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901.
by gone35 12y ago
For 'small' workloads, it's not uncommon to find situations where direct computation might make more sense. The author touches on that a bit, as others have pointed out.
902.
by gone35 12y ago
...I got a few chapters into QCSD before realizing that I needed to learn some more about complexity theory before I read that book. I'm planning on trying again once the summer begins. It might be a bit overkill, but if you go over
903.
by gone35 12y ago
Sure he is. Indeed. I'm glad at least one person got my point. (A minor nitpick, tho: for the record I happen to have been born with two X chromosomes. Good guess though; especially on HN threads like these.)
904.
by gone35 12y ago
"A little manly-man programming from the wrist and we move on to real problems." See... it's the little things like this. I am pretty sure that was not your intention, but please do know that turns of phrases like that hurt a
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by gone35 12y ago
To add to your "calibration" framework: I sometimes explain the ethics of affirmative action in control theory terms as a kind of 'bang-bang' response[1]. So yes, things will be inequitable for the other side for a while
906.
by gone35 12y ago
"Having a more diverse team that includes someone with a more emotionally-driven perspective could lead to someone asking the question "Is the way we're manipulating user behavior actually ethical?" [Emphasis added] Ge
907.
by gone35 12y ago
I agree with the gist of the article, and the figures are mostly right; but the opening comparison is a bit disingenuous [1]. The figure of 13000 kWh per year is indeed ridiculous, but apparently the U.S. and Canada are quite the outliers i
908.
by gone35 12y ago
Well; it really depends on your jurisdiction, but you should know that there is such a thing as consumer protection and tort liability --yes, even for things you get for free, like FOSS. See for instance [1,2]. Also, in the specific case of
909.
by gone35 12y ago
Let's not. In medicine, N=1 is no joke: the reason being that, when (i) there are so many unknowns, (ii) there is so little experimental data, and (iii) the consequences are so potentially severe, from a decision-theoretical point of v
910.
The Worst Waiter in History (2014)(priceonomics.com)
21 points by gone35 12y ago|4 comments
911.
by gone35 12y ago
Also my favorite PC game by far, but I really hope it doesn't happen... It seems the devs are going for yet another 'monetized'/pay-to-win travesty à la Dungeon Keeper redux, sadly. Thanks but no thanks.
912.
by gone35 12y ago
Ironically enough, trying to open this blog's main page crashes my Safari (on an older iPad) every single time . I guess that cute little 200ms header animation is too accidentally quadratic for my 'outdated' hardware...
913.
by gone35 12y ago
Absolutely. There has been some work specifically on boosting in the presence of noise --see for instance [1], and Sec. 12.3.3 of Schapire's book-- using branching programs /BDDs as base learners. It's definitely worth takin
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by gone35 12y ago
Thanks! The one I linked to is just the extended version.
915.
by gone35 12y ago
So what was the paper? De Mulder et al. 2013[1]? (Sorry not my field; just a guess!) [1] http://mhutter.org/papers/Mulder2014UsingBleichenbachersSolu...
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by gone35 12y ago
Abraham, This is the kind of work that is essential for our future --so thank you. I'm quite (positively) surprised Sam decided to fund this; we definitely need to put more effort and resources as a civilization to work like this. I&
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by gone35 12y ago
I'm pretty sure her source is this series of Forrester studies commissioned by Akamai in 2006 and 2009 [1,2,3]. Note they focused on online shoppers though. Also, subjectively, if anything it feels to me as if pages load much slower th
918.
by gone35 12y ago
Oh wow, this is one of the few instances where I really wish one could downvote submissions. What a whole bunch of blatant misinformation and misrepresentation of the literature. The authors are clearly non-specialists and it shows ... I
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by gone35 12y ago
Well; as you point out, X-ray phase-contrast tomography and conventional X-ray photography are (nearly) totally different things, so their phrasing seems justifiable to me, if only on editorial grounds --think "the full name of the tec
920.
by gone35 12y ago
Ah ok, thank you. If I understood correctly, you take "occupy a strong position in the social order" to mean a group's strong enfranchisement and entrenchement, up to the point of closure within the political culture (in th
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by gone35 12y ago
"Currently [...] teachers [...] occupy a strong position in the social order. So do government dependents ." [Emphasis added] Interesting --maybe I'm misunderstanding your claim. Can you clarify what you mean by "occu
922.
by gone35 12y ago
Damn; this is amazing stuff... I had no idea: (from [1]) so just get a local copy, set the path, and voila you can import... Wonderful. Thank you for sharing this! http://afp.sourceforge.net/using.shtml
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by gone35 12y ago
Interesting. So perhaps we need some sort of "CTLAN" (Comprehensive TLA+ Tautology Archive Network?) kind of thing to be able to import/match obligations to already-established proofs from some common repository? Maybe future
924.
by gone35 12y ago
Why delete it though? The discussion that followed[1] alone was worth it, don't you think? Anyway, for those curious about the medium article[2] (and for posterity's sake), see [3]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by gone35 12y ago
P.S. I found out about this movement while looking up Konstantin Tsiolkovsky [1], a remarkable figure on his own. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky
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Russian cosmism(en.wikipedia.org)
15 points by gone35 12y ago|3 comments
927.
by gone35 12y ago
the sum of all positive integers is -1/12, and other such nonsense Sure sure, but do know that a lot of all that hacky regularization stuff can be made mathematically sound after all --see for instance [1,2]. [1] http://
928.
by gone35 12y ago
Well, if you think of it as some generalized instance of the secretary problem, the 40-70% rule wouldn't necessarily be that bad --I guess it depends on how adversarial are your assumptions [1]. [1] http://math.stackexchan
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by gone35 12y ago
I sincerely doubt the movies deliberately misrepresent his work. Rather, I assume they honestly misrepresent his work, meaning that they tried to get it right, but they don't understand it well enough to do so. Well, movies delibera
930.
by gone35 12y ago
But there are other objections from people who think systemd is too big in scope or too controlling or focussed on one technology or another or... some kind of conspiratorial trap or something ( http://boycottsystemd.org ). I thi

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