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by gajjanag 10y ago
> Oh, that must be it. Indian people care less than people of other nationalities, and it has nothing to do with... say, drastic disparities in the quality of public infrastructure. Public infrastructure in India ultimately derives from
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by gajjanag 10y ago
Same in India, there are signs and rules against such usage. But like many such things in India, very few actually care: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/you-may-be-f... .
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by gajjanag 10y ago
> I know of folks that own Audis and Mercs, but live next to a dumping yard. Now what is the point of having all that money, when you get see/smell only filth most of your life. The point is that one gets to compare it against the g
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by gajjanag 10y ago
Aren't there problems where large scale data sets are not available, even for the big players? With small amounts of data and/or unconventional learning situations, there should be options for incorporating domain expertise in int
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by gajjanag 10y ago
The problem is not necessarily the expense - there are a whole bunch of steps that need to be taken in order to ensure that the big hosts don't flag your mails as spam - https://support.google.com/mail/answer/
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by gajjanag 10y ago
That is good intuition, but note that one of the general drawbacks of Cramer Rao is that it applies for the unbiased case only (technically no, there is a version for the biased case, I have never seen it used though), and that too only wel
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by gajjanag 10y ago
There is a beautiful paper by Bin Yu on three common methods for getting minimax lower bounds on risk title "Assouad, Fano, and Le Cam" - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4612-1880-7_... .
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by gajjanag 10y ago
If one is interested in a take on this problem by an anthropologist/archaeologist turned epic fantasy writer, touching upon some of the thoughts in the comments here, see: http://www.steven-erikson.com/index.php/co
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by gajjanag 10y ago
I agree with these sentiments, but for slightly different reasons. One of the main selling points is that commuters can save time (the focus on self driving cars, not trucks/rail). However, long commutes are mostly a constraint imposed
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by gajjanag 10y ago
You are right in general, but note that for instance there are still many 2 stroke auto rickshaws: http://www.autocarpro.in/news-national/karnataka-ban-polluti... . Typically, the game goes as follows: new laws get draf
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by gajjanag 10y ago
> This is even possible because auto rickshaws and buses have gotten expensive. Public transport of any kind is expensive, unpredictable and not worth when you look at the overall comfort and economics of having our own scooter. When I l
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by gajjanag 10y ago
Per http://hariharan-ramesh.com/sports.html , it seems like your options are sadly limited, though you could give the linked Respro a shot.
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by gajjanag 10y ago
> Google is teaching their car how to navigate city streets, deal with human drivers and pedestrians, navigate intersections, handle construction zones, deal with emergency vehicles and cops directing traffic, etc. All with a much better
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by gajjanag 10y ago
A link that focuses on higher level issues regarding I/O streams in C: https://www.irill.org/videos/GNU_Hackers_Meeting/jim-meyerin... . In particular, I am not too happy with the title ;).
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by gajjanag 10y ago
All fine, but it is left conveniently unspecified what is meant by "reduce your rights". In fact, I don't even know my rights as I was not explicitly presented them in the form of a list in the first place, making the "r
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by gajjanag 10y ago
Some general thoughts. I would guess that the first step is acknowledging that the problem exists and is not made up by a few disgruntled people. The next step is understanding, for which there are plenty of resources on the web as a start.
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by gajjanag 10y ago
How about being able to build taller buildings in order to support higher population densities in major cities? Most cities in the US have all kinds of zoning regulations that prevent cities from reaching higher population densities: https
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by gajjanag 10y ago
> That reduces, but doesn't eliminate, the amount of information you're leaking. All cryptographic systems save the one time pad do leak some information, in the sense that they are not information theoretically secure. For ins
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by gajjanag 10y ago
Exactly. I have Signal installed, but none of my contacts have it installed on their phones. And Signal's "helpful" banner at the top that allows easy invitation of contacts will (rightly) be treated as spam by most of my con
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by gajjanag 10y ago
As a learning exercise/fun project for the author, I think this is ok. But for any serious study, I fail to see what this offers over the completely free, very readable, more carefully written, and more thorough "Information Theor
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by gajjanag 10y ago
> This is what's wrong with Linux kernel development. We have pluggable subsystems like I/O scheduling or CPU scheduling where BFQ or BFS are not mainlined and have to live as external patchsets. Then we have more than a few co
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by gajjanag 10y ago
Indeed. I am not familiar with the technical details of XP, so these are mostly observations from a user and not developer perspective: 1. On my old Pentium 4 box with 256 MB of RAM any release after XP hardly met the OS requirements. Yes,
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by gajjanag 10y ago
I have not implemented a compiler so I can't really judge on that aspect. Isn't it also true that undefined behavior can stem from varying hardware/platform considerations? In particular, leaving some things judiciously undef
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by gajjanag 10y ago
I like your answer, but I was really referring to widely used languages.
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by gajjanag 10y ago
> Not when you take the arcane undefined behavior rules into account. C semantics are anything but simple. Maybe, but note that simplicity should be viewed in a relative sense. I am curious as to which language you think has simpler sema
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by gajjanag 10y ago
On what basis can "notably most secure browser" be asserted? I think both aspects of this statement are definitely not clear - certainly not notably (reference?), and comparisons based on some searching seem to go one of numerous
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by gajjanag 10y ago
> People forget that Linux is the dominant kernel/os because it dominates nearly every market that isn't the desktop (server/mobile/IoT/toasters). This is mostly correct while referring to the kernel. Nevertheles
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by gajjanag 10y ago
Exactly. What I have found is that when I examine deeply enough, most DRM content is not even worth it, and even for purely entertainment purposes, there exist plenty of non DRM solutions: movie theaters, libraries, outdoor activities to na
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by gajjanag 10y ago
On most Linux distributions, Firefox is built from source and then shipped via a package manager. At least on Arch, --disable-eme is not passed as a configure flag. Yes, one could build Firefox oneself, but it is a beast to compile. It is a
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by gajjanag 10y ago
+1. As someone who has worked in the field of information theory, I strongly dislike the abuse of its usage here. Funny that the term "information theoretic" is used with not even one "theorem" in the linked document.

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