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by swordswinger12 15y ago
Relative to other agencies, the pay is good. Relative to any equivalent job in the private sector, not so much.
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by swordswinger12 15y ago
15:50 for the cannon in action.
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by swordswinger12 15y ago
It's a great beginning tutorial in python. I've been coding C/C++ for ~4 years, and when I went through LPTHW, I found it frustratingly oversimplified.
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by swordswinger12 15y ago
This could've helped me last week. I was pulling my hair out debugging a CUDA implementation of the SHA3 candidate BLAKE, and after a full week of debugging the same 70 lines (and one complete rewrite) the issue turned out to be most-signif
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by swordswinger12 15y ago
She was also inspiration for one of my favorite SMBCs: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2516
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by swordswinger12 15y ago
False. Have you ever played the CSPAN drinking game?
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by swordswinger12 15y ago
To add to the myriad criticisms, I would only point out that quantum computation was first proposed in 1982 by the late great Richard Feynman, not by Deutsch.
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by swordswinger12 15y ago
The reddit hivemind does something ferociously stupid that makes all internet users look like drooling morons -- is this news to people?
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by swordswinger12 15y ago
Shameless piggybacking: Also look into the work that complexity theorists have done with quantum complexity classes like BQP.
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by swordswinger12 15y ago
I'm not sure how to parse your request. "explain the algorithms with code instead of math" is what's tripping me up, what exactly are you looking for? Algorithms are often described as pseudocode, so you want a book that explains pseudocode
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by swordswinger12 15y ago
That has to be one of the most tortured opening metaphors I've ever seen in a tech news story. Could they really not come up with an analogy more elegant than, "This building over here is pretty big, but this building is REALLY BIG!!!!"?
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by swordswinger12 15y ago
Of course not, but if we accept as axiomatic that corrupt people will exploit anything they can, then whose fault is it when the exploitation occurs?
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by swordswinger12 15y ago
Taking advantage of a broken system to make a profit isn't demonic, it's capitalism. People and companies respond to incentives, so if we want these types of companies to cease to exist we must destroy the incentives that caused them to exi
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by swordswinger12 15y ago
Make it a category instead and you don't have to worry either way.
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by swordswinger12 15y ago
A similar theorem exists in probability theory, called the Lovasz local lemma. I think the goal of rjpilton's analysis was to do things using elementary methods. That said, you might be able to use your approach for a quick and dirty approx
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by swordswinger12 15y ago
Perhaps I missed it in the description, but are there any timing results that you could share?
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by swordswinger12 15y ago
Eh, give CNN some credit. They could've done a whole lot worse, that article did a decent job of presenting both sides.
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by swordswinger12 15y ago
You say you do this stuff for a living - Could I pick your brain about your job/experience/education? What is the best way to contact you?
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by swordswinger12 15y ago
This is apropos of nothing, but it's nice to see L. Jean Camp represent my alma mater.
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by swordswinger12 15y ago
Pulled that one right out of the ol' keester, huh?
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by swordswinger12 15y ago
See the entire field of number theory for something that didn't have applications when it was conceived. Gauss, Euler and the other early number theorists were essentially just amusing themselves with stuff like the phi function. Then crypt
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by swordswinger12 15y ago
I don't know if preprocessor macros are the best way to unit test C. There are fully featured (and free) unit testing suites out there for c/c++, Boost comes immediately to mind. No need to re-invent the wheel, especially not when there is
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by swordswinger12 15y ago
I'm sorry... what? A person wishing another person is raped daily is not violent? Did somebody plan another Opposite day and not tell me again?
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by swordswinger12 15y ago
Obvious troll is obvious. 7 people should not have fallen for this sub-4chan-level stupidity.
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by swordswinger12 15y ago
Cool, thanks.
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by swordswinger12 15y ago
Does this book assume/need knowledge of Ruby?
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by swordswinger12 15y ago
0x18f45bea 0x27b48f5f 0x90ff48a5 Good luck, that should get you started.
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by swordswinger12 15y ago
The book 'Crypto' by Levy is also good.