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by trendia 9y ago
Or he had some really expensive meds and bad insurance. That's pretty unlikely though.
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by trendia 9y ago
Link is dead for non FT subscribers. (Or at least for those who the FT thinks would pay for a subscription)
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by trendia 9y ago
I don't think you can even get a reliable 10 gbit PCI card for under $200 USD.
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by trendia 9y ago
"Imagine you design a website, and then Google changes their ranking algorithm to provide preferential treatment to AMP pages. You see that your ranking has decreased, and so you implement AMP. "A few months later, Google announce
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by trendia 9y ago
This is pretty similar to what happened to me. I was implementing an algorithm that had multiple parts and the data would arrive asynchronously. The first time, I wrote the multipart algorithm using a functional style to encode each state.
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by trendia 9y ago
A video would be worth 1,000 articles.
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by trendia 9y ago
Totally irrelevant to this article, but you are technically correct. Let X = "angle" Let Y = sin(X) Then X has a causal relationship with Y, but Corr(X, Y) = 0. I doubt that's what you're saying, though!
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by trendia 9y ago
On the one hand, her account is very inspirational to people who might think that learning physics is out of reach or they're too old to do it. But on the other hand, her case is very out of the ordinary -- I think a lot of us took lon
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by trendia 9y ago
If removing "features" improves performance, one has to wonder how much overhead those features have. If I remove the UI/window manager from Linux and run software from the command line, I don't see a massive performance
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by trendia 9y ago
Oh sorry, I wasn't clear about that. I run it first where every possible module is built 'M', and then once the system boots up, run lsmod to see which modules are loaded. Then, I take that list of modules and set them to &qu
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by trendia 9y ago
I'd also look into Buildroot [0]. I'm currently using Buildroot for a project and the whole distribution (including libraries and executables) is under 40MB. Since I am using a fixed dev board (i.e. peripherals are not going to ch
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by trendia 9y ago
Swimming is great because it doesn't reward effort as much as it rewards form. I came to swimming from a running / cycling background, and I quickly realized that extreme exertion was not the key to getting better speeds. It&#x2
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by trendia 9y ago
Intel says, "Intel continues to work closely with industry partners to protect customers against the security exploits disclosed by Google Project Zero." Linus Torvalds says, "They do literally insane things. They do things t
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by trendia 9y ago
There is an easy, quantifiable metric that uses this idea: the Brier score. Essentially, if you make 100 predictions, the Brier score will measure how well you are able to make precise predictions. If you always estimate the odds that X wil
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by trendia 9y ago
The authors only looked at weight and BMI, and not bodyfat % or lean mass, which are much better indicators of health than weight or BMI alone. Someone who is 6' and 200 lbs could either be a body builder or a coach potato, and they&
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by trendia 9y ago
I had the opposite experience. I asked Google: "Hey Google:, whatis the score of [University] basketball game?" Even though the game was going on, Google told me about the women's basketball game the following day. It took ab
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by trendia 9y ago
Judea Pearl wrote a whole book about proving causality (and when it can't be proven). A rough summary is available as a YouTube video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HUti6vGctQM
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by trendia 9y ago
> we should easily see it. Note, I'm not saying there is an effect, but it's not quite so easy to say we should have found it if it exists. First, there is a delay between radiation exposure and cancer risk (up to ten years). S
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by trendia 9y ago
I listen to podcasts or audiobooks while commuting, and I figure it's roughly equivalent to sitting on my couch reading. I commute 40-60 minutes daily, so it's pretty easy to get through long works that way.
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by trendia 9y ago
> "Python has been used by hundreds of happy users" Hundreds! > "Please don't ask me to mail it to you -- at 1.76 Megabytes it is unwieldy at least..." I can not even figure out if this means email or snail ma
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by trendia 9y ago
It's too bad the author didn't mention Wyden until the 5th paragraph. The author puts "Senator" in the title, when "Senator Wyden" would be just one more word.
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by trendia 9y ago
The US won't be able to force these rules on foreign companies selling outside the US. e.g. Huawei, Samsung, and Sony are not going to backdoor their phones for customers in Asia / Europe. So, corporate / governmental custome
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by trendia 9y ago
> Not a lawyer. Would welcome a legal opinion. I would highly recommend reading at least the Wikipedia article on "Disparate Impact." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disparate_impact
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by trendia 9y ago
> But if you're searching enough to eat up Google's bandwidth, they're paying for that data and they're under no obligation to keep serving you as a client Do you not see the irony?
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by trendia 9y ago
I can somewhat understand where you're coming from if the person doing it only wants something that works. But for those who would be willing to risk breaking a few things to try something out, building a kernel is a worthwhile effort,
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by trendia 9y ago
(Copying my instructions from another post). If kernel 4.4 doesn't work, I recommend compiling the 4.15 kernel. (Note, however, that you may need to apply a patch to NVIDIA drivers). I've done this on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 17.10, and
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by trendia 9y ago
I think you mean "debt" -- I first read your comment as "code department" and was trying to figure out what that was.
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by trendia 9y ago
It took about an hour for it to find the offset for me. I think that the page isolation slows it down, even if it doesn't completely eliminate it. The second test had something like a 0.05% success rate on my PC, and took over an hour
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by trendia 9y ago
"I knew I had made the right choice to stay out of cryptocurrencies when my taxi driver launched an ICO." -- Warren Buffet, sometime in the future
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by trendia 9y ago
Linux 4.15 and the appropriate modules protect against the attack. To test, set CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION=y. That is: sudo apt-get build-dep linux sudo apt-get install gcc-6-plugin-dev libelf-dev libncurses5-dev cd /usr

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