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by obastani 11y ago
I've tried thinking about how virtual meetings would work, but to me it seems to be flawed. Virtual reality allows us to view a 3D environment as if we are there, but how would we capture that 3D environment to begin with? Is there te
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by obastani 11y ago
The article is talking about total economic costs (i.e., to all users, the bank, etc.), not just from the perspective of the banks. In other words, we as a society may lose more by implementing "best security practices".
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by obastani 11y ago
Their control group seems a bit questionable to me -- maybe sitting there quietly for 12 minutes increases the risk of flashbacks? It seems possible that you'd end up thinking about the traumatic event.
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by obastani 11y ago
I imagine that if you have more instructions (a few hundred) the overhead of the switch starts to become significant. At 256 opcodes you need 8 jumps, and hence 8 CPU cycles. That's non-trivial, especially if most of the opcodes can be
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by obastani 11y ago
From reading the posts in the article, it seems like the long hiring process raised expectations: people were willing to put up with it because they thought working at Google would be great, and were all the more disappointed when they foun
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by obastani 11y ago
Actually, if the insuree is rational, it especially makes sense for the insurance company to pay for the annual checkup. If the insurance company only covers me when I get really sick, I lose money by going for the annual checkup -- I&#x2
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by obastani 11y ago
I see a lot of answers describing what tensors are, but none really describe why they're important. To understand this, let's go back to some first-year Calculus. If we have a function f, we can approximate f as f(x+dx) = f(x)
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by obastani 12y ago
The laws put in place are not stupid -- they are put in place to protect both riders and drivers against well-known market failures such as information asymmetry and market-for-lemons [1,2]. They may be outdated and in need of revision, but
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by obastani 12y ago
Sure there is -- they can make alternatives illegal. Then big companies must accept the government sponsored digital currency, which would make it the only currency viable for mass market (alternatively, no digital currency will be widely a
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by obastani 12y ago
I didn't really understand this one -- what does it mean to be a brilliant developer who doesn't ship?
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by obastani 12y ago
I'm sure Stanford offers partial aid as well -- this is just the threshold for zero contributions.
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by obastani 12y ago
I see this sentiment a lot ("security is a matter of best practices"), but I'm an outsider, and I've never seen a description of what this entails (at a high level). What are the kinds of best practices that you think wo
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by obastani 12y ago
Is this related to what you have in mind? http://adam.chlipala.net/papers/UrWebPOPL15/
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by obastani 12y ago
Regarding the caveat, computing ϕ^N is really equivalent to computing a matrix power M^N. Recall that ϕ=(1+√5) (I dropped the 1/2 for convenience.) Suppose we represent numbers like x+y√5 as [x y]. Then multiplication by ϕ corresponds
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by obastani 12y ago
This seems to be a key reference (article titled "Complementarity and uncertainty"): http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v375/n6530/pdf/375367b0... In particular, they have a description
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by obastani 12y ago
Yes, but you can get other quantities with this approach as well (though not in nearly as nice a form). To do this, consider the random matrix t = Bernoulli(T) (i.e., T = E[t]) The distribution is m_n = M_1 t_1 ... t_n, which has expected v
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by obastani 12y ago
Did you read that article fully? It's a satire (see the last section)...
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by obastani 12y ago
Godel constructed statements S that are neither true nor false (more precisely, you could add an axiom saying "S is true", or you could add an axiom saying "S is false", and you'd get a consistent logical system eit
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by obastani 13y ago
Am I the only one who interpreted him as saying he ought to be able to assume that his phone calls/emails are private? He clarifies: "So there is a basic sense that whoever is providing that technology has to make sure it's