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Improved Arranging Desktop Windows
1 points by graycat 1y ago|0 comments
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by graycat 1y ago
> What your wrote is ... not related to the topic of the article. The article was: The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder and I wrote: > So, in this case can tell if the "program will stop" and, thus, s
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by graycat 1y ago
"administration"? I avoided that. I was commenting in general terms. "countries with truly dysfunctional judicial" I suspect that much of how people get along in such a country is just to pay enough to the right persons
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by graycat 1y ago
As in one of volumes of Knuth's The Art of Computing , Heap sort is in place and achieves the Gleason bound so can be regarded as not beaten by quick sort.
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by graycat 1y ago
What I wrote is correct but does not address the traditional Turing Machine halting problem or solve it. The traditional halting problem is theoretical, i.e., not close to anything practical, and so is what I wrote. And I did not claim that
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by graycat 1y ago
Well, for a computer that is a finite state machine there are only finitely many states . So, in finite time the machine will either (a) halt or (b) return to an earlier state and, thus, be in an infinite loop . So, in this case can te
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by graycat 1y ago
> the law Would be nice!!! However, as is easy to see from recent, well known examples, the results of our legal system depend heavily on personal attitudes, predilections, and opinions of individual judges, lawyers, etc., and, net, &quo
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by graycat 1y ago
Stochastic process with the Markov property: Past and future are conditionally independent given the present. The general version of conditionally independent is from probability theory based on measure theory and the Radon-Nikodym theo
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by graycat 1y ago
Computers and China? Hmm .... For my next computer, e.g., for a Web server, considering an AMD processor, Gigabyte mother board, Western Digital disks (rotating and/or solid state), main memory, video display, etc. Just checked, non
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by graycat 1y ago
> challenge would you tackle if resource was not a problem? (1) Have a good marriage, children who do well, and "live happily ever after", a MUCH bigger challenge than I expected. My experience is that a significant fraction of
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by graycat 1y ago
Okay, mostly use Windows 7 Professional (with 100+ "updates") for general purpose and software development but for such usage and/or a Web server what to get now? Windows 2xxx?
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by graycat 1y ago
WOW! IPC, instructions per cycle? Sure, back in those days, usually how many cycles per instruction! The 360/91 was a high end thing, said to cost $13 million. One was at the Navy lab, JHU.APL. As I recall, it could do 1 floating
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by graycat 1y ago
> the entire world circa 1970. About then was the IBM 360/91 with a 60 nanosecond cycle time. So, that would be a clock speed of 1/ ( (60)/(10^9) ) = (10^9) / 60 = 10^7 (100 / 60 ) = 10
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by graycat 2y ago
One approach to, and reason, for college: As in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_show in the 1800s in the US, there were lots of "Medicine Shows": "Medicine shows were touring acts
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by graycat 2y ago
Maybe PG is "superficial". Hmm ... It may be that commonly drilling down as deep as can is not productive and, instead, there is some wisdom that commonly productive solutions are surprisingly simplistic, i.e., "superfici
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by graycat 2y ago
Do? Make money enough to support self and family and then have a good family. Understand people. With all the talk in the news about the current Disney Snow White , got out the DVD for the old Disney Cinderella : Yup, have learned enou
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by graycat 2y ago
The US needs: (1) To be strict and strong on illegal immigration. (2) To be welcoming, courteous, gracious, flexible, understanding, and helpful otherwise.
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by graycat 2y ago
In grad school, wrote a paper as a homework assignment for a course where reviewed a paper on the idea of using a minimium spanning tree for the traveling salesman problem. The paper did have some math addressing how close the idea was to
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by graycat 2y ago
Your area may have several services that can keep you from being homeless. There should be some social workers good at helping people with just your problems. E.g., they may have a shelter you can use overnight. For long term housing, th
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by graycat 2y ago
> It's an approximation algorithm. Clear. Nice. Thanks. In that case, for the Traveling Salesman problem, build a minimum spanning tree and traverse that -- old result.
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by graycat 2y ago
When Ada was first announced, I rushed to read about it -- sounded good. But so far, never had access to it. So, now, after a long time, Ada is starting to catch on??? When Ada was first announced, back then, my favorite language was PL&#x
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by graycat 2y ago
> For a hobby project, what you describe is probably fine. Thanks! Yup, it will be "a hobby project" until, if ever, it gets some users and revenue. Then, have several servers, some load balancing and redundancy , uninterru
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by graycat 2y ago
Asking: Okay, clearly there are a lot of people here with lots of experience running their software on cloud services from Microsoft, Amazon, Google, etc. Good. But what about a solo founder running their Web site on a "full tower&quo
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by graycat 2y ago
Ah, my father in law was a farmer, grew wheat, corn, soy beans, but sometimes raised chickens. Along with the corn, when he fed the chickens anchovies from Chile he noticed rapid growth, called the little fish a growth factor . Wellllll,
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by graycat 2y ago
Own favorite source on stochastic calculus: Eugene Wong, {\it Stochastic Processes in Information and Dynamical Systems,\/} McGraw-Hill, New York, 1971.\ \
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by graycat 2y ago
> Grok 3 performs at a level comparable to, and in some cases even exceeding, models from more mature labs like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic. It tops all categories in the LMSys arena and the reasoning version shows strong resu
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Grok 3 AI and Some Plane Geometry
4 points by graycat 2y ago|0 comments
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by graycat 2y ago
Do remember some from when we were in Florida; since we moved to Tennessee when I was 5, those memories were from <= 5! Memories: (1) In a few seconds older brother taught me to ride a bicycle: He put me on his bicycle and held me up as
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by graycat 2y ago
> if nobody reads it? Blog especially if no one reads it so that can learn how to blog so that people will read it! "What a gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us?" -- Robert Burns.
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by graycat 2y ago
"Price of land goes up": In simple terms, the Internet is providing huge areas of land suddenly now feasible for use; the larger supply will lower US average costs per acre.

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