dmolnar

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by dmolnar 17y ago
I disagree that the author considers "real world knowledge" the only kind of useful knowledge. If you read the preceding entry on "The Agony of Grad School" it clarifies that the main problem here is this person has a really high cost for c
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by dmolnar 17y ago
From the article: "Ph.D. students should spend most of their time doing real, publishable research alongside their professors, working as apprentices." Most computer science PhD programs I know of have as a goal to get you to this point. We
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by dmolnar 17y ago
If this works out, this is a big breakthrough. One of the encryption schemes described in the paper also looks like it should be reasonably efficient to implement (the scheme "E_1"). That scheme doesn't give you everything you'd need for fu
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by dmolnar 17y ago
"tos_msg" -- interesting that Google is picking up on TinyOS and suggesting the term accordingly. May be an indication that they weight universities highly, since TinyOS started as a university project?
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by dmolnar 17y ago
I've heard many people quote Hamming about "work only on important problems," but fewer seem to notice the caveat he has in the talk: "We didn't work on (1) time travel, (2) teleportation, and (3) antigravity. They are not important problem
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by dmolnar 17y ago
If you are interested in this, you may also enjoy this presentation on "hacker space design patterns": http://events.ccc.de/congress/2007/Fahrplan/events/2133.en.h... These design patterns proved helpful when setting up Noisebridge, a hac
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by dmolnar 17y ago
The "special extra credit" makes me think this question is fishing to see whether the candidate can step back and look at the big picture. That's part of the job of being in R&D, no matter where you stand on the research to development
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by dmolnar 17y ago
Suggest working on how you're going to meet people now -- figure out which events you'll want to go to, which places to hang out, etc. That will help with contacts, which in turn should help with picking up consulting or a formal internship
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by dmolnar 17y ago
Oakland is a fine place to live, and I live there, but you have to watch the transit situation when living there. If you are too far from a BART or an express cross-bay bus, you will burn a lot of time waiting for bus transfers. See 511.org
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by dmolnar 17y ago
0) Stylish sunglasses that act like the spexware in Bruce Sterling's stories, or like the smart glasses in Charlie Stross's _Accelerando_. I'd love heads up displays showing me peoples' names, maps, appointments, and all the stuff for which
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String and regexp performance in browsers(parallelbrowser.blogspot.com)
15 points by dmolnar 18y ago|0 comments
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by dmolnar 18y ago
I like the approach of showing the assumption that "factoring is hard" implies a statement that at first blush has nothing to do with computational difficulty. That is, the number of solutions for a particular Diophantine equation doesn't i
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New protocol for extracting cryptographic keys from "weak" or "fuzzy" shared secrets(eprint.iacr.org)
5 points by dmolnar 18y ago|0 comments
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by dmolnar 18y ago
One neat thing about R is that it's become standard in academic statistics to include an R implementation of your new idea with a journal paper. For example, Gareth James and his colleagues came up with a new method called the Gauss-Dantzig
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Blog post on pain points with casual use of EC2(educatedguesswork.org)
3 points by dmolnar 18y ago|0 comments
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by dmolnar 18y ago
Responding to your footnote [2], it would be interesting to hear what obstacles are in the way of doing a start-up in India. Are they the kind of things that can be worked around once and then the effort amortized over multiple start-up com
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by dmolnar 18y ago
So the problem is that the people on the rotations are too lazy to fill out the review forms? The problem is not that they are afraid the reviews will bite them later? If so, sounds like you could try offering rewards of some type. What I'v
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by dmolnar 18y ago
So if the title of the story for the URL were more descriptive, you'd find the site stickier? Do you think this is the kind of thing that could be sent to Mechanical Turk? For how I heard about putting it up for sale, I follow the author's
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by dmolnar 18y ago
Yes, I think Twitturly is interesting as well, although it has not yet made it into my list of things to check every day. It is the kind of site that might make sense to acquire. That being said, Twitter had an opportunity to buy Twitturly
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by dmolnar 18y ago
Exactly. In particular the API is rate-limited, even for whitelisted users. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST+API+Documentation#RateLimiti... This makes it hard to build your own analytics service. The XMPP "firehose" would help, but it is
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by dmolnar 18y ago
Do you use the same secret for each page generated? If so, checking that the hash verifies with your secret key alone does not prevent a cut and paste attack where an adversary asks for a web page with the SHA1 digest of an item worth '1.00
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by dmolnar 18y ago
Have had this discussion occasionally with friends of mine.Always a little confused where they are coming from, since where I sit in academia most of the innovation I see is built on open source. In particular, open source software tools pr
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by dmolnar 18y ago
So the point of this post is that if the idea has zero chance of success, then you shouldn't work on it for equity. That's cool but Bill is such a caricature that the result seems obvious. Maybe a more interesting question: what bar would B
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by dmolnar 18y ago
This is a neat idea, but there is at least one subtlety: you need to make sure that it is not possible to cut-and-paste HMAC'd prices from one web page into another. Otherwise the user could ask for a page for an item with a price of $1, re
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by dmolnar 18y ago
They're using tipjoy to encourage donations and visibility via tweets, which should also allow measuring how much money was raised directly by the event. Wonder what they are doing to measure the other impacts, such as e-mail addresses gath
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Luis von Ahn asks: can we come up with Google-proof age test?(vonahn.blogspot.com)
6 points by dmolnar 18y ago|0 comments