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by kvathupo 5y ago
I was inclined to agree, but the questions seem to be as simple as "add 32 and 14" [1]. I doubt students failed to answer this question on the basis of what field the numbers belonged to :) That said, the emphasis on rote memoriza
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by kvathupo 5y ago
Don't we have a provable guarantee in the case of the traversal of glued trees via oracle, i.e. no classical algorithm has lower query-complexity? (Granted, the same can't be said for Grover's) See section 16.4 of these notes
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by kvathupo 5y ago
Considering government pay and bureaucracy, this is probably unlikely today
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by kvathupo 5y ago
Many benchmarks fail to capture that if one were programming for speed, intel CPUs seem to be the default option by virtue of the intel compiler, unless you use a HDL [1]. It's quite interesting how hardware manufacturers have been abl
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by kvathupo 5y ago
This is everything I wish the web would move towards: quick, minimalistic design that doesn't hinder the user. I think Reddit is the worst offender in this regard with its slow, bloated redesign that stops my viewing experience. There
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by kvathupo 5y ago
Explains my experience with GCP...
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by kvathupo 5y ago
+1, Bitbucket search often returns results from older versions of a repo. Wouldn't be an issue if syncing to the current master didn't take a few days...
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by kvathupo 5y ago
In anticipation of getting flagged into oblivion, am I the only one who's disappointed in this selection of books? Of course, taste is subjective, and it should perhaps be expected that much of the list is in line with what is read by
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by kvathupo 5y ago
This may be a naive question, but data is sent at 400Gb/s to the NIC, right? If so, is it fair to assume to assume that data is actually sent/received at a similar rate? I ask since I was curious why you guys opted not to bypass s
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by kvathupo 5y ago
Why work for society's benefit at the expense of your well-being? I once asked an Oxford-educated post-doc, who had worked as a quant, "are you going to go back to finance?" He replied that he simply doesn't know. He wan
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by kvathupo 5y ago
Although I agree that the average student at one of those schools is much better than one at a lower ranked school, I think there is a false equivalency at play here. Enrollees in Math55 are not representative of all math students at Harvar
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by kvathupo 5y ago
You'd be surprised to learn that the 1st Amendment is the strongest it has ever been: I'd recommend reading Anthony Lewis's "Freedom for the Thought That We Hate." It covers how people were imprisoned for criticizin
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by kvathupo 5y ago
As usual, a sensational headline averring a research article's causal hypothesis, of which the PI even calls for reproducibility. Reading such paltry science articles makes me really appreciate papers like Quanta, whose reporters seem
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by kvathupo 5y ago
Cached mirror - https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LwH96X... I'm clueless about security: where does this fall on the scale of non-issue to critical? It strikes me as tending towards the latter, give
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by kvathupo 5y ago
Wrong prize...
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by kvathupo 5y ago
> Keep in mind, The Atlantic is a lifestyle magazine. Have you ever read The Atlantic? Quite a few of its writers have either been nominated for or outright won Pulitzers, with one winner this year [1]. Even beyond awards, it has publish
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by kvathupo 5y ago
I'm tired of such preoccupation on some nebulous notion of "rationality," when any cursory reading of philosophy, particularly of mathematics, informs one of the subjectivity inherent in the choice of one's axioms and de
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by kvathupo 5y ago
Perhaps some things (thankfully for our employment prospects) can't be explained to a 5 year old ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'd imagine the following Google image [1] is sufficiently understandable to a child: the two dots are bits while the
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by kvathupo 5y ago
Not quite: whether integer factorization is faster on a classical or quantum computer is up to debate iirc. They said, there _are_ algorithms that are provably faster on quantum computers, such as a random walk on a glued tree.
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by kvathupo 5y ago
A classical bit is either 0 or 1. A qubit is a complex unit vector, wherein the classical states of 0 and 1 correspond to antipodal points on the unit sphere painted by the range of possible qubits.
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by kvathupo 5y ago
Frankly, I think most doctors aren't qualified to make such a decision by virtue of lacking PhDs: their expertise is in clinical care, not in evaluating research.
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by kvathupo 5y ago
Your comment is presumably being flagged for an unpopular take, but I think it's meaningful to have a conversation (I can't say my earlier quip provides anything of value). The first thing I did was google what's been chewed
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by kvathupo 5y ago
Welp, so much for the "tech exodus" to miami
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by kvathupo 5y ago
At the expense of the pot calling the kettle black, this comment epitomizes behavior that I don't like to see on HN: the condescending and incorrect use of technical jargon in an internet argument that adds no new insight. In what way
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by kvathupo 5y ago
While people are entitled to their view of the CEO, I find many of the comments doing nothing more than insulting the CEO. As a South Asian, I think there's more meaningful discussion to be had on the "bamboo ceiling" and, in
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by kvathupo 6y ago
I've been consistently impressed with the quality of the New Yorker's recent reporting on North Korea. I highly recommend this piece on Liberty In North Korea's Yale-educated Mexican founder, who is leading a militant, provis
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by kvathupo 6y ago
I wouldn't totally discount the post; the program itself seems to be on the level of FPGAs by specifying individual gates. I agree that it hides a lot of nitty-gritty like error correction and QRAM, but in an ideal world, this is what
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by kvathupo 6y ago
Nothing to add, other than to say that I love her blog!
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by kvathupo 6y ago
I don't quite follow: is not what you described a flaw fundamental to all forecasting; that is, the occurrence of a gross outlier? I should clarify that DL doesn't suffer from the same problem the normality condition has on fat-ta
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by kvathupo 6y ago
As currymj commented, this isn't accurate for ML, only for classical statistics. In ML (or more specifically deep learning), we make no distribution-based assumptions, other than the fundamental assumption that our training data is &qu

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