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by gms 17y ago
Are you sure you're talking about the maths subject GRE? Not the regular math section on the standard GRE?
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by gms 17y ago
Thanks, hadn't even considered that!
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by gms 17y ago
I'm surprised that Arabic and Hebrew aren't in the same category. (disclaimer/foonote: I'm a native speaker of Arabic)
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by gms 17y ago
Maybe read a textbook on bioinformatics, implement a couple of non-trivial programs/algorithms, and put them on your resume?
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by gms 17y ago
Does anyone know of anywhere else with similar properties? I've never come across anywhere with such a huge variation of accents and dialects over a relatively small piece of land, but my experience is limited. To me (non-American), America
426.
by gms 17y ago
You're not the only one.
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by gms 17y ago
I read the post twice and failed to find any criticism.
428.
by gms 17y ago
You're better off doing it the old fashioned way: study and practice.
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by gms 17y ago
Do you have to move to DC? Because it's very much the wrong place for what you're looking for.
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by gms 17y ago
I don't mean to sound pessimistic, but if you're really interested in tech stuff I'd suggest moving to a western country (preferably the US).
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by gms 17y ago
If you're looking for technical anything, Dubai Internet City is a joke. It's all sales/PR people.
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by gms 17y ago
A lot of credit should go to Strang for being such a great lecturer.
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by gms 17y ago
Do you have any proposals for how to fix this from the interview's point of view?
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by gms 17y ago
Thanks for correcting about law/business school; I had overlooked that. Medical school too I think.
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by gms 17y ago
I want to echo gdp's advice above. What I wish someone had told me as a freshman: Grades don't really matter, no one will care about them. 1) Future employers (investors too?) will care about code you wrote outside of class, whether open so
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by gms 17y ago
There is something sleazy/brazen about quoting people off online discussions as on-the-record 'news'. Only serves to increase paranoia and self-censorship. Not to mention that it's lazy.
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by gms 17y ago
That blog is a right old riot. Cheers for the link.
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by gms 17y ago
That is what I thought. But not how it is playing out when applying for jobs that put me as the worst one (from my perspective anyway). Perhaps other factors are at play.
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by gms 17y ago
Easier said than done no? Outside of school, where do you find people willing to work with someone worse than them?
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by gms 17y ago
How are they so profitable then?
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by gms 17y ago
I think you might be attributing a lot to malice. In fact I think if said European cities and NYC were built after cars were invented, they would be similar to the sprawl in e.g. California.
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by gms 17y ago
It's the same with everything else in life no? The large number of people who watch trashy TV, the large number of people who eat fast food, etc. Principle of least effort and all that.
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by gms 17y ago
Aha, cheers for the explanation.
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by gms 17y ago
Some background: on Unix, Firefox obtains seed entropy from /dev/urandom, while on Windows it calls RtlGenRandom() for some reason instead of CryptGenRandom(). This seeding material is then fed to the random number generator, a NIST SP800-9
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by gms 17y ago
return (len(set(l)) == 1)
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by gms 17y ago
In what ways do you regret your choice? It wasn't clear from your comments. Also, Bristol is a lovely city.
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by gms 17y ago
All I knew about him was that he was co-author on that 'Randomized Algorithms' textbook. I had no idea he was this prolific elsewhere.
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by gms 17y ago
You don't use YouTube?
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by gms 17y ago
Yes I prefer your approach too (I use a similar approach with the Elisp I use to publish posts on my blog). You are also right that one shouldn't use a macro where a function would do. When looking at PG's approach in ACL, it's worth rememb
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by gms 17y ago
Judging by the HTML macros he talks about in ANSI Common Lisp, they had to be macros since they output HTML to file using a bunch of FORMAT calls. Since side-effects were involved and the calls had to be evaluated at specific points before

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