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by pelario 8y ago
In which sense does this fact make it better ? Not only weird, but to me this feels a careless attitude...
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by pelario 8y ago
I'm not sure if this is pushing a "us vs them"; and yes, it obviously is a one-sided story. So, yes, I would really like to read a reply to this article but any of the other parties mentioned there.
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by pelario 8y ago
Actually, a more accurate title would be "Gay sex decriminalized in India"
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by pelario 8y ago
Exactly. Sometimes those are called "adaptive algorithms", in the sense that the complexity depends on some properties of the input, so even though the worst case complexity is still O(n log n), for many outputs it will do much be
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On the Worst-Case Complexity of TimSort(drops.dagstuhl.de)
204 points by pelario 8y ago|74 comments
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by pelario 8y ago
As many other comments have said, the title is misleading; the key quotation is: "(...) allows anyone to portray themselves as a world-class ballerina (...)" Moreover, after AlphaGO took away Go from us, I started to wonder "
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by pelario 8y ago
Not a fan or defensor of China here; but the US has way more history of intervention in other countries; so I would be much much worried about US-based companies that provide searching or social networking services
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Worst case complexity of TimSort unveiled [pdf](drops.dagstuhl.de)
2 points by pelario 8y ago|0 comments
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by pelario 8y ago
I think the answer may change a lot depending on which field are you thinking about; because "the community" will be quite different as well. Regarding "how to write better quality articles?" one key part is reading a lo
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by pelario 8y ago
to which cockroaches might survive better than us : )
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by pelario 8y ago
South America -> Scandinavia, came here to pursue the PhD; however, If I had decided not to pursue a PhD I still wanted to live abroad. There are different aspects that make the experience different, like, whether you learn the local l
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by pelario 8y ago
Yes, five years and counting, and it has been a great experience. I presume that HN being more USA-centric makes the question interesting; but I feel that if you ask people in most other regions, the answer would be "obviously yes&quot
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by pelario 8y ago
Nice thought, but what would be the alternatives for Android, Gmail, GMaps ?
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by pelario 8y ago
Before commenting the instinctive "the title is a contradiction, this doesn't make sense", please read the damn abstract. It is short. If you are too lazy, here is the first line: "Individuals who identify as heterosexua
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by pelario 8y ago
Categories are a human-defined thing, not something that is "out there". The point is to try to understand human behavior better, and that includes questioning pre-existing categories, and perhaps, defining new ones? Quoting the
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by pelario 8y ago
Relevant article: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-mad...
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by pelario 8y ago
You obviously did not even open the link. First line: "Individuals who identify as heterosexual but engage in same-sex sexual behavior fascinate both researchers and the media."
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by pelario 8y ago
Neat! This analysis is consistent (and more accurate) than the OP; he assumed that the bitstring is random; therefore he arrives to the lower bound. If, somehow we account for the bias in the sequence, we may find a larger n.
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by pelario 9y ago
I have been fantasizing as a combination of data poisoning and intervention when the poisoning is actually real: make groups to swap profiles for a while. Without even going back to the original, but just jumping to the next one. As long
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by pelario 9y ago
Yes indeed, and maybe this is an opportunity to do something about this too...
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by pelario 9y ago
C'mon... Google maps will ask me turn my GPS every damn time I use it; no way "to remember this choice", but if I activated it, it is super happy to remember it. Still don't see anything wrong?
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by pelario 9y ago
I believe the planning committee was replaced by Multivac a while ago
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by pelario 9y ago
> That's the only hole in his statement. What about the punishment to Christopher Wylie, by closing/suspending his accounts in facebook, whatsapp, etc ?
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by pelario 9y ago
That seems to confirm a feeling: Google (et Al) transformed the internet into the new TV
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by pelario 9y ago
The point is, although your example is possible, the probability of this happening is pretty close to zero.
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by pelario 9y ago
Could you tell us a bit about the reñevance of this work?
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by pelario 9y ago
Being able to use PayPal wheb it is blocked in your country. Being able to have a business address within the EU when you live without the EU (and if your business is small you may not have the chance at all to get an address within the EU)
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by pelario 9y ago
From all the reasons to claim that "the Internet is broken", I think the worst is that most services today apparently do one thing; but in reality do a different one. And if you want it to do what "is supposed to do", i
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by pelario 9y ago
Why the downvotes?
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by pelario 9y ago
Social networks?

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