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by curiousgibbon 4y ago
Who is "the industry"? My managers want me to succeed at the metrics. Research is too diverse for them to have real understanding of all of their underlings and their work so metrics become important. My peers (well, the ones I re
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by curiousgibbon 4y ago
Except that for someone outside CS theory it will be hard to tell what is routine and what is ground-breaking. The proceedings for the recent editions of top theory conferences are here: - FOCS (Foundations of Computer Science) https:&#x2F
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by curiousgibbon 4y ago
This logic can only make sense based on the axiom that almost nobody can be coerced into compliance. Sure, if fixed cameras are somehow impossible and the best hope for enforcement is "no more than 10 over no matter how bad the conditi
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by curiousgibbon 4y ago
There's a big cultural difference between the US and UK driving signage. In the UK there are fewer signs and it's generally upheld that the speed limit is a limit, and that what constitutes lawful driving may require driving much
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by curiousgibbon 4y ago
This may be an indication that it's at least useless, if not irresponsible, in other contexts too.
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by curiousgibbon 4y ago
Aside from this craving violence angle, which I don't take seriously at all, are there any redeeming qualities of American football compared to other sports? I guess the unlimited substitution thing makes it participatory at e.g. high-
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by curiousgibbon 4y ago
Europe has had instant, free bank transfers for years without any crypto in the underlying tech. The same regulators taking away crypto are perpetuating the horror show that is US retail banking in other ways.
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by curiousgibbon 4y ago
This is an active area of research for sure. One idea is basically to come up with a few rules for what the districts must look like (as unions of precincts) and use Markov chain Monte Carlo to sample from a probability distribution on the
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by curiousgibbon 4y ago
In other countries there are fixed cameras, which can even be programmed to have some grey area (do they trip at x+2, 1.1x, ...?). These can probably pay for themselves and then some if placed correctly. They're conspicuously absent fr
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by curiousgibbon 4y ago
I agree, of course metric is better. My point is that perhaps things can improve in a direction that is orthogonal to the metric vs imperial/US choice and doesn't require making anyone angry. The inherent superiority of metric is
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by curiousgibbon 4y ago
I've dealt with the British and American version of imperial measurements, and know metric. It's not exactly difficult to quantify and convert as necessary so all the culture wars confuse me. What enrages me about the American sys