nsrivast

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by nsrivast 18y ago
This qualified opinion should have been your original comment.
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by nsrivast 18y ago
Show him this: http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html
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by nsrivast 18y ago
Well it sort of depends on context. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponentiation#Zero_to_the_zero...
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by nsrivast 18y ago
Huge! Things like clade selection and spandrels may not be ultimately correct, but they're fascinating to think about.
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by nsrivast 18y ago
Glad I read these comments first ...
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by nsrivast 18y ago
What about a 30-second introductory video instead of a picture? I would trust those results much more.
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by nsrivast 18y ago
So at the very least, we should try to build consensus in the layman debate against price controls and for free trade. Angry letters to congressmen supporting "Buy American" clauses and all that, with the strength of the Ron Paul groundswel
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by nsrivast 18y ago
AIG spending half a million dollars for an "unrelated" business is unreasonable. It shows that according to AIG, the culture of eat-what-you-hunt is still okay - despite the enormous negative externalities that were caused by isolated gro
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by nsrivast 18y ago
Rough estimate: 10^(-11)) errors per bit per hour. http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/23.47.html#subj7
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by nsrivast 18y ago
Rather than letting as few things into one's identity as possible (which might prohibit growth), why not actively absorb the opposite viewpoints? Keep your identity balanced, not necessarily small.
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by nsrivast 18y ago
What you are referring to is global-to-local compilation: Biologically-inspired Self-Assembly of 2D Shapes, Using Global-to-local Compilation, A. Kondacs, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2003
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by nsrivast 18y ago
I think with all the advances in scrip systems, social psychology, and game theory these days, there should be a way to quantify and award karma that incentivizes productive discussion.
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by nsrivast 18y ago
I think that's why ownership is usually separated from management.
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by nsrivast 18y ago
Which person on earth knows the most computer science algorithms? (Let's restrict to algorithms on Wikipedia.)
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Startup versus fun or useful application
1 points by nsrivast 18y ago|0 comments
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by nsrivast 18y ago
This is pretty good: http://www.buddhanet.net/budsas/ebud/mfneng/mind0.htm
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by nsrivast 18y ago
The intro physics class at Harvard is graded something like: k * homework_score + (1 - k * homework_score) * (final_score^extra_credit) So you can do no homework and no extra credit as long as you ace the final.
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by nsrivast 18y ago
HN user jsomers and I threw together this site over the past few weeks based on a game we came up with. Comments, suggestions, criticisms welcome. Thanks!
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WikiWarp - the Wikipedia Game(wikiwarp.com)
2 points by nsrivast 18y ago|2 comments
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by nsrivast 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangling_modifier
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by nsrivast 18y ago
Play nice! It is the hard problem.
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by nsrivast 18y ago
Comedy is all about the flow
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An airport-inspired puzzle from Terence Tao(terrytao.wordpress.com)
28 points by nsrivast 18y ago|19 comments
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by nsrivast 18y ago
"the probability of one cow dying wasn't independent of the next cow dying" Like if you put them in a pen together ... Explanation fail maybe, but joke succeed!
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by nsrivast 18y ago
You say "physics textbooks don't give this system explicitly". They don't need to - they simply present the system that's most instructive to learn or is most interesting to their authors. As long as your formula or "system" is consistent w
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by nsrivast 18y ago
NYT headline in five years (or WSJ headline in one year): "When Intelligence Fails"
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by nsrivast 18y ago
The point of genetic algorithms is NOT to replicate evolution. Like you mention, evolution has no end goal whereas engineers usually have very explicit end goals. (Other problems include time constraints and computing power!) The point of g
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by nsrivast 18y ago
Try sitting down for two hours to study the most common LaTeX typesetting commands and to learn how to write your own macros. Text documents should then be marginally slower in LaTeX than Word, and anything with equations far faster.
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by nsrivast 18y ago
I wonder why Perth? 2000 miles south of Hawaii makes sense since it's near the equator to maximize centrifugal force and tangential velocity during launch, but why Perth?
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by nsrivast 18y ago
In other words, to summarize: "kids these days!".

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