libealistand

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by libealistand 3y ago
The irony here is that the massive water price hikes must surely have contributed in less waste of water resources.
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by libealistand 3y ago
The main "value" in the domain of sorting problems is the number of elements in your collection. A subproblem also considers the elements to be integers, then they become another "value" domain. (But in general, sorting
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by libealistand 3y ago
Oh yeah, because assumin maximum values in your domain doesn't move all algorithms into constant time and renders complexity theory void.
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by libealistand 3y ago
Sure, but in such a world asymptotic complexity has little meaning. For practical purposes it's useful to make simplifying assumptions that are done in complexity theory.
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by libealistand 3y ago
Some parts that are done can already be running while other parts are still compiling. I'm seriously concerned about all the besserwissers in this thread.
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by libealistand 3y ago
> Not only it not constant time, it's not even it's polynomial You understand that this is part of the joke, right? If we really want to get down to the details and kill the joke, then you don't actually need to wait real
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by libealistand 3y ago
A wet dream for the ubiquitous data collecting ad industry. Obviously such a service would live in the cloud and it would be "free" and that much personal data about everybody would be too good to pass as an opportunity. Forget FB
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by libealistand 3y ago
> Something I never really noticed before is that we only use our calendars to look forward in time, never to reflect on things that happened in the past. This is called a "diary" and is as old as humankind. I use a calendar to
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by libealistand 3y ago
It seems like I might be better off picking the winning lottery numbers directly instead of relying on the random serendipity of guessing them and most of the time being wrong.
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by libealistand 3y ago
Number theory had no applications for centuries. Now, cryptography is based on it and the modern internet would be unthinkable without. Foundational research does often not provide immediate applications. Still, if we don't do it, out
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by libealistand 3y ago
> Math is pointless from start to finish And this attitude, my friends, is the reason why so much software out there is so bad. We need more of a math mindset when developing software. What can we be sure about, what are the invariants,
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by libealistand 3y ago
They wrote that it "appears flat". I tried to contradict that. > However from inside this bubble there is a sort of tech dilatation where everything appears normal and flat and it is only the future that has exponential growth.
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by libealistand 3y ago
Flat? I don't think so. I'm at a coffee shop and looking around me, this is very different from just 20 years ago. People with laptops and smaetphones around me. Just 20 years ago, that same place saw a few CS major nerds with the
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by libealistand 3y ago
I don't get the drama. To me this looks like a normal process in an industry that discovered a groundbreaking technology. A new technology pops up, everybody rushes to innovate, lots of actors do nonsense, some do the right thing, but
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by libealistand 3y ago
Society needs a general a priori agreement about what's ok and what's not. If people get to make up the rules on the spot then obviously you will just get into this kind of conflict. (This includes "you hurt my feelings"
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by libealistand 3y ago
Given the tweets and the article, it's fair to assume that this is not the first time the person has exhibited such behavior and this was just the last drip overflowing the bucket.