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by lkozma 16y ago
It looks decent, I agree, but from typographic point of view, it looks lower visual quality than LaTeX-produced text. Look at how the letters seem to be unevenly aligned to the line, and the spacing between them is also not quite right. See
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Ten random ideas(lkozma.net)
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Reminds me of the apocryphal story when Marx was asked during a lecture "In communism who will clean the streets?", to which he replied "You will."
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Arbitrarily small can be less than the chance that random atoms from your coffee rearrange themselves into a winning lottery ticket.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1493768
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by lkozma 16y ago
I find it strange that they don't use some true random source in generating the tickets. I'm also surprised the article finds this obvious. "Of course, it would be really nice if the computer could just spit out random digits. But that’s no
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by lkozma 16y ago
I would guess: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Martin_%28author%29
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by lkozma 16y ago
Sums up pretty nicely the situation 17 years later, i.e. today (see EU FP "collaborative/interdisciplinary" projects for some grotesque examples)
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by lkozma 16y ago
The reply of icegreentea to brudgers in this thread appears as [dead] and greyed, which is strange as icegreentea seems to have high karma and avg and the comment itself is useful. Does anyone know what's going on?
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In my experience carpooling is becoming more and more viable and popular in Europe, in the past few years I traveled almost exclusively in this way. Between major cities in western Europe you can almost always find rides on websites (being
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by lkozma 16y ago
A quite interesting perspective: http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/01/2011128...
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by lkozma 16y ago
Your analysis is very accurate. In most of western Europe university quality tends to be much more uniform than in US. I think many people choose a Uni based on other criteria: livable city, near/far from parents/partner, etc. There have be
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by lkozma 16y ago
Besides, does peer-review cost anything for them? The one time I was asked by an ACM journal to review a paper for them, there was no monetary exchange involved.
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by lkozma 16y ago
This wiki-article lists some of the cues for those interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_perception
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by lkozma 16y ago
If you want to read some older important papers in computer science (theory), this list is really good: http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/1168/what-papers...
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"Become so good they can't ignore you." etc. etc.
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In a similar vein: http://businessguysonbusinesstrips.com/
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I know an engineer who was working in a failing company in post-communist Eastern Europe. The decline of the company took more than a year, in which time salaries were cut, sometimes pay was delayed for months or not given at all, the owner
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by lkozma 16y ago
That would be Kleinberg's HITS algorithm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HITS_algorithm
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by lkozma 16y ago
From the related book I mentioned in the other comment: "The advanced reader who skips parts that appear too elementary may miss more than the reader who skips parts that appear too complex" – G. Polya
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by lkozma 16y ago
Nice writeup, certainly helps in organizing your thoughts. It reminded me of the Feynman method a bit though :) 1. Write down the problem. 2. Think real hard. 3. Write down the solution. More seriously, the classic book by Gy. Polya "How to
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by lkozma 16y ago
I made something similar a few years ago, although much simpler, I admit. If anyone interested: http://www.sharebookbox.com (you can use it with your own affiliate-ID) 7books looks nice, btw. Good luck with it!
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by lkozma 16y ago
Interesting illusion, but I wonder what is the desirable effect here. I can imagine it being argued both ways: 1. the bar should be animated so that it looks faster than it really is. 2. the bar should be animated in the reverse way, so tha
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by lkozma 16y ago
It seems many people seriously misunderstand the purpose of passwords, and think of it as some sort of self-expression or customization.
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Or like self-fulfilling prophecy.. Thanks HN, first a post on multilingual Quines, then this line.. My head spins now.. :)
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The first class wanted the PhD as a means to an end, such as doing research, or getting a professorship. The second class had more abstract and less well-defined goals. Sometimes that meant generally "doing good for the world", or "seemed
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by lkozma 16y ago
Very encouraging story and congratulations. Just out of curiosity, what does agriculture software do?
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Shannon's juggling theorem(lkozma.net)
1 points by lkozma 16y ago|0 comments
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" and MC Hammer" Title is incomplete.
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I agree, that way they could have included "traditional" local optimization as well, although probably that will come up in machine learning questions anyway.

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