rjtobin

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by rjtobin 10y ago
Kind of shocking lack of empathy in that last sentence. Don't get me wrong, I hate the "you shouldn't say anything offensive" brigade, but equally, no reason to be so caustic. Overwork is a big part of tech culture sad
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by rjtobin 10y ago
Most of the other replies focus on the unfortunate (and valid) political aspects: that having an important advisor helps your career via contacts and higher likelihood of being published in top journals. But I don't think this is in
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by rjtobin 10y ago
Some questions out of curiosity: Is your application bandwidth-bound / compute-bound or something else? Also what modes have you been operating the KNL chip in?
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by rjtobin 10y ago
Haha yeah. You might say that your choice of ECMAScript was prescient :)
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by rjtobin 10y ago
Not relevant to this particular blog post, but I just wanted to say thank you: one of your old projects, Sphere, had a big influence on me as a young programmer (in my early teens), and is a big part of why I got into programming. SCons i
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by rjtobin 11y ago
Oh man, thanks for the tip! Works wonderfully. I just apt-get'ed synaptic and it seems totally functional :) Xemacs and Angband don't work, but the fact that so much works already bodes pretty well for the future.
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by rjtobin 11y ago
For programming contests, often saving keypresses is more valuable than good style or practice. Agreed that no one should cut these corners when writing code that will be used again tomorrow, but when you're trying to hammer out somet
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by rjtobin 11y ago
Typically the thesis is based on a series of peer-reviewed papers submitted by the PhD student during grad school. These papers are actually read by people (at least for PhD students in good programs who will need to submit to good journal
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by rjtobin 11y ago
I think this was a joke (along with all the other details of Knuth that have been lost or confused in the intervening 17,986 years)
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by rjtobin 11y ago
For what it's worth, Ireland, Hong Kong and Singapore also use this socket type (among others). As someone who grew up with these sockets and moved to the US, I have definitely found the British type to be far more robust. The socket
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by rjtobin 11y ago
There are wrappers for basically any C/C++ library you can think of. I found string support to be pretty great from the standard library (compared to C++), such as UTF-8 and string interpolation. In terms of networking, I threw togeth
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by rjtobin 11y ago
He also founded and hosted a fantastic Linux podcast a long time ago: http://www.lugradio.org/
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by rjtobin 11y ago
For anyone interested in learning more about this cultural divide within mathematics -- theory building versus problem solving -- Fields medalist Tim Gowers has an interesting article: https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10&#x2F
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by rjtobin 11y ago
I think part of it is that Erdos worked with an unusually large number of people, at an unusually large number of places. Another reason is that he was quite eccentric, even by the standard of mathematicians. There are so many stories abo
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by rjtobin 11y ago
I hate DRM, but I'd personally rather legally pay for something with DRM than illegally torrent.
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by rjtobin 11y ago
And this argument really stands at odds with the claim that the Gates Foundation has "done more harm than good". Curing the "wrong" diseases is hardly doing harm.
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by rjtobin 11y ago
What you've said sounds like a reasonable argument why torture doesn't work in that case. My point wasn't that torture does work (I have no idea about that), just that the research outlined by O'Mara doesn't addres
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by rjtobin 11y ago
About 4 years ago I went to a talk given by the author of the book, the subject was along the same lines as the book: how torture is ineffective because it damages the subject's ability to recall information. Afterwards someone asked
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by rjtobin 11y ago
The surname meaning for "Tobin" is also wrong, it comes from a Norman surname "de Saint Aubyn", which I guess the native Irish had a hard time pronouncing. The website suggested it came from "son of Tobias" (w
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by rjtobin 11y ago
nskillen on github has made a script: https://github.com/nskillen/hexchat_filter_twitch_installs_a...
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by rjtobin 11y ago
Back during Twitch Plays Pokemon, someone wrote a little script that suppressed other people's commands from appearing in the chat. That seems to be badly needed for this: because of the delay it is really important to pay attention t
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by rjtobin 11y ago
There are a few quite large sub-fields, but there are classic textbooks covering most of these. Here are some: For classical enumerative combinatorics, there is Richard Stanley's 'Enumerative Combinatorics'. For graph theory
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by rjtobin 11y ago
that's exactly it
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by rjtobin 11y ago
Some discrete mathematicians are interested in this sort of problem, which they call "simultaneous hat guessing". There are quite a few papers, in case anyone is interested and unfamiliar with this sort of thing. Another fun prob