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961.
by dzdt 11y ago
I've read the original bitcoin paper, as well as thousands of academic papers, and written a few myself. The author of the bitcoin paper was clearly not an academic. They have an understanding of the form and style of academic writin
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by dzdt 11y ago
The one theory I've seen that makes it make sense is that Dave Kleiman was the real Satoshi Nakamoto. Kleiman died in 2013. Wright is trying to set up a claim on hundreds of millions of dollars of bitcoins, if they can ever be recove
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by dzdt 11y ago
Metaculus prediction pool has it at 30% likely to be verified by end of summer : http://www.metaculus.com/questions/41/
964.
by dzdt 11y ago
I was disappointed the article didn't mention individuals unaffiliated with institutions. What fraction of PhD's have a university job? 20%? These are people who devoted years of their life to reading others' research and
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by dzdt 11y ago
Sibling post gave a case study as a citation providing evidence of the assertion: http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1292 In that case (sqlite) code that passed UBSan, ASan, valgrind, and compiled correctly on all current
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by dzdt 11y ago
I always expected steganography to be used to encode a compressed and encrypted datastream, not uncompressed images. Such a compressed and encrypted datastream should be indistinguishable from noise, so not show in this kind of analysis. M
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by dzdt 11y ago
In its deep history, the C language was defined by what the implementations did. Only later was it standardized, with an attempt to permit existing implementations be viewed as conforming or easily updated to be. Even decades later, thoug
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by dzdt 11y ago
Why in the world does an experiment to try to culture mouth bacteria from a toothbrush require extensive paperwork and professional oversight?
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by dzdt 11y ago
If you want as much protection as Earth's atmosphere provides, 25 inches. At least that gives as much mass in between the card and space as the atmosphere does. (1 atm is about 30in of mercury, lead is 11/13 as dense as mercury.
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The Control Group Is Out of Control (2014)(slatestarcodex.com)
2 points by dzdt 11y ago|0 comments
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by dzdt 11y ago
I read it as "goofed" at first.
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by dzdt 11y ago
No, the NDSEG just pays for your grad school and provides a stipend. No extra requirements outside of the degree program.
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by dzdt 11y ago
So what I get from that is that, like cygwin, and unlike msys, the target is full linux userspace compatibility. So is it essentially like MS is bundling cygwin as a windows system library?
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by dzdt 11y ago
I took military funding for graduate school -- a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. My reasoning was I was studying pure mathematics, and I knew my work had zero possibility of military applications. So
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by dzdt 11y ago
What differentiator? They are all using the same source code. Msys, Cygwin, now Microsoft all provide a whole ecosystem of gnu tools. (Git just repackages msys, I think.) My level of understanding of the difference between cygwin and msy
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by dzdt 11y ago
Can someone explain what MS bash will do (or potentially do) better than mingw/msys?
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by dzdt 11y ago
So "light field" here is a marketing term, right? From the physics and computing side, does anyone know what they are really doing to measure depth fields?
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by dzdt 11y ago
Twenty years ago assembly language was losing its last battles with higher level languages as a viable choice for game development. Skilled assembly language programmers insisted they could give a factor of two more performance on the same
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by dzdt 11y ago
If you don't take care of the motion, the next thing you do immediately after landing on the barge is slide off the barge!
980.
by dzdt 11y ago
Count degrees of freedom that have to be zeroed out in that landing: three coordinates of position, three coordinates of motion, two axes of tilt, rates of yaw, pitch, and roll. That adds to 11 dimensions of control. And their flight compu
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by dzdt 11y ago
Yes. For about a decade Carmack funded a significant amateur space rocket effort -- Armadillo Aerospace. That shut down because of lack of money to devote to the project. See http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/
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by dzdt 11y ago
Actual title/subtitle: Thesis Hatement Getting a literature Ph.D. will turn you into an emotional trainwreck, not a professor Suggest new HN title: "A literature PhD will turn you into an emotional trainwreck, not a professor&
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by dzdt 11y ago
"This should never happen" is a design pattern of defensive programming. This is the same pattern for assert. The usual use is to catch errors caused by misuse of a method. There is some invariant that the method assumes but is
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by dzdt 11y ago
This is (2015) and seems to consist mostly of smears and speculation. If the worst accusations were founded, in the 4+ months since this came out there should be a better accounting of them.
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My Experiences as a Black Computer Science Student at Stanford University(linkedin.com)
7 points by dzdt 11y ago|0 comments
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by dzdt 11y ago
And where do the keyboard and mouse plug in?
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by dzdt 11y ago
"Tick-Tock-Tweak" is a great summary, so much easier than the "Process-Architecture-Optimization" label that Intel gave to explain their new plan.
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by dzdt 11y ago
Thanks! Since I took quantum in college years ago I had the picture that this must be how it works. Is this at all controversial, among serious physicists?
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by dzdt 11y ago
The complexity of the current procurement system means that only giant contractors with an office of red tape experts can effectively bid on the big contracts. These giant contractors get giant and hugely profitable contracts which would h
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by dzdt 11y ago
My understanding is procurement is and remains broken because there are entrenched powers who benefit greatly from that situation. It is working as designed by the people who wrote the rules, bringing great profit to the intended recipient

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