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by QML 8y ago
IMO, new housing isn't a partisan issue (since both sides dislike it). Liberals will say it only benefits wealthy developers. And Conservatives will lament the requirement of affordable units. In a sense, they're both right (?). A
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by QML 8y ago
Talks about a credit system built upon a blockchain naturally transition to talks about an identity system; otherwise, how would you prevent Sybil attacks [1]? However, I am unsure to how the latter will be solved without a central, trusted
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by QML 8y ago
How has the LinkedIn acquisition benefited LinkedIn users or Microsoft users?
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by QML 8y ago
I disagree. The popularity of GitHub amongst the programming community means that ease of use / convenience is more important than the notion of “decentralization”. Otherwise, people would already be setting up their servers for hostin
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by QML 8y ago
To add on: Moore's law is "dying", and that places further pressure on algorithms to get faster. However, even in an exponential world, I am reminded of a quote: "exponential algorithms make polynomially slow progress, w
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by QML 8y ago
Not really. Computational complexity and markets have more in common that most think. Mechanisms which rely on algorithms, such on auctions, have runtimes. Hence, why we have a field called algorithmic game theory [1]. [1] https:/&#x2
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by QML 8y ago
What does this mean for the class of PPAD-complete [1] problems? Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but if 1. Nash Equilibrium ⊂ FNP 2. "Markets are efficient" => FNP ⊂ FP How is this different from "FP = FNP if and o
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by QML 8y ago
How would one make “non-collapsing measurements”?
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by QML 8y ago
If by "bloom filter-esque", you mean a probabilistic way of testing whether a number is prime or not, then the answer would yes for a majority of numbers. How? Just run Fermat's little theorem on multiple values of "a&qu
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by QML 8y ago
Investors see a lot more road in Amazon’s future compared to Walmart’s — it’s just the illusion of growth that drives stock prices.
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by QML 8y ago
The starkest contrast between the CS building and the business school on campus isn't the way students dress or the conversations they have -- its how much their alumni donate. And let me say, CS does not match up in that regard.
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by QML 8y ago
Only referring to my experience as an undergrad: most students seemed to be turned away by the mathematics.
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Which apps or companies are these? I have not heard of widespread use of mobile payments in developing countries besides China.
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by QML 8y ago
The FED can still be a central issuer, and a digital USD can thus still be considered a cryptocurrency.
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by QML 8y ago
While there may be a lot of demand for AI/ML, I’m concerned to whether there are enough students with the proper foundations in math and stats to do well. New classes such as Data Science seem to just instruct students how to use algor
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by QML 8y ago
I would place my bets on low-pay. For example, working at a Big Four would probably net you more than working as a professor at Berkeley [1]. [1] http://projects.dailycal.org/paychecker/departments/computer...
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by QML 8y ago
How is designing for blockchain different from designing for fintech?
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by QML 8y ago
Blockchain is a technology – and as with all technologies, it should be abstracted away from the user. The majority of people don’t care about words such as “trustless” or “decentralization”; those are essentially meaningless. They need tan
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by QML 8y ago
What's the difference in problem statement between k-bandits and the expert's problem?
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You can also cite micro communities in United States. For example, college students use Facebook for anything from browsing memes to planning events to subletting their houses for the summer. It’s a pretty convenient ecosystem to tap into c
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by QML 8y ago
It's important to keep in context where the term "Wisdom of the Crowd" came from and where it succeeded. "The classic wisdom-of-the-crowds finding involves point estimation of a continuous quantity. This has contributed
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by QML 8y ago
Did you already have a majority of the engineering prerequisites before deciding to switch into EECS after two years?
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by QML 8y ago
It’s one thing to kill a pig; it’s another to bring them back.
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by QML 8y ago
What year did you buy your first house? I'm guessing 2009-2011 since that when house prices were still low enough that early college graduate could buy a house in the Bay Area -- especially Berkeley.
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Wished they rendered latex as well.
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That belongs to the realm of graduate courses where theory and rigor are more emphasized.
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Universities make computer scientists, not software engineers. Hence why domain specific courses are offered.
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Quantum supremacy is 10-15 years out (from what I’ve heard). Is it normal for people to be worried about threats so far out? We don’t even know if Bitcoin will exist then; only concern would be the cryptography that underpins it which is a
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by QML 9y ago
Your post kind of reminds of two other articles along the same concept: [1] http://ncase.me/trust/ [2] https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-to-triumph-and-cooperate-...
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by QML 9y ago
It's probably around the same content as this semester's iteration: http://data8.org/sp18/ . I would read the online book for more info.

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