charrisku

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by charrisku 10y ago
Why is this guy hard to replace? There are tons of college stoners who have the skills to blow you any glass you want. Visit your local head shop if you doubt this. Why not get one of those?
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Child protection agencies are trying big data to predict abuse(vice.com)
2 points by charrisku 10y ago|0 comments
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by charrisku 11y ago
He's saying that if you looked at the whole history of the US and divided that into 10 equal parts, then there would be a 10% chance of any random observation falling into the last part. Hence, all else equal, we have a 10% chance that
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by charrisku 11y ago
This.
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by charrisku 11y ago
I can't really say what I imagine the alternative to be (if I could, I'd write it up), but I do know that if it had an inherent complexity in it's mathematical structure, I would image it to be more resistant to attack by a g
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by charrisku 11y ago
I was mainly curious if any asymmetric algorithms exist which are not easily analyzed by algebraists, et al. According to the comment by tveita, this does not appear likely, and I am sorry to hear it. I don't discount what you say abou
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by charrisku 11y ago
As a mathematician (though not a cryptographer), I have a great deal of difficulty trusting cryptographic protocols which have a mathematical basis. Whether they are based on factoring, elliptic curves, or any other mathematical concept, th
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by charrisku 11y ago
I agree on the pretty female observation. Just about every tech recruiter that's contacted me recently looks like someone I'd want to date. My father is a doctor in the US and the drug reps he deals with are also from this mold, s
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by charrisku 11y ago
The average defendant in the US is poor or indigent, often lacks much of a formal education, and is usually at the mercy of whatever overworked public defender they were assigned. Go ask any lawyer you know about how much weight their deman
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by charrisku 11y ago
I can't speak for CS, but I got a PhD in applied math at a respectable school in Virginia and about 90% of our grad students were not US citizens. To my knowledge, every one of them left on completion of their degrees and I can't
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by charrisku 11y ago
SEEKING WORK PhD in applied and computational mathematics (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA) with published research in statistics, numerical analysis, and functional analysis. Strong interest in software development/engineeri
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by charrisku 11y ago
PhD in applied and computational mathematics (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA) with published research in statistics, numerical analysis, and functional analysis. Strong interest in software development/engineering. Loves alg
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Police Program Aims to Pinpoint Those Most Likely to Commit Crimes(nytimes.com)
36 points by charrisku 11y ago|60 comments
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by charrisku 11y ago
I agree wholeheartedly on the public drinking aspect. I lived in Virginia for 30 years and if you are walking around on the street with a beer, you're essentially asking to spend 4 hours in the "drunk tank" for public intoxic
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by charrisku 11y ago
One thing we learned from the Snowden revelations is that the NSA routinely uses convoluted legal justifications to do it's dirt. I'd be very skeptical that any slowdown/stoppage has actually occurred because it's likely
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by charrisku 11y ago
PhD in applied and computational mathematics with published research in statistics and numerical analysis. Strong interest in software development/engineering. Loves algorithms and programming challenges. Willing to learn anything. Hap