antonfire

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by antonfire 6y ago
If you think someone having a Slavic last name means their gender necessarily matches the gender suggested by the form of their name, you are just mistaken. I have a Slavic last name. I also have female relatives whose last name is, quite o
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by antonfire 6y ago
> Using gender neutral in this case is as insulting as calling him a dog. In English? No it isn't. You are the one who is "butchering" a language's pronouns by improperly mapping considerations into it from another la
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by antonfire 6y ago
A polynomial with a single variable is more or less what you would mean by "use base-infinity digits" in the first place. Roughly, in base 10, the number represented by the sequence of digits d_0, d_1, ..., d_n is d_0 + d_1 * 10 +
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by antonfire 6y ago
The standard multiplication algorithm is an algorithm for taking base-b representations of two numbers and outputting the base-b representation of the product of those numbers. A base-b representation of a number is a sequence of digits
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by antonfire 6y ago
Fun fact, you can construct and store a lookup table for sums of all possible pairs of O(log(n))-digit numbers in O(n) space. (And O(n) time, probably?) So if your model of computation lets you look things up in a table like that in O(1) ti
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by antonfire 6y ago
Do you interpret both as > addition operations of numbers with an arbitrary number of bits deemed to take O(1) time ? I was picturing a more restrictive model of computation in which your claim is along the lines of > There's an
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by antonfire 6y ago
The premise was > addition operations of numbers with log(n) bits deemed to take O(1) time. not > addition operations of numbers with n bits deemed to take O(1) time.
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by antonfire 6y ago
> If this is allowed by your model of computation, then you could use this magical O(1) addition to to implement multiplication in O(n). How's that?
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by antonfire 6y ago
The first few Google results for "sliding dot product" basically describe it as a convolution with the domain of one of the functions reversed. (Note as far as whether or not to reverse one of the functions, multiplication in base
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by antonfire 6y ago
What's 111111111*111111111?
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by antonfire 6y ago
Regarding point 3, the trend is in the direction of making your devices a lot less "yours", and a lot more hooked into 3rd (4th, etc) party services.
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by antonfire 6y ago
There's a large chunk of enthusiasts between "the masses" and the hard core of people who "actually care" enough (and are rich enough) to go out of their way to have their own machine at home no matter what short of
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by antonfire 6y ago
Answering the question first typically takes a nontrivial amount of effort.
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by antonfire 6y ago
> Can you remember one time in history where we now like "thanks god they censor these thoughts!"? Well, the honest answer to the "can you remember" question is going to be misleading. By the nature of the thing we&#x