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by thisisdave 12y ago
That makes sense. Thanks
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by thisisdave 12y ago
I feel like I'm missing something. I haven't used databases much, but don't most SQL implementations already "figure out" the most efficient way to perform queries? Can't most implementations already perform qu
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by thisisdave 12y ago
If someone buys gold from this machine, potential thieves can guarantee that they'll be carrying at least $255, which is way more than most people take from ATMs.
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by thisisdave 12y ago
Several of those features sound a lot like iTunes Match.
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by thisisdave 12y ago
>I prefer not to BSD-license my works because then copyright could be used against me to take my rights from me. Can you elaborate on this point? I don't know what you're referring to.
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by thisisdave 12y ago
>with better asymptotic probabilistic bounds than simulated annealing This seems unlikely to me. The Metropolis algorithm is just simulated annealing with a constant temperature. Which means that simulated annealing includes Metropolis
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by thisisdave 12y ago
Not sure if you can see the whole thing, but you can see big chunks of it by selecting an advanced concept and clicking the graph button in the sidebar. Example: http://www.metacademy.org/graphs/concepts/sequential
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by thisisdave 12y ago
I thought that sentence was referring specifically to vulnerable certificates.
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by thisisdave 13y ago
I don't think this is a response to a recently-disclosed weakness in OpenSSL. The project has been active for almost four years. Minor edit: almost four years
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by thisisdave 13y ago
This isn't my area, but why would Yahoo even have plaintext passwords in the first place? Shouldn't they only have hashes?
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by thisisdave 13y ago
My understanding is that Bell's inequality is a little more devastating for hidden variable theories. To make hidden variable theories work, you don't just need spooky action at a distance: you need that spooky action to travel f
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by thisisdave 13y ago
My recollection is that, for a given point size, Garamond uses fewer pages, not just less ink. I often switched from Times New Roman to Garamond when I needed to squeeze extra text in under the page limit, back when I was in school.
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by thisisdave 13y ago
I believe this[1] is the paper (paywalled). From the abstract: >we deposited 572 bags with uncontaminated dry leaf litter from four species of trees in the leaf litter layer at 20 forest sites around Chernobyl that varied in background r
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by thisisdave 13y ago
I think we're quite a few orders of magnitude short of that. "Disintegrated" or "aerosolized" are probably closer.
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by thisisdave 13y ago
It was founded by Aaron Swartz. It played a big role in the fight against SOPA/PIPA. That's all I know about it.
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by thisisdave 13y ago
>It did not control for many factors that may be relevant (e.g. smoking). Unless I'm misreading the polifact article you linked to in [2], it says that the 2009 study did control for smoking, and that they did a better job of cont
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by thisisdave 13y ago
>As for contrastive divergence with Restricted Boltzmann Machines overcoming the vanishing gradient problem. That's true, but has anyone even tried doing this with 7-bit floating point and demonstrated it even works? I wasn't r
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by thisisdave 13y ago
>Neural networks? See The Vanishing Gradient Problem. For what it's worth, Geoff Hinton and others have had a lot of success in the last few years by intentionally injecting noise into their neural network computations. The best-k
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by thisisdave 13y ago
Yes, but it's been largely displaced by digital computation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer
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by thisisdave 13y ago
>Frequentists take the view that you should fix the parameters and integrate over the data. That is kind of weird to me. Integrating over the data makes a lot of sense during methods development. If you're the inventor of some algo
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by thisisdave 13y ago
For those that don't know: a Bayesian optimization approach based on Gaussian processes has been implemented in Python by the author of that paper [0]. Here's a nice blog post with some information on some problems it can run into
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by thisisdave 13y ago
Is it really that unfortunate? I've never noticed any color issues on my iPad 2. I don't use it for any color-intensive content creation, but in several years of use it never even occurred to me that there might be a problem with
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by thisisdave 13y ago
But that covers all days of the year, right? So the corresponding number for just Black Friday would probably be 0 or 1 deaths by lightning.