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by evouga 5y ago
I’ve tried writing papers without conclusions, only to have reviewers call out that “the paper has no conclusion.” As for the comment about bad project names and acronyms: Jonathan is most famous for developing the “Triangle” code for Delau
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by evouga 5y ago
Perhaps if you're a donor to a nonprofit, you could sue its directors for breach of fiduciary duty of fidelity to purpose? Although I doubt this could successfully prevent slow drift in the mission of an entire organization (as we&#x27
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by evouga 5y ago
I know nonprofit governance moves at a glacial pace, but surely there must have been some instigating incident more recent than five years ago?
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by evouga 5y ago
Somebody bears ultimate responsibility for filtering fact from fiction. It could be the individual consuming the news (which is hard work, and requires consciously counteracting confirmation bias as well as overt attempts at information man
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by evouga 5y ago
I’m missing something… doesn’t open addressing fail catastrophically the moment you try to insert more items than the table has buckets? (With very bad degradation in performance as you approach this saturation point)? Is the idea that you
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by evouga 5y ago
Self-driving is a cursed problem, but the thorniest obstacles relate to optics and politics and not technology. AI can already replace some human drivers some of the time; but it doesn’t matter because each news story about a Tesla killin
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by evouga 5y ago
Google used to be one of those companies, like Valve or Blizzard, who could be trusted to always ship a home run. Search, gmail, maps, chrome… I’m not sure what happened, but the contrast of Google then vs Google now is stark. Even Google s
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by evouga 5y ago
As far as I can tell, it's not trivial, but can be derived by repeatedly exploiting symmetries of the trig functions and properties of logarithms. One observation is that by symmetry int_0^pi ln[1 - cos(x)] dx = int 0^pi ln[1 + cos(x)]
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by evouga 5y ago
Thanks. That makes sense. Wouldn’t you build in a failsafe that bypasses Fastly and sends traffic to your own servers in the case of this kind of outage? Or outages are so rare that it’s not worth the trouble?
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by evouga 5y ago
Since Fastly’s own website is currently down: What is fastly? Why are a huge number of web sites dependent on them? They are some kind of web host for companies that don’t want to run their own servers/data centers?
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by evouga 6y ago
Still unsolved for 2-manifolds embedded in 3D I believe. You can’t hear the shape of a drum. But can you hear the shape of a cowbell?
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by evouga 6y ago
I’d never heard of Canva before and, taking a quick look, based on its feature set I don’t see it as a competitor to Photoshop or Illustrator really. Canva seems all about taking an existing template and swapping in some new photos and text
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by evouga 6y ago
Let’s say Xi wakes up cranky (maybe somebody embeds criticism of him in the blockchain) and bans BTC throughout China. It is now illegal to operate an exchange, buy or sell Bitcoin, or run a Bitcoin node anywhere in China. ... now what? How
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by evouga 6y ago
I think it's a red herring to conflate legally protected rights with community norms/informal standards of conduct. Killing a colleague's papers or grant proposals in retaliation for past slights is clearly unacceptable behav
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by evouga 6y ago
Swapping out a small group of people abusing traditional power for a larger group of people abusing non-traditional power does not sound like a great "fix" to me.
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by evouga 6y ago
I can't speak for the other signers, but while I happen to agree with Domingos's position on the NeurIPS impact statement (that it's misguided and injects a lot of additional political bias into the already-too-noisy-and-bias
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by evouga 10y ago
If you only want the existing kernels, this makes sense. And in the long term it would be useful to have a library of common kernels for assembling FEM stiffness and mass matrices for various kinds of commonly-used elements, etc. Compare to