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by iaw 10y ago
It's been a long time since I look at machine language but, if I understand correctly, the difference is the capacity of the operation. Instead of performing an addition operation on 1 or 2 bytes at a time the operation can be perform
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by iaw 10y ago
It's awesome that it's freely available.
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by iaw 10y ago
Skimming that's the impression I got. Discrete math is always super helpful, some rigorous stats pops up here and there, and then there are things here and there that you just need to wikipedia.
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by iaw 10y ago
Have you taken the standard undergraduate engineering math coursework? - Calculus covering Derivation, Integration, Multi-Variate - Linear Algebra - Differential Equations (May not be relevant here) 'Discrete math' is also useful.
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by iaw 10y ago
I learned about this listening to Radiolab's 'More Perfect' [0] [0] http://www.radiolab.org/story/more-perfect-plaintiffs/
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by iaw 10y ago
I think there's some twisted analogue to the concept of an attractive nuisance here. Pokemon GO is creating an incentive for more people to goto that beach for something that wouldn't be exclusive to the beach. So people that wa
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by iaw 10y ago
For the price of an okay family home in an okay neighborhood of Palo Alto you can buy a villa in the South of France... I'm still not sure how to process that.
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by iaw 10y ago
I agree that there's too much added complexity in the tax-code but do you really feel that this requirement is that onerous? The likely motivation being being in line with those around 401k account requirements: if a company uses this,
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by iaw 10y ago
I strongly believe that our analytic capabilities (as a species) have grown by orders of magnitude since we built the bomb. My entire point was that the bomb wasn't a given in it's day (in spite of what the retrospective belief se
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by iaw 10y ago
I don't know where you see me stating that the discovery fission was a result of the Manhattan Project, it was a predecessor. The order of actions was: Einsteins Relativity -> Leo's Bomb Patent -> Discovery of Fission ->
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by iaw 10y ago
> The full class of cancers is an object of lots higher complexity than quantum mechanics. Could you elaborate as to why you believe that? Having worked on both biological and physical simulations the limits from a ground-up perspective
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by iaw 10y ago
You are 100% correct about what could have been. However, the reality is that Einstein's work paved the way for Leo Szilard to envision an atomic bomb before fission had been discovered. http://nuclearweaponarchive.org&#x
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by iaw 10y ago
Respectfully, I disagree. The fundamental discoveries necessary for the nuclear bomb weren't discover until after Leo Szilard [0] proposed the weapon. Given that none of us were alive between 1906 and 1945 it's hard to fully gr
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by iaw 10y ago
Arguable. We can only compare difficulty after the fact, if Einstein hadn't rolled along with relativity and 3 decade gap for research, the atomic bomb wouldn't have been possible. There may be a 'relativity' level disc
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by iaw 10y ago
> I can admit though that Telgrams marketing of their encryption has been at least borderline dishones. So, 100% Facebook free with a company that is borderline dishonest in how it communicates about the things we can confirm... Why is
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by iaw 10y ago
A few thoughts: * Encryption is one possible response to the broader concern around what companies are doing with user data * The broader concern, what are companies doing with our data, is often only spoken of from the consumer perspective
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by iaw 10y ago
I felt like the author allowed the reader to draw their own conclusions but my takeaways were in the same vein: awareness and outrage don't immediately solve problems.
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by iaw 10y ago
Normally I agree with your assessments but I don't think you're right on this one. Presuming geothermal wells would have a >100 year lifespan with minimal upkeep the upfront costs may be very large but the long-term cost per&#
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by iaw 10y ago
Not a good analogy, 100 years ago not only was the population lower but there was no electrical infrastructure.
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by iaw 10y ago
Where do you believe 'The Big Short' places the blame?
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by iaw 10y ago
Yep, clearly that was his plan since he was 19.
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by iaw 10y ago
You're probably right, I wonder if there's a door entry that doesn't require some handy-work to enter. Pretty interesting that that could be a defense mechanism
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by iaw 10y ago
There's no door handle on the exterior to the entrance to the room.
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by iaw 10y ago
I've found it's a personal balance. I worked very hard to get to a job and a company that I enjoy but I had to suffer some very miserable/toxic environments to get there. Even now, obligations to my family prevent me from b
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by iaw 10y ago
> Are there statistics about this? It's actually fundamental to Portfolio management theory. [0] > That actually seems like a good thing. Maybe, I don't know. Uber engages in some aggressively competitive business practice
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by iaw 10y ago
To add to this great advice: ask yourself why you pursued this path in the first place. Do you like what you do? It sounds like it's more of a job you struggle with more than you like, perhaps there are tangentially related roles you
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by iaw 10y ago
They also emphasize that those returns are largely on paper excluding the WhatsApp purchase... So still illiquid and able to move down.
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by iaw 10y ago
> The owner (he sees himself a CTO) is just technical enough to be dangerous. He knows the buzzwords and feels comfortable making decisions without fully understanding the impact. Three thoughts: 1) The owner/"CTO" is goin
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by iaw 10y ago
Yes, they included amphetamines in their study.
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by iaw 10y ago
If you dig you can find research that indicates that caffeine is the most potent cognitive boosting chemical we know of to date. I think the first half of your point, that we're reducing blood flow to the brain, is a valid one. Howeve

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