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by jwtadvice 10y ago
While I can not claim to have made any imporant progress on the sorts of toy problems I like to work on (e.g. counting/bounding the number of strings two regular expressions both accept, counting the number of ways to represent integer
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
I feel like CNBC did it particularly well [1]. > "Our understanding is that this is not the start of sanctions easing," said Ian Bremmer, a widely respected political scientist and president of consulting firm Eurasia Group. &g
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
Similarly if you click on one point continuously it creates "non-physical" topologies and overlapping blocks. But seriously, really cool work. Excited about the future of CSS with VR, 3D displays, etc.
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
The way this is layed out in a table and suddenly properties line up in rows and columns reminds me of the Periodic Table in Chemistry. Obviously it shows how the ASCII committee used the first two bits as control bits and the remaining bit
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
Thanks. I'm aware of this! I just used Xi a bunch and didn't want to keep typing Xi Jinping either so I used Jinping. Changed up the pronoun for readability and variety. Is it culturally unacceptable to refer to Xi Jinping as Jinp
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
Thanks for your informed and interesting comment! This is an interesting position, though I think it suffers from the same shortcuts that much US thinking does when it tries to grapple with prior arrangements that seem inconvenient today be
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
China needed strong assurances from the US and UK that formally splitting from the Soviet Union wouldn't see the American alliance then turn against China in a divide-and-conquer strategy. Could we have gotten a better deal? I'm n
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
The quick response to these concerns is that they very highly speculative. They are the sort of thing that - like medieval models of the solar system - seem to predict the the movement of the planets, except that you keep needing to explain
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
To consolidate the similar threads of discussion, another comment mentioned this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13533864
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
To consolidate the similar threads of discussion, another comment mentioned this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13533864
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
It seems to me that it's an actual genuine effort, given that the publicity of the drive has damaged Chinese public confidence in their institutions of government (high profile corruption is often featured in the news) and because many
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
This appears to be an aspect of the anti-corruption drive that has been holding billionaires and politically connected people high up in the Chinese government to account of the law, with Xiao Jianhua caught in financial fraud. The controve
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
Acknowledgement that I've received the file. I'm very impressed by the level of effort that has gone into curating this information. I will get back to you (I'll find you on HN) after digesting this information.
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
It's my understanding that it doesn't store a file, it just sychronizes a transfer. You have to trust that this is the case, but you can look at the source code that it's based on (on Github). So I think we both need to be on
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
Huh looks like I need to do a lot more reading to understand all of this! :) I'm still trying to understand what the Probablistic Method looks like as a program. Any thoughts on that?
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
Gotcha. So basically the "axiom" of the law of excluded middle would become an oracle, and then with a call to that oracle a problem requiring the law of excluded middle becomes a proof. Basically - the axiomatic decisions made by
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
Anyone really familiar with this: are non-constructive proofs, things like Cantor Diagonalization or Erdos's Probabilistic Method, programs? Are they just non-terminating programs? I can see Cantor Diagonalization as a non-terminating
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
No problem. Looking forward. :)
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
In my opinion the way to stage these technologies is not to blitz toward a fully cyborg doctor replacement, but to bolster the capabilities of the doctor with new technology - similar to how calculators did not replace mathematicians (despi
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
Firefox remains one of the browsers I use. I sideload Chrome, Safari and Firefox on my work machine because we work with mTLS with smartcards and honestly none of the browsers work reliably (it's not a very high use case). The biggest
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
How do you feel about base64 encoding it and putting it on something like pastebin? If you want to keep the link secret, here's a public key you can encrypt the link to: -----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY----- MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCg
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
Yes. I would love to see your spreadsheet. Some sources that may interest you: The Federation of American Scientists (fas.org), the Strategic Studies Institute (strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil), OpenCourseWare (ocw.mit.edu/courses&
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
Absolutely. Shared respect. 1) Yes agreed here. The investments/loans aren't gifts. They are expected back - with interest - and there is real risk that insolvency and default will stall the investments. This gives China leverage,
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
> As I understand it (I'm no expert in the field), U.S. policy in regard to China is that its rise to superpower status is inevitable Interesting. My understanding is quite the opposite: that the U.S. policy in regard to China is th
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
The insanity here (for me) is that I spent years trying to communicate the containment strategy aspect to TPP, even linking to public officials and defense documents specifying that this was the purpose. Ultimately I think I found some smal
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
If I’m hiring for a candidate that has expressed a need to work remotely, I interview them very differently. First, I give extra importance to the communication with the candidate over email/LinkedIn to set up the phone screen, and als
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
Thank you! Very keen. To add to this comment, there’s more nuance when speaking less generally: * In cases where there is competition between powerful nations, weaker nations can and do gain advantage by playing the interests of one country
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
Another advantage to paper is that you can invent your own notation (this seems to be the primary innovation of "bullet journaling). The full 2D space and the relationship of symbols is available to you on paper, whereas on the compute
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
Interestingly at today's White House Press Briefing, a reporter asked the Press Secretary whether the Trump Administration thought that it could surround/contain China with bilateral trade agreements the way that the TPP had inten
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
At my office we lost a lot of time because someone put up a challenge to represent all the numbers 0-99 with algebriac expressions containing exactly four digits '4'. The use of powers and radicals was allowed. I myself solved sev

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