RuggeroAltair

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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
Well, not really, because as I was saying below, in a lot of cases you know that on average a certain solution is (just as an example) 10% off the best possible solution (on average, avoiding Mawell's devils). Once you know that, it's not t
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
> While I imagine that variations of TSP occur for logistics companies, it also occurs in problems where "solve once, use many times" applies, such as electronics design. That is true, but it's the same that I was saying (and it's why I
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
I'm not really sure what the point of this post is. It seems pretty standard in all it says. It's probably good to remind people that an NP-complete problem doesn't mean death, but I mean, in real world problems I think that everybody knows
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
I'm sure your department can use Gimp ;-)
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
Nah. Gimp maybe isn't exactly as good as Photoshop (even though some tools were in Gimp much earlier than in Photoshop) but there is a huge difference between this website and Gimp. I appreciate the effort, but the functionalities of this w
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
Thanks for your explanation! By the way, just to clarify because maybe it wasn't really clear, when I said broken I didn't mean at all that the interview process at Google fails at hiring good candidates, I just meant that sometimes it take
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
No, sorry, I didn't meant it in a provokative way. I was just saying it in relation to Norvig's statement. Although I really like Google and most things about how you guys work, I can't hide that I think it's becoming a common joke how brok
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
This is from 2006, 6 years ago. If you work at Google maybe you can say more about your experience. But what I know for sure it's not like that necessarily anymore, since I talked to many people about their interviews at google and I know s
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
I don't think this is true at all. I'm not saying that they will never hire an extra person in case they find two truly exceptional people (exceptional as in they feel like they really are missing out sending one home, not just that they ar
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Slashdot: Too Many Connections Weaken Networks(science.slashdot.org)
1 points by RuggeroAltair 15y ago|0 comments
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
Yes, this is exactly what I mean. But this is going even further, when the search depends on the physical location, not only on my friends, it could really impact how a young person can find things online, and how their interests could be s
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How long until a search engine gets sued for discrimination?
5 points by RuggeroAltair 15y ago|2 comments
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
Good article. But I think that there is also another point to make. It's true that there is often space to be the one idea that delivers in a way that is easy enough to use for the general user to the point of having the chance to be the wi
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
I think that the article is identifying just one little secret, and not necessarily an important one. There is a lot of reasons why silicon valley is productive, one for all is that most people with decisional power are also expert in the f
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
I agree with this as well. My second point was maybe short but it was about the revenue per user. I certainly believe that Facebook will increase the amount of revenue per user, but there is where I believe that they can do a lot but not to
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
Sure, although, there is one thing that bothers me, Facebook reaches so many people so quickly that even reasonably big companies now use a Facebook page instead of a website. There is something intrinsically wrong with this, because Facebo
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
> If "Can it go up 5X" were the threshold for going public, investors would price this in, so the actual threshold would drop. I agree with this. All I'm saying is that most companies can in general grow, and so it depends on you whethe
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
Well, honestly I think that buying Facebook shares right now is a high risk move. While it is possible maybe to forecast some ups and downs in the immediate following days, if the evaluation actually goes to 100 billions it'd look scary to
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
Oh, come on, guys... You all are over simplifying a complicated calculation. Have you considered that you don't know the distribution of the 3M players? How many of them had just joined compared to how many had been around already for a wh
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
I think they have been trying for a long time, but while it's possible to conceive the idea in a second, it might be harder to find the right algorithms to do it in an effective way. After all they make changes every day and study the respo
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
Well, I guess they got penalized and got upset. But it's honestly good if such pages are penalized. Nowadays time is very important, and wasting time on a normal basis just to look through the advertisements is a very annoying thing.