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by tgflynn 6y ago
If there's an efficient algorithm for solving NP-complete problems then 99% of current cryptography would be broken. Only one-time-pads would still be secure. But don't worry, if that happens the world would be so different there
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by tgflynn 6y ago
> One of the things you don't get crazy answers for is classified, but fully human craft. If the craft involved in the Nimitz incident were human then I would be even more puzzled by their behavior because I think I have a pretty go
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by tgflynn 6y ago
> First, that there's something inherently different about NP-complete problems, and the proof would tell us exactly what. The way I see it NP problems require exponential time by default. The reason some of them can be solved in p
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by tgflynn 6y ago
If you mash together every claim that has ever been made about UFO's like you're doing here you certainly arrive at an absurd picture. However not all claims are equally credible by a long shot. For example while there are certa
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by tgflynn 6y ago
It might help if you could be more specific. It's difficult to offer advice without knowing what kinds of problems you are talking about. Many programming problems are in fact trivial and it's not surprising that an experienced
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by tgflynn 6y ago
As far as I can tell these letters were signed by only 2 members of Congress. As such the title "Letters from House Democrats" seems misleading. That title suggests to me that some substantially representative fraction of the Ho
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by tgflynn 6y ago
Power plants in the Northeast don't go down when the weather gets cold.
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by tgflynn 6y ago
People are different. I was overweight by the time I became aware of my existence.
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by tgflynn 6y ago
They reference the war zone article, which contains the relevant quote but nothing in the vice article that I could find directly states that the experiment failed to confirm the effect. The text you quote certainly does not. EDIT: I don&#
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by tgflynn 6y ago
This article conveniently omits the most important of the Navy's recent statements on this topic: "When NAWCAD concluded testing in September 2019, the “Pais Effect” could not be proven." Source: https://www.thedri
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by tgflynn 6y ago
> it makes a pretty bold claim (i.e. that a human physically came back from the dead) which, if true, is remarkable regardless of faith tradition It is not terribly uncommon for humans who were thought to be dead to later exhibit signs o
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by tgflynn 6y ago
It's a small amount of money for any physics experiment and absolutely tiny by the standards of government expenditure. I don't have a problem with them having done the experiment, I have a problem with the fact that they prematur
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by tgflynn 6y ago
Is it still the case that W-2's are usually only provided in paper form ? If they would just e-mail a (non-scanned) PDF you could extract the data easily without having to deal with OCR.
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by tgflynn 6y ago
What exactly is your question and how do you define a "negative cycle" ? EDIT: More specifically what property of a "negative cycle" do you want to check ?
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by tgflynn 6y ago
Thanks. I don't understand why they didn't include a github link on the website.
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by tgflynn 6y ago
This is interesting but it's still invasive to the extent that it requires a blood sample. I think it would be very useful if it were possible to do some form of in vivo spectroscopy, probably either IR or NMR. Does anyone know of any
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by tgflynn 6y ago
I think this must depend very much on the laptop. I have a Dell Inspiron that's been running Ubuntu for several years and I haven't noticed any significant issues with sleep/wake.
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by tgflynn 6y ago
I'm having trouble reconciling your first and second paragraphs. The first paragraph states that program analysis is PSPACE complete in the size of the program while the second appears to be saying that it is EXPTIME. But it is not k
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by tgflynn 6y ago
Maybe, but none of that has much to do with this article. Right now "ready access to quantum computation" is more dependent on experimental physics than complexity theory and the kind of work that complexity theorists do that migh
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by tgflynn 6y ago
Note that this is an oracle result, which has about zero relevance to anything in our universe (because oracles don't exist in our universe). It is of purely theoretical interest to complexity theorists. In our universe it remains unk
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by tgflynn 6y ago
I'm wondering how scientists are able to keep these miniature brains alive when we still lack effective artificial replacements for many human organ functions that are essential for life. How far are we from being able to transplant a
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by tgflynn 6y ago
I think that would depend on what inputs that brain received and perhaps whether its outputs were able to affect its environment. What if that brain were interfaced to a mechanical robot that could not be affected by disease and would be es
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by tgflynn 6y ago
I'm not sure why the author thinks this particular issue is so politically important. It seems to me that a far more important fact, that seems to be getting little media attention, is that the number of excess deaths from all causes
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by tgflynn 6y ago
I think it depends a great deal on what type of data you're talking about. If it's a magazine article then yes it's essentially a stream of text and 2D formatting is probably secondary. However if it's tabular data the
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by tgflynn 6y ago
If the data is fundamentally 1D then why is it arranged with insets and multiple columns ? I think the answer is that it's arranged that way because that arrangement makes it easier for humans to interpret. Because humans prefer to se
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by tgflynn 6y ago
It seems like your complaint is that 2 dimensional data is more difficult to work with than 1 dimensional data, not a problem with the format itself.
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by tgflynn 6y ago
How is PDF "machine hostile" ? It's well documented and trivial to extract text from (ie. pdftotext).
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by tgflynn 6y ago
The First Amendment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_...
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by tgflynn 6y ago
In a world where screens are everywhere who needs printers ? I doubt I've printed out more than 100 documents in the last 20 years. There are still a few legacy areas where nothing else will do like legal procedures and shipping labels
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by tgflynn 6y ago
There's also the point that the DoD has officially stated that it considers the objects in these videos to be unidentified. Unfortunately they haven't provided more information on how they reached that conclusion, but one would t

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