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by foobar2020 11y ago
> There are limitations this system. Potvin says certain highly sensitive code—stuff akin to the Google’s PageRank search algorithm—resides in separate repositories only available to specific employees. > (...) all 2 billion lines sit
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by foobar2020 11y ago
Quantum mechanics does not permit parallel states to "communicate" in any way. The theory is purely linear (i.e. acts somewhat independently on all states), except for the wavefunction collapse phenomena. Any non-linenarity would,
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by foobar2020 11y ago
Concentration camps were mainly in Poland, because at that time Poland had about as many Jews (~3 mil) as the rest of the Europe combined (~3.5 mil), and it was a fully controlled, occupied state. It was just an engineering optimisation, ho
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by foobar2020 11y ago
The bottleneck is often RAM. This is especially clear when writing performance-oriented code in CUDA, where the amount of cores (threads) per one shared memory controller is in the order of thousands.
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by foobar2020 11y ago
Is it denormalised numbers [1]? Or is it just math.pow being slow? [1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/9314926
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by foobar2020 11y ago
It is, you just have to be familiar with details. He called her "the Enchantress of Numbers"
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by foobar2020 11y ago
The paradox does not depend on the fairness of the coin. A real coin toss is, say, at least 25% probability for heads and at least 25% probability for tails. Therefore you can multiply the winnings by 4 and not by 2, which will give you a d
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by foobar2020 11y ago
I don't get your idea with sampling. It will work in practice. To see that yourself: write a program that repeats this experiment again and again, compute the averages of the winnings, and you will see that they cannot be bounded by a
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by foobar2020 11y ago
It is true that a mental patient can be forced to treatment only if (s)he is considered a serious danger to the society, or herself/himself (includes suicidal tendencies). In many jurisdictions a court's decision is necessary, usu
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by foobar2020 11y ago
The real problem, I believe, is the shame associated with mental disorders, and addiction in particular. Addiction is in many cases a (sign of a) legitimate disease, rooted deeper than just a nasty habit of popping Hydrocodone pills. We hav
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by foobar2020 11y ago
Reaction time is good in general, but rather useless in the traditional IQ tests, i.e. culture-neutral multiple choice pattern-based questions. If you are 25% faster than your neighbour it gives you the benefit of the additional 25% of the
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by foobar2020 11y ago
> As an venture investor, I would prefer my startup CEO's to be nice. Easier to manipulate nice. I doubt it. You don't think you are the only person manipulating such a CEO, do you?
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by foobar2020 11y ago
Then why not sell your stock grants and buy some competitor shares? Similar risk, more diversification. Also this requires you to pay actual attention, instead of simply believing that "your company is the best company".
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by foobar2020 11y ago
The x86 is actually Turing-complete without even executing a single instruction. Page faulting is enough: https://github.com/jbangert/trapcc
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by foobar2020 11y ago
Some of the claims. From the abstract: I continue to believe, however, that Dehnadi had uncovered the first evidence of an important phenomenon in programming learners. Later research seems to confirm that belief.
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by foobar2020 11y ago
Whoops, you are right, I should have written (modulus) and not (modulus + 1). Another reason why this is an anti-pattern :). Thanks for correcting me!
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by foobar2020 11y ago
It is OK to do (rand() % modulus) when (modulus + 1) divides (MAX_RAND + 1). Otherwise you will end up with non-uniform distribution. But yes, in general the rand-modulo pair is an anti-pattern.
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by foobar2020 11y ago
Lands, at least the better ones, are also borrowing at zero/slightly negative yields: http://www.boerse-frankfurt.de/en/bonds/lfa+f+b+bayern+is+r2... This happens not (only) because it is safer to keep piles
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by foobar2020 11y ago
Seems like Google does not like to share details on a regular basis: http://fortune.com/2015/04/24/google-cloud-numbers/ Side note: numbers between Microsoft and Amazon are not directly comparable becaus
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by foobar2020 11y ago
The entire cloud is growing at a similar rate. Comparing market shares seems more reasonable at this point: https://www.srgresearch.com/articles/aws-market-share-reache...
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by foobar2020 11y ago
It is a criminal offence to operate any flying device in a controlled airspace in Europe without prior authorization from the appropriate air space control (EASA regulations). It does not really matter whether it is a Cessna, a paraglide, a
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by foobar2020 11y ago
The whole difficulty of the hard complexity questions such as "Is P=NP?" hides in the non-trivial, "corner" cases. Sure, we have SAT solvers that are by many practical standards really good. P=NP would imply that we can
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by foobar2020 11y ago
Wait wait, how do cross currency swaps hide debt? Edit: these were not just regular cross currency swaps > But in the Greek case the US bankers devised a special kind of swap with fictional exchange rates. That enabled Greece to receive
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by foobar2020 11y ago
Germany is the direct descendant of Nazi Germany, just like Russia is the direct descendant of USSR.
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by foobar2020 11y ago
An idiot is "an intellectually disabled person, or someone who acts in a self-defeating or significantly counterproductive way". Does not seem to fit the definition.
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by foobar2020 11y ago
Anecdotally? Where does that come from, do you have any sources? Also, withdrawal is not the major problem when combating addiction.
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by foobar2020 11y ago
Yes. But if your arbitrage pattern is only 3 pips profitable, and you are exchanging millions at once, you might expect that the amount of available orders matching your path may actually matter.
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by foobar2020 12y ago
So did Hitler, along with frequent opioid shots, which had only exacerbated his bipolar disorder.
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by foobar2020 12y ago
There is: you either have to use atomic operations on all the reference counters, which is costly, and not available on all platforms, or you can have only one thread active at a time. This is the most classic problem: "x == 0"; p
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by foobar2020 12y ago
It does if the explanations are contradictory. In this case this means one of two things: 1) The "first bus collects delay" theory is responsible for a part of the difference between the data and the model, after all there is some

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