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by brent 18y ago
Bernie Ecclestone did not found Formula One.
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by brent 18y ago
Essentially a dupe. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=140808
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by brent 18y ago
All probability density functions must integrate to 1.
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by brent 18y ago
Researching statistical machine learning algorithms.
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by brent 18y ago
Do you have any examples where Krugman literally and undeniably contradicts himself within two consecutive sentences?
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by brent 18y ago
I agree about compound statements, but I think most people will use the tuple assignment style, especially when its simply initializing variables. There is no reason to expand it beyond one line.
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by brent 18y ago
Where do you think UW is lacking?
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by brent 18y ago
Are you referring to this line where he initializes 4 variables? bounds, s, t, j = (0,0), -float('infinity'), 0, 0
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by brent 18y ago
Well, then it fits as well as any of PG's essays that don't explicitly discuss 'hacking' and those never get this complaint.
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by brent 18y ago
Those sets are not necessarily disjoint.
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by brent 18y ago
Did you make it through the entire video?
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by brent 18y ago
http://www.mylastemail.com/ edit: This is a very old idea.
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by brent 18y ago
Its open source.
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by brent 18y ago
Someone has got to say it, but if I recall correctly the hugely successful plentyoffish was not only developed by one, but also maintained by one.
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by brent 18y ago
Very much so. Cuban's site is supposedly legitimate news and he is making decisions based on said legitimate news. If one were to do the above mentioned it would be like "pumping and dumping", albeit in the other direction.
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by brent 18y ago
Russel
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by brent 18y ago
What is the obsession with learning loads of programming languages? If you pick well, you only need a couple and you can spend your time and mental energy building new things. Note: This is not to say I do not appreciate the value of lear
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by brent 18y ago
Which reminds me of the Polya quote that "[m]athematics, you see, is not a spectator sport. To understand mathematics means to be able to do mathematics. And what does it mean [to be] doing mathematics? In the first place, it means to be
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by brent 18y ago
The last topic covered in this lecture is VLSI (Very large Scale Integration) layout problem: given a number of various electronic gates an chips, how to position them on the circuit board. You may want to state the objective here as well
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by brent 18y ago
An early employee of youtube could have made a similar post.
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by brent 18y ago
Aren't most (all?) high dollar / low probability prizes paid with insurance?
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by brent 18y ago
"The other benefits of the college experience don't require college anyway, and are cost-prohibitive to a lot of people." The benefits of college are benefits because you cannot get them otherwise. It is a fallacy to claim otherwise.
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by brent 18y ago
Exactly. The fact that I assumed this was the case was enough to prevent me checking. I assume this to be the case with most hacker types. So, is this security through stupidity?
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by brent 18y ago
More impressive than writing about them is investing in more winners than losers!
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by brent 18y ago
I have worked with more than one microcontroller in the last few years that was not operating to spec. On top of that, in one case we couldn't even do a work around due to compiler error. I think the problem is a lot more prevalent than y
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by brent 18y ago
Weren't Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Vanderbilt "icons of revolution"? I mean, oil, steel, and shipping are more important than ipods, right?
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by brent 18y ago
Clearly there is a spectrum, I'm not missing your point. In this spectrum though, chess/go/sport are at one end and gambling is at the other. Poker is in the middle.
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by brent 18y ago
What? You _needed_ a drug to pull 13 hour work days with 5-6 hours of sleep? Did you try a cup or two of coffee?
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by brent 18y ago
Well, other skill based "games" include the majority (or all?) of professional sports. If there were chance introduced at key points in the game (like drawing cards or flipping coins) I don't think anyone would watch baseball, football, or
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by brent 18y ago
> Most decisions that don't involve some unknown are relatively easy. Apparently you don't play go. I play games for entertainment, not to mimic reality. Games with chance as a significant component aren't necessarily more entertaining

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