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by luckyt 9y ago
I disagree that CS deals only with discrete math. Machine learning makes heavy use of linear algebra, with a decent amount of calculus to model statistical phenomena. All of this uses continuous variables, not discrete.
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by luckyt 9y ago
Can I breed a dog that looks like the Metamask logo dog?
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by luckyt 9y ago
Well, unless you're doing original research, everything you write will be trivial to somebody.
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by luckyt 9y ago
Correct, there is only one branch
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by luckyt 9y ago
The day Uber goes public there will be a mass exodus of employees waiting for years to leave the company. I wonder if Uber will stay private permanently to prevent this?
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by luckyt 9y ago
Is it actually feasible to learn Japanese to a professional proficiency level as a foreigner? I've studied Japanese for several years, and can speak Japanese at an intermediate conversational level, but I'm still a long way off fr
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by luckyt 9y ago
> driver is not chatty: 0 minutes wasted > driver is chatty: 30 minutes wasted Not the most social person, eh?
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by luckyt 9y ago
It doesn't seem to like the Sicilian Defense (1.e4 c5), which is the most popular opening by human players. I wonder if this will change opening theory?
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by luckyt 9y ago
On the surface this seems bad, but it looks like you need physical access to the laptop to get in with this vulnerability. If someone has physical access to your computer, you should consider the data compromised (unless you're doing f
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by luckyt 9y ago
This comparison seems a bit unfair -- the special wards are the most densely populated parts of Tokyo. You should compare either New York City <-> Tokyo Metro Area, or Special Wards of Tokyo <-> Manhattan.
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by luckyt 9y ago
> Alan Turning > Turning Machine His name's Turing
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by luckyt 9y ago
Makes sense, seat space isn't really something you consider when shopping for plane tickets. Airlines have nothing to gain by making bigger seats, so the natural progression down this road is smaller and smaller seats -- already, some
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by luckyt 9y ago
In the "Known Attacks" section, they advocate using a mutex to prevent reentrant situations, but they're using a boolean, setting it to true before the operation and setting it to false afterwards. This is not secure -- it&#x
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by luckyt 9y ago
Indeed, those are good ideas for improvements! It's hard to say whether they will improve the AI, as in both cases you're replacing one heuristic with another heuristic. You'd need to implement it and experiment with it -- an
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by luckyt 9y ago
That's a fair objection. You can view my rule as a heuristic that's easy to compute and gives good guesses in most situations, rather than calculating the mathematically correct probability. My AI does actually account for this, b
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by luckyt 9y ago
Yes, I do this as an endgame tactic. In some situations, knowledge of the mine counter can help you deduce that a non-border square is empty. (Details in the last part of the article)
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by luckyt 9y ago
Same thing -- 16x30 with 99 mines.
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by luckyt 9y ago
I did some work on a minesweeper solver [1], I'm surprised my work is not mentioned. The best version of their algorithm wins on expert 32.9% of the time, whereas my AI achieves about 50% win rate. My AI uses the connected components d
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by luckyt 9y ago
Looks like they're making an example of him more than anything else. In this case, a lot of media reporters already have made detailed videos of the phone so the damage is minimal -- but if another engineer leaks the next iPhone at an
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by luckyt 9y ago
Wow, you built all this from scratch in a 36-hour hackathon? How much experience did you have with Ethereum?
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by luckyt 9y ago
> In a company where you ship continuously, you see this and think “Simple – I’ll tweak a test and a regex pattern, get a quick code review from my buddy beside me, merge to mainline, and 1 minute later when it’s deployed to production,
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by luckyt 9y ago
> Scientists [were] worried that when [Cassini] loses power, it could crash into a pristine moon, contaminating a place where we might someday search for life Why is this so bad? Moons are pretty big compared to spacecraft, why are they
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by luckyt 9y ago
> What's to keep me from simply saying "I understand this and its correct" even if that is not the case? Then you should be able to have intelligent discussions about the paper and answer questions that come up. If you&#x2
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by luckyt 9y ago
It's a bad idea to worry about writing and formatting at the same time, you get distracted. For me, when writing papers and blog posts, it helps to break it down into three steps: 1. First, I write just the ideas I want to convey, in b
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by luckyt 9y ago
As a casual observer outside the cryptocurrency community, this whole thing seems quite surreal to me. Is it really necessary to have a religious war and a hard fork that divides the community whenever they need to make any sort of change?
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What’s the difference between Mathematics and Statistics?(luckytoilet.wordpress.com)
1 points by luckyt 9y ago|0 comments
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by luckyt 9y ago
Yea, this part was confusing to me as well. How would a VM "simulate" the internet? Does it return a dummy page? I don't understand what mental model of VM behavior that the virus creators had in mind when they designed this
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by luckyt 9y ago
Wow, $7,000 to recover a hard drive is a lot. Does it involve a lot of time-intensive labor? Economically, I'm worried that since this service is free, people will submit drives that have nowhere close to thousands of dollars of value,
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by luckyt 9y ago
Our Marvelous Native Tongue by Robert Claiborne. This book tells the history of the English language, from its Indo-European roots to the Anglo-Saxon period to Shakespeare until the modern language it is today. It's the book that initi
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by luckyt 9y ago
I agree 100%. The beginning was good, gave many unconventional views of what is the essence of debt and money, especially in other cultures and periods in history. But in the middle of the book, the author started rambling about the history

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