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by eftychis 9y ago
Blows my mind at times when I talk to a math major in the U.S. with little to no knowledge of graph theory. Also the abstract algebra exposure seems to be kind of restricted -- for instance Math 120 at Stanford (Groups and Rings) is highly
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by eftychis 9y ago
> If your intent is to defraud, you'd want to avoid a domain that's 1) scientifically accountable, and 2) subject to heavy oversight and regulation. She seems smart enough to know that. I would like to comment jokingly here wit
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by eftychis 9y ago
I agree. I think this is good advice in general. I suggest one looks at the standard library and ask for people's opinion on well written libraries to pick the style, idioms, limitations and tricks of a language (and even compiler at p
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by eftychis 9y ago
I think the joke here is the implication the AI can guess your code. But yeah it would be hilarious if there was a complexity class on predicting what the problem solver is going to write.
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by eftychis 9y ago
> So you're saying that 10% of time it says there's no bug? ;) No. Recall the wording: "They said it catches 60% of bugs and has 30% false alarms. Those are different measurements, the sum of true positives and false posit
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by eftychis 9y ago
They are getting into an area of soft real time systems with a "donkey", in my opinion. Either they are not thinking ahead or are being too optimistic or they are going to use a bunch of hardware to make this work. My thoughts. Wh
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by eftychis 9y ago
Still too much. It's like taking a bus to a race. Are they going to provide their own hardware? If yes go and improve the existing indicator system and then sell it back to FAA/airports. If not, I am going to get popcorn and watch
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by eftychis 9y ago
Calling this security engineering is a misnomer. Yes, I agree the way you describe it this is pure theater. I take a bit of a long position, please bear with me: A lot of engineering is plagued by the notion of theater, forced either by out
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by eftychis 9y ago
Reading the weighting section of the index fund ( https://am.coinbase.com/documents/cbi-methodology.pdf -- linked in a few sibling comments too) the following statement, while standard language and approach, makes me w
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by eftychis 9y ago
The Similar Content clause is a gold mine. Good luck suing Amazon and proving there is "substantial similarity". "Given the open nature of Amazon Studios, Amazon Studios participants may develop and submit scripts, movies, sh
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by eftychis 9y ago
Mostly sad. Sure there is truth that your peers affect your decisions and options in life. Being branded for arrest or harassment by the police does not help...
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by eftychis 9y ago
Skipping the notation sure is nice and fine as long as you don't end up losing any of its benefits. The whole idea of notation/language is: 1.to have a common reference for each definition that is explicit 2. forces you to define
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by eftychis 9y ago
Not really. There is the notion of opportunity cost. 30' might be worth your time, unless investing that time, either working, or even resting, paid you back e.g. > $50. If you expect yourself to make less than $50 an hour (assuming
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by eftychis 9y ago
Lua and python don't really compare in my mind. Lua is much more of a glue language, i.e. extending the application via the C API. It is designed around extending application -- and itself. My knowledge of Lua is limited, however, so c
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by eftychis 9y ago
It depends how you define intuition. Maybe we could define intuition as your personal "model" for making guesses on how things work . Let's claim that writing a proof is similar to writing a program . You start from a state,
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by eftychis 9y ago
>> I've heard all the arguments about students getting ahold of a teacher's gun, accidental discharge, etc. If you're making those sorts of arguments, do you also carry a gun? >The teachers I know dislike this idea f
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by eftychis 9y ago
Already weighed in on this above. Maybe as a post-apocalyptic horror movie. Both grandparents fought in WWII -- not in a battlefield far away, but moments away from their homes. They would find this idea and all the surrounding discussions
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by eftychis 9y ago
>> While one of the primary goals of crisis preparedness is to develop a sense of empowerment and control, armed assailant drills not conducted appropriately may cause physical and psychological harm to students, staff, and the overal
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by eftychis 9y ago
I am curious of the distance of the sample distribution and society's was when that question was asked. To clarify, assuming jurors were picked randomly and people did not try to actively defer (or maybe use a different trick) to land
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by eftychis 9y ago
I wouldn't say a gap buffer is the "complicated and crazy" data structure for text editing. Certainly not the best. There's no free lunch, every approach has its downsides :)
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by eftychis 9y ago
I am a bit confused by the reaction and commentary. ASICs are kind of the natural next step, so it is not surprising at all for any serious miner to go there. Hence, this appears as a too reactive really short term move and I wonder about t
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by eftychis 9y ago
I am sorry, but this is incorrect. Supposing by poly-alphabetic cipher you mean a substitution mechanism based on multiple alphabets ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyalphabetic_cipher ) (e.g. Enigma). This class does
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by eftychis 9y ago
+1 :D
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by eftychis 9y ago
Unfortunately, world history has clearly shown that by the time rank and file realize they need to reach consensus, they have lost their freedoms, privacy etc. (For their own good as so many dictators have said.) By being passive and blindl
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by eftychis 9y ago
As commented above (just saw your comment): Yes. And the timing is ironic. If one trusts Google (or any other company in that matter -- have no delusions in the matter) to guide them toward utopia or show them the right way to democracy, th
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by eftychis 9y ago
I concur. Google selectively blocks access for no temporary technical reason to a competitor out of spite or for profit. This is kind of hypocritical if you consider at the same they fight against the net neutrality fiasco (it is a fiasco,
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by eftychis 9y ago
Exactly. Even if Cook stands up for his (or our) ideals, the pressure China is going to apply to Apple will result in Cook getting ousted by the board, replaced by a favorable "Cook". Companies (for profit or not) answer to their
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by eftychis 10y ago
I agree with posts above. Diving straight into 'practice' in statistics (and other fields e.g. cryptography being the most notorious) leaves you open to a great many of pitfalls. Best case you will be inefficient with your approac