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ETH Suspends Classroom Teaching(ethz.ch)
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by nairboon 7y ago
Maybe they should reconsider the integration with BOINC. That would give them access to one of the largest distributed clusters.
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by nairboon 7y ago
> It appears that someone who wore a pro-Trump MAGA hat to a software conference is being punished for violating an event Code of Conduct. Check the date on the picture... It appears that someone who wore a pro-Trump MAGA hat in 2016. An
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by nairboon 7y ago
Unfortunately the 30-year vision will take longer than the projected 30 years due to a slight miscalculation: the number of human brain cells is not 30B as it should for a 30year plan but is actually a bit larger. Number of neurons alone is
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by nairboon 7y ago
By others it is considered not much of a practical challenge at all. However, automation is.
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by nairboon 7y ago
So to which messenger should we finally switch to? Telegram, Signal, Threema, Wire or some other newcomer?
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by nairboon 7y ago
>Sorry, Ludwig, buddy. Go sign up for a math/physics major, You realize that Wittgenstein studied mechanical engineering and aeronautics?
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by nairboon 7y ago
> This is the first time we had a failure on the vehicle’s parachute system. Doesn't this mean that neither Matternet nor the Swiss Post tested the failure modes of this drone enough? If it never happened before, they didn't te
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by nairboon 7y ago
Here you go: https://www.flyingmachinearena.ethz.ch/wp-content/publicatio...
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by nairboon 7y ago
They do occur on a regular basis https://www.dayssincethelastmassshooting.com/history/
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by nairboon 7y ago
From the abstract: https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-019-01598-6 >Recent work has argued that curiosity can improve learning. However, these studies also leave open the possibility that being on
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by nairboon 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19674218
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by nairboon 8y ago
The testcase macro is the following: # define testcase(X) if( X ){ sqlite3Coverage(__LINE__); } If the testcase(condition) always evaluates to true, the code coverage analyzer would complain that the if ( X ) {sqlite3...} statement
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by nairboon 8y ago
On the other hand, such corruption is locally contained in scope. Maybe the trade off is worth it, to have some small local corruption to avoid it at the larger, higher levels.
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by nairboon 8y ago
Don't worry, if such a law would pass here in Switzerland, we'll just make a referendum to get rid of it. I'll start it myself if I have to.
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by nairboon 8y ago
So what are the main problems in Spain, according to what most people think? (I'm not very familiar with Spain)
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by nairboon 8y ago
Interesting bug, I presume that happend even after bumping WDB_GOPHER_TAPE_LEN. I had a similar bug, where if the object file was "too large" (if you needed debug symbols...) the IDE loader would crash and you couldn't debug.
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by nairboon 8y ago
Any comments on this submission? 6.9 is somewhat old by now,and the dev tooling around it "works" but is quite buggy sometimes...
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>I'm reasonably confident that Swiss law doesn't allow for a clause to force me to work without compensation, and I'm quite confident that local law does not regardless of what Swiss law says. Yes, this is not a valid clau
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by nairboon 8y ago
I don't know about the time frame, there is a current proposition which would allow e-voting at the national level which is up for public comments until the 30.4.2019, but then it'll go back to parliament and at some point should
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by nairboon 8y ago
Yes, but even if some bounties are paid out, what guarantee do we have that this one honest white hat did his work? And remember this is not an usual bug bounty for some company, where the failure mode is some lost revenue due to hacking. T
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by nairboon 8y ago
Exactly, on any of the 4 voting days a year, there can be multiple issues/proposition/topics and for the important ones of those, we see budgets in the millions
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by nairboon 8y ago
This program is a failure for the get go. > Scalable manipulation of votes that is undetectable by voters and trusted auditors; Such a bug would be a complete worst-case failure and if you report it, it would net you up to 50'000 CH
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by nairboon 8y ago
This program doesn't comply with VEleS 7b but it doesn't have to, yet. The requirement for publishing the source code only applies when the system is actually authorized for a real trial.
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by nairboon 8y ago
Check the Oxford undergrad math course: https://courses.maths.ox.ac.uk/overview/undergraduate
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A possible way would be to use some less-personal taxes to fund a "minimal government", I don't know about the US, but here we have federal sales taxes and securities taxes etc. that could be used to provide minimal governmen
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The platforms sections needs an embedded choice
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Where is Popper? He should be in philosophy of science, but why is the cluster for "reactions to popper" not closer to philosophy of science?
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"He also noticed that instead of making progress down fruitful lanes or improving detailed knowledge of important areas, most develop enthusiasms for the latest non-experimental wank fest; complexity theory, network theory, noodle the
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by nairboon 8y ago
That's a cool tool. And useful extension would be if it preserves the location history if you navigate topics, so that you can go back.

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