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by lliiffee 15y ago
> I use Google Voice so losing my number makes no difference and I am not on the unlimited plan. Is it possible to use google voice such that when you make outgoing calls, your google voice number appears on the receiver's caller id, ra
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by lliiffee 15y ago
From what I can tell, what you get access to depends on where you bought the kindle more than where you are. Did you buy your kindle in Greece?
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by lliiffee 15y ago
I was just thinking of using GVoice for sending/receiving SMS messages. The Kindle 3 has a webkit browser that is supposedly better than previous versions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzIlYEp_kDo
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by lliiffee 15y ago
Does anyone have much experience with the browser? I've been thinking about buying a kindle 3 3G, with one of the major motivations being the free worldwide web access. I know it is limited and slow, but it would at least allow for email
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by lliiffee 15y ago
The Ghostery plugin can handle all this stuff easily.
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by lliiffee 15y ago
I've found Matlab to consistently outperform numpy (the gap growing in recently releases adding multithreading supprt to Matlab), and the C++ interface is pretty much equally convenient. (Weave is awesome for python, but only really usable
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by lliiffee 15y ago
Ah, sorry I misunderstood your question. To answer your actual question, I personally do it because I almost wish the journals would do something nasty to me. Then, I would tell everyone I meet at every conference about that for the next
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by lliiffee 15y ago
Credibility. Reading a mathematical paper takes a huge amount of effort, and people won't go through that unless there is a high chance to believe the paper is good/correct. Usually this is determined by 1) The author is famous 2) The jou
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by lliiffee 15y ago
It isn't exactly common subexpressions. Basically the problem is things like matrix multiplies always get unrolled. I've used lots of operator overloading based autodiff packages for C++. They are great, but the issue is not how the fun
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by lliiffee 15y ago
Awesome. Am I right in understanding that LLVM IR should be LLVM IF or LLVM assembly? The generated code is most extremely simplistic. An example would be: A[12800]=A[0] * A[6400]; A[12801]=A[1] * A[6480]; A[12802]=A[12800] + A[12
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by lliiffee 15y ago
LLVM would seem to (maybe? possibly!?) be a good solution, but I was never able to convincingly determine if it was likely to solve my problems, and the documentation seemed to be quite sparse for doing what I wanted to do. (This was a co
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by lliiffee 15y ago
For being offhand, those are very good guesses! Dual numbers won't be efficient, as I want reverse-mode autodiff. As to the multiple procedures: Well, as I was doing it, even a single procedure can be many hundreds of megabytes large. Ev
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by lliiffee 15y ago
Can I take advantage of this thread to ask the HN crowd a technical question? Some time ago, I implemented an automatic differentiation tool. Using operator overloading on a special "autodouble" type the tool would trace the execution of
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by lliiffee 15y ago
My guess is that shipping costs could be reduced substantially if the number of subscribers in a country/region gets very big: send one large package and have them shipped individually from there.
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by lliiffee 15y ago
Wow-- this is an increase from 17 in 2008 to 91 in 2009. I would have guessed that both were several orders of magnitude higher.
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by lliiffee 15y ago
You are right. The "signal to noise" will be terrible if the rare behavior is much less likely than the random event. The only "statistical" solution would be to calibrate things by making the random event similarly unlikely. (e.g. one c
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by lliiffee 15y ago
In this case, wasn't a door broken in order to steal the jewelry? I'd assume most people take at least this level of precaution...
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by lliiffee 15y ago
You could always make another graph that includes confidence intervals! (Please)
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by lliiffee 15y ago
I worry that the maximum income multiplier would have distortive effects. For example, if all my employees make high salaries, I would have a strong incentive to hire a company that provides janitorial services, rather than hire a janitor
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by lliiffee 15y ago
They ought to include some fake but plausible words to correct for cheaters. (Perhaps they do?)
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by lliiffee 15y ago
This is true, but note that streetcars also got shut down in cities where the car companies didn't play these games.
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by lliiffee 15y ago
I'd love to hear about specifically what habits you find useful.
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Rejecting double-blind peer review(insidehighered.com)
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by lliiffee 15y ago
Thank you thank you thank you!
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by lliiffee 15y ago
This is slightly off-topic, but I noticed that you did work on stochastic optimal control. Do you have any books you would recommend on the subject (either optimal control or stochastic optimal control)? Ideally as good as Halmos. :) I com
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by lliiffee 15y ago
About Halmos, that is quite scary. I happened to be reading "Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces" the last few days and while the material is pretty elementary, Halmos is obviously very good, and the idea that there are people leagues ahead
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by lliiffee 15y ago
Can you explain why you feel that way?
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by lliiffee 15y ago
The benefit has nothing to do with trade, though. It happens simply because taxes are lowered. We could grow the economy in exactly the same way by just eliminating taxes on corporation A, without the corporation moving to Bermuda. There
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by lliiffee 15y ago
You can also work on risk part of the equation, of course.
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by lliiffee 15y ago
The reason the fines are so high is that risk of getting caught is infinitesimal. This is the same reason they had to raise fines for honking in NY in non-emergencies to $500 to get people to stop. The appropriate fine should be something

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