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by kjrose 16y ago
I can't wait to get my next kindle. The iPad is nice from the perspective of video and the like, but it is still very much a computer screen. The Kindle simply feels exactly like mutating paper. It'll be really cool if Amazon ever figures o
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by kjrose 16y ago
"is the application of probability theory" My comment still stands.
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by kjrose 16y ago
This is true about many ideals. See socialist, laissez-faire capitalist, and communist supporters for arguing points. Hell, see any utopian idealistic system. The excuse is the implementation always fails. How many times does implementation
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by kjrose 16y ago
Software is easily copied and manipulated enough that small businesses which are flexible and innovative will remain competitive against larger businesses which may steal some of their ideas. The only real concern to me is that smaller busi
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by kjrose 16y ago
I think having shorter times for copyright and patent to expire would be effective. With the speed and turnaround of the current markets, patent law ends up stifling innovation and in general harming the economy as a whole. This is a prime
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by kjrose 16y ago
This is actually more accurate than you'd think. While everyone used IBM PCs as their personal computers for many years, IBM was harmed massively when their PC BIOS was reverse engineered and then copied by Compaq (and subsequently many oth
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by kjrose 16y ago
Yeah, I'd be curious to see what people who are still working in the field have to say. My red flags went up as soon as I read "statistical" in the abstract, since that could easily imply the common problem of assuming the existence of a se
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by kjrose 16y ago
Yeah, in general it's believed that any proof that P != NP would likely provide a lot of insight into which factors of an NP system make it difficult, and thus potentially allow us to divide even cleaner problems which are "easily" solved a