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by niklasd 7y ago
The link in the answer titled "state machines" is a bit misleading, since it directs to the Wikipedia entry about Finite-state machines. But most computers (the ones we are talking about here) are Turing complete rather than being
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by niklasd 7y ago
I can't speak about his other work, but A Clockwork Orange would be timeless even without the Kubrick movie. It is such a special language he invented, and I find such bold experiments quite rare among the literature I read. On the cov
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by niklasd 8y ago
There are actually cases where artists throw away creations because they don't want it as their art and people pick it up and sell it as art pieces of this artist. There's been some publicity around a court case where exactly this
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by niklasd 8y ago
Well, the difference is that you are not obligated to pay the loan back if you don't earn any substantial amounts of money. And if you have to pay, the amount is adjusted to your salary, so you can be sure that you can afford paying ba
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by niklasd 8y ago
I don't need to. Past performance does not predict future performance, thats one of the most basic lessons in stock investment. Also you have to compare the growth to an index to make a sensible argument, just looking at the graph won&
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by niklasd 8y ago
I'm not so sure thats true from a financial perspective, at least if you mean him being an outlier. The financial market should have priced in these benefits, that means you can expect only normal "market" returns from these
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by niklasd 8y ago
Sorry, but you are flat out wrong. For example, the halting problem is NP-hard and undecidable [1] I think you might confuse NP-hard with NP-complete. There are problems that are NP-hard, not in NP and unsolvable. If a problem is NP-hard _a
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by niklasd 8y ago
I'm not sure what you mean with "can be solved", but I would spell it out a bit different: There are NP-hard problems that are undecidable, that means, there is no algorithm that can decide the question for every input. Howev
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by niklasd 8y ago
To add to what the other commenter said: Isn't the Busy beaver function uncomputable and we still can obtain some values for small n and prove that they are correct [1]? So I'm not sure it only applies to some special cases, I thi
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by niklasd 8y ago
Exactly. You emulate every WHILE instruction with a GOTO insturction.
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by niklasd 8y ago
We are learning these (meaning LOOP, WHILE, GOTO) in university right now, the course is designed after a short German textbook of Schöning. The proofs on how powerful they are are quite interesting (e.g. you emulate the syntax of a GOTO pr
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by niklasd 8y ago
I'm not sure this is good advise. If there is one thing that I've heard from experienced people, it is that you can't time the market, and you should attempt to. Never invest a bulk of money at once, invest it in small chunks
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by niklasd 8y ago
From the experience of my friends, perks like beverages and snacks vary quite from industrie to industrie. For example in design related industries (agencies etc.), there often are an abundance of snack & beverages perks, in addition to
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by niklasd 8y ago
I agree that self-teaching is a very important skill, but it is a skill that I learned in my university time. It itself is a self taught skill, of course. At least in Germany, lectures are not compulsory, and if I find I don't learn en
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by niklasd 8y ago
I don't understand the title – the link just leads to google.com/inbox/. Is that service shutting down? It is not clear to me from the context of the website.
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by niklasd 8y ago
You're right, that seems correct. The Wikipedia [0] article also points in that direction. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Struggle_(Knausg%C3%A5rd_no...
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by niklasd 8y ago
No, it got changed from My Struggle (the English translation of the original title) to "Sterben", which means "dying". The correct German translation of My Struggle would have been "Mein Kampf", and this is why
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by niklasd 8y ago
Possible jobs include: - Working as a lawyer in a law firm and being the expert/contact person for any tech stuff. - Working as project mananger for Legal Tech in a law firm (Magic Circle law firms are already having these jobs) - Bein
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by niklasd 8y ago
Germany. If you look up Legal Tech meetups (often hosted by law firms) you will find some law students/lawyers interested in tech. But it's still a small community. And for real techies in law, that's an even smaller pool of
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by niklasd 8y ago
After my law degree I worked for a year in a big international law firm (I didn't yet had my license, so I was a kind of trainee – similar to you position right now). I realised that there is a huge interest in technical solutions to m
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by niklasd 8y ago
Yes! I studied law before CS and now I learn all these algorithms which deal with questions about how to do something efficiently – and these algorithms are unkown by all these people thinking about important questions in this field. And I
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by niklasd 8y ago
I find the article is badly written. Being a lawyer, a coder and interested in Legal Tech, I still find it hard to read or unterstand some sentences/sections. The author also falls short of mentioning any specific workflows that could
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by niklasd 8y ago
Can you name a legal tech product that is currently used and really improves productivity? Generally I agree with many of your points, especially that tech w i l l transform law. However, I'm not so sure how soon that will be. I also s
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by niklasd 8y ago
The AI hype also seems to lead to sub-hypes in certain fields. E.g. in the legal profession there is a new buzzword called "Legal Tech". The hope is that AI-driven programs will eventually transform the field. While I think this i
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by niklasd 8y ago
Could you elaborate a little more? I'm very interested in Legal Tech, however, I noticed there are few useful applications actually on the market/being used.
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by niklasd 8y ago
I feel that civil rights are still strong and well respected and generally these things shouldn't happen – so that perceptions is still accurate. Maybe not that much in Bavaria, but natinolly still, yes. About the more technical legal
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by niklasd 8y ago
A bit of perspective for non-Germans: The raid was ordered from Bavaria, a state in Germany which is traditionally governed by the conservative CSU party, which is currently also in the (international) headlines for the ongoing immigration
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by niklasd 8y ago
That is very interesting. Before CS, I studied law and I noticed the following: I understood most of the very abstract concepts only when I learned what they were not. For example: In my country, there are several types of public lawsuits.
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by niklasd 8y ago
I really like and use Firefox. Just the pdf-viewer is subpar – especially to Safari. If I print Latex-made pdfs from the browser, the font looks odd. Also I can't zoom properly/continuously in via my Mac Trackpad. Can anyone recom
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by niklasd 8y ago
> Then my question to you would be why do you feel that? Is it based on evidence? Well signaling is a thing thats been developed since humanity exists. For me thats evidence enough. If singaling would be inefficent, it would not still be

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