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by matheist 8y ago
I think the point is to set an upper bound on how much a government ought to be willing to pay for a given procedure, and to compute that upper bound by counting QALYs and multiplying by their official dollar value. For example: Value of st
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by matheist 9y ago
Everything is just a blob of bytes when you get right down to it. Strings and arrays are just as you say. As another commenter notes, hash tables are big arrays and a function that tells you how to index into it. Linked lists are a bunch
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by matheist 9y ago
> He repeatedly refers to pieces that the author he's commenting on didn't write, simply because they appeared in the same magazine. The author you mention is the editor in chief of said magazine, not simply someone whose wri
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by matheist 9y ago
Not sure if it applies in your case, but you didn't mention alimony/child support, so I'm just saying it in case you didn't think of it. If your spouse has been the primary earner while you stay home, then you may be abl
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by matheist 9y ago
How would an attacker have used this vulnerability? It seems to me that they'd already have to be able to inject code into the chrome context, to be able to point it towards content they control. Maybe I misunderstand how this works.
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by matheist 9y ago
Writing up some mathematics I did while (currently) funemployed. It's about the Wobbly Table problem. I have two parts out of three up already, and am finishing up the third: https://haggainuchi.com/wobblytable.html Pr
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by matheist 9y ago
Feels reminiscent also of CycleGAN ( https://github.com/junyanz/CycleGAN )
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by matheist 9y ago
I believe they also add a loss term corresponding to translating A to B using last iteration's model, then translating that B-sentence back to A and comparing to the original sentence.
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by matheist 9y ago
To add to the answer here, the "-er" suffix in German indicates masculine gender, so it might be a combination of legal requirement in Germany (to add m/f to job posts) in addition to the word "Developer" sounding m
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by matheist 9y ago
Of interest: Kirill Eskov's The Last Ringbearer . ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer ) A retelling and continuation of parts of LotR, as told by a geologist rather than linguist. See also some of t
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by matheist 9y ago
yeah, that definitely sounds like an appropriate question in that context, then. sounds like the problem isn't with you there :/
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by matheist 9y ago
And there's quite a wide range of alternatives in here, ranging from "not creepy at all" to "extrememly creepy". you have established a rapport where you talk about weekend activities, and she has mentioned half ma
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by matheist 9y ago
I've managed to compile tensorflow with MKL on Mac OS X. The ingredients were roughly: 1. Download MKL from Intel's website, install to /usr/local/lib/ 2. Change tensorflow's configure script to look for t
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by matheist 10y ago
Gotcha, agreed. My first comment was based on a surface reading of your comment. Retract. (slight quibble about your example: a fulminating socialist could just as well make that statement in the absence of impropriety. the additional infor
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by matheist 10y ago
Related: conjunction fallacy
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by matheist 10y ago
Oh, I thought your "big ask" comment was about the technology. Sure, you'd have to segregate away pedestrians, but there's already precedent for that with many roads (no pedestrians on the highways!), and aren't we
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by matheist 10y ago
> This is a truly big ask. From the article: The technology for an all-robotic car fleet is probably already available... if we take all the non-robotic cars off the road. Many of the challenges in autonomous vehicles (maybe even all t
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by matheist 10y ago
Is it known what the smallest power is for which three summands are insufficient? Is there a smallest power? I imagine that would be hugely difficult, but for all I know it falls to the same methods as Fermat. (I'm no expert.) Edit: I
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by matheist 10y ago
Second there is really no excuse anymore not to move every OS over to randomised memory location access, and more. But even so I am not convinced this would help here. It might make it harder... but in this case couldn't an attacker
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by matheist 10y ago
(I have a PhD in pure math — specializing in differential geometry — from a top US university, graduated in the past few years.) I've never heard of an online graduate degree in pure math. If I were to discover that there were indeed s
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by matheist 11y ago
Thanks, and I hope trying new things goes well!
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by matheist 11y ago
Hi there! You're currently authenticating over http. Please switch to https, you're putting your users at risk by sending their passwords in clear text.
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by matheist 11y ago
Thank you! Looks like a great idea and I will definitely check it out.
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by matheist 11y ago
Technical interviews.
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by matheist 11y ago
Please please PLEASE authenticate over https. Currently you're just SHA512'ing your users' passwords and sending the hash over the wire in the clear. This is INCREDIBLY insecure and you're putting your users at risk. I d
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by matheist 11y ago
No, square one would have been several phone screens if they liked my resume at all. So it got me to around square four or five.
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by matheist 11y ago
No, the way it worked for me was that I had a short non-technical chat with an internal recruiter and then we went straight to an onsite interview.
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by matheist 11y ago
I finished the levels during beta. I had already been in communication with Patrick via email (giving beta feedback), and after I finished the last level I sent him a note saying that I was actively looking for work. We had a chat over skyp
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by matheist 11y ago
Context: In this 1994 paper, the researcher "invented" the trapezoidal rule for computing integrals[+]. This is a very common method for computing approximate integrals, and can probably be found in your local high school calculus
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by matheist 11y ago
Is there any research showing this standard to be fair? I don't know of any. Less important if there are overall less multiple name papers, which it seems from the rest of your comment, Actually, I think multiple authors is far mor

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