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by deckar01 11y ago
I submitted my 2015-2016 FASFA yesterday. They estimated that my Expected Family Contribution (just me now that I'm 25) was $17,900 based on the $57,000 of taxable income I reported last year. The problem is that the income was from SF
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by deckar01 11y ago
Couldn't resist making a GIF of that horse glowing silver: http://gph.is/1GwKONv
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by deckar01 11y ago
I am curious how these sensor arrays deal with being in proximity to each other. Most of the technologies that measure/map depth are susceptible to interference from other transmitters. Can these systems operate properly with only visi
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by deckar01 11y ago
I stopped in Las Vegas for a couple nights as I was making my exodus from San Francisco back to Oklahoma. I wish I would have known this existed. When I was looking for things to do all I could find was the overpriced shows and resorts on t
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Show HN: LED-UKE, the Glowing Ukulele(github.com)
3 points by deckar01 11y ago|1 comments
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by deckar01 11y ago
The data Uber is collecting from their app will be very valuable once they start using self driving cars. Google may have a lot more data coming in from Maps, but it is noisy and unfiltered. Uber has a geospatial history of every ride along
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by deckar01 11y ago
> Chevalier has agreed to a settlement order with agency. Under the agreement, he's prohibited from making misrepresentations about crowdfunding campaigns and failing to honor refund policies in the future. The order also contains
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by deckar01 11y ago
I have a feeling that the question is not really about whiteboard coding or solving graph problems. This is a blatantly ambiguous task. Maybe it was meant to force the interviewee to demonstrate how they communicate to the interviewer that
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by deckar01 11y ago
Assume for a moment that no hashing is performed. I compute C = B || D. I reveal C. I later choose new data D'. I compute C = B' || D'. I reveal B' and D'. Since both B and D were secret, B' and D' are acc
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by deckar01 11y ago
> A commitment scheme lets you keep a piece of data secret but commit to it so that you can not change it later. > commitment = SHA256( binding_factor || data ) > Tell someone the commitment, then [later] reveal both the data and b
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by deckar01 11y ago
It is not uncommon for institutions that receive public funding to replace things that are not broken in order to avoid budget surpluses that could decrease their funding the following year.
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by deckar01 11y ago
Even their graphic designer was in on it ;)
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by deckar01 11y ago
I would love to see the illustrations broken up into PNGs and subtly transitioned when scrolled into view.
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Don't Let Your Visualization Destroy Information(github.com)
1 points by deckar01 11y ago|0 comments
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by deckar01 11y ago
There are an infinite number of solutions for the constraint for a single base. When you consider the probability of a solution occurring amongst the set of numbers of equal length, it becomes apparent that the size of each set grows faster
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by deckar01 11y ago
Choose a base (b), and a candidate (n). Assume (n) is a number whose probability of satisfying the given condition for a given base is indistinguishable from other numbers of the same length in the given base. The probability that (n) will
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by deckar01 11y ago
This reminds me of fracking. Pumping all of our heat into the earth's crust seems like it could have some long term consequence. If only we could could send our heat into space some how...
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by deckar01 11y ago
I have not created any works that can be considered prior art for this patent application (which is actually now abandoned). My research primarily involves exploiting the computationally intensive aspects of the Collatz function (and its in
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by deckar01 11y ago
Cryptographic hashes have many different properties that make them useful and distinct. The most fundamental properties the Collatz function shares with hash functions include it being deterministic and non-invertable. Applying the modulo o
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by deckar01 11y ago
The first step of the petition involved finding the "Confirmation Number" in the USPTO's PAIR system. From here I was able to find out that the filing status is "Abandoned -- Failure to Pay Issue Fee". Also of note
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by deckar01 11y ago
It is more like some person trying to assert copyright over all the ways you can add, remove, or change the notes in one of Metallica's guitar riffs.
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by deckar01 11y ago
Well, no. I read the patent application several days ago, in its entirety (quite painful), because it relates to my current research. This patent application could very well inhibit the application of my research and discourage involvement
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by deckar01 11y ago
Updated to reflect that the link refers to a patent application.
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by deckar01 11y ago
It's not that it is stupid, straight-forward, insecure, or slow. The problem I see is that this patent claims ownership of an infinite number of transformations that can be made to the Collatz function. There is nothing novel about thi
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by deckar01 11y ago
I'm not sure this warrants a patent. Upon further inspection the only real transformation they add to the Collatz function is returning the result modulo some prime. This is a very generic operation that can turn any function into hash
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Apple's Collatz Hash Patent Application (2013)(google.com)
40 points by deckar01 11y ago|26 comments
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by deckar01 11y ago
I'm not sure "try not to use [proof by contradiction] unless you really need it" is the optimal conclusion. In "Meta Math"[1], Gregory Chaitin explores the question: "What makes a mathematical concept desirable
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by deckar01 12y ago
As much as I enjoy using summations liberally, a simple visualization of the spacing between frames would have been more useful.
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by deckar01 12y ago
TLDR; Anonabox can be rooted with minimal effort (backdoor wide open). The attack vector is an undocumented web interface with a hard coded password ("admin"), an open SSH port that accepts the same credentials, and grants root ac
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by deckar01 12y ago
Evaporation could be replaced by any type diffusion in this system. I imagine a similar process could arise out of difference in salt concentration. Edit: Updated to clarify the relationship between evaporation and diffusion.

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