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by dbecker 12y ago
Indeed. My original comment was meant as a joke, not as a serious mathematical claim.
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by dbecker 12y ago
I think it's trivially obvious that both sets are infinite. There are infinitely many addition problems involving two numbers, and that's a subset of the set of problems that the article claims to be smaller.
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by dbecker 12y ago
Though, if we apply your requirement, the set of problems without a unique answer must be countable as well. So, the cardinality of problems with a unique answer is still equal to the cardinality of problems without one.
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by dbecker 12y ago
Since uncountably many problems have unique right answers, I'd guess the cardinality of the set of problems with unique right answers is the same as the cardinality of the set of problems without. :)
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by dbecker 12y ago
I used to be a frequent business traveler... and while I didn't mind the charge, poor speed/reliability was enough to avoid a hotel on future visits.
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by dbecker 12y ago
Sending large files
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by dbecker 12y ago
Then many of the top researchers in the world (even including nobel prize winners) do not meet your definition of smart.
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by dbecker 12y ago
"You MUST " isn't criticism, it's a demand.
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by dbecker 12y ago
sheer disdain displayed for good-but-differing practices is depressing. Funny you should criticize the postfix community for this. Did you see what they are responding to? Source control (SCM/VCS) is a MUST have. It's unbeliev
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by dbecker 12y ago
25ms of 44.1kHz isn't even an integer. So the original argument is even less compelling with 25ms windows than it was with 10ms windows.
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by dbecker 12y ago
With all the people that book inspired to get into computing, and the sum total of what we've built, I bet Ahl couldn't have guessed what an impact that book would have.
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by dbecker 13y ago
Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it. I'd bet the Dropbox team is aware of unladen swallow and the issues it faced. Applied too broadly, that quote would mean "never try anything where others have failed."
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by dbecker 13y ago
The guy is completely insane. Or he just likes attention and knows how to get it.
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by dbecker 13y ago
your premise that its main goal was to reduce the physical number of pages for federal programs is incorrect That isn't my premise. I mean 'paperwork' in the 'burden' sense, not as in physical pieces of paper. How
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by dbecker 13y ago
I think you're a bit ignorant on this matter. I don't know why you need to turn this into a personal attack, but you are dead wrong in everything you assert about my beliefs and experience. By paperwork, I meant the work burden.
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by dbecker 13y ago
I don't know if the irony was intended, but this sounds like another level of regulation (likely requiring additional levels of auditing, etc)... potentially yielding the exact opposite what it intends. I briefly worked for the Federal
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by dbecker 13y ago
Amazon's post is more direct and honest than anything from Netflix during their price increase. I don't think they are similar at all. And most customers will understand the need to raise prices once every nine years.
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by dbecker 13y ago
Would love to see numba added into this benchmark.
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Get a PhD—but leave academia as soon as you graduate(qz.com)
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by dbecker 13y ago
Are there really people who are turned off by dropbox prices? I would take notice if someone made a dropbox with a valuable additional feature, or a dropbox that worked better (recognizing that already dropbox works very smoothly). But pric
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by dbecker 13y ago
Not a journal or blog, but I highly recommend Andrew Ng's Machine Learning course on Coursera.
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by dbecker 13y ago
Over 200 million people get malaria each year, and approximately 1 million die. [1] If the Gates Foundation money managers think holding Coca-Cola stock will help fund their fight against the disease, that seems like an extremely easy call.
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by dbecker 13y ago
The real problem is: This additional freedom you can buy with money means less freedom for somebody else. This assumes that wealth is a zero-sum game, so it can be traded around but not created. It's hard to reconcile that view with
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by dbecker 13y ago
Ryan has been posting here about his 4-day work week for a while, and I'm guessing it started before raising the $4.75m. That would contradict your assessment, though I hope someone can fact check the timing for me.
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by dbecker 13y ago
Is our industry doing the equivalent of offering free rides to hopeful software developers, calling them pilots, and throwing them by the thousands into airplanes just to watch them crash and burn? With some exceptions, it's less dan
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by dbecker 13y ago
And, given the abysmal quality of YouTube comments, it's seems very reasonable to think the platform will be better off without anonymous comments. As it stands, it's just proof of the Greater Internet F-wad Theory [1]. [1] http:
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by dbecker 13y ago
I used to work at the Federal Trade Commission, so I'm quite familiar with this particular legal issue. What Coin is doing violates neither the spirit nor the letter of the Mail Order Rule. The law states that orders must be shipped w
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by dbecker 13y ago
What do you call the thing described here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Economi...
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by dbecker 13y ago
For those interested in this path, it's worth checking out Rob Walling's book "Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup." I found this book especially insightful.
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by dbecker 13y ago
Data scientist (statistician)

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