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by jgershen 16y ago
"There were two kinds of codes in cryptography, codes that stopped your little brother from reading your message and codes that stopped major governments from reading your message, and this was the first kind of code..." (from HPMOR: http:
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by jgershen 16y ago
Sorry for being unclear. I wasn't saying he - or anyone - is perfect. What I meant by that last part was that the moral of the story, to me, seems to be summed up pretty well in the two blog posts tptacek wrote and links to at the bottom of
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by jgershen 16y ago
Very well written article - it does a terrific job of explaining things like rainbow tables for a non-technical (or at least, technically-but-not-security-minded) audience. The only part that seems off is the theme that /all/ of the exploit
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by jgershen 16y ago
Very cool stuff. I wonder if there is any way to integrate something like KeYmeara ( http://symbolaris.com/info/KeYmaera.html ) for a way to prove correctness of Java systems (or components of Java systems).
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by jgershen 16y ago
Which means that onomatopoeic is a heterological adjective - an adjective which does not describe itself. Is "heterological" a heterological adjective? - Grelling and Nelson, 1908.
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by jgershen 16y ago
I've always liked the correspondence between idioms in natural languages and idioms in programming languages, especially as it pertains to how we think about problems. See http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html (May 2002) for a great explana
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by jgershen 16y ago
Not true; it is possible to be convicted of a crime of which you are innocent.
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by jgershen 16y ago
Nice article; it reminds me of taking OS at CMU. There's something incredible about learning what happens all the way down when you call, say, printf. Suddenly the computer transforms from an incomprehensible black box into an fascinating m
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by jgershen 16y ago
Or furiously scribbled, illegible notes from your advisor.
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by jgershen 16y ago
It doesn't always include the latest chapters immediately, but here you go: http://www.mediafire.com/MethodsOfRationality
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Google Files Sizzling Answer to Oracle's Amended Complaint(groklaw.net)
29 points by jgershen 16y ago|2 comments
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Switching from SVN to Git: A Startup’s Perspective(gazehawk.com)
42 points by jgershen 16y ago|30 comments
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by jgershen 16y ago
GazeHawk (YC S10) is still hiring. Send joe or brian at gazehawk.com an email! We're based in Mountain View, but not doing remote work at this time though. Sorry.
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by jgershen 16y ago
That's almost exactly the opposite of what this article says. To summarize it briefly, Vardi reminds us that the importance of proving P!=NP is to enhance our understanding of the underlying issues. Also, he devotes a significant fraction o
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by jgershen 16y ago
Actually, I think that with the possible exception of #2 (which can be debated extensively) these are not "things that Paul Graham is wrong about". They are "places where Paul Graham used hyperbole to make a point." I disagree with PG on a
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by jgershen 16y ago
Except that's not something that PG says, in general. I think that in this case, he was pretty clearly saying "the talk will be online" in an idiomatic manner. In my experience PG errs toward the side of putting too much emphasis on taking
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by jgershen 16y ago
I interpreted Qz's comment as "this professor is deserving of the allocated credit." As a recent CMU CS grad (and student of Professor Miller) I would agree and say that this is also generally the case.
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by jgershen 16y ago
Sorry about the Google cache; HN won't let you submit FTP links. This was written by Warren S. Sarle from 1997-2002. I ran into it while trying to look for papers on benchmarking neural networks. I highly recommend it for its frank and acce
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Neural Network FAQ(webcache.googleusercontent.com)
56 points by jgershen 16y ago|3 comments
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by jgershen 16y ago
It seems like this would be a reasonable introduction to neural network programming (while PyBrain contains code for other classifiers, the site also suggests that this is mainly for comparative purposes). If you were more concerned about p
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by jgershen 16y ago
I pointed at some of the general techniques we use on Quora: http://www.quora.com/GazeHawk/What-broad-computer-vision-tec... > for an engineer it was an ultimate challenge You won't find any argument from me; eye-tracking is extremely
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by jgershen 16y ago
Also worth a look is FutureAdvisor (disclaimer: YC S10). Bo and Jon are working on helping people answer these questions - they're both very smart guys who really know what they're talking about (the latter is a surprisingly rare quality in
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by jgershen 16y ago
I did the Fifth Year Masters program at CMU because I was in exactly this position. I recommend talking to Stehlik about it.
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by jgershen 16y ago
I understand that point and I agree. What I'm saying is that upon reading the article closely, I noticed he was primarily promoting the "view infinite as arbitrarily large" technique for dealing with the appearance of infinity. Example quot
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by jgershen 16y ago
What he's saying is that by "infinite," people usually mean "arbitrarily large". I've found that if you just say "arbitrarily large" when that's what you mean, it eliminates a lot of these misunderstandings. Of course, I talk to a lot of en
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by jgershen 16y ago
Yes. I told him the following in person earlier tonight, at the last YCS10 dinner, and I think it's the consensus among the other founders I've talked to from our batch. For the first month of Y Combinator, Paul Graham will tear you and you
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by jgershen 16y ago
Good point, I didn't see that. I have to believe, though, that this suggests Google views Rapportive favorably in general.
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by jgershen 16y ago
A version of Rapportive is featured (free) in the Google marketplace. See http://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/ . If that doesn't settle the fairness aspect for you, take a look at http://code.google.com/apis/gmail/gadgets/context
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by jgershen 16y ago
Is anyone else a fan of the reporting Wade has been doing on this batch of YC companies? I've really enjoyed the in-depth articles - a nice contrast to the typical ADD of the Internet echo chamber.
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by jgershen 16y ago
The loss in accuracy between us and a custom hardware setup for eye-tracking is primarily due to the fact that we're using a very different eye-tracking method. The "gold standard" for eye-tracking involves shining an infrared LED at the us

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