utopcell

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721.
by utopcell 8y ago
Not sure how important this is. Is there a doubt in anyone's mind that FB got Oculus for John Carmack ?
722.
by utopcell 8y ago
Apple lost my trust with their maps. They were willing to push a bad product to their customers as a negotiating card against Google.
723.
by utopcell 8y ago
Is it the case that a logarithmic gap is shown for a specific problem ? Why is this a big deal ? Doesn't Grover's algorithm already demonstrate a sqrt(n) gap ?
724.
by utopcell 8y ago
Reference ?
725.
by utopcell 8y ago
But that's not what he reported.
726.
by utopcell 8y ago
I think the comment referred to Inktomi (that had just lost the search deal to Google,) not Yahoo.
727.
by utopcell 8y ago
According to the article, the goal is not to hit any insect with the tail but rather to create an air wave that is impossible for insects to navigate.
728.
by utopcell 8y ago
not an algorithm
729.
by utopcell 8y ago
..and its generalization [2], which finds the (at most) k elements whose frequency is more than 1/(k+1) in the unsorted stream (k=1 being the majority algorithm in [1].) [2] https://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~dinitz/Course&
730.
by utopcell 8y ago
The Boyer–Moore majority algorithm [1] which allows you to find the majority element (if one exists) in an unsorted array in linear time and constant space. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyer%E2%80%93Moore_majority
731.
by utopcell 8y ago
Google's hash map [1], which is a fresh look at a heavily studied problem. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncHmEUmJZf4
732.
by utopcell 8y ago
cool data structure indeed.
733.
by utopcell 8y ago
more like a reduction to SAT than a standalone algorithm though.
734.
by utopcell 8y ago
Interpolation search [1], which allows you to search a sorted array in O(log(log(n))) time, assuming its elements are uniformly distributed (for instance, you are searching a sorted array of hashes.) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&
735.
by utopcell 8y ago
The Spectrum ZX from Sinclair. I miss the immediacy of a blinking cursor, just waiting there for you next command. Simple and elegant.
736.
by utopcell 8y ago
What's wrong with skype now ? I think they've done a good job with it, plus it's a nice platform to test their experimental bot stuff on.
737.
by utopcell 8y ago
Please elaborate
738.
by utopcell 8y ago
Indeed!
739.
by utopcell 8y ago
..although there's nothing wrong with a panspermia religion.
740.
by utopcell 8y ago
A theory that can never be tested is as much a religion as any.
741.
by utopcell 8y ago
The TL;DR of the article is "Google is dying because ..Google+". Funny argument. If that were the case, then Google would be on life support since Orkut, Wave and many other bets that just didn't pan out. The fact of the matt
742.
by utopcell 8y ago
Agreed. This is not Google engineering. This marketing-driven design. Something is off here..
743.
by utopcell 8y ago
Well, this was anticlimactic. Instead of a bezel-free pixelbook, we got a pointless notch-full phone.
744.
by utopcell 8y ago
As bad as this looks, I remember what an improvement it was over google and yahoo video back then.
745.
by utopcell 8y ago
It seems to me that the moment you'd need to do anything interesting with a website, you'd need to crawl a lot of its pages and you'd hit robots.txt limitations very quickly.
746.
by utopcell 8y ago
So the jury is still out for 5G, not a guaranteed success ?
747.
by utopcell 8y ago
The energy consumed by the US is less than 0.1% of the energy the planet gets from the Sun, so I'm not sure the 5% comparison holds water. Besides, computers return their energy cost many times over. I do agree with the article's
748.
by utopcell 8y ago
It is an outrage. I also opened it on Lynx, and all I saw was some weirdly rendered characters. Why, Google ?
749.
by utopcell 8y ago
Clearly you are not happy with the announcement. :-)
750.
by utopcell 8y ago
No. These are Bing results.

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