NotOscarWilde

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by NotOscarWilde 5y ago
SMS stopped to be status quo here (central Europe) because it still costs money to send each single text. It made sense when no other mobile communication option was available (early 2000s) but not anymore. WhatsApp or any other messaging p
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by NotOscarWilde 5y ago
> If Europe will not stop a war in Ukraine in coming 2-3 weeks As a European (living in Poland), I have to take offense to your phrasing. How is it our war to stop? There is one big country that can stop this war, and it is not called &q
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by NotOscarWilde 5y ago
I don't think Turing-completeness implies any issues when converting programs between equally powerful automata. In fact, a lot of results in the theory of automata / early computational complexity take a form of converting all pr
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by NotOscarWilde 5y ago
It is remarkable that this exact border (although without the proverbs on Ć) manifests also between Czech Republic and Poland -- in the Czech language there is exactly one hard "Č" and no soft version, whereas Polish has both &quo
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by NotOscarWilde 6y ago
A tangent on Canola and rapeseed oil: I have recently watched a Chinese Cooking Demystified video (I believe it was [1]) about the Chinese rapeseed oil and its comparison in taste and erucic acid contents to Canola oil, which is its only av
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by NotOscarWilde 7y ago
It really depends on your video game tastes, I think. There are now essentially three types of games which I enjoy playing: 1) Indie games; 2) Big studio releases (some of them); 3) Competitive online 3D shooters. My experience is that 1) u
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by NotOscarWilde 7y ago
> As an aside, I would love that more scientific papers use original names in their original scripts in the references section in addition to transcription, the way Knuth does it in tAoCP. Being a scientist, I believe most of my colleagu
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by NotOscarWilde 7y ago
I wouldn't attribute this to English or English speakers at all. Imagine I am Czech (I am) and my last name is "Gödel" (it is quite similar, and Kurt Gödel was actually born in what is now Czechia). Such a name has at least t
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by NotOscarWilde 7y ago
I've updated my original answer to make it even more clear that it is a jovial observation with only a hint of envy. :-)
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by NotOscarWilde 7y ago
Prof. Matoušek [1] was arguably one of Europe's best dual scientists/textbook writers of his time. If you are a math/CS theory persond and you are interested in picking up a book of his, I recommend "Mathematics++: Selec
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by NotOscarWilde 8y ago
I lost all my messages with my girlfriend (of course). Can anyone clarify: if I use their "server key backup" and set a passphrase, I am now two passwords away from giving the next hacker read access to all my messages, is that ri
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by NotOscarWilde 8y ago
I like the idea of arXiv vanity, but ... I decided to try it on my own paper from a few years back and the page just tells me that the render failed, no details given, and either click the PDF or "go back home". I am of the opinio
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by NotOscarWilde 8y ago
Any context for why it appeared just now? On a personal note, it is almost eerie that it appeared just as I finished a week in Chile at a workshop [1] looking into Buchberger's algorithm and the connections between Gröbner bases and bi
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by NotOscarWilde 9y ago
Your solution works only in metric spaces. In non-metric spaces (distances are arbitrary and you are forced to return a cycle, not a tour that repeats vertices) no constant-factor approximation is possible.
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by NotOscarWilde 9y ago
The thing is, you cannot submit to a "lower-tier journal"; once you get accepted to one journal, no other journal will allow you to resubmit the same results (even with readability improvements). The way I've seen things done
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by NotOscarWilde 9y ago
Disclaimer: I am an academic, not in this field. I have never approached any colleague with any intimate or other inappropriate topics. Here are two points I consider interesting: * In academia, the only time when you have no power over any
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by NotOscarWilde 9y ago
I hate to add so little to the discussion, but I am on the exact same boat, and I am quite anxious about the upcoming change. If there is anything to make either Mozilla hear this use case more, or contribute anywhere to make Vimperator a p
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by NotOscarWilde 9y ago
Are you sure you are well-informed about this? For instance: * the scientific journals I know do not pay their scientific editors ([1], this can differ for absolute top journals like Nature/Science); * arXiv is a preprint server, not a
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Void-Free Style in C# 7.0(programming.lansky.name)
1 points by NotOscarWilde 9y ago|0 comments
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by NotOscarWilde 9y ago
It is interesting to note two commonly repeated facts about academia, one of which you mention: 1. It is very difficult to get rid of aging professors with a low output. 2. It is fairly easy to get postdoc positions (but hard to get a perma
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by NotOscarWilde 10y ago
> It is definitely related! Missing thyroid meds for just a few days could explain the symptoms you describe. My girlfriend has hypothyroidism too, she takes the medication daily with rigor, and the endocrinologic results are normal. A
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by NotOscarWilde 10y ago
It depends on what you want from an "Algorithms" course; you could even split it into levels as follows: 1. Graduates can implement algorithms given a nice and thorough description in a textbook or a website. 2. Graduates can impl
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by NotOscarWilde 10y ago
> The problem is, no one is advocating this. My city's (Prague's) administration actually supports this a lot, but since the city districts (and not the administration) actually hold power over what gets built in a specific d
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by NotOscarWilde 10y ago
I have a Intel Atom 1.6 GHz/2GB of RAM netbook afrom 2009 with Linux on it, and Firefox/Chrome is the only unusable app on it; other Linux applications seem to be fairly responsive on the hardware. I really feel the slowness on th
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by NotOscarWilde 10y ago
Listing a couple of examples from my life: * A group of my friends who play badminton together organize weekly events only through Facebook. They use "Going/Not going" as a way of knowing how many people are coming. * One of
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List of Accepted Papers for SODA 2017(sites.google.com)
1 points by NotOscarWilde 10y ago|0 comments
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by NotOscarWilde 10y ago
Here are two examples: * My group of friends and acquaintances who play badminton coordinate on Facebook; we do not work at the same place or have each other's phone numbers. People use the number of "Going" people to figure
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by NotOscarWilde 10y ago
Making new acquaintances is useless if nobody from your 30km radius is on the network or if it is hard to meet people inside this radius. Friendships decay really fast with distance, especially when there is no real strong bond. As much as
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by NotOscarWilde 10y ago
I will comment on it from my point of view (theoretical CS PhD student): > What's wrong with giving other researchers the ability to rate and comment on a paper. I do not see nothing inherently bad with this (provided very good mo
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by NotOscarWilde 11y ago
How often do EU countries do that? African countries? South American countries (except maybe Brazil)? As somebody from an excluded country (in the EU) that has zero history of app censorship, this rings quite hollow to me. In fact it is alm

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