robinhouston

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Always wrong is doing it right(cmsish.wordpress.com)
2 points by robinhouston 16y ago|0 comments
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by robinhouston 16y ago
It's not a blinded trial, according to the article: “Because of the different ways the drugs were dispensed — one by mouth and one by infusions — doctors and patients, it was decided, would both know who got which drug.”
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Gowers: Could anything like Deolalikar’s strategy work?(gowers.wordpress.com)
8 points by robinhouston 16y ago|0 comments
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by robinhouston 16y ago
The sad part is that “Vinay Deolalikar is standing by his P!=NP claim and proof.” It will be harder for future attempts to be taken seriously, if even the author of this comparatively-serious effort ends behaving like a crank rather than a
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by robinhouston 16y ago
This is precisely the correct answer — and it's disappointing to see a less good answer getting so many votes when this one hasn't had any.
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by robinhouston 16y ago
That Wikipedia article is really bad. Here is a good article about the Two Envelopes Paradox, by Keith Devlin: http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_0708_04.html
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by robinhouston 16y ago
“You can't take an unknown and pretend it‘s a known.” is reasonable. However, the paradox still stands if you are allowed to open your chosen envelope and count the money inside before deciding whether to switch. The problem genuinely does
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by robinhouston 16y ago
I don't know whether you‘re going to like it, but the most obvious example of a problem that is undecidable even given an oracle for the halting problem is the next halting problem up: i.e. given a Turing machine that has an oracle for the
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by robinhouston 16y ago
Aaronson is talking about Graham‘s number when he writes: “Recondite as it seems, the Ackermann sequence does have some applications. A problem in an area called Ramsey theory asks for the minimum dimension of a hypercube satisfying a certa
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by robinhouston 16y ago
“Who can name the bigger number? Whoever has the deeper paradigm.” In 2001, David Moews ran a BIGNUM BAKEOFF competition on the comp.lang.c newsgroup, where each entry had to be a C program (512 non-whitespace characters or fewer) returning
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by robinhouston 17y ago
At the institute where I work, we're sequencing H1N1 isolates from (IIRC) fifty UK patients. There are also emergency plans to start sequencing flu samples on a massive scale if it turns into a major epidemic. I would be astonished if large