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by generationP 1y ago
You're probably in some country that has longer copyright duration than the US (life+70a, which is atrocious enough). Use Tor or a proxy.
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by generationP 2y ago
Nope, but this post is such a neat illustration of the richness of "life" that fits into 39 real parameters (each circle can be coordinatized as 3 real numbers: one for its radius and two for its center) that my first thought on s
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by generationP 2y ago
His old website: https://web.archive.org/web/20240415075438/https://homes.lud... An app he wrote: https://web.archive.org/web/20240304061200/https://sit.luddy... or
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by generationP 2y ago
What if someone in your family has done a crime, and the result of your DNA being online is (1) you are the first suspect and (2) the criminal might well learn/suspect that they have been compromised through you?
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by generationP 2y ago
Oh my, the titles in those proceedings are hilarious. > Retracted on February 24, 2022: Innovation Research on College Student Affairs Management Based on Big Data Environment > Retracted on February 24, 2022: University Students in t
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by generationP 2y ago
There are two kinds of MIT students: those who spend their time at MIT feeling they're not working enough, and those who spend their time after MIT feeling they haven't worked enough back at MIT. The intellectual atmosphere is rea
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by generationP 2y ago
mp3 doesn't exactly fly off the tongue either. But maybe you've found the reason why bz2 never took off..
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by generationP 2y ago
The reason why no one noticed is that everyone has been trivially circumnavigating the patents for decades (the usual model being a converter that doesn't come with its own lame.dll but asks you to put one into its folder) and Frauenho
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by generationP 2y ago
Resolved? By whom?
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by generationP 2y ago
What is the point of concealing tikz source code? It increases the size of the source archive and undermines accessibility.
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by generationP 2y ago
https://www.science.org/do/10.1126/science.z7pm10i/full/acti... This is the order. Good luck finding "literally stop everything" in it.
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by generationP 2y ago
Ah, so Raft is what everyone uses, and Paxos is used by the very big providers nowadays. Good to know! I can't find the study any more, though I'm pretty sure I saw it on HN...
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by generationP 2y ago
I remember trying to read the paper and giving up somewhere early in the proof. I certainly don't think it gives a great intuition why the algorithm holds, so "approachability" is a matter of definition (does it tell a fun st
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by generationP 2y ago
That's easier explained using fixed-point theory: The damping factor makes the mapping x↦Sx into an actual contraction (on the space of probability distributions). Not to mention that it has a simple common-sense justification (you don
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by generationP 2y ago
For pratical purposes, perhaps this: Andrew Tridgell and Paul Mackerras, The rsync algorithm , June 1996, https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/course/15-749/READINGS/required/c...
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by generationP 2y ago
Does anyone actually use Paxos in real life? And let me ask the same question for all other academic distributed algorithms right away. I recall seeing a study some 10 years ago checking the major cloud providers for Byzantine fault toleran
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by generationP 2y ago
Where does the Brin-and-Page paper require linear algebra? It mentions "eigenvector" once, in a tangential remark. The "simple iterative algorithm" is how you find the fixed point of any contraction mapping, linear or no
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by generationP 2y ago
To be the devil's advocate: Breaking a result up into little pieces to increase your paper count ("salami-slicing") is frowned upon. Of course this is not what Terry Tao tried to do, but it was functionally indistinguishable
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by generationP 2y ago
Right, and the paper you didn't read contains a lot more than that.
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by generationP 2y ago
Rejecting every unconditional GET after the first? That sounds a bit excessive. What if the reader crashed after the first and lost the data?
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by generationP 2y ago
Both conventions are valid. You call it binary when you view it as a rooted tree, or ternary if you view it just as a graph.
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by generationP 2y ago
If the article is in any way representative of the book, then I'm not sure what there is to be learned from the book. That mathematical skills can be honed through practice? That it happens at an intuitive, pre-rigorous level before it
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by generationP 2y ago
That and even better: it opened the doors towards a lot of the better jobs, both in terms of working conditions and offering some amount of breathing room. Education was a more significant social elevator in the East than in the West, first
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by generationP 2y ago
Also a huge drinking problem that is not entirely but mostly concentrated in men.
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by generationP 2y ago
And I thought it was a pun on p-zombies...
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by generationP 2y ago
I'm seeing some influence of [Diestel]( https://diestel-graph-theory.com/ ) at least on the layout of the text.
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by generationP 2y ago
Lots of academic authors have decided color is a gimmick (color printing is expensive and not clear how long-lived; grayscale printing kills yellow and light-green lines; then there is colorblindness). Certainly I agree that load-bearing
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by generationP 2y ago
I think development on the TeX-to-HTML compiler has slowed down at some point, and it's far from perfect yet. Some of the issues are probably HTML5 limitations, unlikely to be fixed any time soon (unless one wants formulas to become gr
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by generationP 2y ago
It fixes the worst problem, which is the well-definedness of the interior product, since it defines the product explicitly on the standard basis rather than through a bunch of not-obviously-consistent axioms. It is too basis-dependent for m
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by generationP 2y ago
The subject doesn't lack rigor, but all of the popular and quite a few of the mathematically minded introductions to it do. Bourbaki and Chevalley did a good job introducing Clifford algebras properly some 80 years ago, but even this h

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