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by psb217 15y ago
It's not necessarily that Instagram would become a viable competing alternative to Facebook on its own. Rather, it seems reasonable to imagine that Facebook would be concerned about the widespread adoption of third-party, cross-platform soc
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by psb217 15y ago
Zuckerberg's statement that Facebook will keep Instagram alive and kicking seems likely to prove honest but disingenuous. Instagram, in providing a photo sharing experience (at least) on par with Facebook's, spanning multiple "social platfo
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by psb217 15y ago
As to your first sentence, much of the most advanced technology in existence did not ship until it was sufficiently effective at causing or, at least, facilitating death.
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by psb217 15y ago
Borrowing from Arthur C. Clarke, and shifting the often overgenerous connotations of Hanlon's razor, I say that: "any sufficiently advanced ineptitude or ignorance is indistinguishable from malice." The rather "Up With People" connotations
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by psb217 15y ago
This is exactly the same flawed analogy, in slightly different dress, used in the "you wouldn't download a car" argument.
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by psb217 15y ago
The word you want in that last sentence is "diametrical", or perhaps "antipodal".
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by psb217 15y ago
In Matlab, where one is generally compelled (for better or worse) to think in terms of array operations, the obvious code would be: plot(mean((cumprod(randn(100,1000) .* 0.03) .* 15)) Well, that is assuming one wants a line plot of the mean
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by psb217 15y ago
Super-linear complexity is trivially achievable for all computable functions. Perhaps you intended to say sub-linear (i.e. o(n))?
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by psb217 17y ago
Doctors can quit.
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by psb217 18y ago
This is the wrong way to go. I would guess that high-speed trains will only reduce people's reliance on airplanes, which are themselves a form of mass-transit. This particular change should be easy to effect, as many casual travelers will b
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by psb217 18y ago
Your time complexity of log n appears from nowhere. It is entirely possible that the complexity of calculating the original function F was worse than polynomial in the number of variables, in which case a polynomial/linear increase in the n
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by psb217 18y ago
The way I see it, you could program a Turing Machine MF which has some finite "per-time-step" computation speed _n_, such that MF "knows" the following: 1: The general form/program for solving function F for any arbitrary number, _m_, of va
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by psb217 18y ago
With three d10s and one d6 you could do this: d10 a: 6,6,6,6,6,8,8,8,8,8 d10 b: 4,4,4,10,10,10,3,3,11,11 d10 c: 5,5,5,5,9,9,9,9,1,12 d6: d10a,d10a,d10b,d10b,d10c,d10c One roll, no relabeling. d6 tells which d10 to pull your number from.