thomasdullien

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by thomasdullien 6y ago
Cool, updated the profile.
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by thomasdullien 6y ago
(The reason Google has an office here is because Urs Hölzle studied at ETH at knew people here.)
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by thomasdullien 6y ago
FWIW: I am a 2nd-time entrepreneur. I bootstrapped a company in Germany from 2004-2011, and sold it to Google then. As part of that I moved to Switzerland. I started another company in early 2018 in Zurich, believing the hype about it being
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by thomasdullien 6y ago
Man, thank you for writing the last paragraph. I looked at Rust, I quite like the language, I think it gets a million things right and is a substantial improvement over existing languages, but ... every time I point out that Rust does not
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by thomasdullien 6y ago
Yeah, the (ro)BDD comparison really is missing; those would be the default data structure I'd reach for for such a problem.
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by thomasdullien 6y ago
s/cherry picking/showing an example with interesting properties that is different from France/g So this is actually where the discussion should go: What properties does the Swiss wealth tax have (particularly in the wider t
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by thomasdullien 6y ago
Perhaps notable: Switzerland has a wealth tax (of up to 0.3%), and there is zero evidence that this has any deterrent effect on wealthy people settling in Switzerland or startups being created in Switzerland. Other features of the tax syste
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by thomasdullien 6y ago
There are also cultural factors about how you present your work. GC Rota wrote about the mathematics culture in the 50's that European and US researchers worked similar amounts, but the Europeans took great care to present an image of
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by thomasdullien 7y ago
When speaking about "competitiveness", what measures aside from current account balance and share of global exports is better suited? Not to be snarky, but you can't do any reading in economics about competitiveness and not
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by thomasdullien 7y ago
The "reduces their ability to compete"-argument does not hold water considering the data, though. One useful measure of a countries competitiveness is the size of their exports (because it implies that there is a lot of foreign de
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by thomasdullien 7y ago
While I am also walking down memory lane -- writing recursive SoftICE macros so that one could make SoftICE single-step 50k times and write the log to a file.
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by thomasdullien 7y ago
For those that like the history of the Cracking scene - there was a set of binary-patching SoftICE extensions called "nticedump" and "icedump". They were pretty nuts, too - one reverse engineer got annoyed by his music p
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by thomasdullien 8y ago
Perhaps this is a stupid question, and someone please enlighten me - but would not the vast majority of JVM deployments be on either CentOS or Debian-derived base images with good support for an OpenJDK package? I thought that the main diff
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RAND study on lifetime of zero day exploits(rand.org)
2 points by thomasdullien 10y ago|0 comments
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by thomasdullien 10y ago
Given that the last layer of a NN is a logistic regression, they are in fact well-calibrated probabilities under the assumption disjoint classes. The issue at hand is training them on overlapping classes :-) I will shut up now, sorry for
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by thomasdullien 10y ago
Given the intense regulatory pressure (especially in the EU) that Google is finding itself under, this is unsurprising. The TPP would greatly help in easing 3 strategic concerns, which are: 1) Data protection regulation that would severely
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by thomasdullien 10y ago
The EU under their new data protection regulation: http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/The-implications-for-s...
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Why Wassenaar exploit legislation makes surveillance easier(addxorrol.blogspot.com)
2 points by thomasdullien 11y ago|0 comments
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by thomasdullien 12y ago
You may wish to try both single- and double-sided hammering. If you hit the right row size it is significantly more effective: https://github.com/google/rowhammer-test/blob/master/double_...
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by thomasdullien 12y ago
Single-sided or double-sided hammering?
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by thomasdullien 12y ago
Remember that there is a github repo with code you can use to test your specific Hardware. Why not run it & post results?
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by thomasdullien 15y ago
Seconded. In theory, a manager could veto a 20% project, but I have never heard of it happen. I personally think "managerial approval" is just for 3 things: 1) If someone decides to do something wrong/illegal as 20% project, the manager s
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by thomasdullien 15y ago
I'd rephrase this: "Social is the more general form of PageRank". If you think about PageRank in it's original form, it harnessed a social signal (linking to a site) to provide better search results. Degrees of pages in the graph-of-all-pag