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by repsilat 10y ago
What do you think of it for pedagogical purposes? Even if it were impossible to implement, I wonder if an interface closer to traditional programming might lower some barriers to understanding what a quantum computer can do, and how a quant
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by repsilat 10y ago
Sometimes it's just "not smart enough to find each other," or "Can't be arsed." Other commenters have addressed geographic stuff, but there's also just weird stuff with other financial products. You might
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by repsilat 10y ago
> making trades in the past The other posters' comments on QM are off the mark, this bit of TFA was a joke about special relativity. If you can transmit information faster than the speed of light, there is an inertial reference fr
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by repsilat 10y ago
Right. Arbitrage is generally a matchmaking problem. You identify people who want to trade with each other but can't find each other directly, and you facilitate a trade between them for a small fee, taking on some risk. The result is
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by repsilat 10y ago
In banking they talk about "liquidity" and "solvency" being two primary axes of financial difficulty. It's the common wisdom in some places to say that solvency is over-emphasized in lay discussions -- that an insol
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by repsilat 10y ago
> I'm convinced most programs easily waste 90% of their CPU time. Hah, in my experience that's hopelessly optimistic. The C I write is probably 10-100x slower than it should be (leaving SSE and threading aside entirely), but
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by repsilat 10y ago
> For DSL typical packet MTU is 1400-something. Why do you ask? I was wondering how finely you can get the total filesize if it's encrypted. Can you just count fixed size packets, or can you figure the length down to the byte? Makes
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by repsilat 10y ago
How big is a show, sent compressed? A gigabyte an episode? I guess the range is more relevant, say plus or minus ten megs to be conservative. I don't know how big packets are, maybe 4k is too small? 10M/4k=2.5k, not bad, but not g
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by repsilat 10y ago
>> So it is a factoid that "factoid" means something that is true This is a little clever: it's true by whichever definition you choose, and the preceding text does not clearly prefer one or the other. Like http:&#x2
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by repsilat 10y ago
> Eventually the college loan bubble will burst, and universities will no longer be able to be run like businesses. Can you explain this sentence? If you mean, "Students will be less likely to get crazy loans," I can only imagi
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by repsilat 10y ago
When you get a mortgage, three things happen: 1. You acquire a large debt to the bank, 2. The bank gives you a bunch of money, 3. You give that money to someone else. Steps 2 and 3 usually happen at the same time, AIUI you don't actual
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by repsilat 10y ago
> what service do banks provide to their depositors? Risk. That is, banks should pay more interest (or have less-negative rates) than the CB currency, because 1. They're riskier. They can have solvency problems and liquidity problem
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by repsilat 10y ago
No, not the occupation. To the extent the recent actions (or inaction) of the West can be blamed, you can blame it on getting rid of Saddam, or you can blame it on leaving Iraq too early, or you can blame it on policy in Syria. You can&#x27
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by repsilat 10y ago
There's another pole to reductio towards, though -- governmental spending increases without commensurate increases in taxation. I don't know enough macro to know what the resulting inflation would look like, what would happen to i
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by repsilat 10y ago
> K climbs Lower-case 'k' has an ascender, lower-case 'j' has a descender. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascender_(typography) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descender
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by repsilat 10y ago
> taxes don't discourage smokers, though. This has not been New Zealand's experience. In recent years our government has substantially (and steadily) increased the tax on tobacco, and sales have plummeted: http://m
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by repsilat 10y ago
>> You have no choice but to accept that the major conclusions of these studies are true. > I am surprised at the blind spot I had when first reading it – Kahneman’s overconfidence didn’t register with me. Wow, this hits me prett
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by repsilat 10y ago
One place the branchless techniques can come in handy is with SIMD (or simulated SIMD by packing several small ints into longer ones.) A branchless algorithm that's 50% slower can pay for itself if you can process four elements at a ti
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by repsilat 10y ago
It depends what you mean. If you work NZ's Mon-Fri, that'll be Sun-Thu in the US. If you work the US's Mon-Fri, that'll be Tue-Sat in NZ.
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by repsilat 10y ago
Yeah. Yoga 900 ISK2, some BIOS problem that makes the hard drive not show up. No way to fix it except with a BIOS update that hasn't materialized.
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by repsilat 10y ago
Incredible. My fancy new Lenovo has gotten no use because they've made it impossible to install another operating system in it. I look forward to giving this a go.
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by repsilat 10y ago
> best vertices (and perhaps how we got there). And the simplex method will also do this when presented with a connected component of vertices all of which have the same objective value. It has been a while since I did implemented the si
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by repsilat 10y ago
>> If we squint a bit do we get Dijkstra's algorithm? > No. Dijkstra's algorithm operates on fundamentally discrete structures (finite graphs), whereas the simplex method solves linear programming problems with continuous
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by repsilat 10y ago
That weirdness is kinda just a consequence of wanting the scores for different questions to be added together. A simpler (to me) but equivalent way to frame it is to use scores that you multiply together. These scores are "the probabil
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by repsilat 11y ago
The posts that are transparent about the interview seem to have positive responses, too -- I distinctly remember seeing Compose's listings with comments like this one: > great hiring process and response from the team, even though
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by repsilat 11y ago
Downtown Auckland, 2005/6. There was a big increase in the number of small apartments available. Prices did fall, and people I know "lost money" because of it. It was still a great thing for the city. Auckland itself is growi
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by repsilat 11y ago
> would not make a huge difference in the overall storyline so far as to what's coming If you mean Daenerys I mostly agree. Stannis would not recognise her claim, and would fight her invading forces like whoever's left will d
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by repsilat 11y ago
> [Tyrion is] not so significant He was essentially responsible for the successful defense of King's Landing at the Battle of the Blackwater. If he hadn't been there, Stannis would be on the Iron Throne -- I'd call that
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by repsilat 11y ago
> or the latinate "regulations," as you prefer "Regulation" (at least in the US) is a broader category, covering both "laws" passed by elected lawmakers and "rules" made by unelected public serva
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by repsilat 11y ago
Finland has a higher proportion of urban residents than the US. The US is also known for its huge number of small and mid-sized cities and population spread all over the country, whereas (proportionately) more of Finland is essentially empt

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