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Ok, for a second-year course that's pretty impressive. I don't know why, I was expecting a postgrad-level course
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yeah, I guess I was expecting postgrad-level stuff on things that are curious to people who finished a CS education
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When you think further, you'll realize that almost all laws meant to rule out certain actions don't actually make it impossible for people to do them. Concretely re your question: yes, such a conspiracy is conceivable, however, su
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> (i) ideas that are non-obvious , even to the well-trained computer scientist > In the first lesson, they discuss consistent hashing, and they seem to have achieved their goals. I was really excited when I read your comment here bef
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Frankly, this sounds more like wishful thinking to me. The sort of extremely high-level positions you're talking about there is maybe going to affect a handful of individuals, if at all.[0] But that's irrelevant for the average gr
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Great question, would be great to have a general "HN for other professions" thread! One that I can share is econjobrumors.com, but I also have to strongly warn about it. It's a forum for econ PhD students and academics to dis
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> nothing shows that it has open-ended potential to revolutionize computation Well, we do know that P <= BQP <= PSCPACE, and we have one important example that lies in BQP but not in P (for all we know). It's just not clear ho
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> Seriously, I propose a compromise. Europeans give up decimal comma and US gives up imperial measurements. Everyone wins. +1
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> Doesn't it make sense for some things to divide by 3 and 4, like a year, so that a season is 3 months long, instead of 2.5 months long (as in the old 10-month year system, ending in December)? The metric system also uses twelve mo
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Weird, I've had the opposite experience with Proton - I was able to recover an account with insufficient recovery info after having forgotten the password (100% my fault) after a quite thororough process. I've also completely lost
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Fyi, an imho more illustrative example why we should think in terms of expected utility than expected cash flows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Petersburg_paradox tl;dr: doubling winnings on each throw of heads and
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Looks great! I've been dreaming about something that lets me use a headband and reads brainwaves to interact with a computer for a long time. Every 4-5 years I look into what's been happening on that front, but so far it seems lik
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In the same sense that moving to PoS is 'not a big issue'. The Bitcoin protocol, using PoW and quantum-vulnerable keys, is defined in the Whitepaper and can't move anywhere. People in the Bitcoin community can move to a new p
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Young technologies can progress exponentially (Moore's law, Wright's law,...) with the right factors in place, so be careful when extrapolating progress over the next decade using the last decade. How much progress in neural-netwo
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I would have responded that the security of the original Bitcoin protocol will likely have been rendered void by quantum computers long before the full supply has been minted.
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> The company admitted in a statement to the German website 24auto.de that it used pyrotechnics to ignite the fire. Despicable. Somewhat ironically, it's remeniscant of the demonstrations that Edison staged to spur panic about the d
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It's an interesting thesis, but I'm a bit confused by your methodology - how can you propose a law without looking at any data yourself? You just seem to collect a few unrelated observations ("librarians have observed X"
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Aren't you just rephrasing the GP's point? If social media was "sticky", users would suck up the poor UX and missing features and stick with platform X because 'that's where everyone is'. The fact that use
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There's infinitely more than one way to turn a list of numbers into one number, not just summing them up. In some countries you serve the maximum sentence out of all those that you've been convicted for.
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I'm not an expert on the German research landscape, but I think it works a bit like that there, that the big shots work at Max Planck, Helmholtz,... institutes. Would be funny if the US followed Germany there, since the current academi
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Interesting finding. An immediate question that I would have was how did the language in the rejected proposals change? If we see more 'groundbreaking' adjectives today, this could mean different things: either the NHS has shifted
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Code executions reflect intentions, transactions are final. As promised on a blockchain. Let's see if it stays that way, wouldn't be the first time if not.
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Who's saying they (some of them) won't? At least build something similar? There are legal, financial and operational hurdles, but ultimately, there's little fundamentally keeping people from coding up a new mobile app.
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I've always wondered how those recruiting studies where they send out a lot of fake resumes that differ only on one attribute play out for the other side. That was my first thought, but your experience might also be something different
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Interesting quotes, can you add the source?
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> Texas' exclusion list of so-called Annex I companies also includes BNP Paribas SA, Credit Suisse AG, Danske Bank A/S, Jupiter Fund Management PLC, Nordea Bank Abp, Schroders PLC, Svenska Handelsbanken AB (publ), Swedbank AB (
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> However, both elevated CRP and higher fasting insulin are correlated with obesity, so controlling for these variables seems misleading. Well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicollinearity Summary: highly correla
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> Starship's engines use methane. Very little black carbon produced. What's your point? Methane has about 25x the global warming potential of CO2: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/ind
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If you have a separate DevOps role in your org, arguably you're not doing DevOps. So probably most orgs aren't doing DevOps, at least those that are talking about it.
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The GP said 140k was at or above the average, while the data suggests that it's an extreme outlier. But tbh I struggle to believe it even for senior roles at a SV start-up. Do you know what the reasoning was for paying so far above the

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