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by pzh 9y ago
I genuinely wonder what the point of fasting is, given that you can achieve the same results by just skipping carbs or following a keto diet. The ketosis these people get into happens because the body has no glycogen to burn, so whether you
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by pzh 9y ago
That seems interesting, but there are so many papers and little indication of which ones are more important (or which ones to implement first). I realize this is for advanced learners, but some guidelines, or at least a section pointing to
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by pzh 9y ago
Digital natives? Are people still using this term? So the people who invented the Internet and most of modern technology are called "digital immigrants"? How can one take lazy journalists who still use these terms seriously?
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by pzh 9y ago
Wouldn't that only work if you only remove stuff that you already added, i.e. you can't remove an element that would be considered a 'false positive' and still expect to have no 'false negatives' after that?
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by pzh 9y ago
Why Elsevier would feel entitled to the copyright of publicly funded research is beyond anyone's guess. This ruling actually makes me realize that SciHub is a single point of failure, and if it gets closed, there won't be anything
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by pzh 9y ago
It sounds more like they decided to throw Levandowski under the bus. Whether any of that is true or not, they know that it's already an established fact that Levandowski had the disks with Google information and they can't keep pr
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by pzh 9y ago
What you're saying is meaningless. This concerns knowledge that's already public. Open access simply means that laypeople and institutions would be able to access something for free that others are currently paying for. It's
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by pzh 9y ago
Is it really considered exporting if they already have it?
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by pzh 9y ago
I think giving the SRE title to a journalist who learnt to code and built something interesting is not the right analogy. It would be more like giving them the Turing award.
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by pzh 9y ago
I thought full insurance would be an unwaivable requirement in those cases of leasing. How could they be in debt for accidents?
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by pzh 9y ago
I know this is off topic, but I find it really interesting to hear that you put a lot of weight or rely entirely on the narrative, which I assume would mostly boil down to the application essay (unless you also interview candidates in perso
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by pzh 9y ago
If nothing else, at least those economists have found the solution to keep people occupied when AI renders half the world unemployed. Now the premise of the Matrix doesn't seem so far fetched after all.
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by pzh 9y ago
I never really understood why admissions committees give any credit whatsoever to 'well-rounded' students. If somebody spent all their time volunteering in 10 different inconsequential clubs, playing 5 musical instruments, and par
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by pzh 9y ago
The problem with these is that they couldn't have been significant enough to make a dent in the outcome. Pretty much all significant achievements are fact-checkable. E.g. you may falsely claim that you were doing karate or basketball,
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by pzh 9y ago
You have to wonder if the three-letter agencies have found some backdoor or a vulnerability in the app that they think only they have access to. It's very suspicious to see them voluntarily give up control over so much critical informa
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by pzh 9y ago
I thought "God Created the Integers" by Stephen Hawking was a pretty good high-level view of the history and progression of mathematics. It did give me some 'aha' moments about things I knew but never realized how they w
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by pzh 9y ago
Can somebody who read the paper in depth comment on whether the result is practical or not? Since it's a TCS paper, it's hard to gauge whether the constant factors are palatable or not, and there are many theoretical CS papers tha
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by pzh 9y ago
This is where the value of frugality really shines. The more money you have, the more bogged down in extra features and additional complexity you can get because of excess ambition or feeling of duty to your supporters. It seems that becaus
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by pzh 9y ago
I don't know what the standards of research in experimental psychology are, but this term project paper ended up a bit contrived. We took some superficial vocabulary characteristics of two languages (of which native speakers probably a
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by pzh 9y ago
For me the biggest downside of dynamically typed lanaguages like Python and Javascript is that a small error in passing a function's parameters can propagate very far in a complex system. E.g. if you mistakenly interchange two consecut
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by pzh 9y ago
This is probably off-topic, but I find it a bit irritating that in an article about 'critical thinking' the author is quoting a 2012 paper by some Miyazaki to explain the origin of the word 'algorithm'. I thought we knew
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by pzh 9y ago
Why are people surprised? Taking all the coursework in Math, Programming, Algorithms, Operating Systems, Computer Networks, Security and Cryptography, Distributed Systems, Databases, etc., and also learning and internalizing all that knowle
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by pzh 10y ago
Bad idea! This is when the police may belatedly show up in all their glory and detain you with the device in your possession, and you'll have a hard time explaining that you're not part of a skimming gang. The other possibility is
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by pzh 10y ago
Penny-wise and pound-foolish. If cheaper means throwing the time of your most expensive resource (engineers) down the drain to save some money on rent and Ikea furniture, then sure.
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by pzh 10y ago
Interesting. I submitted this same story about a week ago and nobody cared until Ars Technica picked it up. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13863084
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by pzh 10y ago
I see what you're saying, but it seems to me that your description can be misunderstood to mean that lock-free programming is simply more fine-grained locking, which it is very far from. You can use mutexes to do fine-grained locking a
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by pzh 10y ago
A spin-lock would be more like a CAS loop (and the CAS IS a primitive CPU instruction), where you retry until the CAS succeeds. The point of lock-free algos, though, is that you could usually do something different from just retrying. There
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Why the CIA uses board games to train its agents(money.cnn.com)
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by pzh 10y ago
Does anyone know of any remote companies that pay even at the lowest end of this range?
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by pzh 10y ago
I thought the MR paper described an actual working implementation. It had performance test results, descriptions of issues they encountered and solved, and some sample source code of how MR is used. It seems like a lot of effort was put in

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