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by rrobukef 4y ago
""Due to a larger than expected number of deposits we are obligated to introduce an 8% increase deposit limit fee.""
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by rrobukef 4y ago
A Hash Table's double hashing [1] creates an arithmetic progression. Improving bounds of this theorem could lead to faster, smaller hash-tables. This is the first wild speculation I could come up with. [1] https://en.wikiped
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by rrobukef 4y ago
The tape size needed for a Turing machine is incalculable. Here's a reference to a proof: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=2725 . The machine with 7918-states, Z, stops (well, Z cannot be proven to run infinitly long) iff
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by rrobukef 4y ago
There is a physical limit to the number of disks you can add to your CPU. There is a physical limit to the memory you can address in your CPU (48-bits). It is not arbitrarily large. Also wrong for Turing Machines, it really is infinite. Tha
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by rrobukef 4y ago
A Turing machine is a mathematical concept. It has, by definition, infinite memory. A computer is just a real machine that can do similar things as a Linear Bounded Automaton, a Turing machine's little brother who'll never do quit
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by rrobukef 4y ago
Why would this be? The goal of the test is to have a minimal baseline. Considering outside proof of this baseline is not unethical. If maybe it shouldn't be used to rank candidates, but you'd probably do this anyway for the final
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by rrobukef 4y ago
The dominant hand is also important. As a lefty I have a tendency to evade left resulting in a will-they-won't-they when the other evades in the same direction.
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by rrobukef 4y ago
It is deemed a qualified use to limit gambling because gambling addiction hurts more than just the addict. Their family suffers, maybe society suffers because of crime. Limiting (not outlawing) allows for outreach, voluntary blacklists, esc
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by rrobukef 4y ago
I'd say that the needing rewrites is bad for the future clarity of the code. So much so that people conclude the 50% performance hit is worth it to use open polymorphism (interfaces, etc.) over closed (tagged unions, algebraic data typ
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by rrobukef 4y ago
I do. Because I was asked to add a convex polygon and calculate its area. And now the shape_union must be rewritten from scratch. ... And maybe we want set-operations in the future...
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by rrobukef 4y ago
my 2 cents: I don't see algebraic data types as strictly superiour. It's just the other side of the polymorphic coin: there is open and closed ploymorphism. Open polymorphism happens with interfaces, inheritance, and typeclasses-
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by rrobukef 4y ago
Here's a scenario: you took a nice long hot bath. It got dark outside. You get out and want to turn on the light. Do you want to open the door and let the cold air in? Do you need to cover yourself first?
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by rrobukef 4y ago
The analogy with sexuality and gender bothered me. It is a sore point and fragile. The solution for them is (foremost) equality, the solution for people with disabilities is egality. Yes, society changed to help people as much as possible.
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by rrobukef 4y ago
Please don't. Society forces everybody to interact socially. In a society where everybody is expected to date anybody, forcing somebody to date is still abhorrent.
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by rrobukef 4y ago
In 1999-ish, my two brothers and I got a box of relays and some reed sensors and solenoids (for track-switches) embedded in lego blocks. We're all engineers now, the box is treasured and still works. Finding a PC with a parallel port h
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by rrobukef 4y ago
Sure, it also mean limiting the dataset of our children (i.e. the bane of ML), it means bit-rot for existing datasets.
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Where time is measured in the number of positions evaluated.
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by rrobukef 4y ago
Can it construct itself as some giant spaceship / oscillator?
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by rrobukef 4y ago
I'd like to correct your statistics: 1119 sampled emergency department treatments over 11 years and an estimated 25000 emergency room visits for the whole of the US. An estimated 20% (5000 people) were hospitalized. 94% of the visit in
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by rrobukef 4y ago
I press Start and type and the menu drops letters. After it has popped up. Most of the times only the first letters. Sometimes it gets the first one or two and drops the third and fourth. As Tom Lehrer said: 'Я иду туда, куда сам царь
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by rrobukef 4y ago
I keep wondering if using not only statistical noise but also deformations would help with the generation of deformable things - say human hands.
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by rrobukef 4y ago
I disagree. What's a worse look: not having this OR having this and being discovered subverting their own security?
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by rrobukef 4y ago
It's not just the constant but it was easiest to identify for me in the last post. And due to it's popularity the size of the snippet doesn't matter, it stands on its own as a significant work. The essence of the algorithm ta
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by rrobukef 4y ago
The magic-constant is not optimal there exist better alternatives. It is not necessary to implement this function and should be copyrightable. It is also not a trivial part. On the other hand, Microsoft may only need to show "Hey, we g
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by rrobukef 4y ago
Second order questions (i.e. get a really good machine): What is the minimal difference in input needed for class A to be recognized as class B? What the (an) input closest to all classes and what is the distance to each? Are there weights
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by rrobukef 4y ago
Thus the importance of a good definition 'reasonable'. I can't remember the one in that one course 10 years ago. However, yes, there are big differences based on the encoding. Nobody would accept using unary input encoding to
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by rrobukef 4y ago
Any reasonable description of the matrix will do. The string "An n by n matrix of all zeroes." can be a good output if correctly defined.
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by rrobukef 4y ago
A Find-the-cheater tournament. One player is asked to cheat without consequences, the others are aware there is one cheater.
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by rrobukef 4y ago
Rejection sampling moves the information leak from bias to time. As always don't use your own cryptography in production.
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by rrobukef 4y ago
First, I did not find any statistical test in the paper. The sample size is not relevant. Further the power of a test already required you to know two parameters: variance and the size of the effect your testing for (difference between mean

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