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by brent 17y ago
Hey Christopher Smart, Stop Making Linux Magazine Look Bad
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by brent 17y ago
Exactly. The author cannot be bothered to decode such email addresses. If that is the case I probably did not want his email in the first place. Ipso facto, my filter worked.
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by brent 17y ago
I wouldn't spend too much time on the world cup problem :-). http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.4555
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by brent 17y ago
nytimes.com angered me (a fan of nyt) when this was their top story on the front page yesterday.
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by brent 17y ago
For anyone who enjoyed reading this you may want to check out his (Lance Fortnow) blog (that he shares with Bill Gasarch). http://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/ I am not in TCS, but I do enjoy what bits and pieces are understandable to
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by brent 17y ago
Different strokes for different folks. You apparently don't like news about copyright law or big tech employers that hire tons of hackers. I do. On the other hand, I don't care about resetting my sleep cycle, exploding ipods, or rails an
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by brent 17y ago
I am certainly not ruling out a startup at some point. I was an early yc interviewee (and rejectee :-)) and afterwards just figured I'd enjoy my work for a while instead of worrying about the dollars and other minutiae. In reality, I'm ju
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by brent 17y ago
This book is a bit of a reference. If you want to learn from more entertaining books you should check out three books from another IU professor the Little Schemer, Seasoned Schemer, and when you want to move to logic programming the Reason
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by brent 17y ago
From a two second skim of the preface my guess is that it covers Revised^6.
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by brent 17y ago
I wouldn't say that is an entirely accurate characterization. I don't know anyone in my department doing research that doesn't interest them. Students generally love the research they are doing and are probably a bit more autonomous than
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by brent 17y ago
Why does he say that the arity is different for derivatives and integrals? Isn't there an arity 1 symbolic integration? If you were numerically computing an integral over a range, shouldn't you be evaluating the derivative at a point? Th
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by brent 17y ago
The author clearly cannot even define depression, recession, or collapse... Let alone comment on what state we are in... Useless. Amateur Hour.
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by brent 17y ago
In matlab: -sum(p(x).*log(p(x))) Both look much cleaner imo.
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by brent 17y ago
1.0e100.com
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by brent 17y ago
That is an interesting form of lottery. Do you have any references to lotteries run in this manner (and proof that the tickets are not randomly generated)? I think the form of lottery I (and others) are referring to is the one where there
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by brent 17y ago
I think the most common model is that tickets are randomly generated and winners share the pot. Two winning tickets do not decrease one's odds from having a winning ticket since they are independent. Clearly it isn't a forest/trees issue,
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by brent 17y ago
If lottery tickets are generated randomly how does the person in front of you winning decrease your chance of winning?
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by brent 17y ago
I did not miss "great people around him". Your claim was that he didn't learn anything from his PhD. My claim is that he undoubtedly learned a lot from his advisor and other graduate students. If you are talking about learning stuff in c
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by brent 17y ago
"I don't recall Larry learning anything from doing a PhD itself, as opposed to doing the work independently." Seeing as one major focus of a PhD is to learn to do independent research, this statement is essentially vacuous. It also disrega
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by brent 18y ago
Should we let our peers who are delivering food aid die instead?
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by brent 18y ago
That is $661 AUD, not USD. It should be $470 USD although I'm sure the margin of error on the calculation is probably so large it doesn't matter.
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by brent 18y ago
Who claims GT is #1?
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by brent 18y ago
I think you may be referring to Amherst College ( https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/computer_sc... ) Umass Amherst has a rather substantial CS dept including many well known researchers ( http://www.cs.umass.edu/faculty/facul
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by brent 18y ago
Man, I expected a much more interesting article based on the title.
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by brent 18y ago
In their defense they probably didn't know a recession of this magnitude was on the horizon. If they were hesitant to grow in the early days they may have missed a number of key hires or growth areas.
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by brent 18y ago
His degree clearly wasn't worth it. Doesn't he realize that part of his education was subsidized by other donors? It would be more like insurance paying part of the plumbing bill and giving to insurance your entire life.
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by brent 18y ago
Actually, he says green are on the front page and red are not. They could have been on front page at some time.
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by brent 18y ago
First, thank you for providing actual numbers.... but... Supply and demand. If everyone started watching on Hulu they would be able to charge more per advertisement. These are rates given the current situation, not the future. Why do I s
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by brent 18y ago
On the website they actually claim it is at "NO ADDITIONAL EXPENSE" (caps are on website). So effectively it is free marketing opportunity for the company buying it at no additional expense to the buyer. Since the barrier to change (for t
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by brent 18y ago
Journyx wasn't terrible (it has been ~3 years since I have used it). I believe it is free for individuals, but you'll have to check.

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