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by gphilip 13y ago
All of this seems to be anecdotal. Do you know of any research (as in, studies) which support any of this?
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by gphilip 13y ago
No, this is not true. But the following is true: if a polynomial-time solution was found for an NP-hard problem, that would mean that all problems in the class NP can be solved in polynomial time [1]. This would include all those NP-hard
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by gphilip 13y ago
"To have audible" is startup speak for ... what? "proving you’re worth the valuation of a Series B upround requires incredible metrics that are tough to reach if you have audible late in the game."
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by gphilip 13y ago
OP says he will be transferring his domains elsewhere. Seems like he is in for more suffering before that happens [1]: A Phone Call is REQUIRED for Domain Transfers from Network Solution to Other Registrars .. Transferring a Domain from Net
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by gphilip 13y ago
> isn't it the purpose of a conference to discuss a certain paper? No. The purpose of a conference [1] is to have researchers present their results. The timing guidelines for a typical conference talk would look like: 15 minutes f
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Healthy habits reduce dementia risk(cardiff.ac.uk)
1 points by gphilip 13y ago|0 comments
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by gphilip 13y ago
Elsevier does not have copyright of these papers! The authors do. This is not true for the vast majority [1] of papers; for most articles published by Elsevier, the authors have to sign away their copyright first. What the parent says a
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by gphilip 13y ago
Dustin Curtis' "response to the critcism" in that second link consists of: 1. Quoting a well-articulated email from yet another reader who felt deceived by the trickery; and, 2. (After a preface stating how he finds it amusin
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by gphilip 13y ago
A different but related point: NP-hard problems (and other kind of hard problems, like EXPSPACE-hard problems) are (in general) hard only _in the worst case_. This means that a problem might be NP-hard (or worse), but we may have algorithms
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by gphilip 13y ago
This is even more nitpicky, but the worst-case running time can be improved to O(n log n) by choosing the median of the input numbers to be the pivot each time, in O(n) time. This works irrespective of whether the list is sorted or not. Thi
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by gphilip 13y ago
More like 64 bit computers are 2^32 times as fast as 32 bit computers.
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by gphilip 13y ago
Previous discussion on OpenMailbox: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6174603
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by gphilip 13y ago
> In the first paragraph, he shows that if you allow proofs by contradiction, you can use them for every theory claimed to be inconsistent to show it indeed is consistent. This is so, because to prove by contradiction means to infer &quo
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by gphilip 13y ago
> From that assumption, they derived a contradiction This is what I don't see. To have derived a contradiction, they should have shown: "mathematics is consistent". Instead they ended up showing (because Φ and ¬Φ): "m
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by gphilip 13y ago
> both Φ and ¬Φ are theorems that can be used in the proof to produce an immediate contradiction. Therefore mathematics is consistent. Isn't the inference that mathematics is in consistent? A proposition is a statement which is eit
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by gphilip 13y ago
It cannot be. What the OP meant is π - 2(π/2) = 0
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Machine with Concrete(youtube.com)
1 points by gphilip 13y ago|0 comments
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by gphilip 13y ago
On Emacs: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FullScreen On a Mac, with Aquamacs: (defun writeroom () "Switches to a WriteRoom-like fullscreen style" (interactive) (when (featurep 'aquamacs) (color-theme-initialize) (color-
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by gphilip 13y ago
> Rackspace has great hosted email for $1/inbox/month. Looks like it is $2/inbox/month now: http://www.rackspace.com/email-hosting/webmail/
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by gphilip 14y ago
>Only two of those sentences have anything to do with each other Err.. I only see two sentences in total. Where is the non sequitur?
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by gphilip 14y ago
The "ration card" is another, nearly universal, identifying document in India which serves another purpose: this card is mandatory if its owner wants to get grocery at affordable (I hope!) rates from the government's Public Distribution Sys
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by gphilip 14y ago
Bertrand Russell has treated this subject in his inimitable fashion in his essay titled "Boredom and Excitement", Chapter 4 of his book "The Conquest of Happiness". The chapter starts off with "Boredom as a factor in human behaviour has rec
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by gphilip 14y ago
>Oh, for fuck's sake, how is some Dave being jerk is making gender difference apparent? >The guy was at the wrong place, and was being a show-off. >But no, you must attribute it to his gender. If you read the article again, yo
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by gphilip 14y ago
Shouldn't there be some kind of seizure warning to go with the link?
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by gphilip 15y ago
Thank you for that recommendation; I had not heard about the book before. An extra nice thing: the book's chapters are available for free --- for downloading and viewing, and not for other uses --- from the book's website: http://matrixan
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Why a lawyer decided to (tearfully) delete his Pinterest inspiration boards (ddkportraits.com)
11 points by gphilip 15y ago|0 comments
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by gphilip 15y ago
Here is a newspaper version with more details : http://www.telegraphindia.com/1111224/jsp/frontpage/story_14... Edit: This is hard to believe. Perhaps there is more to the matter than is being said? Taking kids away from their parents and
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Children put in foster care for "having been fed differently"?(morallowground.com)
2 points by gphilip 15y ago|4 comments
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by gphilip 15y ago
> Marx also believed that no capitalist country would ever, say, abolish child labor, institute universal education, and create universal health care. Could you provide some reference to support that, please?
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by gphilip 15y ago
> Have there ever been lower taxes for women in any country? Yes, that is the way it is in India, and it has been for many years now (as long as I remember). Here are the current rates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_India#

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