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by lkozma 13y ago
Yes, it isn't prime, that's the joke (I guess).
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by lkozma 13y ago
The needs for personal transportation might be very real, but they will fall away like a house of cards in the face of issues like the (non-)availability of fossil fuels, the destruction of the environment, etc.
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by lkozma 14y ago
I came to post the exact same sentiment - why all the obsession with countries and not, say every climatic zone, or every major language group or every integer latitude, or whatever.
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by lkozma 14y ago
Interestingly, this is what Bruce Lee advocated too.
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by lkozma 14y ago
Another well known CS researcher without PhD was Robert (Bob) Floyd, of graph algorithms fame: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Floyd
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by lkozma 14y ago
I think you are right, it's harder than I thought. The problem can in fact be modeled with a graph in which you need to find vertex-disjoint paths between pairs of vertices (s1,t1), (s2,t2), and so on, but this problem seems not to be redu
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by lkozma 14y ago
I think solving any of these can be reduced to a max-flow problem, and thus it is efficiently solvable.
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by lkozma 14y ago
This might be another good reason for the UNIX philosophy of keeping functionality (command line) and GUI separate.
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by lkozma 14y ago
Than take {1,1,2,3,3}. By any reasonable definition the average is 2, and the most frequent values are 1 and 3.
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by lkozma 14y ago
You are right, but there might be initial utility to a lot of people and still have net negative effect over long time. Think of Tesco or Wal-Mart opening up in your neighbourhood. Initially it is good for everyone, then the mom&pop sho
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by lkozma 14y ago
The market itself grew enormously in the same time.
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by lkozma 14y ago
Four years ago I took a class based on that paper where we implemented all ten algorithms (every participant every algorithm). It was a very instructive and somewhat painful experience. The course website is still online, if anyone is inter
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by lkozma 14y ago
While I find these images extremely interesting, let me add a contrarian voice: the associations that such night-time photos bring up in me are primarily about waste and habitat destruction.
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by lkozma 14y ago
"article" also means "item, object, thing". By that definition almost everything is an article, including the linked piece.
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by lkozma 14y ago
I found your comment more insightful than the article.
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by lkozma 14y ago
I agree with all that you say, but seriously, that book is the most worthless thing I've ever had the misfortune to try reading.
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by lkozma 14y ago
I know nothing of Tesla/SpaceX, but be aware that how glamorous/hip a company/industry/etc is, often correlates negatively with how well they treat employees by objective measures, i.e. working hours, salary, etc. Just read some posts about
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by lkozma 14y ago
Nice idea, it might find some quirk of the face detector though, and exploit that, instead of producing a truly face-like image. On the other hand, I vaguely recall a talk by VS Ramachandran where he claimed that in essence that's what Pica
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by lkozma 14y ago
You must be referring to this thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/c1rcu/iama_person_with...
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Mihai Patrascu, pathbreaking CS researcher passed away at 29(rjlipton.wordpress.com)
3 points by lkozma 14y ago|0 comments
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by lkozma 14y ago
What's wrong with the low-tech solution of keeping passwords on a piece of paper in your wallet. People are quite good in securing small physical objects, like keys, pieces of paper, etc.
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by lkozma 14y ago
Why does time go faster as we grow older: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=713339 What's your favorite HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2158116
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by lkozma 14y ago
Here's another photo album on that topic: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/05/27/once_upon_a...
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by lkozma 14y ago
It does go far, literally. He sends it back to the old country.
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by lkozma 15y ago
He was born in the Swedish-speaking community of Finland. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish-speaking_Finns
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by lkozma 15y ago
I've never used EmacsWiki, but the tone of this article seems a bit off, mocking the author of EmacsWiki for using his own software, etc.
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Missions Impossible: The Joy of Ridiculously Difficult Video Games(newyorker.com)
2 points by lkozma 15y ago|0 comments
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by lkozma 15y ago
While they can certainly penalize sites that optimize today with respect to the criteria of yesterday, that effectively just means changing the criteria of ranking. Nothing stops site owners to optimize with respect to the new criteria tomo
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by lkozma 15y ago
Well said, it reminds slightly of how Perelman, the mathematician was treated by the press. Even if the article is quite good otherwise.
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by lkozma 15y ago
It's probably all true, but the piece reads like an extended resume. If only I could get NY Times to let me rant about how ethical I am and what trillion-dollar clients I advised.

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