southerndrift

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by southerndrift 8y ago
Life is not a race. Either nobody is judging you for your choices or whoever is judging you doesn't have the right to do so. If you ask yourself what you want to do instead of asking yourself what you want to achieve, the conflicts tha
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I guess because VC is, as the article says, all about providing smart money. Old founders have their network so VCs are focused on young founders.
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Think of data centers as huge mainframes and we will soon come close.
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>As human beings speaking English it is quite trivial to understand that a “dog” is an “animal” and that is more similar to a “cat” than to a “dolphin” but this task is far from easy to be solved in a systematic way. Are they? A dog can
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The twist is that you have to do it that way to get the jobs done that nobody would do if UBI were available.
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Hopefully you could enjoy the irony of the situation.
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by southerndrift 8y ago
Some days ago: We can confirm that there was a successful 51% attack on Ethereum Classic [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18849961 The value of crypto currencies is strongly linked to the available processing po
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by southerndrift 8y ago
The link to the article on slide 26: Suggestions For Giving Talks - Robert Geroch (Enrico Fermi Institute) https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9703019
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by southerndrift 8y ago
How about using plain files? With files, you have the entire operating system at your disposal to manage them. You can organize them however you see fit with folders. If you are using links, you can also create additional hierarchies. If yo
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The ratio between goals and people is not 1:1. With enough specialization, everybody can become the best in one specific topic. That's the game most phd students play.
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How do you clean one hand without the other? If you don't have soap, wouldn't cleaning hands actually increase the risk of infections?
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> it takes more research, time, and effort all of which they decided was beneath them Or it's above them and they fell victim to a Dunning-Kruger situation?
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Don't programmer do this when they create a prototype and reiterate from there until they have a fully functional product? Unlike painting, programming can refactor parts and rearrange everything. There is no need for an additional ske
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If you speak French or German, there is this recent documentary about China linking up its villages to e-commerce [1]. The presented village specialized in silver manufacturing. The example supports your thesis that some form of specializat
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So, bring back tribal structures where everything is structured with child-relations. If every tribe has its private school(s), there is no need to fight for spending on public schools. With the internet at hand, are there any structures th
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by southerndrift 8y ago
I assume Google is looking for people who absolutely want to work at Google. Making the process cumbersome allows them to get candidates who stay at the company even if they have to do work that they don't like.
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Though: >Eventually, though, and with the help of Eli Stein and Tom Wolff, I managed to decode the steps which had mystified me – and my impression of the paper reversed completely. If he hasn't managed to do this on his own, how sh
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by southerndrift 8y ago
The answer is in the blog comments: >Dear Terry, >Have you ever considered writing a blog post on “Bourgain’s toolbox” summarizing the kinds of techniques used continually (without explanation) in his papers? >[...] Tao's fina
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by southerndrift 8y ago
> I began to realise that Jean had a certain collection of tools, heuristics, and principles that he regarded as “basic”, such as dyadic decomposition and the uncertainty principle, and by working “modulo” these tools (that is, by regard
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On Android, you already have this since you can install apps directly. There is no dedicated open store, but nobody is preventing developers from publishing their Android apps on their homepage.
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>Do not attempt to register a new developer account. Any new accounts will be closed and your developer registration fee will not be refunded. We recommend that you use an alternative method for distributing your apps in the future. If t
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On the one hand, Scheme has an even smaller set of primitives than C. On the other hand, it's far more difficult to construct the larger whole from those primitives. Additionally, you have all the problems from the compiler when you ha
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by southerndrift 8y ago
Compared to C, Python is the better choice. However, it seems like you haven't learned a Lisp dialect. I would love to know if you would still prefer Python once you know Scheme.
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She got more confidence and experience. That makes her a better leader in her next job. She moved on and chances are that she got a better job because she could convince somebody that she can succeed in a difficult environment.
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>(A2DP) [...] is usually highly buffered, so it switches over to the headset profile (HSP). Thanks for this information. That explains why it is reasonable to drop the audio quality.
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Eclipse can do it both ways. There is no need to look at a line if there is just one class to choose from. If the line is important, i will look at it. But the first priority is to get it running.
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Yes, that didn't work as expected.
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If you copy-paste some code, Eclipse can manage the imports with one command (ctrl-shift-o if i remember correctly). In Idea, I haven't found a better way than to visit each line that has a new type and import each class with alt-enter
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I guess they mean that there is still the gap between molecules and perception. There is no concept for pain and thus no explanation of how Ibuprofen changes the perception of pain. That said, how do you exactly point out that an explanatio
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Some time ago, I came across the Wikipedia page of Naples [1]: * >The University of Naples, the first university in Europe dedicated to training secular administrators, * >Naples became part of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861 as part of

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