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by NY_USA_Hacker 15y ago
What you are calling "recruiting" I was assigning to HR. If engineering wants an ad run, then HR can help as long as they don't touch the real content of the ad. When resumes come in, they can hold them up to the light, read them upside do
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by NY_USA_Hacker 15y ago
His grandmother knew radix sort. It's well known that, on sufficiently short keys and sufficiently many records, radix sort beats the (n)ln(n) sort algorithms such as heap sort and, thus, beats the Gleason bound. How? The Gleason bound i
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by NY_USA_Hacker 15y ago
Yes, America has the worst economic system there is except for all the others that have been tried. China? You GOT to be kidding! They are run by a one party dictatorship. They run essentially a centrally directed, command economy. They
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by NY_USA_Hacker 15y ago
So AIXI is just old stochastic optimal control (decision theory, controlled Markov processes, R. Bellman's work, etc.) plus a way from Solomonoff to make extrapolations. Okay. For practice, there have been related ideas from D. Bertsekas a
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
"Bigot"? How about idiot? You might try to wipe your ass with your left hand and then stare at your fingers and try to find some meaningful direction in your life.
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
Okay, we are debating the value of education in college and beyond. My qualifications: I hold a Ph.D. in some topics in applied math from a world class research university. Before the Ph.D. I taught math in one university and computer sc
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
Bad ideas "suck". Good ideas are golden. With bad ideas, execution has to do "everything" and is "difficult" and likely a fool's errand. Good ideas are difficult and rare but make successful execution routine, and the US is awash in the ab
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
25 more good reasons to f'get about the NYT
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
Your response is to style, not substance. But there isn't a lot of room to respond with substance because the article is, did I mention, nonsense. There is a reason: Several paths led to some of the more central topics in probability and s
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
This article is a great example of why 'computer science' should not assume that they understand statistics or even much in data manipulation. Then the article is an example of why computer people should be careful on where they learn their
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
You are in part outlining the start of some standard methodology for project time estimates. That's the good news. The bad news is that, for cases of never done this before and this is totally new, the methodology makes no estimates!
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
Once a developer has done a project, he can give a good estimate of how long it would take for him to do that project again! Really, it's easy for developers to estimate time much the same way plumbers, carpenters, auto body shop workers, g
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
The article is part of an old problem: How to connect 'research' with 'business'. I respond with: (I) Summary. (II) Details on Reasons for Failure. (III) Examples of Solutions. (IV) Opportunity. below. (I) Summary. Quite generally, there a
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
A famous recipe for rabbit stew starts off, "First catch a rabbit ...." A recipe for applied research starts off, "First get an application ...." The article has, "These companies can afford to set up big labs with lots of PhDs and pay them
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
I'm "partial red-green" color blind. So, saturated, primary reds and greens I see as distinct. But if start to mix colores with some reds and greens, then I can see two colors as the same that other people see as distinct. Partial red-gre
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
You wrote" "However, that is different from claiming that hard instances don't exist." but I didn't claim that there were no hard instances. Again, even showing P = NP does not guarantee to provide a fast algorithm for "hard instances" in
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
Right! I have pixel color picker and could have discovered that!
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
Okay! But, me, I couldn't tell the rest was just gray! I assumed you had lots of nice reds and greens in there!
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
Remember, about 25% of men are partially red-green color blind. So, a 'fire engine red' such as in the usual banner at HN such men can see, but lots of 'red' in mixtures of colors register as black. An emerald green can be seen, but in lo
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
I described the reasons. E.g., hype. Also, the paper was eager to assume that a polynomial algorithm that showed P = NP would be fast and that the world would then get big savings in airlines, manufacturing, etc., and that's nonsense. Gen
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
What I said in (2) is not nonsense but actually important in the 'sociology' of that field of research: There are people in the field very much hoping that P versus NP will not be resolved so that they can have long lasting jobs, and you w
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
I have some good news for you: For your goals, likely you do not have to wait for P = NP, even if it is true. Or, for your goals, you do not need the extreme guarantees of P = NP, that is, guaranteed polynomial solutions for ALL your probl
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
What I said is rock solidly true. I hold a Ph.D. in operations research, was Director of Operations research for a major airline, have worked with a good list of some of the best optimization people in the world, and have attacked several
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
"Shor's Algorithm factors primes." Amazing!
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
Okay, the question of P versus NP is important. Now keep in mind that I admitted this when read the rest below: Contention: In this research question of P versus NP and in the paper, we are looking at: (1) A Lot of Hype. (2) A Search for
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
If Steve Blank could teach a really effective one semester course on how to be a successful entrepreneur, then anyone who could do well in his course could become rich and we'd have a lot more rich people. But having many more rich people
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
Sorry I omitted that one!
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
I can see that your work contains much that is new and good however the new is not good and the good, not new. A paper on this work would be illuminating if ignited. Congratulations: You have now once again successfully solved one of the o
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
I've heard of Robert Scoble and didn't know much about him. Now with this article, I do: Startups and venture capital are serious subjects, and he's just tossing out air-headed, cotton candy content. Let's look at three quotes: (1) "As a
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
He doesn't understand very well. (1) Progress. The progress in computing he is talking about is not very important and not much worth following in detail. Bluntly programming is still: (a) for needed data, select data types and name and a

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