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by QML 8y ago
I believe this is it: https://etherscan.io/address/0xa0b86991c6218b36c1d19d4a2e9eb... .
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by QML 8y ago
Is most of consumer hardware built on top of open source or on proprietary tools? I would love to see a movement where companies build products and then give away implementation details, but the cynic in me says repair costs is the analog o
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by QML 8y ago
If 61A taught me anything, SICP is bad introductory textbook for people who are not directly CS majors: it is not that accessible, and most people just want to learn Python. I’m not saying SICP overall is a bad textbook; but it is something
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by QML 8y ago
Not a necessarily a supporter of free markets, but I’d argue that more information and transparency is crucial for market efficiency. Take for example arbitrage; it disappears when enough people have access to “private information”, that in
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by QML 8y ago
It’s not a zero sum game — just because a company makes an unethical decision to gain a competitive advantage doesn’t mean you have to. And it doesn’t mean you can prosper by acting ethical either.
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by QML 8y ago
Don’t interpret the words given as a common prescription. Most of us don’t have enough to make a global impact—only a local change. Wait and see if Masayoshi Son, or SoftBank, will comment on the situation; see if Stewart Butterfield, or Sl
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by QML 8y ago
This is also used in TCP with timeouts and ACKs. The idea is you have an expected timeout (ETO) and a retransmission time out (RTO). Initially, you set RTO to ETO and then you send a packet. If you don't get an ACK back, and the timer
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by QML 8y ago
When you are referring to this "variant", are you referring to maximal matching, or bipartite matching when the number of people and schools don't equal?
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by QML 8y ago
Doesn't sound too bad; a basic property of XOR is that two of them cancel out, so y ⊕ x ⊕ x is just y.
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by QML 8y ago
In relation to the article posted, there is a conjecture which states all algebraic, irrational numbers are normal.
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by QML 8y ago
A more interesting puzzle is to prove or disprove whether every algebraic, irrational number is normal (in some base).
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by QML 8y ago
But Celsius and Kelvin have the same unit of measure; they’re only offsetted by 273 degrees.
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by QML 8y ago
Is security considered a “core business function”? I wouldn’t believe so.
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by QML 8y ago
I feel small things like that, or professors not understanding their students’ perspectives — apparently this is a known cognitive bias called “curse of knowledge” — unnecessarily restricts access to field.
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From Basic Idea to Impact: The Story of Modern Cryptography [video](youtube.com)
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by QML 8y ago
This is a very typical Silicon Valley mindset where the number of high paying software engineering positions is abundant, and there’s no shortage of work. If you look outside the Bay Area, I’m sure you will find people who desperate enough
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by QML 8y ago
Another relevant discussion, albeit from a more game theoretic view: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17741641 . Beyond two submissions sharing the same subject-title, do you think it'd be possible to find all &quot
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by QML 8y ago
Podcast lists don't load in Safari and in Chrome -- issue for anyone else?
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by QML 8y ago
Before trying Simulated Annealing, try out all the industry grade constraint optimization solvers! They’re surprisingly more effective on average case inputs. I had to learn this the hard way when, for a class project, I was thoroughly beat
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by QML 8y ago
“The company has an exclusive deal to use the cancer center’s vast archive of 25 million patient tissue slides, along with decades of work by its world-renowned pathologists.” In general, the world is better off with more information: why n
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by QML 8y ago
Adversarially generated inputs have been known for some time [1], so I wouldn’t call it a new class of attacks unless 1. there are other and older ways of attacking neural networks 2. new as in the last couple of years. [1] https:/&#x
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by QML 8y ago
That’s actually the concept of ensemble learning! [1] The question is, how would that lead to predicting a randomly placed elephant as an elephant with high confidence? [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble_avera
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by QML 8y ago
That would not seem computationally efficient if for every class (i.e. object) you were to create a 3D modeling and paste it into a training set
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by QML 8y ago
I wonder if it'd just be easier for high schools to convert over to a college model: students are free to pick courses corresponding to their preferred times, and to leave and enter campus on will. Of course, there will be incentives t
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by QML 8y ago
How would you make an algorithm to predict something unknown? This is essentially the field of sequential decision making, which encompasses everything from reinforcement learning to multi-armed bandits. [1] As an example, let’s pretend we
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by QML 8y ago
From an economic standpoint, investing in fast mass-transit (e.g. high speed rail) would probably result in a larger net positive than self driving cars. Why? 1. I would theorize that the economic benefits of transportation are directly pro
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by QML 8y ago
we can have a bus system that runs dynamic routes based on the users that are going to ride it and runs closer to ideally efficient vs. a fixed route that is likely inefficient This doesn't seem to require driverless busses. I can se
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We weren’t always so lucky. One year, before we’d even finished setting up the booth, a cadre of MIT undergraduate physicists stumped us with ‘Soap bubbles physically solve minimal surface problems. Are there any other physical phenomena
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Does anyone know if uber or another on demand company has a similar type blog post, but about predictive matching? Algorithms like stable marriage are fascinating from a theoretical standpoint but I would love to hear about them from people
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by QML 8y ago
If you go to slide 70 of the CMU link posted above [1], it covers an algorithm called FutureMatch [2], which attempts to assess or predict the quality of a matching. I wouldn't call it AI as the article author calls the algorithm, but

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