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by minopret 13y ago
The very idea reminds me of the bitter joke that when people say "it's not you, it's me", they mean "it's you". And that some speakers have said "It's not the circumstances, it's you," for example here: ( http://www.oprah.com/spirit/Its-Not
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by minopret 13y ago
Have I understood that correctly as follows? The key is "RDoC, for now, is a research framework, not a clinical tool." The director of NIMH is saying that although DSM is the clinical tool at present, it must remain open to revisions as new
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by minopret 13y ago
This campaign is a bit "meta". It succeeded to get our attention, or rather, the attention of people like us in Spain. As far as I can tell the lenticular posters are only a design concept. Here in brackets are my guesses at emendations o
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by minopret 13y ago
Would someone change the title to Mach 5.1 rather than the unconventional unit of 3000 mph?
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by minopret 13y ago
Now let's imagine you want the first 65,000 primes so you can initialize a primality testing algorithm for RSA or something. You'll want much better performance. And you can get it without too much trouble. In short, my implementation in
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by minopret 13y ago
The disadvantage is how many times the implementation using "mod" is visiting each candidate. This disadvantage is explained at length in "The Genuine Sieve of Eratothenes" ( http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~oneill/papers/Sieve-JFP.pdf preprint of
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by minopret 13y ago
My maps show Lebanon with Syria to the north and east, the Mediterranean Sea to the west. I imagine yours do also.
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by minopret 13y ago
Yet I wouldn't write "(I) have dirty hands" where I mean "(I) get (my) hands dirty". We'll all choose our own words. Good luck to us all, and may the best of us succeed.
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by minopret 13y ago
Ugh, "coalface admins". If I can hope to influence anyone's usage, I'll advise against using "coalface" as an adjective for people. I realize that a coalface is a place where a worker turns a resource into a commodity. But the word "coalfac
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by minopret 13y ago
The alternative is, what, scsh?
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by minopret 13y ago
Good. For quite some time, census data was incorporated as a one-time substitution into geographical articles by a bot. With this new development, I suppose that census data can be incorporated as a "transclusion" that is updated automatica
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by minopret 13y ago
Randy Pausch said in his time management lecture (a good companion to "The Last Lecture") that your criterion for office reading material should be "Will I lose my job if I don't read this?" http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Randy/
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by minopret 13y ago
By trekking through a great deal of intellectual territory in college, way more than you will in an equivalent span of working years, you're mitigating a big risk. That's the risk that you will find it difficult to span gaps in your underst
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by minopret 13y ago
Huh. I must have read the unusual orthography "wan't" as "don't want".
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by minopret 13y ago
Maybe like Ray Kurzweil you want to pursue technologies that promise to extend your life indefinitely? So far I'm not sure any of us have determined what you intended with your question. Would you like to clarify?
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by minopret 13y ago
If you're happy with SymPy, then Sage doesn't really give you anything. That is, it gives you SymPy, which you already had. Sage is many things intelligently integrated, of which SymPy is just one example. Superficially Sage is a set of com
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by minopret 13y ago
A couple of concerns: 1. At what point (if any) does high-resolution employee data and its analysis become subject to regulations on health information privacy? 2. How do we control the risk that data-driven employee management may introduc
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by minopret 13y ago
So, without relying on cultural relativism, it's because they have priorities and they absolutely do not compromise their priorities. If it's time to do something, they do it. If it's not time to do something, then they don't do it.
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by minopret 13y ago
I'm not sure of the relevance of this article to Hacker News. Is it relevant as a business opportunity? In at least one way, Israel provides a tremendous degree of reproductive health assistance. It provides in-vitro fertilization at no cos
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by minopret 13y ago
Sage (sagemath.org) provides symbolic computing as well as numerical computing. Symbolic computing makes it easier to explain the equations behind the bottom-line results or diagrams and make that mathematical procedure open to computer-ass
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by minopret 13y ago
My understanding is that all three of these algorithms MD5, SHA1, and RC4 are inherently difficult to parallelize. The result cannot be computed by splitting the input, processing the pieces separately, and then combining the results. So th
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by minopret 13y ago
At code review one hacker guy Was asked to relax, or to try. "I'm not naming names, But all's fun and games Until someone loses an i!" (I felt like responding this way just because Asimov wrote limericks.)
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by minopret 13y ago
I think this story shows a rather low degree of insight into, or observation of, the programmer's abnormal behavior and health. Come on, tell us a little about adjustment disorder, how it builds up and plays out. Or was it acute depression?
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by minopret 13y ago
I doubt that a definitive choice is possible between native iOS and HTML5 when an individual developer wishes to adopt only one of these. So I turn to a heuristic that I call What Would Matt Might Do? http://matt.might.net/articles/how-to-
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by minopret 13y ago
Really, Mr. Asimov? If our mortality did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it? And is existing throughout time such a grand and limitless condition? Georg Cantor proved that there are always much greater infinities that we could no
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by minopret 13y ago
Contributions needed for Gene Shalit Legal Defense Fund.
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by minopret 13y ago
"There are many things Mathematica can do that Sage cannot (I provide examples in this article)." I'm not surprised, but I would like to see a link there to some of the instances. So I went looking. After a minute or two I found an example
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by minopret 13y ago
(1) In what sense do you mean "Python can't handle large numbers"? time python -c 'print (5**(5**5))*(3**(3**3))' \ | python -c 'import sys; print hex(int(sys.stdin.read()))' \ | wc -c 1829 real 0m0.091s user
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by minopret 14y ago
I think for most people the point of category theory can be one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_repeat_yourself ; or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_topology ; or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_nonsense ..
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by minopret 14y ago
Fun. But, rule of thumb, if your method is apropos of nothing and similar methods could produce pretty much any text at all, you have not produced a cryptanalysis.

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