akrolsmir

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by akrolsmir 11y ago
Probably referring to the windowing system that makes it easy to snap two apps side by side, each on half the screen, while in Metro mode. You can probably still go to the "desktop" and multitask however you're used to.
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by akrolsmir 11y ago
I've been using it for a couple months now. It really simplifies sharing a region from your screen (ctrl shift 4) or formatted text from your clipboard (ctrl shift 5). The best use case imo is for chat, where quick sharing prevents a
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by akrolsmir 11y ago
It seems to me that prestige is a combination of fame and selectivity; a school is prestigious if everyone has heard of it, but few get in. A long history is certainly helpful (a ranking of UC schools by age would probably correspond to a r
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by akrolsmir 11y ago
I wonder if there'd be room for a true alternative to an elite college. I've always felt that the value of such institutions was that it is the premier place to meet and befriend other smart students, not in the facilities or inst
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by akrolsmir 12y ago
A bit of a different perspective: as a CS undergrad in Silicon Valley, internships routinely pay upwards of $20k for a summer, complete with relocation -- simultaneously defraying costs of tuition and providing real work experience. Far fro
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by akrolsmir 12y ago
I'd read Yudkowsky's popular "An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes' Theorem" as well as a few others, but the article on this site made me feel like I actually understood it for the first time. The examples were clever
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by akrolsmir 12y ago
I'd doubt limiting land space would be very helpful -- given that the each character encodes 33 possibilities (alphabet + digits, without O, I, or L for clarity), you'd need to reduce the space by a factor of 33 (~97%) to remove a
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by akrolsmir 12y ago
UC Berkeley student here; laptop bannings are actually relatively common in lectures. I've seen professors actually stop their lectures to yell at some student in the back until said student puts his laptop away. A relevant point that
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by akrolsmir 12y ago
Yeah. Quick sketch of proof: Any prime is 1 or 2 mod 3, and 1, 3, 5, or 7 mod 8. Squaring each value means that every p^2 is 1 mod 3 and 1 mod 8, which must be 1 mod 24 (Chinese remainder theorem). Or you could algebraically bash it out.
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by akrolsmir 13y ago
It looks like the E-GO hits the first two points, and, purely speculating, I'd imagine that at full power it would assist you uphill as well.