jrp

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1. 61.▲
   by jrp 17y ago

   Then don't be that guy.
2. 62.▲
   by jrp 17y ago

   And the comments on the posts are built into a PDF?
3. 63.▲
   by jrp 17y ago

   1) I do remember a post a while back where a Firefox user submitted a bug report due to actually encountering a MITM attack, so not 100% are false positives. (the post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=353376 ) 2) A minute a day may o
4. 64.▲
   by jrp 17y ago

   More about METs and tradeoffs between minutes exercised and intensity of exercise: http://www.health.gov/paguidelines/guidelines/Appendix1.aspx
5. 65.▲
   by jrp 17y ago

   Indeed. If the show has 2.6 million viewers, and they didn't even have a link to click, I am surprised that the traffic was heavy.
6. 66.▲
   by jrp 17y ago

   > Why? Because of laziness. You are right that you can learn by just investing time, and the grandparent is right that almost nobody will bother when they can play videogames with that time.
7. 67.▲
   by jrp 17y ago

   Thank you; I thought he was talking about the physicist Landau.
8. 68.▲
   by jrp 17y ago

   Yes, you would certainly notice this as you plotted the points.
9. 69.▲
   by jrp 17y ago

   Yeah, when I read the book it sounded cool but as I posted it here I wondered why the cops didn't notice in the story.
10. 70.▲
    by jrp 17y ago

    What you mention doesn't apply to 10 years ago. Maybe 20-50 years ago.
11. 71.▲
    by jrp 17y ago

    Any real counter-forensics device should be at least as good as the door electromagnet in Cryptonomicon.
12. 72.▲
    by jrp 17y ago

    I would like to see more accessible exposition of modern mathematics to the interested public. There seem to be two opposing forces - assuming more prerequisites lets you talk more easily and go into more depth, but cuts your target market
13. 73.▲
    by jrp 17y ago

    By the way, the author is William Thurston, a renowned mathematician and Fields medalist.
14. 74.▲
    by jrp 17y ago

    Right, he has apparently solved and proved a short list for OBS3 with the property that X is 3-colorable if and only if X doesn't contain anything from OBS3.
15. 75.▲
    by jrp 17y ago

    OBS4 is supposed to be a list of all configurations which deny 4-colorability for themselves, and any strictly larger (in both dimensions) configurations. Ie, if (19,17) is in OBS4 then (19+x,17+y) is not 4-colorable either. So given a sha
16. 76.▲
    by jrp 17y ago

    Did you read the article? These are actually quite different.
17. 77.▲
    by jrp 17y ago

    Never the first time I think about a problem. But sometimes when doing a from-scratch rewrite of a medium-size program, I will understand how everything should be, and it works the first time.
18. 78.▲
    by jrp 17y ago

    You might be able to choose the third option of studying part-time while staying with your comfortable job.
19. 79.▲
    by jrp 17y ago

    You probably have something like 2^32 ways to seed your RNG. But there are N! possible outcomes of the shuffle, so at most 2^32 of those will appear (one per seed). 2^32 = 4294967296 100! is about 10^158 So for just 100 items, you're alrea
20. 80.▲
    by jrp 17y ago

    "Quick create."
21. 81.▲
    by jrp 17y ago

    http://writer.zoho.com/editor.im for trying with no sign-in.
22. 82.▲
    by jrp 17y ago

    just assume -> just as soon
23. 83.▲
    by jrp 17y ago

    So, the 2 hours is more important than the 5 dollars? I did get caught by the framing, but in retrospect I should have been tipped off by the fact that most wages are > 2.50/hr.
24. 84.▲
    by jrp 17y ago

    I like Feynman's description, where he actually used 10^x first, just noting that 10^x for small real x was 1 + ln(10)*x (approximating from the derivative), assuming that this worked for small complex values too, and then extended to large
25. 85.▲
    by jrp 17y ago

    He is using deconstructionist language on deconstructionism itself. This is funny because it shows us that deconstructionism contradicts itself.
26. 86.▲
    by jrp 17y ago

    The above is a typeset book version (so in DVI form, is misleadingly named). For the actual source, see http://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/systems/knuth/dist/tex/t...
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    The complete TeX source (DVI)(tex.loria.fr)

    1 points by jrp 17y ago|1 comments
28. 88.▲
    by jrp 17y ago

    There is a good discussion of IP=PSPACE there.
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    by jrp 17y ago

    http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Acs.*.edu+book+draft&#3... brings up at least two more: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~vazirani/algorithms.html http://www.cs.princeton.edu/theory/complexity/ Of course, both of them also get posted a
30. 90.▲
    by jrp 17y ago

    I watched part of the git tutorial, and it got jumpy at some point; i.e., losing characters, scrolling on to upper lines on the right side, etc.