reitblatt

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by reitblatt 14y ago
Not really. Complexity theory deals with many different forms of computation, from Turing Machines to RAM models to circuits to quantum computers. These are all particular concrete artifacts that we use to study the fundamental notion of co
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by reitblatt 14y ago
You are confusing cost and price. The cost of education has risen at a pace comparable to other labor intensive fields. But the price has sky-rocketed due to decreased state support over the past few decades.
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by reitblatt 15y ago
Or he's discovered a new kind of sucker, cf. homeopathy.
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by reitblatt 15y ago
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irony
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by reitblatt 15y ago
"I wouldn't call someone an enemy and really mean it unless that enemy was deliberately trying to harm me or my family." I didn't literally call them the enemy, I put it in scary quotes as a reply to the (IMO) naive sentiment of the OP that
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by reitblatt 15y ago
What in the world are you talking about? Politicians blackmailing each other for personal gain is unethical. And I'm pretty sure that "the electorate" doesn't qualify as a "governmental official". "Is it not possible to profit by bribing/bl
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by reitblatt 15y ago
Anyone bribing governmental officials for personal profit is "the enemy". Edit: It's in the article. Stratfor gathers information using paid informants, including government officials. That's bribery.
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by reitblatt 15y ago
There is a difference between reproducibility and repeatability. Reproduction is an independent experiment producing commensurate results. Repetition is the same lab repeating the experiment and finding the same results. Sharing code actual
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by reitblatt 15y ago
Or it could just be a typo on the brand new webpage of a brand new project. Which it obviously is if you look at their explanation of CAP.
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by reitblatt 15y ago
"I'd like to see how they pull that off when a node goes down. I guess in "well-administered" data centers, nodes don't go down." They offer f-fault tolerance. They can have f nodes go down in a single "zone" and keep chugging as long as no
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by reitblatt 15y ago
That blog is quite wrong about partition tolerance. First, the definition is just bizarre: "Handling a crashed machine counts as partition-tolerance. (Update: I was wrong about this part." He then goes on to give Stonebraker crap about clai
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by reitblatt 15y ago
These are non-fungible goods.
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by reitblatt 15y ago
Not if you build the GC with --enable-redirect-malloc to use with existing libraries/code bases. Which should be fine because, after all, this is a "conservative" garbage collector. Right?
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by reitblatt 15y ago
To be clearer: safety is no longer compositional in this system. To safely use the Boehm garbage collector, it's not sufficient that my own code doesn't use "disguised" pointers: I have to verify that my libraries don't either. That's impra
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by reitblatt 15y ago
The point is that this garbage collector is unsound. It may collect memory that is still in use. That's bad.