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by cf 7y ago
Thanks for taking the time to reply. I am 100% in support of software like this being open-source. Not just because companies go out of business and disappear, but for scientific-computing software, it's important to be able to extend
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by cf 7y ago
I know this isn't the most appropriate place to ask, but what are the main feature gaps between commercial computer algebra systems like Mathematica/Maple and systems like Axiom/Sympy?
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by cf 7y ago
I think there is a good argument to be made for crowdsourcing some of those as well.
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by cf 7y ago
I will second this as someone who really likes these two pens and was disappointed in the Preppy.
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by cf 8y ago
Not to be too snarky but to the question in the article, “The question for health systems: how much are one-time therapies worth?”, you mean like vaccines? Presumably, it should cost a similar amount.
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by cf 8y ago
Would anyone be able to recommend the opposite of this in terms of a wakeup light? The problem with lots of these bulbs is they aren't very bright and these days I live in a place that doesn't really get lots of natural light.
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by cf 8y ago
Let me try to give a high-level explanation. As we have had success with using neural networks for different tasks, people began to ask what are the properties that make neural networks work so well. When I mean work well, I mean a family o
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by cf 8y ago
Is there anything like Electron from a cross-platform and ease of development standpoint but way more lightweight? I often find applications written in it to be very sluggish and resource intensive even when the web or mobile version of the
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by cf 8y ago
Interestingly, Kademlia ended up being a major component in lots of botnets for a time like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_botnet
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by cf 8y ago
In practice, SomeCoolNewTool will be bundled with some seed hosts.
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by cf 8y ago
Incidentally there is a workshop this Sunday at ICML about program synthesis https://uclmr.github.io/nampi/
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by cf 8y ago
Thanks!
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by cf 8y ago
This reminds me a lot of https://via.hypothes.is/ . Could someone familiar with both explain why to prefer one service over another?
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by cf 8y ago
Totally, but there are unlikely to be many ways to structure the law to give users consent over their data and not burden business as usual. Even responding to DMCA requests is burdensome. You can automate it like Google has tried but it fa
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by cf 8y ago
I don't get the hand wringing. If you have an image sharing service you will have to contend with child pornography. If you have any content sharing service you have to deal with copyright infringement. You need a lawyer to create a co
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by cf 9y ago
You have to be strategic if your country doesn't care, but the first step is to create the intellectual edifice activists in the future will lean against. Also even as someone not in your country, I would still enjoy reading any writin
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by cf 9y ago
Lots of people care about this. I think the solution is to produce policy papers about this risk complete with proposals for how to go about curtailing those kinds of abuses. The EU still cares a lot about privacy, and other government bodi
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by cf 9y ago
Exactly. I think the Algorithm Design Manual does more to directly train that kind of thinking than many books. Now if you want theory, I continue to recommend Algorithm Design by Kleinberg and Tardos.
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by cf 9y ago
I love it since it has actual C code for implementing the ideas. You get the intuition for the algorithms, how that intuition translates into pseudocode, and how that pseudocode becomes real C code. Another lesson that it uniquely provides
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by cf 9y ago
I re-implemented lots of basic unix tools. What I would do is go for a command, and just look through OS api references seeing if I could implement it. Once I got basic functionality, I would go look into the source code and check I did aga
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by cf 9y ago
There are ideas that only get expressed in person. Either because they are still a work in progress or because they are not interesting enough to warrant a video or a blog post. Conferences are really great for learning about that sort of s
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by cf 9y ago
Many celebrities and entertainers can bring their fanbase with them as they get older. This is literally what people like Leno and the Rolling Stones do.
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by cf 9y ago
As someone who commutes to work on a bike, you definitely have a sympathetic ear with me.
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by cf 9y ago
Inventing a better battery is something a single person can do in the lab. I worry that you are conflating inventing things and the engineering of scaling them out. Scaling things almost never was doable by one person, but the initial seed
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by cf 9y ago
Inventions are motivated by problems, and we still have lots of them. We sorely need cheap sustainable energy, cheap drugs, artificial organs, more efficient transportation, denser batteries, and that's just stuff off the top of my hea
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by cf 9y ago
Buying lots of nice things on a credit card and racking up debt is a wonderful short-term strategy. At some point the mistakes you make in the short-term cripple you in the long-term. That's what all these efforts are trying to address
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by cf 9y ago
I think this is a good application paper for Lean showing how you can use it to develop machine learning algorithms. https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.08605
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by cf 9y ago
Sure, I agree with that. It's not clear the comment I'm replying to does so. If we want to view the market as a phenomenon like soil erosion that's fine. I got the impression that the parent comment was implying markets as a
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by cf 9y ago
See arbitrages, asymmetric information, collusion, and price fixing

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