mikorym

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by mikorym 6y ago
My pragmatic suggestion is to use small OSs running on small hardware like a Raspberry Pi. You start with the terminal and end at GUIs. Unfortunately, this disregards another aspect of a pragmatic picture, which is that to start off with, p
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by mikorym 6y ago
I don't know whether this is relevant for fact checking, but the add logo in the first image with the bullseye image uses an image (the bullseye itself with the arrow) that is available as a logo/icon on MS Office exactly as is.
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by mikorym 6y ago
Interesting that I don't know of this story. For those that want some quick gratification: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SbK6oDBeco . As far as I know, this story is not as well known in South Africa as one would per
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by mikorym 6y ago
Wow, didn't someone call this out recently on HN? I mean, someone mentioned that this was going to happen. (Or rather, feared that this was the direction things were going in.) On a different topic, how would this influence Raspberry P
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by mikorym 6y ago
This is an interesting topic and has many analogies. If you gave mathematicians some general exam and have all universities participate, I would also not expect top universities to score the most. However, if you asked instead what the mon
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by mikorym 6y ago
Chris, I am a bit over my head usually with P=NP, since it's not my area and I have to warp it before it is. One question I would have on your comment is: What kind of proof or counterexample for P ?= NP would in fact influence our s
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by mikorym 6y ago
I'm not sure I buy any of these discussions, especially the "Long Term Stock Exchange". In a company, you have a board and you have shareholders. If you don't want the mould of a public company, you create or keep it as
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by mikorym 6y ago
My opinion is that this is not something limited to software. Think about rain forests, and about how difficult it is to connect money with nature. Free Software will always have aspects like this. It would be better to focus on individual
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by mikorym 6y ago
It appears that you may have to travel to the alps and leave a very surprising tip.
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by mikorym 6y ago
A lot of mathematicians are oddities that by some stroke of luck, or perhaps by consistent switching of hobbies, somehow figure out that they understood the basic premises of mathematics. After all, the issue is that mathematics is simple
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by mikorym 6y ago
A simple example would be separating usernames and passwords, having an outer and inner password (think Truecrypt/Veracrypt) or even personal quirks. Again, it depends how much the attacker knows, but even today you can still do the cl
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by mikorym 6y ago
Wait, does he drink Rooibos at 2:32?
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by mikorym 6y ago
Oh, it's actually called the Breakthrough Prize . I thought perhaps three of the Millennium problems had been solved, and the apocalypse were here. BTW, for those interested in P=NP and not so much in the direct mathematical research,
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by mikorym 6y ago
I think this is at least in part due to QS ratings. The first EU university enters in the 40s or 50s of the list and Australian universities seem perhaps overrepresented. Closer to the ground, or, let's say, being more grounded in mund
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by mikorym 6y ago
Could you link to an example of an output file?
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by mikorym 6y ago
> The world is really a sad place. :-( I'm not a personal trainer, or motivational speaker, but brighten up. As a mathematician, everything since the 1960s has to me been this cycle, and I think the key way to approach this is from
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by mikorym 6y ago
> The objective was to create a public market designed for trading the stocks of companies organized to sustain long-term thinking. I'm sorry, but this doesn't seem to be clear at all to me. Take the subset of investors that do
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by mikorym 6y ago
Closures in which sense here? Like closure operators?
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by mikorym 6y ago
> Renaissance, impressionism, pointillism, abstract expressionism, realism, etc, were all micro-steps part of the same bigger effort: representing the reality for what it is. > So, we needed a radically new thing. A new greenfield and
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by mikorym 6y ago
If I may dare stereotype, I think that maybe OP is approaching this from the perspective that operating systems such as macOS or Windows have instilled in us. I use Ubuntu 20.04 just as I have used 18.04 and 16.04, and the presence or absen
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by mikorym 6y ago
> Bullfrog had a huge amount of prestige amongst Amiga gamers. It might not look like it now, but everything they did appeared original and innovative at the time. To me, Bullfrog equaled Syndicate Wars, and even just that is reason enou
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by mikorym 6y ago
The more I do stats in the workplace setting (esp. PCA on the one hand, and time series models on the other) the more I think that statistics are just a way for you to zoom in on areas of interest in your data. The closer I could get catego
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by mikorym 6y ago
Sorry, but I don't think this is good advice. Malaria medication does generally work well, I only pointed out that unlike something like Aids and antiretrovirals, it's just not something you can use safely and at scale, for the re
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by mikorym 6y ago
> You can easily die in an top EU or US or Singapore hospital [from malaria]
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by mikorym 6y ago
I grew up in an area that forms part of the general malaria area of South Africa, but I have never had malaria. I know many people who have had malaria and the general observations that I have is: 1. Using malaria medication is advisable if
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by mikorym 6y ago
Alright, but the principle still holds: You have some action act(x,y). The encoding in the bitstream can either differ for act(x,y) or act(y,x) or it is the same. The original article states that the effect of act(x,y) and act(y,x) is the
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by mikorym 6y ago
> becoming a top tier statistician is hard > but the amount of work to become top tier in a combination of 2-3 fields is attainable by almost anyone I think this is general work advice and in that sense I think it makes sense; it hold
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by mikorym 6y ago
Another question I would like to see discussed w.r.t. Switzerland is whether they are, in crude terms, dependent on other countries not being stable. An example would be the South African originated company Compagnie Financière Richemont
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by mikorym 6y ago
> famously Gerard Depardieu This sounds like a funny inside joke, but I don't get it. We are talking about the French actor, right?
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by mikorym 6y ago
I've used Pandas recently, not sure if this will ever help you, but dictionaries are much faster if you continually add rows. pandas.concat and similar functions for appending to a Pandas dataframe can be quite slow. Just mentioning th

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