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   by js8 8y ago

   I recently became interested about P=NP, the reason was learning. And I became crankish, in the sense of trying to understand the problem myself. My advice is - learn about naturalness. Monotone circuit bound in CLIQUE in particular is an i
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   by js8 8y ago

   > Unfortunately, the phrasing would be more like, It doesn't matter what's true, it matters what i can sell to management. Yes, that's my main beef with it. SCRUM could be based on science, but sadly, it isn't. Here&#
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   by js8 8y ago

   I really loved the part where Lady Gaga explained multitasking.
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   by js8 8y ago

   You could have also used approximately logarithmic scale that everybody is familiar with, namely, cash! You know, 1,2,5,10,20,50,100,200,500.. But no, here we are doing science, that's why we use Fibonacci, hey even plants and rabbits
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   by js8 8y ago

   The kernel of truth of that response is that you won't get more certainty about an estimate by adding more uncertainty, no matter in how much pseudo-scientific cargo-culting mumbo-jumbo you cloak it. (Unfortunately, HN readers don&#x27
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   by js8 8y ago

   Actually democracy is not necessarily a rule of majority, it is a system where everybody has equal access to power. There are several models how this in practice can lead to even minority deciding. Also, the majority can change ad hoc, depe
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   by js8 8y ago

   I am just having a similar problem at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Haken There is no source that would prove that Armin Haken is his son, and so unfortunately Armin's work cannot be mentioned in the cont
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   by js8 8y ago

   In other news, although collections of human beings in the West aren't officially societies (see https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/106689 ), the harassment can still get ugly!
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   by js8 8y ago

   In my view, this is the endgame, really. Take any numerical technique, at the level of computers we always work with discrete bits. So you can reformulate any numerical problem (such as a problem of finding a probability distribution) on fl
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    by js8 8y ago

    I am not against "higher-order thinking" but in my experience it often leads to wishful thinking and self-deception. Especially political arguments are prone to disagreements on higher order effects (as opposed to effects that are
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    by js8 8y ago

    "I do trust that employees can exercise their professional judgement. I don't expect that every employee can perfectly align themselves behind a strategic objective without guidance." That's strange to me, because the fo
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    by js8 8y ago

    I also liked this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWEjxkkB8Xs
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    by js8 8y ago

    The people who are gaming are probably not. However, the people who are not trying to game the system might decide to do it if there is an objective goal. But perhaps you're right. In capitalism, the most common purpose why companies e
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    by js8 8y ago

    I think the point of the article is summed up in the sentence: "The key components of metric fixation are the belief that it is possible – and desirable – to replace professional judgment (acquired through personal experience and talen
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    by js8 8y ago

    Wikipedia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paradoxes
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    by js8 8y ago

    Your post reminds me of the famous AI koan: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10970937 Maybe there is some truth in it. But I also feel that you might get a better result if you let humans to figure out what is needed to
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    by js8 8y ago

    I agree, being funny on Monday usually has a limited positive impact.
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    by js8 8y ago

    Again, on z/OS, this is a solved problem. If the application runs inside an "application server", for instance CICS, you can still get the dump and the CICS can continue or even restart your app (or it can be restarted throug
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    by js8 8y ago

    If you have a top level catch, then you lose the local context of the error (local variables, parameters, stack trace). I mean seriously, this is a solved problem on z/OS (the ABEND condition bypasses normal stack, so to speak), it has
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    by js8 8y ago

    Well, it seems to me that XX:HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError is only useful if you run out of memory, not for other errors such as NPE. The other one XX:OnError I am not really sure how to use with the JVM.. I mean can probably get the dump of t
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    by js8 8y ago

    What I mean, to produce the dump in the case of exceptions that percolate to top level and exit the process or thread (such as NPE). I am aware that I can attach, but that kind of defeats the ability to get the information in case of unexpe
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    by js8 8y ago

    I am not really that familiar with Java, but I don't understand how to get a JVM heap dump if there is an exception that brings down the JVM or even a thread. Is it even possible? I work on mainframe (z/OS), and it is completely n
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    by js8 8y ago

    Thanks but no. There are alternatives, such as diem25.org.
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    by js8 8y ago

    What is the purpose of parents when they are eventually surpassed by their kids? The purpose of humanity is to build the machines, teach them what we know about the world, and make sure they don't destroy themselves in the process.
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    by js8 8y ago

    I would recommend it to a Lisp enthusiast as a third after On Lisp. That's how I read it, anyway. Many things in LOL are quite opinionated. I don't think it's a distillation of knowledge (like On Lisp), but rather an explorat
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    by js8 8y ago

    I was a fan of Python and Lisp, and skeptical of functional programming (with full referential transparency). I knew many people praised Haskell, but in particular, I didn't understand how it could replace Lisp macros for building abst
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    by js8 8y ago

    Like many people here, I am a programmer (in Prague). My job is not particularly meaningful. Is there a way in which I can join the "war effort"? (It seems there really isn't any effort, but still.) I mean, I understand there
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    by js8 8y ago

    This is not new, it was already discovered (and also theoretically explained) by Steve Keen & Russel Standish (2006):"Profit Maximization, Industry Structure, and Competition: A critique of neoclassical theory". You don't
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    by js8 8y ago

    This is what I have always been wondering. If according to no free lunch theorem, there is a bias in every learning method, what kind of bias do the neural networks have?
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    by js8 8y ago

    Or just buy some plants. I bet they would look prettier, too.