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by murbard2 9y ago
Yes! A B2-A is exactly what it evokes for me too. There's something not aerodynamic, and thus "inefficient" about the dead butterfly shape that makes it pretty and sophisticated.
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by murbard2 9y ago
To be honest, the dead butterflies do look aesthetically more pleasing. I can't tell if it's because the image is culturally ingrained or if the shape is simply more elegant. That said, I welcome this knowledge which opens a whole
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by murbard2 9y ago
It's possible to write provable programs in any language, but some formalisms make proofs easier than other. I think Michelson makes it easier. There are a few other advantages I can think of: 1) The code can be inspected directly on t
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by murbard2 9y ago
It's worth solving precisely because they are so new. If they were old, there would be one, obvious, correct design to follow. However, no one knows precisely what the right formula is yet. This has led to a situation where projects
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by murbard2 9y ago
In fact the retail investor can get an even better deal than the bid ask spread through internalization of the flow, but that comes in the form of paying no commissions. The marginal cost of a retail trade for a broker is negative (but acqu
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by murbard2 9y ago
The average Joe who interacts with the market by picking stocks or day trading (which he shouldn't do) is substantially better off with HFT (though he still shouldn't do it).
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by murbard2 9y ago
I may be mistaken here, but I thought the point of Hadoop wasn't merely to hold more data, but to do larger, distributed, computations on that data. You might have only 10GB of data but need to perform heavy computations on them, requi
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by murbard2 9y ago
Of course smart != depth of cryptographic knowledge, but smart => acquiring said cryptographic knowledge when building a tool that deals with cryptography. If they were just teenagers, maybe you have a point.
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by murbard2 9y ago
The attackers seem to have a poor grasp on cryptography. The entire point of RSA is that they don't have to generate the key locally. Just ship your ransomware with the attacker's public key, generate a symmetric key K locally, en
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by murbard2 9y ago
I don't think the problem is the pressure - holding up one atmosphere is not big deal - I think it's the porosity. It just takes one hole, anywhere, and pscchht you start losing your vaccum. You have to continuously run pumps to g
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by murbard2 9y ago
> Gig Jobs- TaskRabbit and other services—there are people who perform these tasks in the gig economy, but as a client one does not necessarily have to interact with them in a meaningful way. The alternative for these gig jobs is often t
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by murbard2 9y ago
To achieve what you're describing you should cap market capitalization. No point in trying to grow past a point if you'll have to just give away all that growth in the form of dividends.
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by murbard2 10y ago
If you sort two bits and get 0, 1 you can't know if you started out with 0, 1 or 1, 0. The entropy of a sorted list of bit is O(log(n)) while the entropy of the unsorted bits is O(n).
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by murbard2 10y ago
You can uncompute, but in that case you need to erase the input to replace it with a new input.
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by murbard2 10y ago
In theory yes, the catch is that you're not allowed to forget information. For instance, you cannot use an "AND" gate, because a result of 0 would be ambiguous, but you can use the Toffoli gate [1] which takes three inputs an
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Scaling Tezos. Arguments for and against sharding(medium.com)
10 points by murbard2 10y ago|0 comments
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by murbard2 10y ago
Setting aside scalability for an issue, how would they solve this problem in the first place?
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by murbard2 10y ago
This is really neat. Your table doesn't mention that => can make a double arrow, even though it does. Also it would be nice for the dx in integrals to be \mathrm{d}x.
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by murbard2 10y ago
Cool, I was wondering that. So you confirm that I can embed arbitrary binary data in a BLC program with only a constant overhead?
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by murbard2 10y ago
I think I once read that only an exponentially small fraction of binary strings are valid BLC programs. In theory this means you could create shorter programs by merely enumerating valid BLC programs, which is bothersome. Is this a correct
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by murbard2 10y ago
Everything you said applies to gang rape. Consent is personal and is a moral gold standard. If there were any legitimacy to such decisions, social contract theorists wouldn't try to bend backwards to make them sound like they are conse
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by murbard2 10y ago
"In the US, the government derives its rights from the consent of the governed" Collective consent requires unanimity. If you don't have that to begin with, then you don't have consent to consitutional amendments or what
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A.W.E.S.O.M.O: The really big list of really interesting open source projects(github.com)
2 points by murbard2 10y ago|0 comments
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by murbard2 10y ago
I'm glad to see a successor for the defunct cat. I love the precision and concision you can achieve with this style of programming. Cat was a big inspiration in Michelson, another concatenative, statically typed, functional programming
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by murbard2 10y ago
> How is this not "heads I win, tails you lose"? Because the investor will not have 100% recovery rate.
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by murbard2 10y ago
And yet it managed to get monetary value. Ergo, the regression theorem is wrong.
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by murbard2 10y ago
I think you're thinking of the Hough transform, not the Fourier transform. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hough_transform
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by murbard2 10y ago
Highly respected AI researchers who were in on the joke publicly praised it. VCs are not idiots for showing interest given the circumstances. If they aren't going to judge AI startups by the opinion of world-class experts, how exactly
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by murbard2 10y ago
Hotel apartments attract a lot of wealthy dwellers. It's less expensive than having to pay your own full-time house staff.
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by murbard2 10y ago
So they haven't heard of epiphenomena, epithelium, epigenetics, epigraphs, epiderm, epithets? Or monosyllabic words, monoski, monochromes, monogamy, monograms or monologues. It's not hard to guess the meaning of the roots.

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