throwawaymath

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   by throwawaymath 8y ago

   As a little aside here, gaussian distributions aren't really that common. Even if we put ignore splitting hairs about "true" Gaussian versus approximate Gaussian (which would just be pedantic), Gaussian distributions seem t
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   by throwawaymath 8y ago

   If you'd like more evidence of what I'm saying, read Smart Cards, Tokens, Security and Applications or Secure Smart Embedded Devices, Platforms and Applications . Both are graduate textbooks covering smart card design and devel
3. 1533.▲
   by throwawaymath 8y ago

   Why doesn't picking up a phone fit into your workflow?
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   by throwawaymath 8y ago

   Smart cards are tamper resistant by definition. See https://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~dinoj/smartcard/security.htm... .
5. 1535.▲
   by throwawaymath 8y ago

   Your email is not in your profile :)
6. 1536.▲
   by throwawaymath 8y ago

   Of course, that may very well be a possibility. In that case I'll have to scale up the effort.
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   by throwawaymath 8y ago

   All over. It's not strictly weather data, either. The majority of the data comes from programs within DSCOVR, LPDAAC, NASA, NOAA, NCDC, USGS, ARGO, CDC, CDIAC ORNL, DOE, EIA, EPA, FDA, EOSWEB, USFS, PHMSA and USDA. The snapshots I have
8. 1538.▲
   by throwawaymath 8y ago

   Thanks for expressing interest...I'll respond in order. > - At the risk of birthing a page-long subthread on ZFS-vs-everything-else... what storage solution are you using, and why? Right now, XFS and HDFS. This is primarily due to
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   by throwawaymath 8y ago

   I'm in the exploratory stages of starting a noncommercial project focused on hosting, processing and serving a vast amount of climate data for scientists and researchers. I've "seeded" this project with my own bare metal
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    by throwawaymath 8y ago

    > Internally, hedge funds backtest against measures such as IR (information ratio) and not against returns. IR penalizes for volatility and rewards consistency. Hedge funds are not a homogenous enough group to make a blanket statement
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    by throwawaymath 8y ago

    I understand that, but I don't think it's useful to use use the term "I/O" in the theoretical sense of the concurrency problem. It's also not typical nomenclature - for example, see https://stackover
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    by throwawaymath 8y ago

    The reason why I pointed this out to you is because the site guidelines used to have a rule against signing comments, and I was operating on that assumption. I'm frankly surprised it's not in the current version, but you can see
13. 1543.▲
    by throwawaymath 8y ago

    Wait what? I'm using "I/O bound" in the sense of CPU operations waiting on reads/writes to e.g. a disk. If you consider an operation waiting on the cache to be I/O bound, what do you consider to be CPU bound or
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    by throwawaymath 8y ago

    I think there's a credible argument that it's not purely consensual. Websites are forced to allow search engines with a lot of market share to scrape them or they won't be found. No matter how well-intentioned you are, if you
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    by throwawaymath 8y ago

    Speaking as someone who uses Python with half a terabyte of memory, I think you're underestimating how much memory these labs will use. In my experience most HPC architecture is optimized first by rewriting the code in the same (alread
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    by throwawaymath 8y ago

    Hey I don't mean to be a jerk, but please don't sign your name on every comment you write. Your username is right there, if I want to know who you are I can just look up a centimeter from your comment.
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    by throwawaymath 8y ago

    In my defense, it's a very pretty watch. But rest assured - given your demonstrably comprehensive knowledge of my altruistic habits, I'll make a note to consult with you about which particular lives I should deign to save the ne
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    by throwawaymath 8y ago

    It seems like you can't get past the idea that you're buying something expensive and ostensibly not doing anything with it. Consider it like this: if you were to buy a Rothko, you would not be able to do anything with your new pai
19. 1549.▲
    by throwawaymath 8y ago

    There are conferences and meetups you can go to for the purpose of hanging out with other watch collectors and geeking out about watch features. Buying the watch is not the hobby, wearing it is.
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    by throwawaymath 8y ago

    1815 38.5mm in white gold, model 235.026. Funny you say that, because at the time I was torn between the Lange and a Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Ultra Thin, model 130842J. I like the form factor and complications of the JLC, but the simplicity
21. 1551.▲
    by throwawaymath 8y ago

    I own a $25,000 Lange & Söhne. While watches are a time-honored way of signaling, I didn't buy it to show off. I've actually never met anyone who recognized it, and off the top of my head I can't remember ever even gettin
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    by throwawaymath 8y ago

    Successful exit.
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    by throwawaymath 8y ago

    > I think the difficulty of creating cryptosystems is a bit exaggerated in this piece; I think we haven't seen much diversity in the past, because diversity was bad for public cryptanalysis, but there are six different approaches l
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    by throwawaymath 8y ago

    > I was talking about diamonds and extravagence desired purely to display wealth and social status (women are particularly vulnerable to this folly) Now you're just being casually sexist. If you want to judge people for how they c
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    by throwawaymath 8y ago

    That strikes me as a problem with fiscal irresponsibility, not a problem with the object of the irresponsibility.
26. 1556.▲
    by throwawaymath 8y ago

    Yes, you're right. I don't understand the myopia on this forum when it comes to people spending money irrationally. Human beings are not hyper-efficient savings maximization engines. Every time the story about why "diamonds s
27. 1557.▲
    by throwawaymath 8y ago

    This is not what the terminology "perfect knowledge" means. Perfect knowledge (more often called "perfect information") refers to games in which all parts of the game state are accessible to every other player. In theory
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    by throwawaymath 8y ago

    > There's a lot that goes into recruiting. Optimizing your job descriptions, creating multiple job descriptions, and targeting your ad spend are all things that can affect the age, race, gender, education level, etc of the people y
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    by throwawaymath 8y ago

    I feel like the admonition, "don't roll your own crypto" refers to production code. If you want to develop your own crypto for "curiosity, learning and knowledge" I don't think many people in the security commu
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    by throwawaymath 8y ago

    Whoops, sorry about that. Fixed :)