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by mjn 12y ago
The last paragraph of the paper briefly touches on that: This paper would not be complete without a mention of Static Single Assignment form (SSA), the currently fashionable intermediate representation for imperative languages. As is well
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by mjn 12y ago
Moved to Copenhagen, and have been here for a few years. It's nice. Moved mainly for work: there was a job opening at a university exactly in my field of research, and it seemed too good to pass up. How the cost of living compares depe
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by mjn 12y ago
In my opinion, the verifiability requirement has mostly (though not 100%) superseded the notability requirement on Wikipedia over the past ~5 years. Nowadays it's close to necessary and sufficient for something to have good third-par
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by mjn 12y ago
The "suggestions for projects" section of the manual (section 15) mentions this as a possible future extension: > Other backends, say, asm.js or LLVM. This can be quite a challenge, as these languages do not support jumps to a
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by mjn 12y ago
One of the troubling aspects of the Axiom of Choice is that both affirming and denying it results in some pretty unintuitive implications (but different ones). This MathOverflow discussion has some interesting examples of unintuitive implic
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by mjn 12y ago
I wonder if he tried one of the philosophy-of-science, foundations-of-physics, or philosophy-of-physics journals? For example, one of the earlier follow-ups to Hardy's paper was published in Foundations of Physics : http://
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by mjn 12y ago
One guess is that the average physicist, which might include both the journal editors and the author of this paper, have no clue about journals outside of physics. :)
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Yes, my first thought reading through this was surprise that he didn't try any non-physics journals. I think any number of journals devoted to a topic like network science, internet research, web science, etc., would have found the top
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Shaka, when the walls fell(theatlantic.com)
5 points by mjn 12y ago|1 comments
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I was a bit undecided about that, though I'm leaning towards adding them now. There was a small discussion about that when I first submitted this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6957005
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by mjn 12y ago
I put together a set of capsule bios of the top 20 HN contributors, which might be useful background info: http://www.kmjn.org/notes/hacker_news_posters.html
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by mjn 12y ago
Further reading: 1. A semi-standard textbook on the subject, but now a bit dated (don't be fooled by the 2002 date on the 3rd ed., most of the text is from the 1st ed): http://www.amazon.com/Texturing-Modeling-Third-Edi
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by mjn 12y ago
"Like the catcall of 'whore' or 'crook,' the Facebook Platform passes judgement before you even signed up for it. ... If you were innocent, why did you start using the Facebook Platform in the first place? ... Mayb
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Crash-only software (2003)(static.usenix.org)
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by mjn 12y ago
With all due respect, I don't see how your post is actually related to Piketty's book at all, in the sense that it isn't even discussing the same subject, let alone engaging with Piketty's actual analysis! Your post seem
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by mjn 12y ago
While we're at it, another (moderately detailed) critical review, from someone with the opposite political preferences: http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/kapital-for-the-twent...
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by mjn 12y ago
If you want the "more than a nutshell, but less than a book" version, Piketty & co have two journal articles that cover the main historical data analysis in the book: http://gabriel-zucman.eu/files/Piketty
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by mjn 12y ago
I think this is increasingly true between Scandinavians as well: conversations that have both Danes and Swedes in them often end up switching to English, rather than muddling through with Dano-Swedish, because English is just easier.
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Wealth and Inheritance in the Long Run(gabriel-zucman.eu)
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This is also my argument (100% serious) against restaurant meals: if I go out for a few drinks and get hungry enough to order some food, the tab at least doubles, sometimes triples (in Copenhagen, a burger costs as much as 3-5 beers). That&
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by mjn 12y ago
Here are the points that to me only seem to apply to people irresponsibly binge-drinking: #3 "expensive": I have never spent $100 when out drinking. You have to drink like a dozen beers to hit that, even if they're fancy craf
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by mjn 12y ago
It does add up even with comparing "dinner" vs "dinner+drinks". I had that view semi-recently (a year or so ago): dinner+drinks is too expensive for my tastes. But I blame the "dinner" more than the "dri
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by mjn 12y ago
> You might have different personal experiences with alcohol, but you can't deny the author his. I can deny the author his unfounded generalizations, though. He's explaining why he doesn't like getting trashed, going out t
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by mjn 12y ago
Serve it in a bar at a social scene and it can set you back hundreds of dollars per session as he said. "Per session"?! My point is that his article is ostensibly about why he doesn't drink at all , but his bullet points o
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by mjn 12y ago
None of his points explain even from a personal perspective why he doesn't drink, though. Which of his bullet points explain the pros and cons of wine with dinner vs. not having wine with dinner?
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by mjn 12y ago
This feels like a very "American" article [1], in the way it frames the discussion. The intro suggests the author has a policy of not drinking at all (or only every few months), but most of the bullet points only apply to why yo
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by mjn 12y ago
My guess is that this worry is why Microsoft's opposing the order. The university I work at in Denmark uses Office 365 specifically because Microsoft was able to convince them that data will only be stored in the EU, and will only be a
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by mjn 12y ago
Varies quite a bit by field afaict. In CS, I've never paid to publish in journals, and I think it would be seen as weird. However we do often publish papers at conferences (big conferences like SIGGRAPH, CHI, and IJCAI are possibly act
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by mjn 12y ago
CS academics have been slowly taking control of more of our own journals. It somewhat helps that there is already relatively little editing/layout work done on the journal's side, because computer scientists like to produce public
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by mjn 12y ago
There's been a general decline in California's willingness to fund the UC system, which is mostly what ended that. Surprisingly, the UC system doesn't seem to have had significant cost-per-student growth (unlike many universi

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