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by laxatives 10y ago
Stuxnet would play AC DC Thunderstruck over the PA system at odd hours in Iranian uranium enrichment facilities.
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by laxatives 10y ago
Here's my favorite essay from String Theory that really sums everything that book is about: http://www.esquire.com/sports/a5151/the-string-theory-david-... This version is a bit of pain though since the footn
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by laxatives 10y ago
If you have a turing-complete machine, you can execute anything you could on any other turing-complete machine (given sufficient resources).
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by laxatives 10y ago
Even if you aren't able to recall useless events in your life, you still have memories of most of them with the appropriate cues. Tgat doesn't hold for early childhood.
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by laxatives 10y ago
That website was amazing, but it actually surprisingly difficult to maintain a positive ratio without making a decent effort. For every album I wanted to download, I had to download 1-3 others I had no interest in for the sake of seeding.
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by laxatives 10y ago
Their contests evaluate your algo on a number of heuristics, namely high alpha and zero beta. They are agnostic to you or your background.
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by laxatives 10y ago
Is there a reason you linked the 12e of the book? Is the 16e not the latest and greatest? It does seem like they just reprint every 2 years and increase the cost $30....
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by laxatives 10y ago
Honestly, this is a great pitch for your line of work. It sounds like you really enjoy it.
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by laxatives 10y ago
Just curious, can you share your role/organization and the people you typically pass and the people you typically fail in your interviews?
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by laxatives 10y ago
I think the point is that your strategy isn't independent of your opponent. Maybe a similar example is nontransitive dice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontransitive_dice In other words, it isn't sufficient
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by laxatives 10y ago
Care to elaborate? I guess those Ramanujan-like infinite series are a bit like trivia questions, right? Does anyone really have an intuition to solve something like that?
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by laxatives 10y ago
Its an opportunity to take something like an intro level college course over the summer while in middle school with gifted kids your own age. You need to qualify by taking the SAT and scoring above some threshold and you can only take cours
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by laxatives 10y ago
Apple's add was rebellious in the sense that they weren't trying to intimidate or smear a competitor, they wrote a genuine welcome. Slack's ad, by comparison, is a passive aggressive roommate leaving weird, indecipherable pos
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by laxatives 10y ago
This doesn't seem so crazy. Google deletes emails after a few months for rank/file and 6 months for executives for the sake of avoiding lawsuits as well.
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by laxatives 10y ago
I think one of the best features of sharelatex is that you skip the insanely bloated installation/package maintenance process. Some of those packages use GB of fonts and I remember having a complete installation with over 30GB of fonts
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by laxatives 10y ago
Honestly, this guy is a genius. And people can't get over that their scroll wheel doesn't work on a website that hasn't been updated in half a decade.
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by laxatives 10y ago
Everyone is going nuts about the presentation/scrolling/UI of worrydream, but they are missing out on the goldmine of what he's actually been working on: http://worrydream.com/#!/Showreel2012 Its absolut
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by laxatives 10y ago
There's a button under the parent link that lets you skip the paywall labelled `web`.
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by laxatives 10y ago
Can you set up phone alarms/reminders with org-agenda or something similar?
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by laxatives 10y ago
* Emacs org mode to prep for meetings, maintain TODO lists, and general notes * Also keep Slack open when I am working. If someone needs something, they can ping me on Slack and I will be available within 5-30 minutes. * Gmail stars for eve
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by laxatives 10y ago
I really wish there were an edition with the footnotes inserted into the main body in some clean way. Like a quarter of the book is in those notes and many plot critical segments are buried back there.
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by laxatives 10y ago
No, at the time Palantir was mine and a lot of other people's too choice at Berkeley. They spent a ton of money on recruiting my class and I went there for dinner/lunch several times.
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by laxatives 10y ago
I had very similar intervies at Palantir and Yelp, albeit Yelp was understandably just a quick phone screen with a recruiter. However, the "trivia" interview at Palantir came from a forward deployed engineer on the DC based team I
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by laxatives 10y ago
What was the audience? Maybe he does think it is a valid issue, but doesn't want to discuss it with the media since they are liable to misuse his words.
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by laxatives 10y ago
Should get a refund then. A minute of longitude near a pole is inches. Its a minute of latitude for a reason.
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by laxatives 10y ago
That isn't really a fair comparison. There's a selection bias among kidney donors (they must pass some minimal health requirements) and are at a lower risk than the general population.
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by laxatives 10y ago
I'd mostly agree, but say that it took me more like 300 pages to "get" his style and an additional 200 pages to actually enjoy. Its a serious investment, but absolutely worth it. Easily one of my two favorite books of all tim
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by laxatives 10y ago
This argument applies to all forms of media. As the barrier to entry to create plummets, there's going to be an insane amount of noise, even if there's tons of good stuff around. If you don't need a publisher's/edit
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by laxatives 10y ago
There's something to said about attention spans in the digital age. Nautilus isn't a single serving news site; it provides long essays with sufficient background to digest a topic you probably don't really spend much time thi
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by laxatives 10y ago
Proofs should be in DAG form, but starting a presentation from first principles seems like overkill. If your audience isn't at least as interested already interested in your side, they aren't going to be baby stepped through ever

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