erwan

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   by erwan 8y ago

   143. Diversion.--Men are entrusted from infancy with the care of their honour, their property, their friends, and even with the property and the honour of their friends. They are overwhelmed with business, with th
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   What Our Diversions Reveal about Us (1670)(stmaryvalleybloom.org)

   83 points by erwan 8y ago|11 comments
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   Deployment of the Sapling Network Upgrade(github.com)

   1 points by erwan 8y ago|0 comments
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   Chiune Sugihara: man of conscience (2015)(japantimes.co.jp)

   2 points by erwan 8y ago|0 comments
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   by erwan 8y ago

   You decide to make the most uncharitable interpretation of my comment therefore I am not interested in engaging with you any further.
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   by erwan 8y ago

   They followed in Facebook's footsteps and chased after meaningless engagement metrics, thus driving content-quality down. I don't know if they ever noticed - or cared. As long as the metrics look good these days you know, no one w
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   Prime and Prejudice: Primality Testing in Adversarial Conditions (CVE-2018-4398) [pdf](eprint.iacr.org)

   3 points by erwan 8y ago|0 comments
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   by erwan 8y ago

   I recommend you a study on "social capital" by Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron titled The inheritors . I disagree with all of the conclusions they draw and the recommendations they make but the rest of their analytical
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   A game where the smart players lose(weidai.com)

   3 points by erwan 8y ago|1 comments
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    Engineering values(r.32k.io)

    2 points by erwan 8y ago|0 comments
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    by erwan 8y ago

    >this is helping to create a perfect storm of people who feel either exploited by companies and their executives (because they are) What do you mean by that? I know only a few Googlers, mostly new grads. They don't seem to be worked
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    by erwan 8y ago

    I want to second what OP said. A lot of the pain points people have from code review seem to come from limiting themselves to the review tool to understand the aim, scope, and rational behind some decisions. You should definitely use other
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    by erwan 8y ago

    This is a book written by Konrad Zuse, the inventor of the first programmable computer. Re-posting since I just realized that my previous submission was broken.
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    Calculating Space by Konrad Zuse (1969) [pdf](philpapers.org)

    23 points by erwan 8y ago|1 comments
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    by erwan 8y ago

    I love code-reviews. With the right people, they can be useful both to achieve high-standards of code quality and also improve your own engineering process. The requirements are quite high, I think you need some combination of the following
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    by erwan 8y ago

    It's a classic topic of study in the field of distributed systems. The overarching goal is consensus between agents (e.g servers) over the state of the system. For example, suppose that you want to achieve atomic consistency (i.e at an
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    by erwan 8y ago

    Thanks for sharing, this is a fascinating topic I just started investigating. Check out "Calculating Space" by Konrad Zuse (the inventor of the first programmable computer). Coincidentally, he published in 1969 - "The Laws of
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    Calculating Space by Konrad Zuse (1969)

    2 points by erwan 8y ago|1 comments
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    by erwan 8y ago

    The Theory of Computation vs. The Theory of Computation
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    by erwan 8y ago

    That's a bit unfair, Hopcroft and Ullman is extensive and detailed by design. They invented the field AFAIK so this book ought to be deep as they use it to lay its foundations. If you - or lurkers - are looking for a solid, down-to-ear
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    by erwan 8y ago

    What a coincidence. Last week, I had a midterm that covered formal languages and automata theory. I went to the Davis Centre Library at the University of Waterloo looking for books on Automata Theory. I stumbled upon that very book. And tho
22. 142.▲
    by erwan 8y ago

    My pleasure! Could you give a high-level description of what is the problem/angle you are approaching?
23. 143.▲
    by erwan 8y ago

    Sharing this paper because effective workload simulation is a necessary step toward the Holy Grail: workload aware and self-tuning caches. In plain english, that means a cache that can adjust its parameters so that it is most effective for
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    Cache Modeling and Optimization Using Miniature Simulations [pdf](usenix.org)

    30 points by erwan 8y ago|9 comments
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    by erwan 8y ago

    I think there is a lot of value in working on visual/reactive representation of algebraic structures. I have stopped counting the number of times I spent toiling on a result to understand its "depth" only to realize that much
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    Visual Group Theory(web.bentley.edu)

    9 points by erwan 8y ago|1 comments
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    Seeding the S-curve? The Role of Early-Adopters in Diffusion (2016) [pdf](nber.org)

    3 points by erwan 8y ago|0 comments
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    by erwan 8y ago

    I doubt it. It was open-sourced a few months ago and take some time to wrap your head around, at least for me. edit: In fact, it is much older than that as dang pointed out.
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    by erwan 8y ago

    True. I do find artistic obscenities fascinating, in particular when they look anachronistic. It's impressive than such an old artwork has survived time long enough despite featuring such sulfurous content. And speaking for myself, it&
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    by erwan 8y ago

    That's arguably not the most interesting architectural aspect of Git. Or does any back-linked tree data-structure becomes interesting if the nodes keep a hash of their parent instead of a raw reference? I don't think that's