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by gjulianm 9y ago
I always like the bridge example here: how would you react to someone trying to convince you that you should jump off a bridge? Reasoning with them implies that you accept that they might be right (it’s not a debate otherwise). The appropri
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by gjulianm 9y ago
One of the point of Linus is that most of the crashes will not be because of an active attack but because of a possibly latent bug that sometimes appear and might very well be non exploitable. So probably people running server would like to
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by gjulianm 9y ago
I think this approach is better suited to lower level schooling, where kids already spend several years learning and practicing a small number of concepts. Instead of making them do countless calculations and mechanical problems, invest som
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by gjulianm 9y ago
The fundamental difference is that one is an economic ideology from which the genocidal ideas can be separated, and the other is a genocidal ideology. National socialism is an ideology for which certain types of people cannot exist, and suc
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by gjulianm 9y ago
Because it is gambling with real world consequences. Stock markets influence company behavior which in turn have very real effects over people lives (layoffs, salary reductions, increased hours). So it is a conflict of interests between peo
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by gjulianm 9y ago
Sorry but I have to make the precision: market optimized for monetary output and not necesarily social good. Companies doing well in the stock market might be exploiting workers, unnecessarily exposing consumers to different dangers, destro
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by gjulianm 9y ago
The point I think the parent is trying to make is that some times debating certain ideas is validating them a little bit. It's as if someone asked me to jump off a bridge: discussing whether he should jump or not would be like saying &
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by gjulianm 9y ago
I think diversity is not exactly an end in and on itself, but a way to reduce general inequality. Increasing the number of woman in fishing, or logging, or coal mining is not going to have as much effect on the general economic/social
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by gjulianm 9y ago
I wonder if there would be the same controversy if the memo had gone viral but being about any other issue, say, about what the guy thinks Google is doing wrong with Google+. I assume that the guy would be fired also, but I'm not sure.
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by gjulianm 9y ago
What? That is a gigantic lie. IANAL, but just a quick search reveals that illegal evidence is not allowed [1] and there is a right to remain silent [2] (which seems to be held even by the European Court [3]) so I don't know what you ar
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by gjulianm 9y ago
Honestly, most mathematics professors I've had have attempted at giving motivation or intuition about things. Not always useful, not always correct and sometimes dangerously misleading, but the attempts are there. Regarding the posts l
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by gjulianm 9y ago
The existence of fields that merge math and programming does not mean that "doing math" and "programming" are similar actions/similar fields. I've studied both and there is a world of difference. > How else
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by gjulianm 9y ago
You might be able to teach someone how to solve differential equations mechanically the same way you can teach someone how to press keys on the keyboard to code a Python script. Yes, it works, but it's specific and the moment something
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by gjulianm 9y ago
That's a somewhat naive way to say it. Math is not code, it's not programming. You can code a Python script without knowing how does a operating system work. You cannot understand nor use a theorem without knowing the definitions
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by gjulianm 9y ago
Honestly, every time that a discussion on mathematics comes up in HN I feel the same way: people seem to think that mathematicians are some kind of elitist people that don't know how to explain concepts, and that mathematics would be l
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by gjulianm 9y ago
Sorry but this is extremely misguided. You are making assumptions that make you look like you haven't talked to a mathematician as if they were a person, but a machine or a misterious magician. Mathematicians do not find difficult to v
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by gjulianm 9y ago
Python and perl are not always the best option. For example, if I am executing a lot of system commands (sometimes through ssh), checking outputs with grep/awk, reading files, calling make, why use a language that is going to be far mo
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by gjulianm 9y ago
Having a lot of math involved does not mean that it is mathematically elegant. As a mathematician, I ask myself several questions. First of all, what is really a neural network? Is it an approximating function? Is it a geometric separation
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by gjulianm 10y ago
Good thing is that you don't even need a Makefile. If you use latexmk it can automatically run gnuplot [1]. It's very useful if you are in "continuous-preview" mode (aka automatic builds when you change the source of the
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by gjulianm 10y ago
C++ is considerably more complex than Java, though. There are differences which we could consider "simple", such as operator overloading, iterators, lambdas... But then there's the templating system which is way different, an
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by gjulianm 10y ago
I think that 'non diversity' (or at least how I interpret is) is an indicator of possible unfairness, and not necessarily bad per se. If a company has too few people of a given group in comparison to the hiring pool availability,
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by gjulianm 10y ago
The problem with that terminal (and lots of other with 'loads of features) is that it tries to reinvent the wheel. Why would I need SSH, file transfers, command editors, etc, when all of that is done by the shell itself? If I need ssh
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by gjulianm 10y ago
Not necessarily. One can capture 10G to disk using "only" a RAID-0 with 8-10 mechanical disks: it does the job both in bandwidth and space, and you can use regular filesystems such as XFS. 40G is a little bit more difficult: you n
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by gjulianm 10y ago
I'm not sure about (a), but it would probably be very difficult to land it with the thrusters on the probe. Philae almost bounced off the comet and it was designed for that purpose... For the second one, seems that https://t
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by gjulianm 10y ago
As a mathematician, and seeing what's on the article (and with no intention to downplay your achievements, which are impressive), that's not what I think of when I hear "advanced mathematics". Vectorial calculus and diff
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by gjulianm 10y ago
It seems that the beacon is not necessary. They already have radio localization. The problem is confirmation from imagery. > Radio ranging data tied its location down to an area spanning a few tens of metres, but a number of potential ca
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by gjulianm 10y ago
Most services have the option of remembering your 2FA authentication on a certain device. For example, I have to enter my LastPass password in my computer to login, but I only have to use 2FA if I'm logging in from a new device.
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by gjulianm 10y ago
For what I have seen, most applications using DPDK do not require TCP/IP handling. For example, packet monitoring, data transfers between nodes that are just connected by a single cable (thus no need for routing or TCP arrival guarante
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by gjulianm 10y ago
The CRC is often checked directly in hardware, so you would have to configure the NIC properly, and I have not seen many high-performance NICs that allow to modify that setting.
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by gjulianm 10y ago
From the article, it seems that this autopilot checks that the driver is attentive. > When drivers activate Autopilot, the acknowledgment box explains, among other things, that Autopilot “is an assist feature that requires you to keep yo

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