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by merraksh 10y ago
About 100k people seem to live there, I assume many of them with kids. I lived for different periods of a few years in two cities of similar structure and size of ancient Florence and Atlanta, and found the quality of life to be much higher
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by merraksh 10y ago
I would suspect atomic weapons scale much more easily than cities. Even if that wasn't the case, assuming the target is the commercial center of a city you don't even have to use more powerful warheads. I see a much less scary, bu
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by merraksh 10y ago
Assuming you genuinely think these are not issues, there is a little too much material for discussion. I would suggest a google (or bing...) search for 1. patent microsoft android 2. microsoft formats compatibility linux 3. microsoft force
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by merraksh 10y ago
It could be that the current method (i.e. human solves it by making a decision for each item) could be proved to give an optimal solution. However, if that is not the case, the hardest part will be to get the right model. There are very com
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by merraksh 10y ago
the optimum is always at a vertex As you point out in [2], it would be more correct to say that among the optimal solutions there is always one at a vertex of the polyhedron</nitpicking> Also, simplex methods are very versatile
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Space vs. tabs in top GitHub repos(ukupat.github.io)
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Mistaking the symptom for the disease: preprints in biomedical science(thewinnower.com)
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Is This How a Hacker Got the Panama Papers?(gizmodo.com)
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by merraksh 10y ago
Of the 100 academicians I know (applied math), only a dozen published books and collect royalties. Some of them joke about getting the occasional check of a few dollars every year. These are senior US professors whose salary is good enough
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by merraksh 10y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted, what you say is similar for applied math. Since a couple of years ago some publishers are asking the LaTeX source and the figures to avoid their own typesetting (save for the journal's LaTeX st
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by merraksh 10y ago
If the collapsing part of the system is the one containing middlemen who earn millions taking advantage of free labor from academicians, it will be a success. The only current effect of sci-hub is that research is really open.
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François Hollande: No to TTIP at This Stage(politico.eu)
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by merraksh 10y ago
If you really want the single best solution, you're stuck with checking all N! solutions. Agree with lotharbot here. You are as stuck with checking all N! solutions as a sorting algorithm would be. A good TSP algorithm won't,
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by merraksh 10y ago
But sorting has a known O(N log N) algorithm. Nobody sorts by comparing all N! permutations and picking the correct one. (Well, I certainly don't.) That is precisely the point of the blog post. Nobody compares all N! permutation for
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by merraksh 10y ago
But ant colony algorithms are heuristics. The Concorde software by Cook and co., that is mentioned in the blog post, obtains an optimal solution.
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by merraksh 10y ago
I think this is just one of the pitfalls that the author points out: it is not the sheer number of possibilities that defines the difficulty of a problem. He links to his previous blog post http://mat.tepper.cmu.edu/blog&#x2
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“American Scientist” Understands Nothing about the Traveling Salesman Problem(mat.tepper.cmu.edu)
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Agreed, but all taxpayers fund only a portion of the worldwide research and benefit from all of it, so the trade-off is still in favor of sharing.
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For instance, a major part of scientific research is done in US, isn't it? A good part, roughly on par with Europe, Japan, Russia, and China (number of papers is hardly a measure of scientific production anyway): https://w
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A Nobel Laureate's Education Plea: Revolutionize Teaching(npr.org)
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by merraksh 11y ago
But there are other sources: hydro, solar, wind, nuclear.
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by merraksh 11y ago
Most of the problems listed in this article are, in my opinion, only temporary and would be solved if the technology becomes widespread. As in many technological shifts, what is required is either 1) evolved technology or 2) demand (which w
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by merraksh 11y ago
One stop-gap hybrid solution for a number of these issues would be a gas station that has a small power generation station powered by diesel fuel. This would cancel out the ecological benefits of running an EV, even if the power station h
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by merraksh 11y ago
Even if the camera was on the officer’s glasses or hat, the up-close footage would be confusing. The original footage was not confusing, in my opinion. It was fabricated to look like a violent interaction faced by an officer, and that i
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YouTube SnoopaVision (April fool's joke)(youtube.com)
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by merraksh 11y ago
Turning (possibly closed source) academic code into (closed source) business code does not make it more reliable, readable, or efficient necessary. The new profession is made possible by the openness of the code, which is not necessarily sp
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by merraksh 11y ago
The money that funds mass transit [...] comes from a mix of four sources: [...] On the federal side, most of that money comes from the federal gas tax: 18.4 cents on a gallon of regular gas 24.3 cents on the gallon for diesel, [...] 19 per
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by merraksh 11y ago
The flatness before and after the huge spikes (for Adidas/Vernix/VW) and the fact that the plot goes back to pre-spike levels also suggest that this is not real data---though I thought of that after realizing it is fiction.
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“I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower Than Other Operating Systems”(blog.zorinaq.com)
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by merraksh 11y ago
It is not news that complaints are ignored, but it is good news that somebody is raising awareness about it. It is only useful if it appears on HN.

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