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How to Orchestrate Change from the Bottom Up(hbr.org)
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What Happens When Techno-Utopians Run a Country(wired.com)
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by crdrost 8y ago
I can give one tiny little bit of advice from several years about tutoring and teaching mathematics and physics... Always start with examples . If I am trying to teach the fundamental ideas of complex analysis, I want to show folks how to
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by crdrost 8y ago
My biggest one would be that about two years ago I read The Goal by Eli Goldratt, who is a physicist-become-industry-consultant. I cannot write a glowing praise of it. On paper, it is an awful book, because it contains a textbook but it
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by crdrost 8y ago
So supposing you have multiple clients you might have shared access to an image or client-data database. You might not want someone to see an identifier and guess other "close" identifiers. For example, a company I used to work fo
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by crdrost 8y ago
Right, you definitely want something that is somewhat more adaptive if you want to solve this problem. Something to the effect of "as you use more resources you slow down those resources." What's more interesting to me is the
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by crdrost 8y ago
I guess I'd reply after some consideration that what I think is unreasonable about this question is just that I as a physicist know exactly how to answer it because I have received years of training in reasoning about things that I don
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by crdrost 8y ago
I think one would have to attack it the other way: focus on each vortex first, classify its connectivity. Since I think any path from East to West would break a path from North to South and vice versa, you'd have to classify each vorte
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by crdrost 8y ago
Seconded. While this book has a lot of nice encouragements to simply coding and enjoying mazes, it also ships with two absolutely kick-ass appendices. The first is a very short bite-size summary of all of the algorithms that the book has co
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by crdrost 8y ago
I cannot overstate this point and upvote it enough. The reason Claude Shannon is a legend has a lot to do with the fact that his ideas are not just correct and draw from his multidisciplinary knowledge, but also expertly communicated .
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by crdrost 8y ago
I mean, it may well work if you have 2FA enabled (it depends on whether you can set up two different 2FA options and force the login provider to use the stale one) -- but you do have to hijack someone's account which is indeed consider
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by crdrost 8y ago
This is a very important article. It's also absolutely vital to understand that efficiency is not subject to the greedy algorithm. If you try to make every single part of your organization efficient, you will kill your organization.
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by crdrost 8y ago
At least the Vietnam deal has been in process since early December [1] when the Vietnamese government leaked it to the press. What I am somewhat confused about, that maybe someone with more experience in the import/export situation can
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by crdrost 8y ago
I can confirm that that's exactly what happened, different generation algorithms have a different "texture" to them in precisely this way and those textures do sometimes have a byproduct of making the maze easier or harder to
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by crdrost 8y ago
I mean it does it's just hard to get to and slow. It's route 229, it takes 10-15 minutes to get (through public transit) to the center of the metro area where it goes through, in fact almost as long as just walking the 10-15 block
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by crdrost 8y ago
Now that's very interesting. I think you're right that within those first questions you do get some sort of perception about technical capacity in some raw form. Maybe it's even worth not trying to disprove that hypothesis by
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by crdrost 8y ago
It is certainly valid to say that, to first order, Uber and Lyft do not compete with public transit. I get a Lyft from downtown KC to the KC airport about thirty minutes away; I do this because it's about as expensive as airport econom
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by crdrost 8y ago
So it's almost HN cliche to complain about these sorts of questions, and that's a fairly earned failure, but I just want to reiterate that these sorts of questions are one or two orders of magnitude more meaningful than the nebulo
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by crdrost 8y ago
A slightly more in-depth PR about this program is also available on the DARPA web site: https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2015-05-22 Presumably "active light" means "we flash some light source, possibly
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by crdrost 8y ago
s/spend a week/spend a day/ Apparently I am trying to edit this after some threshold time...
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by crdrost 8y ago
There is also a rough application of some queueing theory ideas (one might also say, the more general lessons one sees in the physics of transport phenomena, before one specializes in continuums etc) to business, called "theory of cons
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by crdrost 8y ago
So when I was in college I did a writing requirement course called The Hero in Literature and in it I suggested something like that one Russian author's book was a direct response to another Russian author's book that I had read
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by crdrost 8y ago
I need to caution against using a Smalltalk dialect like Pharo to teach OOP. The essential problem is that Smalltalk does OOP "right" and what one sees called OOP in the broader community generally does not have that same ideologi
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by crdrost 8y ago
`flat` and `flatMap` are highly welcome additions for me; concatenating a bunch of lists together has historically been a very common operation for me, that right now is done best as [].concat(...arrayOfArrays) It is also the basis
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by crdrost 8y ago
A very similar effect is harnessed in current machine learning models and is called "dropout". The basic idea in context is: - you take your reference data and reserve a random chunk of it to figure out how good you're doing,