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by rw 17y ago
Explore dual-licensing options for the daemon, too. Tarsnap is the kind of thing that could become a ubiquitous sysadmin tool, if done right!
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by rw 17y ago
Evolution doesn't optimize for babies; it's a blind idiot god, optimizing for F, where F is an arbitrary fitness function.
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by rw 17y ago
That's complicated by the trend towards cronyism.
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by rw 17y ago
Look up the ML language :-)
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by rw 17y ago
"The next step is to see if this is enough to restore the vision of the blind mice [..] Baby mice with the same injury to the optic nerve repair the damage without intervention." The implications of the research are awesome, but the way the
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by rw 17y ago
It's called a work slowdown and is an effective bargaining tool, especially when strikes are disallowed (e.g. public servants, medical practitioners).
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by rw 17y ago
You are not in trade school. Take control of your life :-) Most things in CS are able to be studied both empirically and theoretically. For example, Scott Aaronson is a CS theorist at MIT who has admitted to doing just a little BASIC progra
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by rw 17y ago
No, the difference is this: extroverts regain energy by being around others, whereas introverts need to be alone.
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by rw 17y ago
"Introverts tend to think about what they want to say before they say it. If it’s already been said by someone else, we don’t feel the need to say it again." Does this imply that extroverts don't? Did I sleep through this lecture in False D
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by rw 17y ago
I'm suggesting that you run all of your trades with play money, and see how it goes. I'm not talking about Monte Carlo simulations.
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by rw 17y ago
A strategy: run a LOT of simulations, keep running them every day. When they are too good to ignore, go raise some capital.
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by rw 17y ago
While we wait for the market to decide, years might pass, and in the meantime we're stuck with a suboptimal solution.
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The Reduceron: Functional Programming on FPGA(cs.york.ac.uk)
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by rw 17y ago
I have found that when ENTPs meet, we have a very productive and exciting sense of camaraderie.
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by rw 17y ago
In practice, maybe by the end of college. How can we help people figure figure how they learn, while they can benefit from it the most?
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by rw 17y ago
Sorry, dupe detector failed on this one.
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Phrack #66 (June 11 2009)(phrack.org)
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by rw 17y ago
> "Actually, this being a democracy, there is nobody to blame but the electorate. Especially the left-liberal do-gooders." ...
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by rw 17y ago
I want to know what the ratio of "junior developers" to "MIT PhDs" is. As an economics+machine-learning+software-engineering autodidact, I firmly believe that I am qualified to provide insights in high-frequency trading; but, the impression
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Designing and Using Combinators: The Essence of Functional Programming(math.chalmers.se)
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Hermit life-insurance policy.
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Kernel Summit 2009: How Google uses Linux(lwn.net)
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The author was a professional journalist.
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by rw 17y ago
The sensible response is: "show me ". Quantum effects are not known to be significant. I believe that our mind is an emergent property: lots of neurons and chemicals interacting. Sure, there are a lot of variables, we need the dynamical s
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by rw 17y ago
You'll probably get farther with self-study. I suggest picking a field or two (discrete mathematics, number theory, graph theory, topology, and abstract algebra are probably the most useful and accessible ones to you right now) and then mee
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by rw 17y ago
This problem is what originally got me interested in computational complexity. Everybody knows about the halting problem; but the Busy Beaver, now that's a clever and weird idea! The growth rate of Sigma(n) is ridiculous. Studying this illu
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by rw 17y ago
More generally, I think that we don't have a good mental model of how Google is searching. It used to be straightforward, almost like Git, which won't make any "clever" merges. Google, as a tool, is on the decline because it's not comprehen
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by rw 17y ago
From my experience, the syntactic gap is wider than the semantic one. I suggest first, perhaps, translating Python into faux S-exprs (should be easy, given the indentation style). From there one might emphasize declarative vs. imperative, a
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by rw 17y ago
Wolfram|Alpha uses algorithmic computation ! Sign me up! "Wolfram|Alpha uses a unique paradigm for modeling data, based on algorithmic computation, that allows for implicit relationships among the data and the emergence of new knowledge."
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by rw 17y ago
More accurate titles: Dean Kamen's Cyborg Arm Dean Kamen's Cybernetic Prosthesis

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