fgimenez

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   by fgimenez 18y ago

   This is sad, I feel this way while doing a CS degree at Berkeley and working in front of a computer for UCSF in my spare time. Instead of just complaining and racking up karma, I propose we meet up at a bar in the city (San Francisco to you
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   by fgimenez 18y ago

   Hofstadter's law: "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account." It should be considered one of the basic axioms of programming, maybe even engineering, although I'm just biased because it is an
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   by fgimenez 18y ago

   you realize by doing this, hacker news will be doing yearly checkups on your grades to make sure their investment is performing well. We won't accept anything less than a top 10 school from US news reports on CS and Business. On the upside,
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   by fgimenez 18y ago

   I'm not sure whether I'm excited that this was in the economist, or pissed off that they reduced error correction codes to "a mathematical trick"
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   by fgimenez 18y ago

   Why the overuse of the word hacking? I find it everywhere in situations where it just isn't appropriate. This particular example is an incredibly clever use of chemistry, not hacking. Imagine some chem oriented news site saying that program
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   by fgimenez 18y ago

   The only examples given here are those of liberal arts degrees. Does this happen as much in engineering or the sciences?
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   by fgimenez 18y ago

   This isn't digg? :)
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   by fgimenez 18y ago

   While poetic and thoroughly motivating, I don't know if I'd apply for a job with a description like that. It reminds me too much of the "need python ninja with postgres jiu-jitsu skillz" spiels you see on freelancing websites. Unless you ha
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   by fgimenez 18y ago

   I had a semi-nightmare where a murderer holds a gun to my head asking me to solve a traveling salesman problem with 100 nodes on a graph. In the end, I find a way to do it in O(nlogn) time and he gives me the millenium prize. I woke up in a
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    by fgimenez 18y ago

    Technically, I didn't give away how to do the standard deviation ;)
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    by fgimenez 18y ago

    In an interesting side note, this class is taught by the Berkeley open computing facility (OCF) that Hans Reiser co-founded.
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    by fgimenez 18y ago

    Here's Knuth's way to keep a running variance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithms_for_calculating_vari...