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by vecter 16y ago
What's the distinction?
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by vecter 16y ago
I'm not sure if quarks have "positions" in the exact sense of the word, so I don't think there's a metric you could apply here to get distances for which to solve TSP. Suppose there was a metric between quarks. To be clear, are you saying:
873.
by vecter 16y ago
Which number systems are you referring to?
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by vecter 16y ago
I suppose a few bad teachers would suck, but I can't imagine two or three bad teachers ruining your entire view of the education system. In high school, you're enrolled in 6-8 classes a day. If over the course of 4 years, you run into 3 bad
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by vecter 16y ago
Can you describe toxic? I'm not trying to be a jerk, just genuinely curious. I remember social life in junior high and high school as being pretty stressful, and there were bullies (a handful I suppose), but I wouldn't describe it as toxic.
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by vecter 16y ago
I went to a public high school on long island (I suppose we had good funding?), then to a private college w/1000 students per class. Thinking about your post now, I'm curious where people who had bad experiences went to school. Was it the e
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by vecter 16y ago
Intelligence (with a healthy dose of diligence) plays a big part in success in college. If you don't think so, then you're either not challenging yourself enough, or your college is not challenging enough. Why do so many people on HN love t
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by vecter 16y ago
Hardware is irrelevant. The analysis is mathematical and abstract. The model that people typically work in when doing this analysis is the comparison model: one < comparison costs 1 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_sort ). Ther
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by vecter 16y ago
I tried this on my 3GS at different places. Some places, the bars dropped from 5 --> 0. Others it went from 5 --> 3. In some other places, it didn't drop at all. It's pretty random, but the effect is certainly repeatable at the same
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by vecter 16y ago
This is false. Quicksort can be made worst case O(n lg n) with linear time selection and pivoting around the median: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~wayne/cs423/lectures/selection-... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_algorithm#Linear_
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by vecter 16y ago
I found the base antenna site ( http://www.apple.com/antenna/ ) pretty enlightening.
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by vecter 16y ago
Can you explain how the pathogen analogy applies to a corporation of people?
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by vecter 16y ago
I'm not even talking about investors. I'm talking about how to price an apple. Do you think there's a better way to price it than by the free market? Note that I'm not advocating getting rid of regulation -- I think that's very important, s
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by vecter 16y ago
That article is 85% hype. It reads like an editorial, not a news article. What exactly do you mean by "relationships with the stock exchanges"? If by that, you mean they pay the exchanges for colocation (which anyone can do), then yes, I wo
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by vecter 16y ago
Suppose a pension fund wants to buy 10 million shares of MSFT. Suppose the "real" price of MSFT is $22.00 and the market price is $22.05. That amounts to roughly $500,000 in extra costs for its clients (may be more or less, because the tran
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by vecter 16y ago
This is false. You can't make money by being consistently wrong about the "true" value of an asset. Then, the only way you can stay in business is to sell the asset when it's too high, and buy it when it's too low. Notice how doing this act
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by vecter 16y ago
My bad, I read it wrong.
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by vecter 16y ago
When you have lots of samples, you're usually pretty certain.
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by vecter 16y ago
Also it should be borne in mind that this kind of activity isn't really making any constructive or lasting contribution to society. It's really just moving money around slightly more efficiently than previously. I disagree. Efficient allo
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by vecter 16y ago
So by induction, you need to learn N - 2, N - 3, ..., 2, ... 1? I wholeheartedly disagree. By that logic, why stop at transistors? Let's get down to the physics of how transistors work, or hey, atomic physics.
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by vecter 16y ago
Breaking news: users pay for services they use. All kidding aside, if I were still active on reddit, I wouldn't mind paying a monthly fee if I really loved the content. I used to spend a crapload of time on there before going cold-turkey, s
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by vecter 16y ago
I haven't had a chance to go through the paper yet ( http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0785 ), but it seems that he does make some derivations and proof sketches. Can someone verify this?
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by vecter 16y ago
Neither is a proper subset of each other. Computer Science is a huge field, and programmers are rarely competent with more than one or two of those fields: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science
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by vecter 16y ago
I'm not sure whether one can say that EE is harder than CS, or vice versa. For starters, which subfields of EE and CS are you comparing? If, for CS, you pick Theory of Computation, Algorithms, or Machine Learning, then those are pretty diff
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by vecter 16y ago
I agree, although they did mention that important point at the end: Finally, it's possible—likely, even—that the correlation between Toxo infection and World Cup success is a coincidence, or that it reflects some other common trait among s
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by vecter 16y ago
Wellesley and BU, my friend.
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by vecter 16y ago
Actually, the parties are pretty freaking amazing at MIT. Just sayin'
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by vecter 16y ago
People who live in the real world understand that universities sell credentials, not knowledge. A good number of universities (especially if you study math, science, or engineering) sell much more than credentials. They sell you a lot of
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by vecter 16y ago
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic about his prediction, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are :) As for Bill Gates being a "smart guy", he's actually a brilliant guy, in the math sense: http://news.ycombinator.
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by vecter 16y ago
This is wrong. Humans discovered prime numbers. They are not an invention. They fall naturally out of the integers, and would exist regardless of whether humans did or not. Prime numbers are are some of the most fundamental objects in all

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