doing but isn't sure they can do, leaving
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
For those who can't access it: It uses an emulator written in javascript that has been modified. It runs the entire pokemon red game as normal but layers on other users allowing you to play them, using ram hacks to force the game AI yo
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Multiplayer Browser-Based Pokemon Red(firecaster.com)
23 points by JacobEdelman 12y ago|9 comments
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
I am disappointed by the fact that while their are several comments supporting Russia almost all of them have been down voted a ton. You shouldn't down vote people just because you disagree with them.

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