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by sn41 6y ago
Yep. "As far as we know..." is usually required as a qualification.
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by sn41 6y ago
Interesting that you say this. I am thinking of running a python course online, and have programmed a 200-line battleship game with TkInter, since I think it is game that is engaging even when you play against a fairly straightforward compu
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by sn41 6y ago
It seems that in Polynesia, South Pacific and traditional Hawaii, the leaders in society were ideally fat and massive. My guess is that these were the people who were better suited to survival on long voyages across the Pacific.
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by sn41 6y ago
I agree with this view. The statement "you are not that smart" is true and blunt in the case of everyone without exception, but it is useless. A gentle feedback sugarcoating some of the flaws might help the listener.
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by sn41 6y ago
Sacha Chua's emacs videos on YouTube are a treat. Highly recommended for the great interviews, of one emacs enthusiast talking to other emacs enthusiasts.
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by sn41 6y ago
Does it need to be plaintext though? Just a theoretical possibility: They can maintain hashes of potentially offensive passwords. You then need to just compare hashes. This is somewhat like registering all domains which can harm your reputa
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by sn41 6y ago
UI translators as well.
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by sn41 6y ago
It's disturbing that we are being told to learn to live with the virus when there is such a high risk of contraction.
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by sn41 6y ago
Very few content-creators get a fair royalty. DRM is mostly about publisher wealth, not creator wealth. I think selling books for 25 cents etc. can result in massive sales. There is a middle-ground between selling overpriced editions with s
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by sn41 6y ago
I sometimes wish I have the presence of mind to add the dry remark -"I agree that that's your opinion." The one time I was able to actually pull it off, it deflated the jerk.
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by sn41 6y ago
This is really a great coincidence. I was talking to a friend of mine two days ago about code that we have read for pleasure. I said that the Doom source code was so surprising because the logic was so clean and elegant. One felt that the c
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by sn41 6y ago
Yeah, this is pretty horrible. Many applications try to be friendly and show a Hindi webpage just because you are in India or in particular, Northern India. India has around 25 major languages, and people from all over the country work in a
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by sn41 6y ago
The title is backwards. It should be that AI models are wrong. Not that a given AI model is a gold standard that human behavior is failing to live up to.
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by sn41 6y ago
In the US, for-profit education (Univ. of Phoenix-type) is equally bad. I think there is a report by former Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) from circa 2011 on this. [1] But almost no US educational institute is for-profit, many run on endowment
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by sn41 6y ago
There is a crisp answer: the disparity in pay between the tech sector and teaching jobs. When you get 3-4 times the pay in a software job, only the desperate and the dedicated opt for teaching. That is a recipe for disaster. Dedicated teach
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by sn41 6y ago
In the Indian context, what matters today is not _what_ the degree is, but _where_ the degree is from. Some historical perspective as I recall it: even as late as the late 1990s, there were very few engineering colleges in India, and a B.E.
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by sn41 6y ago
Sure, you're right about safety and conciseness. But C/C++ implementations maintain fidelity to the complexity analyses found in the algorithm literature. Amortized analysis in Okasaki-style OCaml implementations does not really
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by sn41 6y ago
I know this is a favorite idea that is often quoted. But as a plodding person doing research in CS, I don't find that programming enhances big-level understanding. It may refine some of the nuances one does not notice in the first pas
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by sn41 6y ago
That definitely clears up a long-standing doubt caused by a lesson in computational geometry - how does Roomba know when it is done cleaning a room? It seems that the simple answer is that it doesn't.
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by sn41 6y ago
In addition to a do-not-disturb list, can we have a nationally curated list of scamsters and aggressive ngos? The blacklist on my phone is now nearly 25 long. As an analogy, it is precisely this kind of a distributed tracking and control of
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by sn41 6y ago
1. If the data is collected anonymously, why is the mobile number required? 2. What if an employee has only a feature phone, not a smartphone?
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by sn41 6y ago
The Ramsey number R(m,n) is the minimum size of a fully connected graph with edges colored red or blue such that there is either an m-sized blue clique or an n-sized red clique. R(3,3) is 6, which is stated as every group of 6 having 3 mutu
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by sn41 6y ago
Indian, living in India presently, who lived in the US for almost a decade. I can relate a strange experience: I was never severely bedridden by flu or viral fever in India. I caught the flu during my stay in the US one February. I was so w
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by sn41 7y ago
The greatest and in some sense heartbreaking admission of error I know of, is Frege's letter to Bertrand Russell: https://sites.tufts.edu/histmath/files/2015/11/Frege-Letter-... Russell himself says
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by sn41 7y ago
Slashdot is one for the ages. I quit cold when I realized I was a karma addict. It was the first website which I kept open in a tab and hit refresh on. I also came to love penny arcade and the filthy movie reviews linked off slashdot homepa
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by sn41 7y ago
This is an older Guardian long read on the 2016 developments https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/12/facebook-...
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by sn41 7y ago
India has good free speech protections by law. In practice, there is very little tolerance.
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by sn41 7y ago
And India's fight against Facebook's walled garden, the Round 1 of which, it had won so admirably in 2016, now faces a setback. With this, and the crumbling of BSNL, a good part of India's telecom infrastrucure is now contro
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by sn41 7y ago
I wish this kind of hard bargaining is postponed till the present crisis is over. A lot of poor people in the world are eager to get back to their normal lives and livelihoods. WHO has been proactive, even though late, in co-ordinating with
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by sn41 7y ago
I agree - there is a great book by Paul Nahin. I bought it since I wanted to understand how someone got the idea of using complex numbers in electrical engineering. But I have found the book to be very hard to skim. I really have to work al

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