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by microarchitect 14y ago
Surely there's a better way of expressing yourself that isn't so snarky and condescending.
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by microarchitect 14y ago
Perhaps not, but the quality of research at IAS is surely better than that at all but a handful of universities. Fair enough, but they also have much "better" researchers than most other universities. My hypothesis is that if you tried to
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by microarchitect 14y ago
Research without the requirement to teach undergraduates, publication with the requirement of a Ph.D. A lot of institutions like this exist and if you compare them with traditional universities, the results are at best inconclusive. Compa
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by microarchitect 14y ago
The article is rather vague on what he thinks are the problem with academia. All I can see is this: Instead, it’s the politics, the inefficiency, and the in-bred hostility towards change has driven these incredible people out of academia.
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End-to-end analysis of the spam value chain [pdf](cs.princeton.edu)
1 points by microarchitect 14y ago|0 comments
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by microarchitect 14y ago
When a case is brought in front of the police, they have a fair amount of discretion in terms of the actions they want to take next. For example, they could decide to arrest the suspect and put him/her in "judicial custody" if they determin
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by microarchitect 14y ago
I'm also not convinced that ads are actually ever useful. I'd love to see an example of one that you think is useful for the search. I can't believe you're being honest here. Counting just the last couple days, terms I've seen useful ads
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by microarchitect 14y ago
I thought the context in which isalmon made their comment was obvious. Are you suggesting that OP wasn't referring to romantic/sexual questions? I doubt it but even if one charitably assumes that the OP meant professional interactions with
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by microarchitect 14y ago
This is just false. I have been discouraged from helping people, mostly for the reason that it could turn out to be more trouble that it's worth, but I have never been given this reason. Also, your explanation makes no sense from a theologi
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by microarchitect 14y ago
how does that justify having the poor out in the open begging for a living? What would you do? You can't magically produce houses, schools, hospitals and other basic infrastructure to service several hundred million people. Forget that, I
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Is aggregate data always private?(techatftc.wordpress.com)
1 points by microarchitect 14y ago|0 comments
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by microarchitect 14y ago
Facebook now have a lot of very difficult technical problems to solve and are doing a great job solving them. But what got them here wasn't a great algorithm, it was good execution on a fairly simple concept.
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by microarchitect 14y ago
Google is fundamentally different from Facebook because they solved a really hard problem really well and then found an excellent way of monetizing their solution. People still use Google today largely because it works better than the other
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by microarchitect 14y ago
I'd like to respond to a few of your points. I find myself not as bright as those who I have seen being very successful. I still try to do as much as I can, hoping that my efforts will be enough. I didn't get into the IITs after my 12th a
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by microarchitect 15y ago
I'm not sure but I think you may be right because the researchers have been granted access to some IBM cell libraries. (I was wondering why IBM agreed to this, but this probably explains it.) My understanding is that the main concern here a
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by microarchitect 15y ago
DARPA and others are concernced about this exact scenario and are funding research into reverse-engineering chips to detect these types of backdoors. There are two parts this problem. One part is using electron microscopes and lasers and wh
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by microarchitect 15y ago
Hey! I ran into your blog after I saw an announcement for (one of?) your talk(s) next week. I submitted the about page because the two key claims that you make: (1) you only need a few bits of information to identify a person uniquely in th
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About 33 bits(33bits.org)
201 points by microarchitect 15y ago|37 comments
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by microarchitect 15y ago
As I said, this was my instinctive response and I'm sorry about that. I'm glad you're not a creationist. :-)
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by microarchitect 15y ago
The assumption here is that education has a significant component which is "wasteful signalling". If this is true, and that's a pretty big if, what you say follows. If the assumption is not true, reducing funding would result in a poorly ed
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by microarchitect 15y ago
Fair enough, this is a viewpoint I can agree with. I don't think this is what the OP had in mind, though. Or if he did, he didn't do a good job of articulating it.
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by microarchitect 15y ago
Hmm. I think is a poor article because it lacks depth and simply makes a bunch of assertions many of which don't even follow from the premises in the article itself. I might have refrained from saying so explicitly had I thought you were ac
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by microarchitect 15y ago
I didn't respond to that argument because of multiple reasons. First, this is the same argument that many creationists, followers of intelligent design and other religious nuts use to discredit evolution. In fact, if you look up the wikiped
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by microarchitect 15y ago
Interesting link but you seem to be missing the point. I agree there may be an argument to be made that in cases, under certain circumstances, provided you can measure certain variables, the best action that results the "most public good" w
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by microarchitect 15y ago
Professional guilds - legal bars, medical boards, engineering, geology, academia - you're pretty much excluded from all those fields lacking a formal degree accepted by the mentioned institutions, even tough you can have the experience (or
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by microarchitect 15y ago
This is a terrible article and I don't know why it's near the top of HN. Libraries do a much better job of directly serving the poor. Universities, at best, tend to do this indirectly, if at all. Most university students and professors are
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by microarchitect 15y ago
Nice implementation of DPLL but this algorithm is about 50 years old and nowhere close to the state of the art. The thing is, a modern solver like Chaff [1] is actually quite easy to implement and might be good way of showing off your progr
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by microarchitect 15y ago
So, is there money in this? Doesn't it make more sense to go after the HDL synthesis design flow? I can see a few hobbyists and PCB makers interested in this. But the market for those interested in digital design but not wanting to fork out
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by microarchitect 15y ago
Are you suggesting that affirmative action should be based on family income, then? Seems like a good idea to me, but I might be missing something. I'd be interested in a break up of admission statistics, SAT scores, race and family income f
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by microarchitect 15y ago
Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I don't think "fixing" Yahoo ought to be as difficult as people make it seem. I worked for a semi-dysfunctional semiconductor company and so I think I have some perspective on what it takes to "fix" a c

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