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by alextp 17y ago
You have a point. My closeted complexity theorist persona thinks it would be a lot more interesting to study the special cases of P (not just LOG, but seeing how O(n) and O(n²) or "NO(n)" problems behave) instead of the most general cases.
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by alextp 17y ago
SAT is the boolean satisfiability problem, a simple NP-complete problem often used to prove the other problems are NP-complete. An instance of SAT is a boolean formula, and the answer to it is yes if and only if the formula can be true for
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by alextp 17y ago
Elements of Statistical Learning Theory covers most of that, I think, and some more.
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by alextp 17y ago
At least three friends of mine, in Brazil, deleted their last.fm accounts upon reading the last TC post. The FUD worked.
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by alextp 17y ago
The article comes pretty close to saying that in the end, when judging the affect of the words.
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DaveM on Beaux Arts in the early 20th century(vger.kernel.org)
1 points by alextp 17y ago|0 comments
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by alextp 17y ago
The best take on privacy I've ever read (and the only one that actually made me pause and wonder about the hidden assumptions in my thinking) was Jonathan Franzen's Imperial Bedroom ( in http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct
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by alextp 17y ago
The problem with hashing is that you do not just want a number, but a number that is between 0 and the size of your table and that, over a reasonable distribution of objects, gives numbers that are uniformely distributed in that interval. Y
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by alextp 17y ago
I'm not sure, I don't think python semantics would support implicit backtracking.
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Don’t! The secret of self-control(newyorker.com)
186 points by alextp 17y ago|69 comments
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by alextp 17y ago
Or, in some cases, specially when they're being hostile ;-)
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by alextp 17y ago
I wonder if this site is made specifically as a machine learning tool, but it sure beats cyc as a source.
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by alextp 18y ago
Well, you probably sort-of can do that with open source projects that integrate version control and bug tracking. In these repositories you will find lots of commits names "Fixes #42". The problem, I think, is that making a statistical n-gr
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by alextp 18y ago
That's the point I was trying to make. Something like "always commit and run the tests before going to production" makes a lot of sense, and should be mandated. Even something like "three signed copies of an authorization form" makes sense
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by alextp 18y ago
One problem is that the cost of checks is only visible in the aggregate. The marginal cost of each new check seems to be pretty low. I wonder if there's a way to limit the total cost without hard-and-fast silly rules.
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by alextp 18y ago
I second auctex, it's preview mode is a godsend when formatting tables and formulas. It also has dozens of helpers for switxhing environments, defining and using macros, etc. It comes with reftex, which, by itself, makes it worth learning.
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by alextp 18y ago
Yes, and it works marvellously for most fonts, but I think it doesn't do anti aliasing for bitmapped fonts, and xpdf does. I could send you a screenshot of how badly jstor pdfs get in my laptop, if you're interested.
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by alextp 18y ago
xpdf has better anti-aliasing in my computers, usually. Pdfs from jstor for example look awful under evince and ok on xpdf.
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by alextp 18y ago
Actually, injecting 3 trillion dollars of gold in the market is just going to drive the price of gold way down. It's almost the same thing as printing cash, really, since the value of gold is mostly figurative.
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by alextp 18y ago
Hint: if you have easy internet access and can speak english even though it is not your first language, you do not live in a zombie apocalypse.
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by alextp 18y ago
It was kinda sad reading his blog while he made the jump. The first few self-help-ish posts were actually ok, but the rest were just annoying.
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by alextp 18y ago
I' m not really sure. A good design is more visible than good code, from outside (at least if you're looking without prejudice).
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Ask YC: Where to learn web design?
42 points by alextp 18y ago|39 comments
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by alextp 19y ago
It's scary how good the prose of some lispers is. I wonder what made Peter Norvig and Paul Graham write this well. "I am not claiming to be good. At best I speak good as a second language." is just brilliant.
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How To Deconstruct Almost Anything(dourish.com)
2 points by alextp 19y ago|0 comments