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by gone35 12y ago
(Not the parent but) If I may, The key point is that communication is expensive [1]. And not just because bandwidth is physically expensive, or the opportunity costs of waiting about, or the usability nightmares that inevitably ensue; but
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by gone35 12y ago
(Please add (2009) to the title) See [1] for a much more recent discussion. Basically, Scott Aaronson showed that some rather mundane-seeming systems (like, say, an ASIC implementing some LDPC code, or even just a square grid of XOR gates)
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by gone35 12y ago
[Google] put serious resources into figuring out how people interact with their software, so if they say, "This is good enough to be our UI standard for the next several years in _every_ product we ship." then the odds are, it re
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by gone35 12y ago
Also the Dinosaur Book[1]. I don't think Silberschatz et al. could have pulled this off if they were starting today. [1] http://galvin.info/2007/03/13/history-of-the-operating-syste...
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by gone35 12y ago
You would be surprised. The BBC has been reporting on a similar XSS vulnerability on over a hundred eBay listings with custom Javascript for months now, to no avail [1,2,3]. I guess people really like their parallax sparkles nowadays. [1]
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by gone35 12y ago
Here are the slides he's using (I think): http://www.ttic.edu/dl/dark14.pdf And here is Caruana's 2006 "Model Compression" paper he mentions: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=115046
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by gone35 12y ago
Ok, this is interesting. From the article: "For individuals, the trick is to be your own devil's advocate: to think through how your favored conclusions might be misguided; to ask yourself how you might be wrong, or how things mi
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by gone35 12y ago
It's always amazing to me that as tech entrepreneurs we largely sell to others the idea that technology enables us to do anything from anywhere, but simultaneously believe that there is exactly one place on earth where we must physica
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by gone35 12y ago
It was, but judging from Mike's comments [1], he was also being a bit naïf coming in expecting otherwise. This kind of stuff happens often enough there are several common sense guides/books for "talking to the media" (se
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by gone35 12y ago
I don't natively speak, read, or write English. Damn. I wish I could show your comment to people like John Searle.
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by gone35 12y ago
Interesting. Informally (anecdotally), I think the norm is quite the opposite: noblesse obliges to never drop the H-bomb in conversation --whence the irksome "went to school near Boston" trope [1,2]. It could well be a HBS-only
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by gone35 12y ago
Makes total sense. And I'm sure the Rapa Nui down in Easter Island also had some kind of self-consistent story to tell themselves too.
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by gone35 12y ago
In fact, at current market caps, you could very well go ahead and buy the whole damn shipyard instead [1]. And its next-door neighbor in Geoje, Samsung Heavy Industries, one of the largest shipbuilders in the world (even accounting for it
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Examples of regulatory costs for nuclear energy development (2011)(atomicinsights.com)
2 points by gone35 12y ago|0 comments
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by gone35 12y ago
Well, expectancy violation/mismatch is a reliable stressor down to the mesolimbic-corticostriatal level[1], so maybe that's that. In any case, thank you for re-enabling it. I'm sure many future readers would thank you too. [1
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by gone35 12y ago
Use this bookmarklet to un-cripple the page (from [1]): javascript:document.querySelector('meta[name=viewport]') .setAttribute('content',' width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-sca
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by gone35 12y ago
Thank you for sharing this! Not my field at all [1], but reading through your result, I cannot help but think of L1-regularization in ensemble optimization/learning algorithms; see for instance Section 6.3 in [2]. Perhaps it's too
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Penrose graphical notation(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by gone35 12y ago|0 comments
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by gone35 12y ago
This. Worryingly enough, I confess I've read the article back-to-back several times but I still don't see the author's actual argument. Maybe there is one, but I'm just too dumb.
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by gone35 12y ago
[Spoilers] Each theory has its champions. Theoreticians at Philipps-Universität Marburg support Auger recombination [...]. Meanwhile, Hadis Morkoç’s group at Virginia Commonwealth University seconds Schubert’s support of electron leakage [
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by gone35 12y ago
A wall of text indeed: at 30,000 words (including quotes), it's about the same length of a 100-page novella. You and the other commenters were not exaggerating. Interestingly enough, 30,000 words is also a common 'crisis point&#x2
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by gone35 12y ago
To echo Thriptic comment: you would be surprised to know how little top US research universities actually provide for their, well, research labs! The way it works today, mutatis mutandis , is more like a "hacker space" than any
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by gone35 12y ago
The author actually discusses this a bit towards the end. Far from it. As early as the first subsection, "A Less Than 0% Chance", Scott writes: "Now, what happens if you try to come up with a theory that's like probabi
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by gone35 12y ago
Sure! To quote Scott's own TL/DR: Quantum mechanics is what you would inevitably come up with if you started from probability theory, and then said, let's try to generalize it so that the numbers we used to call "probab
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by gone35 12y ago
Sorry, I didn't see the earlier discussion here the first time around [1]. Leaving my submission on anyway, for its 'insider' perspective. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8336954
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Microsoft SVC(scottaaronson.com)
1 points by gone35 12y ago|1 comments
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The Trouble With Harvard(newrepublic.com)
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by gone35 12y ago
Ok, I know it might be hard to fathom, but funnily enough, every single one of the technologies you mention --without exception-- harken back in (arguably) significant and non-trivial ways to technology or fully functional prototypes alre
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Pen Spinning(en.wikipedia.org)
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by gone35 12y ago
If by "batshit crazy" you meant toxicity, then yes that's clearly incorrect, as others have repeatedly pointed out. Perhaps you meant chemical affinity in some general way -- eg homochirality, or presence of commonly targete

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