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by bloomer 7y ago
Data science is one of the few fields where a physics degree does have at least some comparative advantage. In any engineering field, a hiring manager with a choice between an engineering graduate and a physics graduate is always going to c
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by bloomer 7y ago
You are missing the argument. It is the same one that RAND https://www.rand.org/pubs/conf_proceedings/CF194.html gave when commissioned by congress to determine whether their was a “STEM shortage.” If there was a
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by bloomer 7y ago
The comparison isn't between working at a software startup and delivering food. It is between working at a software startup and a different software job. The other software job is almost always better for the reasons listed above.
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by bloomer 7y ago
So do you get to go home 45-90 minutes earlier then? I think that is what the original comment was questioning.
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by bloomer 8y ago
Any of the regulations predate most digital communications so there are a bunch of obsolete rules specifying the maximum symbol rate for digital transmissions rather then restricting the bandwidth which is what one actual cares about for sh
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by bloomer 8y ago
Useful description from the documentation about what is new about this as amateur packet radio has a long history. The NPR protocol is designed to transfer IP data over radio links, in a bidirectional way (single frequency). This protocol i
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by bloomer 8y ago
Except go (and all other well defined games) are the most trivial of domains. For real business problems, the difficulty is most often trying to determine what the problem is and how it relates to the rest of the world.
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by bloomer 8y ago
Yeah that whole section on suspicious comparison looks like false positives by someone who didn't even bother to look at the code or doesn't understand it. Right after there is also the flagging of strod(rounded string) = 0.0 whi
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by bloomer 8y ago
You might be surprised that that "Luddite" response is actually the consensus opinion among experts familiar with electronic voting technology. See https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/04&#x2
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by bloomer 8y ago
Well the common description of a data scientist as "better at stats than a programmer and better at programming than a statistician" can also be reframed as "worse at stats than a statistician and worse at programming than a
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by bloomer 8y ago
The tax evasion argument doesn't seem to follow. It's not the scarcity that you want hard to measure it's the value. Scarcity in modern art is always assured by one of a kind or limited runs. If it's photorealistic it
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by bloomer 8y ago
Opportunity cost
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by bloomer 8y ago
Limited time and resources
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by bloomer 8y ago
No he's not getting hung up on the term vector. He is saying that SIMD is fixed but wider width and that is not equivalent to arbitrary width. For example, SIMD shuffle type instructions have no arbitrary length equivalent.
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by bloomer 8y ago
I’m confused. How is it regressive? Inflation is essentially a tax on idle wealth.
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by bloomer 8y ago
The federal shutdown affected the timeline as NIST employees were not allowed to work in January.
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by bloomer 8y ago
Yes, the paper is general and covers the case for arbitrary bit size. 64-bit would require a 128-bit approximate inverse in general and the multiplication during computing the mod would extend that out another 64-bits. So would require th
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by bloomer 8y ago
I think you may have missed his point slightly. He isn't questioning whether one can identify important results after the fact. He is questioning whether one can identify important discoveries that haven't yet been made. In man
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by bloomer 8y ago
Peak sprint performance is in one's twenties, peak marathon performance is on one's thirties. Source: Usain Bolt and Elioud Kipchoge. You can find tons of finish times with age for running events online to show how the degradati
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by bloomer 8y ago
What is over the horizon radio? I am familiar with over the horizon radar, but not radio for communications. Do you have any references?
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by bloomer 8y ago
Reddit, blogs, Facebook and the rest have not broken any important stories. Actual news is broken by paid investigative reporters.
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by bloomer 8y ago
I think you are mistaking source for distribution channel. The "internet" doesn't produce anything it just distributes it very cheaply.
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by bloomer 8y ago
There is no way to copyright someone else's work. Whoever produced the solution owns the copyright.
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by bloomer 8y ago
It turns out that the effect is typically exactly the opposite. Design and process are already coupled where a given process will have design rules that must be adhered to to achieve a successfully manufacturable design. Intel only has to
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by bloomer 8y ago
Yeah that is the exact strategy employed by 61 year old Cliff Young linked above, slow pace and no sleep. The article notes that is the strategy everyone uses now in that race as well. Also he was not competitive the second year.
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by bloomer 8y ago
The go compiler does dead code elimination. I'm not familiar with TinyGo but from the readme one thing it does do differently is drop the whole scheduler if there are no blocking go routines.
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by bloomer 8y ago
No. I think that is the exact point he was making that quantum key distribution is orthogonal to post-quantum cryptography and that the consensus is that poat-quantum cryptography will actually be used while quantum key distribution is basi
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by bloomer 8y ago
Well there are the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments and the voting rights act of 1965 that do establish the right to vote. But, yes those have all been significantly weakened by the judiciary, including to allow permanent disenfranchisem
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by bloomer 8y ago
Yeah I'm really confused why working with 4GB+ datasets in the browser is a current need. Why does everything end up in web browsers these days? Is it only because developers aren't familiar with anything else?
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by bloomer 8y ago
I think the most correct version is “Make something people will buy from you” There are actually plenty of things people want that you can sell but they won’t buy, for example because they can get it cheaper or free somewhere else.

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