lilott8

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by lilott8 6y ago
So is what they're doing some sick joke? I doubt people couldn't care less about the damage done by functionally worthless companies. People are pissed at the perception of manipulation by wall street. This is hilariously myopi
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by lilott8 6y ago
Especially after "2^32 is all the space we'll ever need for ip addresses."
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by lilott8 6y ago
That's the very problem, in this case, it _did_ benefit the institution -- the hedge funds. By restricting buys, retail was unable to drive the demand and put shorts into margin calls (we discuss the ethics of this until the cows come
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by lilott8 6y ago
While a cursory search appears to prove your point (given the constraint of "public funds"), the fed has bailed out hedge funds [1], I don't remember reading that all. Probably the quietest "bailout" comes from Long
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by lilott8 6y ago
This reads sort of tone deaf to me. There is a clear definition of what it means to be impoverished. In the US it's income relative to dependents, [defined by HHS]( https://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty-guidelines ). TO say th
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by lilott8 6y ago
This fact almost killed my Ph.D. I wrote a programming language and type system for biologists and chemists. But the PL theory syntax nearly did me in. TAPL was like banging my head against a brick wall -- completely opaque to me. My PI
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by lilott8 6y ago
There aren't any formal rules that he lives and dies by, but read "Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist" by Lowenstein. Buffett -- or at least Lowenstein captures -- expresses concern for people buying before he doe
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by lilott8 6y ago
Have had 2 kids in CA. Can confirm[1]. They even write you a pathetic "don't go" letter when you file the paperwork to destroy the records. They allow all sorts of organizations to use the data[2]. [1] https://w
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by lilott8 6y ago
To ruminate about this a bit, let's assume our Congress critters never change. So Congress passes law "X" during Congress "Y". It is now 50 years in the future. Who do we ask about the intent of the law? Do we a
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by lilott8 6y ago
More generally this falls into a discussion of context-specific vs context-free grammars. Of which C++ falls into the former, Java falls into the latter.
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by lilott8 6y ago
Isn't this why the cosigner exists on student loans? Basically the cosigner is the one with collateral, capable of meeting the terms of the loan. While IANAL, my understanding of reading a master promissory note for student loans is
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by lilott8 6y ago
I apply a bit of hyperbole here, but I'm convinced that "national security" is a monotonic function that will eventually encompass everything in the federal government.
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by lilott8 6y ago
I have a sneaking suspicion that xfinity does this. When signing up they said there were no password restrictions. So I generated ~64 character password using my trusty password manager, and used that. Went to log in and couldn't, w
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by lilott8 7y ago
I know Rahm Emmanuel was caught using on a hot mic at some conference.
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by lilott8 7y ago
Not sure if you have access to it, but reaxsys[1] is an amazing database for stuff like this. I've used it many times for looking for (un)safe reaction paths for particular drugs. It looks like the ``free'' version might le
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by lilott8 7y ago
Excel is the most widely used domain-specific language -- maybe even widely used "programming language" (if I'm painting with a broad brush, though it is turing complete) used to date. Getting people off, when a company&#x27
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by lilott8 7y ago
My advisor pseudo follows this. He does his best to bring in pairs of students that will be on _similar_ topics. (of course they are both responsible for their independent research and thesis). That way they can struggle together and find
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by lilott8 7y ago
In this context, I'd be encouraging my children to do this (and certainly take the blame for them); false positives ftw! It'd be a great, teachable moment where I can discuss many sociological, technological, and ethical issues at
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by lilott8 7y ago
Apparently I'm beyond the edit window of my original post. I mean the "world [in CS] is completely discrete[, in the context of mathematical modeling and abstraction.]" I did not intend to imply that the world is discrete in
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by lilott8 7y ago
Oh, hey. Are you me? I am wrapping my time in CS grad program, and I also, never took calculus as a formal class. Now, I will say, save machine learning/AI, calculus isn't really necessary; the world is completely discrete. That
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by lilott8 7y ago
I've really loathed my time driving in socal coming from the midwest. The idea that I cannot turn left on green is one of the more appalling "features" of traffic management here (the way the lights work, in general is abhor
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by lilott8 7y ago
This is what I find so fascinating. Yes, it cannot be intercepted in transit. But nothing is stopping the keyboard on which I type or the text box in which I type from collecting all the things and sending those things where ever they w
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by lilott8 7y ago
Yup, I self-cite quite a bit. But not to demonstrate productivity or some other arbitrary metric(s). I self-cite because the images I use in my research are really difficult to make and I'm in a niche enough field that using the im
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by lilott8 7y ago
The best collection of resources I've found has been on https://www.reddit.com/r/learnmath/ of all places.
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by lilott8 8y ago
I'm curious if this SPoF theory stops at computer/real world interfaces (such as the control surface <-> computers). Or if this generalizes into purely computational models. In my mind I can't find any purely computati
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by lilott8 8y ago
I'm slightly annoyed that this only describes the implementation. It would be very helpful for those beginning to study this area to see the formulations of these problems in mathematical notation. (Yes, some of them are trivially id
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by lilott8 8y ago
Yeah, in an interview, I would certainly expand on that succinct motto; and attempt to do exactly this. But, as others have suggested, people respond too much instead of just thinking about a problem/issue/comment/etc. from
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by lilott8 8y ago
My life's motto is: "Let me think about it, I'll get back to you."
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by lilott8 8y ago
The only way I've been able to make any sense of CMake docs is in conjunction with examples -- searching on Github/enormous open source projects using it (e.g. LLVM). Just reading CMake docs to understand how to use directive x a
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by lilott8 8y ago
Whatever medicine I give the school to administer to my child at the appropriate times has to be observed; the school cannot wantonly withhold the medications I provide them, especially when provided a Dr's note. If I send my child to

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