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by lanstin 2y ago
If there was a physical "undo" button, I could get behind this philosophy; however I notice neither a compiler to point out small mistakes nor an undo to help out with big mistakes. Having transformed some small plumbing things fr
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by lanstin 2y ago
DDOS against your DB or even just your hash table.
573.
by lanstin 2y ago
Well if the query is from an adversary it has undesirable results.
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by lanstin 2y ago
3 is roughly half of ten logarithmically. And in any business that uses software (to co duct the business) you always want engineering to keep in mind the doubling time, or if the business is shrinking. A lot of efficiency decisions are dri
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by lanstin 2y ago
First thing I do when I am learning a new high level language is write Ackermann function and see what happens. Also write out plus and mult and expt in terms of +=1. I have seen people with O(n^4) code when they could have easily used O(lo
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by lanstin 2y ago
Some minds get a lot done with a lot of memorization and some minds get a lot done with seeing commonalities and creating simplifying abstraction. We need all sorts of minds.
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by lanstin 2y ago
How do you get an unbiased evaluation of someone with an accent that differs from your training set? It took about a decade for my friends with Indian English accents to be able to use voice controls in luxury cars. And honestly young peopl
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by lanstin 2y ago
And the definite integrals you can get out of the Cauchy integral formula are awesome. I think it is because being holomorphic is so much stronger even than C^\infty (continuous with all derivatives continuous) real much less just continuou
579.
by lanstin 2y ago
I have been watching this class (to supplement a class on dynamically systems where we are learning perturbative methods). Stroganoff has a good text book, a good pop sci book, a really good podcast and now really good technical lectures.
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by lanstin 2y ago
The humans will do it unconsciously if they can see the names. It is like orchestras used to use auditions where the judges could see the people; when they went to auditions where they couldn't see the people, the number of women being
581.
by lanstin 2y ago
They send resumes with the same accomplishments and names that indicate race and observe the relative degrees of acceptance. Everytime they do this test, considerable bias is found to still exist.
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by lanstin 2y ago
They are now :)
583.
by lanstin 2y ago
That is what I meant. The plural or collective you.
584.
by lanstin 2y ago
You also pay to send your kids to university, have the worlds best particle accelerator, and pay to take care of sick people.
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by lanstin 2y ago
And most applied maths doesn't seem to worry about proofs much. They have techniques that either work pretty well or blow up.
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by lanstin 2y ago
There are elementary Diophantine equations that are independent of ZFC. What is your approach for those?
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by lanstin 2y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Sync-Order-Emerges-Universe-Nature/dp... is also a good read on it. Perhaps not as technical as the above but has some interesting history on the discovery of these interesting mathematical trut
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by lanstin 2y ago
kids learn, walking talking reading arithmetic and physics, by doing things in the physical world. Adults may speak differently to kids than adults, but it's a stretch to say it's synthetic. Equivalent to synthetic would be a grou
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by lanstin 2y ago
The first time I visited the Everglades there was a family that had been at Disney for some time and the kids would not believe the many enourmous alligators laying around were real. On the other hand, my two year old (who had been hitting
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by lanstin 2y ago
Even worse, at least aesthetically, than the AV is the pacct stuff to log 1 line for every single syscall. Talk about sublinear scaling. And for what, no one can say. Actually, even worse than that was we had to install AV on all the image
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by lanstin 2y ago
On a cultural note regarding the threads, the moralistic make do with what god gives you side and the yay drink coffee and do stuff and be happy side have been around a long time. A little Bach Cantata about a grumpy old dad and his coffee
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by lanstin 2y ago
I don't get this. Most of the rich world has universal health care, strong unions, shorter work weeks, longer paid vacations, uni seats for most anyone who can benefit, mass transit, even union reps on company boards, birth control, al
593.
by lanstin 2y ago
Civilization progresses one funeral at a time, but maybe if we knew we would live to four hundred we would take up longer term thinking and work for projects that took 100 years. Nod to Kim Stanley Robinson.
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by lanstin 2y ago
Also you are much more likely to decline in the next four years at eighty than at fifty.
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by lanstin 2y ago
My experience with internet outages affecting retail is the ability to rapidly and accurately calculate bill totals and change is not practiced much anymore. Not helped by things like 9.075 % tax rates to be sure.
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by lanstin 2y ago
The problem you are complaining about here is the weakening of labor and consumer organizations vis a vis capital or ownership organizations. The software must be updated frequently due to our lack of skill in writing secure software. Wheth
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by lanstin 2y ago
The difference being that RHEL has a QA process which crowd strike apparently does not. The quality practices for open source involved companies is apparently much higher than for large closed source "security" firms. I guess gett
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by lanstin 2y ago
This outage seems to be the natural result of removing QA by a different team than the (always optimistic) dev team as a mandatory step for extremely important changes. And neglecting canary type validations. The big question is will busin
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by lanstin 2y ago
The only one I've listened to was him interviewing Donald Knuth which was worth listening to, tho from time to time I got the impression of an interviewer that didn't quite know enough to do the interview. If you like podcasts of
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by lanstin 2y ago
I had a similar strategy as a youth. It definitely makes for a more relaxed education (or gave me a buffer for when the homework becomes really hard and my youthful irresponsibility put me behind). Now I've gone back to grad school (3

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